Cavaliers 99-78 Pistons (26 Apr, 2009) Box Score

Cleveland Cavaliers

66-16, 27-14 away

	1	2	3	4	T
CLE	26	25	22	26	99
DET	27	15	18	18	78

Detroit Pistons

39-43, 21-20 home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
LeBron JamesL. James
Zydrunas IlgauskasZ. Ilgauskas
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao
Mo WilliamsM. Williams
Delonte WestD. West
bench
Joe SmithJ. Smith
Ben WallaceB. Wallace
Lorenzen WrightL. Wright
Darnell JacksonD. Jackson
Jawad WilliamsJ. Williams
JJ HicksonJ. Hickson
Wally SzczerbiakW. Szczerbiak
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
Daniel GibsonD. Gibson
Tarence KinseyT. Kinsey
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
41	10-24	0-3	16-17	1	12	13	8	2	1	2	3	+10	36
24	4-8	0-0	0-0	0	4	4	0	0	0	1	3	+13	8
31	3-5	0-0	0-0	2	3	5	0	0	1	0	1	+12	6
39	9-14	4-7	2-2	0	1	1	4	2	0	4	3	+28	24
44	5-10	1-1	1-1	0	3	3	5	2	1	1	1	+27	12
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
22	2-6	0-0	2-2	1	3	4	1	0	0	0	2	+3	6
15	0-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	3	0	2	0	0	2	+6	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+3	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	1-2	0-1	2-2	3	1	4	0	0	0	0	1	+3	4
2	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	+3	3
4	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	-6	0
2	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	+3	0
	35-74	6-13	23-24	10	31	41	19	8	3	10	18		99
	47.3%	46.2%	95.8%

Detroit Pistons

starters
Antonio McDyessA. McDyess
Rasheed WallaceR. Wallace
Tayshaun PrinceT. Prince
Rodney StuckeyR. Stuckey
Richard HamiltonR. Hamilton
bench
Jason MaxiellJ. Maxiell
Walter Herrmann HeinrichW. Heinrich
Amir JohnsonA. Johnson
Will BynumW. Bynum
Allen IversonA. Iverson
Arron AfflaloA. Afflalo
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
39	11-18	0-0	4-4	2	8	10	0	0	0	0	5	-5	26
29	0-7	0-2	0-0	1	4	5	1	1	1	1	4	-14	0
32	1-5	0-1	0-0	1	4	5	0	0	0	1	0	-5	2
28	7-14	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	6	0	0	0	4	-17	14
38	2-12	0-3	2-2	1	2	3	7	0	0	3	5	-19	6
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
25	1-5	0-0	4-7	2	3	5	2	1	0	1	3	-20	6
6	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-11	0
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	-3	0
28	8-12	1-2	5-5	0	1	1	1	2	0	3	2	-9	22
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	1-3	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-2	2
	31-78	1-10	15-18	7	23	30	17	4	2	10	25		78
	39.7%	10.0%	83.3%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Pistons
84
Cavaliers
102

Game 1

18/4

Pistons
82
Cavaliers
94

Game 2

22/4

Cavaliers
79
Pistons
68

Game 3

25/4

Cavaliers
99
Pistons
78

Game 4

26/4

The Palace of Auburn Hills

8:30 PM, 26 April 2009

Auburn Hills, MI

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	25	4	.862	-	W4
Milwaukee	15	12	.556	9	W1
Indiana	14	15	.483	11	W4
Chicago	13	16	.448	12	L1
Detroit	12	17	.414	13	W1

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