The Pistons complete the comeback and reach the second round for the first time in 18 years

The Detroit Pistons they starred in the fifteenth occasion that a team of the NBA goes back a 3-1 in the Playoffs in all the NBA history. Two of those times have occurred within hours of each other. The Sixers they left out the Celtics and shortly after, they were Pistons those who won the decisive match to complete the comeback, 116-94.

And they did it by playing an extraordinary seventh match. Very serious and very solid, remembering more the team that finished eastern leader and not the one that in the fourth game of the series against the magic I was on the brink of the abyss.

The party had a history until minute 26 and a very different one from there. TO 2:47 By the end of the second quarter the game was tied and very balanced 45-45from there, partial of 15-4 of the Pistons what they did with him crash control and they took their rival off the track.

Tobias Harris appears

In that second quarter, capital for the luck of the game (40-27 partial), crucial was the performance of Tobias Harrisauthor of 17 of the 19 points that I was wearing then. ended with 30 points in what has been his best game of the series.

And when it didn’t appear Harrishe did Cade Cunninghamthe leader of that team, who took over the game after the restart. At 7 minutes the score was already 71-51. And when Orlando scared with a 0-7 (71-58), the point guard was in charge of putting out all the fires. Cunninghamauthor of 45 points in the sixthhe went to the 32 in the closing gameplus 10 assists. He retired to a gala ovation from the Little Caesars Arena.

The third leg of the bench detroit was Jalen Duren who signed 15 points and 15 rebounds. It was also at a high altitude DanisseJenkins with 16 points and 4/5 in triples.

In the magicwho greatly missed Franz Wagner, only Paolo Bancheror he was up to the task that his team required. When the magic were in 58 pointshe signed almost half, 28. He ended up with 38 in 41 minutes and could do nothing before the gale of detroit.

It is the second time in history that the Pistons they go back a 3-1 in the Playoffs. The first was in 2003, also in the first round and also against the Orlando Magic. For the Pistons it is the first Playoff series won in recent times 18 years. The last one was, again precisely, before the Magic, 4-1, in 2008.