MIAMI (Michigan News Source) – Down by seven in the third quarter, 61-54, Detroit put together a 14-2 run to take the lead, 68-63, as they cruised to a 116-96 win in South Florida. The win was number seven for the Pistons as Bojan Bogdanovic led the team with 31 points.

Five other players had double figures as Alec Burks finished with 18 points and was followed by Saddiq Bey’s 14 points, Isaiah Stewart and Cory Joseph’s 11 points, and Jaden Ivey’s 10 points. Detroit shot 49 percent to Miami’s 42 percent and made 46 percent of their three-pointers (19-of-41). They held Miami to just 31 percent from the arc and both teams had 40 rebounds.

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Bogdanovic started the run in the third quarter with a jumper at the 8:48 mark as he had nine of the 14 points in the run. Alec Burks canned a 23-foot three-pointer with 5:46 left in the period to give Detroit the 66-63 lead and then Bogdanovic finished off the run 20 seconds later on a finger roll layup. Miami came back to tie the game at 68 but Killan Hayes hit a three-pointer 20 seconds after that to retake the lead, 71-68. Joseph then made a free throw with 2:06 to go for a five-point lead, 75-70. Burks kept the five-point lead with a three-pointer with 13.9 seconds left in the third for a 78-73 lead headed into the fourth.

Detroit scored 38 points in the fourth quarter taking over the game. Miami came within four, 84-80, with 9:18 left in the game and over the next five minutes extended the lead to 15-points, 103-88, on a 19-8 run. Bogdanovic hit a 25-foot three-pointer for the biggest lead of the game. At the 1:32 mark, Bogdanovic hit another three-pointer for Detroit’s first 20+ point lead in the game, 112-90. Stewart made the last bucket of the game with 21.6 seconds left on a seven-foot shot making it, 116-96.

Miami took the first half with a five-point lead at the end of the first period, 25-20, and then a 50-47 lead at the half. Detroit figured it out in the third quarter to go no for their seventh win of the year.