AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Reggie Jackson led a balanced attack with 19 points and eight assists and the streaking Detroit Pistons shot a season-high 57.7 percent from the field to overwhelm the Toronto Raptors 114-101 on Sunday at The Palace.
Center Andre Drummond recorded his NBA-high 51st double-double with 15 points and 18 rebounds as Detroit won its fourth straight.
The Raptors (39-19), who had their four-game winning streak snapped, rested All-Star point guard Kyle Lowry. He scored a career-high 43 points in 43 minutes during Toronto’s 99-97 come-from-behind win over Cleveland on Friday.
Toronto remained two games behind Cleveland, which lost to Washington on Sunday, for the Eastern Conference’s best record. Detroit salvaged the finale of the three-game series between the clubs.
Pistons shooting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope had 16 points and five assists, small forward Marcus Morris contributed 14 points and four assists, and power forward Tobias Harris added 14 points and seven rebounds. Detroit (31-29) made 41 of 71 field-goal attempts and compiled a season-high tying 28 assists.
Raptors swingman Terrence Ross scored a season-high 27 points and shooting guard DeMar DeRozan added 20.
Ross scored 16 first-half points, 12 in the second quarter, as the Raptors led by as many as nine points. But the Pistons quickly erased the deficit and the half ended in a 52-all tie.
The Pistons shot 11-for-17 from the field (64.7 percent) in the second quarter. That was just a warmup for the third quarter, as they made 14 of their first 16 shots to open up an 18-point lead.
Raptors center Jonas Valanciunas began the second half with a three-point play but the Pistons responded with a 16-6 run to gain a 68-61 advantage. Jackson, the Pistons’ point guard, made a floater later in the quarter for the first double-digit lead of the game at 77-66.
A Caldwell-Pope three-point play nudged the lead to 15 and reserve point guard Steve Blake finished off Detroit’s third-quarter flurry with a corner three to make it 86-68.
When backup swingman Reggie Bullock knocked down consecutive 3-pointers early in the fourth, the Pistons’ lead mushroomed to 103-78.
NOTES: Raptors PG Kyle Lowry played in the team’s first 57 games before sitting out on Sunday. Lowry and SG DeMar DeRozan could get occasional nights off the rest of the regular season. “We have to understand that we’ve got another two and a half months to go,” Toronto coach Dwane Casey said. “It doesn’t mean we’ll turn it off mentally, but just letting the bodies slow down a little bit.” … Pistons rookie SF Stanley Johnson missed his third straight game with a right shoulder sprain. … Detroit C Andre Drummond has 24 15-point, 15-rebound games this season, three times more than his nearest competitors. … Toronto had a 31-3 record entering the game when holding opponents under 100 points. … The Raptors won nine of the last 13 meetings. … Toronto begins a seven-game homestand against Utah on Wednesday. Detroit plays six of its next seven games on the road.