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Winners and losers from Magic's historic Game 6 disaster against Pistons

Orlando Magic On SI·Matt Hanifan·6 months ago
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The Detroit Pistons completed the largest comeback in history in Game 6, crawling back down from 24 points to secure a 93-79 win to force Game 7. It was one of the worst single game collapses in postseason history.

Who were a few winners and losers?! Let's examine!

Winner: Pistons' resilience

To beat the best team in the East, you were going to have to knock them out.

Detroit trailed by 20-plus on very few instances this season. It was down 24 with 10:26 left in the third quarter. Though the Pistons slowly, but surely, chopped down the tree that was the Orlando Magic.

And it crashed down hard .

Orlando scored just 19 points in the second half with 23-straight misses, the most consecutively of a playoff game in the play-by-play era, according to ESPN's Jorge Sedano.…

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