How 8 minutes gave Detroit Pistons their edge back vs Magic in Game 2
A dominant 30-3 Detroit Pistons run in the third quarter saved the night – if not the series – turning a game tied at 46 into a blowout Wednesday.
Within eight minutes, the tension hanging in the air at Little Caesars Arena gave way to euphoria. A dominant 30-3 Detroit Pistons run in the third quarter saved the night – if not the series – in turning a game tied at 46 into a 27-point rout. Over 8:05 of game time, the Pistons held the Orlando Magic to just one made field goal.
A team coming off of its most disappointing loss of the season in Game 1 remembered who it was, and raised the defensive intensity to a level only the Pistons can sustain. The Pistons roared back to life in Game 2, winning 98-83 to tie the series against the Magic 1-1 on Wednesday, April 22. The win – their first in a home playoff game since May 26, 2008, snapping an NBA-record 11-game skid – was a return to form for a team coming off its best regular season in nearly 20 years, with the most suffocating defense in the Eastern Conference.
The Pistons won 60 games because of efforts like Wednesday's. MITCH ALBOM: Isaiah Stewart block party a reincarnation of Ben Wallace, Rick Mahorn “When we play defense at the level we’re capable of, it triggers everything for us,’ coach J. B.
Bickerstaff said. “We can be an elite defensive team, a disruptive defensive team that pushes and gets us transition easy baskets. And that’s what we did.
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