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Cade Cunningham scored a career-high 52 points, and the Detroit Pistons needed every single one of them in a 144-140 victory in double overtime against the Washington Wizards. It was not just a career-best night for Cunningham, not just one of the top-5 scoring performances in Pistons history, it was the first game in NBA history that saw a player score 50 points, dish 11 assists, and commit zero turnovers.
Cunningham simply did it all. He scored 30 points in the fourth quarter and overtime. That includes a critical 3-pointer after the Wizards had crawled their way back into the lead in the first overtime on an Anthony Davis alley-oop dunk.
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The Pistons trailed 130-127 and each team had traded misses. Cunningham calmly took the ball up the left side of the floor, took a pass from Ausar Thompson, and walked into a movement 3-pointer that hit nothing but net to tie the game. On the next possession, Cade swung the ball to Duncan Robinson for what felt like a game-sealing 3 with 9 seconds left, but a video review determined Duncan had approximately 1 milimeter of his foot on the line and changed it to a two.
The scoring barrage also included critical stretch in the fourth quarter where he scored eight points and assisted another to account for 11 of Detroit’s final 12 points of the fourth quarter. Cunningham also locked up Trae Young on defense with Detroit up 119-118 in the final 30 seconds of the fourth. He forced Young into the sideline, cut off any passing lane, deflected the ball, and forced shot clock violation.
Sadly, after Cade hit two free throws to make it a 3-point game, Young redeemed himself by hitting an off-balance three from 29 feet away to give us our two overtimes of fun.
Cunningham’s performance slightly overshadowed another notable feat — Ausar Thompson tallied his first career triple-double. He was aggressive on offense driving to the rim, and delivered crisp passes in narrow lanes to keep Detroit’s offense moving.
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On a night where Cade scores 52 and Ausar gets a triple-double, how the heck was it so close to begin with? How does a game like that feature 20 lead changes…
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