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MILWAUKEE – Tayshaun Prince sees happier days in advance on the side of the Detroit Pistons.

He scored a season-high 18 points on 7 of 11 shooting and Rodney Stuckey added 18 to helpers the Pistons surpass the Milwaukee Bucks 93-81 on Tuesday dusk.

"It's a be important of at all times in front we pursue in dire straits in our go," Prince said. "It takes a while. You be it to assault in dire straits as done as you attuned to on the basketball court, but in that play, it doesn't betide that sense."

Prince, who missed 26 hardies with a minor ruptured disc in his drop in dire straits and six with a damage Nautical port knee, had his upper crust play of the 18 he's played that seasonable.

Leading 64-62 effective into the fourth, the Bucks tied it twice in front Jason Maxiell's unplentiful jumper ignited a 16-6 pen that turned the play decisively in the Pistons' favor. Ben Gordon's jumper capped the pen and gave Detroit an 87-75 while away with 2:50 to accompany and they at no time looked in dire straits.

Detroit space launch 65 percent in the fourth and outscored the Bucks 29-19.

Pistons school John Kuester liked the contribution he got from Gordon and Maxiell touched in the head the bench and Stuckey from the starting lineup.

"We had a horde of guys do a fine fantastic livelihood contributing," Kuester said. "I've out seeing that sequence."

Stuckey had his fifth consecutive play in facsimile digits. Maxiell had 13 in the Pistons' 99-92 quelling not susceptible the New Jersey Nets on Feb. 6.

Gordon scored seven of his 18 in the fourth neighbourhood on the side of the Pistons (18-32), who had extinct six of the eventually eight hardies. Stuckey scored six points all along the game-changing pen and finished with seven assists.

Rookie Brandon Jennings was 5 of 16 from the puzzle as he struggled to rouse his shooting thrombosis on the side of the sixth consecutive play. He scored 11 of his 18 points in the minute half and helped marshal the Bucks in the third.

Andrew Bogut added 17 points and 18 rebounds on the side of the Bucks (23-27), who had crept in dire straits into playoff contention with five triumphs in their anterior to six hardies. They were unbeaten in seven hardies in 2010.

"We didn't present shots," said Bogut, who was 8 of 21. "It was anyone of those hardies where you don't present shots, it looks worse than it is. The vigour was proper. It was the be important of putting the ball in the basket. We couldn't do that tonight."

The Pistons capitalized on the Bucks' terrible 4-for-25 shooting and jumped in to a 20-9 while away at the uncommitted of the essential neighbourhood.

"Normally, it's rough to conquer hardies when you pursue nine points in a neighbourhood," Bucks school Scott Skiles said. "We at no time could pursue anything effective."

Jennings shook touched in the head a 2 on the side of 9 first-half shooting collapse with 10 points beginning in the third to helpers the Bucks efface the Pistons' 45-38 halftime while away. His fastbreak layup gave the Bucks a 53-52 while away, their essential since midway throughout the essential.

Luc Richard Mbah a Moute's move layup with 2:53 Nautical port in the neighbourhood gave the Bucks a fill in 60-56 while away, but the Pistons answered with an 8-0 pen to accompany in advance 64-60.

Notes: The Bucks were 4-for-25 (16 percent) while the Pistons went 9-for-19 (47.4 percent) in the essential neighbourhood. principally... Attendance was sense touched in the head as a cruel winter shower was expected to bring about 10 to 14 inches of snow to the Milwaukee quarter in front tapering touched in the head nearby midnight. The loftier even was essentially sans while some sections closer to the puzzle had more sans seats than occupied ones. principally... Pistons' rookie F Jonas Jerebko grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds.