At the 2:48 mark of the second quarter, a Mike Conley free throw put Utah up 69-41 on the Detroit Pistons, a 28-point lead. That advantage would stay as high as 27 late in the third. But with 2:06 left in the game, Pistons’ wing Jerami Grant made the second of two free throws to set the game at 109-105 to cap a 9-1 Detroit run and cut a once nearly 30-point lead down to a mere four-point advantage and technically a one-possession game.
Utah entered the fourth quarter with a 94-77 advantage, but Detroit outscored Utah 28 to 15 through 10 minutes of the final frame.