ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando forward Paolo Banchero, when asked to explain what went wrong for the Magic in the second half against the Detroit Pistons on Friday night, had a very succinct answer.“They went on a pretty big run there,” Banchero said. “And we didn’t score.”It truly might have been that simple.The Pistons — facing elimination and down by 24 points, on the road, in the second half, and about to join an ignominious club of No. 1 seeds who were ousted from the playoffs by No. 8 seeds — pulled off a comeback for the ages in Game 6 of their Eastern Conference first-round series against the Magic.The final score: Pistons 93, Magic 79.“We weren’t going to lay down,” Pistons guard Cade Cunningham said. “For anything.” A breakdown of how the comeback — or the collapse, depending on one’s perspective — happened:— The score over the first 25 minutes: Magic 62, Pistons 38.— The score over the final 23 minutes: Pistons 55, Magic 17.— The score in the fourth quarter: Pistons 31, Magic 8.— Orlando’s shooting percentage in the fourth quarter: 5%. The Magic were 1 for 20.— That was the worst shooting percentage by any team, in any quarter, since Washington shot 5% in the fourth quarter against Charlotte on Nov. 25, 2015. …
