The eight seed Orlando Magic upset the top-seeded Detroit Pistons of their sequence opener Sunday, 112-101. It was a powerful victory but additionally matches Orlando’s current historical past of taking a single sport in a first-round sequence.
The Magic have not received a playoff sequence since 2010, after they misplaced within the Jap Convention Finals. Since then, they’ve misplaced all six of their first-round sequence, and received a single sport in 4 of them.
Orlando Magic are higher than a standard eight seed
The Magic completed in eighth place within the East with a 45-37 report, although they have been just one sport worse than the fifth-seeded Toronto Raptors. Star ahead Franz Wagner missed 48 video games, which can effectively have been the distinction between a play-in look and a fifth-place end.
Sunday, they dominated the Pistons close to the basket, outscoring them 54 to 43 on factors within the paint. All 5 Magic starters scored 16 factors or extra, with Paolo Banchero main the way in which with 23. Wagner and Banchero each shot over 50 p.c whereas the Magic held Pistons All-Star middle Jalen Duren to solely eight factors.
