Detroit Pistons – Phoenix Suns: defensive slog on the cards 
The Pistons host the Suns in a clash between two of the season’s best teams. Don’t expect a scoring spectacle. Both squads are among the league’s top defenses. Expect stops, hard fouls and gritty sequences — not a box score exploding on every line.
Detroit Pistons: getting the offense flowing again 
Top of the Eastern Conference for a while now, the Pistons are still marching toward the Playoffs. A frustrating loss after leading by 19 against the Clippers (92-98) in their last outing? Annoying, yes. Alarming? Not really. The Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren absences explain a lot of the recent offensive rust. Both are expected back to welcome the Suns, which should loosen things up.
Form’s fine overall: four wins in the last six. That’s kept the Knicks at arm’s length atop the East.
Detroit also gets the comfort of home — a tidy 13-4 at home so far in 2025-26. Defence is their foundation: fourth-best in the league, conceding just 111,2 points per game. In the last three games they’ve held opponents under 100 every time.
Phoenix Suns: staying in touch thanks to defence 
Five wins in seven, nine in twelve. Phoenix heads into this trip with confidence. The recent win over New York (112-107) showed they can hang with the good teams. The loss to Miami (127-121) was a reminder: you slip up, you pay.
The roster is largely healthy (aside from Jalen Green). The steady availability of Devin Booker, Dillon Brooks and Mark Williams gives a reliable base. Defensively Phoenix is disciplined, especially on the perimeter — opponents hit just 34,9% from three against them. Overall Jordan Ott can be happy: 112,2 points allowed per game, sixth-best in the league. Against Detroit, the main task is finding a way to slow Cade Cunningham and his pick-and-roll with Jalen Duren.
NBA prediction Detroit Pistons vs Phoenix Suns
Under 225,5 points
When two of the league’s six best defenses meet with rosters mostly intact, it usually turns into a defensive arm-wrestle rather than an offensive shootout. Cade Cunningham and Devin Booker are top-tier and damn hard to stop. Still, both teams know how to game-plan around scorers, limit impact and win with defence.
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