Wednesday has one game, but there will be a Game 6 in this matchup.

Donovan Mitchell scored 39 points in the second half of Game 4 — a single-half record in NBA playoff history — and Cleveland turned a halftime deficit into a commanding victory on the back of a 24-0 run to open the third quarter. The Cavaliers have now won two consecutive games in their own building after losing two in Detroit. The series is tied 2-2, and it returns to Little Caesars Arena, where the Pistons haven't lost a single game this series.

Both teams have protected home court. Game 5 could follow that trend or the Cavaliers could take control before heading home.

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Cleveland Cavaliers (4) at Detroit Pistons (1) | 7:00pm ET, ESPN

Game 5. Series tied 2-2.

The pattern of this series has been so consistent it feels almost engineered. Detroit won Games 1 and 2 in Detroit by a combined 20 points. Cleveland won Games 3 and 4 in Cleveland by a combined 15 points. Every game has been decided by the home crowd. Every road team has gone home without a win. And now the series heads back to Little Caesars Arena for Game 5, where the Pistons are 2-0 and where the crowd will be as loud and as urgent as it has been at any point since this franchise returned to relevance.

The Game 4 moment that defines this series now belongs to Mitchell. His 39-point second half — a number that has never been produced in a single playoff half in NBA history — was not a collection of fortunate bounces or opponent mistakes. It was Mitchell choosing the moment and refusing to let the Cavaliers lose it. He attacked the paint. He made impossible mid-range shots. He hit threes with hands in his face. And when Cleveland needed the 24-0 run that turned a halftime deficit into a blowout, he was the engine of every important possession. It was the kind of performance that quiets the narrative about his second-round ceiling permanently — or at least for as long as the Cavaliers keep winning.

Cunningham has been as complete a player in this series as Mitchell — two-way, creative, willing — and he has the same relationship with Little Caesars Arena that Mitchell has developed with Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. His best games have come in Detroit. His 28-point, two-way performance in Game 3 was not enough when the home court turned against him. On Wednesday, in his own building, the calculus changes. Bickerstaff's frustration over the free throw disparity in Game 4 will be a motivating text for his players — Detroit shot fewer than half as many free throws as Cleveland in a game they lost by nine. That kind of institutional anger tends to produce urgency that doesn't require any additional coaching.

Harden has been the series' most complicated variable. He has had games where he controlled the pace and delivered in the fourth quarter — Game 4 being his clearest example. He has had games where turnovers and missed shots have been the defining story — Games 1 and 2 being the clearest examples of that. In a series that has matched teams so precisely on home floor, Harden's performance in Game 5 could be the swing variable that determines whether Cleveland wins a game in Detroit for the first time in this series or the Pistons retake control and force a decisive Game 6.

Detroit's Harris and Duren both need to give Cunningham meaningful help. Harris has been solid throughout — professional, consistent, the kind of second option who shows up in close games and takes pressure off the primary star. Duren was the question mark against Orlando and has been more reliable against Cleveland, but the moments where he's been asked to anchor the paint against Allen and Mobley's combined activity have still been uneven. A complete Duren performance — 14 points, 12 rebounds, commanding the restricted area — would be the single most important non-Cunningham contribution the Pistons can receive tonight.

Cleveland wins if Mitchell plays with the same relentless aggression he showed in Game 4's second half and Harden manages the game cleanly without the turnover issues that have cost the Cavaliers in both Detroit losses. Winning on the road in a building where the home team is 2-0 would be the series' defining statement and would put Cleveland firmly in control of the conference finals picture.

Detroit wins if Cunningham channels the home court into the kind of dominant two-way performance he is capable of on his best nights, Duren is physical and commanding in the paint, and Little Caesars Arena becomes the force of nature it has been all series. The Pistons are 2-0 at home. Game 5 is at home. The pattern says Detroit wins tonight — the only question is whether Cleveland's momentum from Game 4 is strong enough to break it.

There is one game. It is the most important game in the only series still being decided in the East. Oklahoma City is already in the conference finals. The Knicks are already there. The winner of Detroit-Cleveland joins them — eventually — and tonight is the first chance for one team to take a decisive grip on that path.

Home teams have won every game in this series. That is the most reliable fact in four games of basketball, and it is the fact that Detroit is banking on tonight. Cleveland is betting that Mitchell's second half of Game 4 changed the series' psychology permanently. One of those bets pays off by midnight.