Tre Jones scored 25 points and Jakob Poeltl had 11 points, 16 rebounds and seven assists as the San Antonio Spurs turned it on in the final 18 minutes to run away from the visiting Detroit Pistons 121-109 on Friday to snap a three-game losing streak.

The game was tied at 65 halfway through the third quarter before San Antonio took charge with a 10-0 run. It started with a layup by Romeo Langford and was capped by a 3-pointer from Josh Richardson.

The Spurs led by 12 points after Richardson’s dunk with 42.8 seconds to play in the period before heading to the fourth quarter with an 86-76 advantage.

The Pistons never got closer than five points over the final 9:44 of the game.

Langford added 15 points for San Antonio, with Malaki Branham hitting for 14 and Jeremy Sochan 10. Sochan has scored in double figures in 17 games this season, the most by any Spurs rookie since Kawhi Leonard’s 25 in 2011-12.

The Spurs have won three of their past four games at home.

Bojan Bogdanovic led the Pistons with 21 points, while Jaden Ivey added 20, Killian Hayes 18, Isaiah Stewart and Jalen Duran 11 points each and Saddiq Bey 10.

The Spurs led for the majority of the first period and by as many as eight points before settling for a 31-28 advantage going into the second quarter. San Antonio got scoring from seven different players in the period, while the Pistons were led by Bogdanovic’s 12 points.

Detroit surged back and took a 42-38 lead after Hamidou Diallo’s dunk off a Hayes steal and assist capped a 10-0 run.

The Spurs responded with a 7-0 spurt that was finished off by an alley-oop dunk by Sochan off a feed from Jones, and then used a pair of free throws by Branham with 30 seconds to play to forge a 51-48 advantage at the break.

Bogdanovic’s 14 points led all scorers at halftime, while Hayes added 11 points for the Pistons.

Jones paced the Spurs with 12 points. San Antonio led despite hitting just 2 of 14 shots from deep.

–Field Level Media