NBA Game 7 winners and losers: Will Pistons or Magic make second round?
In the NBA, there’s nothing better than a Game 7, and there are two today as the Pistons host the Magic and the Cavaliers host the Raptors.
In the NBA , there’s nothing better than a Game 7. Fortunately for fans tuning in Sunday, May 3, there are two of them, between the No. 1 Detroit Pistons and No.
8 Orlando Magic and between the No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers and No. 5 Toronto Raptors .
In win-or-go-home scenarios, teams tend to elevate their play and compete with desperation. Perhaps no team is feeling that more than Orlando, which had a 3-1 series lead before it allowed the Pistons to win two in a row, the most recent after an epic choke job in Game 6 in which the Magic shot only 4-of-37 from the floor in the second half. Here are the winners and losers from Sunday’s NBA Playoffs Game 7s: WINNERS Paolo Banchero He scored the Magic’s first 11 points and set the tone for Orlando, including draining the first three 3-pointers he attempted.
Banchero aggressively sought his shot, and, when Detroit diverted more defensive attention toward Banchero, he tried to find his teammates. He finished the half with 23 points on 9-of-14 shooting. His biggest issue was that his teammates simply didn’t knock down their shots.