The eight seed Orlando Magic upset the top-seeded Detroit Pistons of their collection opener Sunday, 112-101. It was a formidable victory but additionally matches Orlando’s latest historical past of taking a single sport in a first-round collection.
The Magic have not received a playoff collection since 2010, once they misplaced within the Japanese Convention Finals. Since then, they’ve misplaced all six of their first-round collection, and received a single sport in 4 of them.
Orlando Magic are higher than a traditional eight seed
The Magic completed in eighth place within the East with a 45-37 document, although they had 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 best way 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.
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