Game Thread: Detroit Pistons (2-3) vs Orlando Magic (3-2) Live Score | NBA Playoffs | May 1, 2026
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**our expectations were low but holy fuck**
I’m pretty sure a decent college team could score at least 18 points on nba players in a half. That’s abysmal.
Every time I watch Banchero is like 4-19
Can you watch game 7 plz
Has to be scripted to force a game seven because no way does someone choke like that
Pistons and Magic have been back and back all season. I thought the Magic would take it tonight but what the fuck was that?!
How do you miss 23 shots in a row, at home, in the biggest game of the season ffs
I know a team that missed 27 3s at home in a game 7 to lose their season.
Is this real life?!?!
Orlando ain’t taking it back in Detroit after that
I’ve been mentally preparing myself for the Pistons to choke the 3-1 comeback at home in game 7 all week.
Detroit life babyyy
Hawks getting destroyed in historic fashion. Orlando: hold my beer.
I checked on the box score at half time and not again until the end lol. It felt eerily similar to yesterday when I saw NY 60 ATL 19 and thought the app was broke.
The sunny/rain bus meme for “we’re going to game!” but with Cleveland and Boston on the rainy side with Detroit, Toronto, Philly, and Orlando all on the sunny side
Suggs is the odd man out that’s gonna get traded for the Magic to get a competent point guard.
Scrubbs 1-10 1-6 4-4
Banshito 4-20 0-9 9-12
Both turds need to be flushed.
So do we just use this as the Rockets-Lakers game thread?
Fuse the Hawks 1st half with Orlando’s 2nd, and baby, you got some dogshit level of basketball goin
Mods decide this game didn’t deserve a post game thread?
May need to investigate the Magic for DraftKings accounts
where is the lakers rockets thread???????
My theory is that when the Magic were up 20 in the 2nd half, Paolo pulled the guys aside and said: “You guys, if we win this game, Jamal Mosley might still be our coach next year….”
Sell the team???
You think the scAmway scumbag DeVos family will sell it?
Magic high key have the best jerseys this season.
The Curse of the Shaqbino continues 🍿
This was disgusting to watch. You knew the magic were going to blow it even when Detroit was still down 10. But I thought it might be a tight game down to the wire. Nope. That was an all time sell by the magic, really really shitty basketball by them in the fourth
And magic took a lot of jumpers and never drove to the paint
They were scared of Ausar and Bball Paul
worst second half of play since last night when the celtics played
I wonder if The Knicks fucked Atlanta so hard last night that it opens a hole in the dimension and we are now in some weird parallel world.
19 points in the second half lol
Did Ben and Rasheed Wallace unretire?
Ppl still up in here amazed by what just happened 😂
At halftime, I thought the Pistons were ready to go home
As a Pistons fan; same. What was that second half?! That was a .1% outcome. That never should have happened.
Weren’t they down by like 24? 💀
3 quarters of 12 or fewer points is this 2005?
Wtf was that
Horrible coaching… Seeing that lead shrinking and watching your horrible 3pt team jacking up one ill-advised shot after another and basically settling for contested jumpers the whole 2nd half. That shit is mind boggling
Coach needs to blame nobody but himself for this one.
Yea no adjustments at all down the stretch. His job is now lost, regardless of what happens. Tonight was a closeout game and they blew a lead, then got blown out
I agree
There’s no way they can recover mentally after this. Game 7 in Detroit, they might as well start planning for next season atp
No changes to personnel. No changes to scheme. Just “do what we do”
They really miss Franz
Franz is a game changer and arguably their best player (arguably due to P5 and Bane because when their on, their on)… They were 1-20 and were building townhouses with those bricks in the 4th
A total of 19 points in the 2nd half. Wow. Outstanding level of play.
This is the charm of magic.
Play the song 😎
Has a coach ever been fired before the end of a series?
If the magic lose this series, I’m going to stop being their fan and switch to the team that represents the state I live in now, since I moved, the hornets.
welcome to NC, it would be ironic since Orlando kept us out of the playoffs
Oh lord don’t do that to yourself man
I kinda should, since I live in N.C. now, but I won’t if the magic win.
What a comeback
Getting held to 19 goddamn points in a half is a war crime.
Is 23 straight missed shots a playoff record?
Hasn’t happened since ‘97
5/2/2003 2nd half Magic 43pts
Haunting
Gonna run straight through the Raptors in the next round
Please just eliminate both of these teams. They’re going absolutely no where after this round
Orlando had the Pistons number all season, the rest of the league, not so much.
Nah We deserve to Cade grow more as a star regardless if the Pistons come to play or not.
Sorry about your bets
One thing I realized with this game is that rebounding has sort of become a lost art. Most of the rebounds felt incidental. Very few players seem to actually box out, especially on offense. They dont bother chasing their own misses. So many shots could’ve been recovered by the offense if they actually stayed in position.
🎵Orlando Tragic 🎵 🎶 Orlando Tragic🎶 🎵 Orlando Tragic🎵 Noooooooooh
Not just bc of this obv but these playoffs are def delivering
I thought blowing a 3-1 lead to philly would be bad but thank god im not a magic fan honestly
What was that, about a 38 point swing for the Pistons? Amazing.
31-8 in the 4th quarter is insane
bro no way
Mosley should resign now
The first round has had some of the most bizarre basketball seen this millennium
So many game 7s, is this the nhl?
The last two days have been baffling
Miami died for this
I’m taking Jdub over Paolo man fuck allat
One basket in the 4th, lead by more than they scored the entire 2nd half, fans didnt boo hard enough for me
Thats because everyone left early
19 points in the second half ain’t no way
Game 7 about to be basketball malpractice
Between this and the Knick-Hawks game…. it is just wild how the best players in the world playing high stakes games can just fucking absolutely suck at basketball. Like if you watched your 3rd graders play like that you would be embarrassed. They almost missed 30 shots in a row.
Coaches in these moments have to react.
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Cade is on some LeBron shit rn. Not for the 3-1 but for how he’s doing everything for this team.
His stat line is insane tonight
Just stopped in the Magic page to watch everyone losing their minds but I just ended up feeling bad. Lots of level heads there that just know they deserve better.
They should have won the game. What happened tonight was mindboggling.
Fuck them fools man
You can’t even blame doc Rivers for the choke this time. The Magic are literally copying the same choke job they did in 2003.
The good news we can get back to firing Mosely
Man, I can’t really blame him for this though. I think he coached them well in the playoffs but what can you do if everyone is always injured
How could you be an NBA coach and see your team miss like 20 shots in a row and don’t try to actually draw up a play? Like maybe try to score one?
He probably did, but that wasnt the problem.
The actual solution should have been to pull out the players and replace them with bench players.
Instead he kept the people who could not score for 24 minutes.
Paolo shooting 0-9 from 3s 😂😂😂 who gave that man the green light
Bane was throwing up some pure garbage in the 4th also. Like they were in panic mode.
I was so confused when he missed a three they got the offensive rebound he got the ball back and shot an even deeper three.
4-20 in total, so it ain’t like the 3 ball was the only thing he was lacking tonight
Do we got 2 potential comebacks from 3-0 in play and a 3-1? Wild first round
23 straight misses is disgusting lol
46 points from the field which were just left to the wayside, seriously this could have been a blowout
It was a blowout
What a fucking list
2nd half Magic vs 1st half Hawks yesterday, who wins
Hawks they at least got 30 something. Orlando got 19
Tragic Magic.
Don’t even let Mosley in the locker room. I need his bum ass out of the building stat
Dude 19 points in the entire 2nd half is insane 😂
Magic. Fucking pathetic.
Not even gonna crack 80?
They had 60 at halftime 😂
11 in the 3rd.
8 in the 4th.
The entire Magic team did that.
Unfathomable.
Busted their whole load in the 1st half smh
Way to take your foot off the gas. Hell of a comeback. I swear Pistons better win the series or that’d be really cruel to Detroit fans to make them believe again.
Magic don’t deserve to win this series after that
I’ll say this, I very much want us to win game 7, but at least we showed fight getting to a game 7. Let’s go Pistons!
Amen
Ausar
That’s for damn sure
Holy fucking shit thats a mid 2000s score. Did the spirit of the 00s Pistons just come into the building lmaooo
sorry ass team
8 points in a quarter has to be a record
Ties the record for least points in a quarter of an NBA playoff game.
Yoooop Nash said it LOL
Thank you Tobias. You don’t get enough credit. In fact, people still shit on you for your playoff performance in Philly. But you’re as solid as they come.
He’s like the 5th best player between magic and pistons roster yet his impact is insane. I’m conflicted because he’s expensive and we need more depth but you can’t deny his presence
Gotta trade Paolo… his lows and highs are just too much to be the focal point of the offense.
Thank fucking god I’m not a Magic fan. That might have been worse than just miss the playoffs
I wish we lost against the hornets
lmao that’s fucked up
1⁄28 from th field to close the game is even more fucked up
Time to head over to the Magic sub-reddit see what the vibes are like
Brother. We have our own problems.
We won a title 2 years ago and no one expected us to do ANYTHING this season. If we lose we lose, I’m just mad that Tatum is playing with his other calf having issues.
While I agree in general, when you are up 3-1, you win that series. Period.
Fair point, when you live & die by the 3 stuff like this can happen. We’ll just have to see how this all plays out 🍀
At one point it was just a stream of Orlando Tragic comments…
YOU KNOW THE PISTONS WON AGAIN
What a choke. lol magic.
Law of averages finally caught up with this bum Magic team
I think the mascots at Disney World would’ve shot better, gloves and all
Mosley can’t even run an ATO im rofling
Stopped watching when Orlandos were up by 24. What a choke
Hey, Taylor Rooks…
DETROIT BASKETBALLLLL
Getting booed at home in the playoffs is insane
Game 7 baby!
The magic actually got sucked up by the ball in space jam
as someone from ATL, i didnt expect that stinker yesterday to be eclipsed THAT soon
Southern charm!
Now idk about that. This is a good case but you guys also blow the load lol
We got you!
Magic scored 19 in the second half. Holy shit.
That is ATL behavior
Put me in coach. Deadass a civilian could’ve done a better job getting them a bucket.
lol
lmao even
Ain’t no way magic is a real team 😭
Genuinely cannot believe what i’ve just watched.
No chance they win in Detroit
At least we knew we lost in the first 10 mins 🤣
yeah this was maybe worse, and they still have to play out the string in game 7
This is a new record for lowest points scored in a half in the playoffs. Previous was 23
19 points in a half is crazy.
Why are some of the fans still sitting there looking sad after everyone has left the court? Why don’t they go home?
It’s like when your dog dies and you just hold them for a couple minutes, you’re in a state of shock
Imagine having watched your team done *that* with a chance to advance
It’s a state of shock. give them some time
DEEEEETROIT BAAAAASBKETBALLLLLL
Orlando shooting…not great, Bob!
Wouldn’t say I’m makin it bob
Orlando dedicated the 2nd half to the Hawks
They made the Hawks look competitive
The night after we see a nigh 50 point lead at half, we see a 19 point half
Lmao
19 points in a quarter is bad. 19 points in a half is…l don’t even know.
They were just paying tribute to the 2004 Pistons.
19 points in one half is actually diabolical i dont think ive ever seen a performance even close to that bad
Probably the worst thing to happen going into an away game 7 against the 1 seed. And Detroit is rightly fired up. Just stunned Orlando folded like that and forgot how to make shots. Just completely fell apart.
Props to Heat legend, Duncan. He was key tonight.
That was some of the most directionless, impotent offense I’ve seen in ages. Nobody screening, cutting, or really moving at all. Just dribble it up to the 3 pt line, pass a couple times back and forth, and then either a) turn it over on a bad pass or b) chuck a contested 3 and miss.
Yuck.
yeah pickup basketball vibes. hell, i think i see better sets in pickup
Genuinely what kind of game was this 😭😭
Orlando shot 10.8% from the field in the 2nd half
Seems high tbh
An abysmal 5% in the 4th
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that before
This and last night wild
Seppuku
PB no J is back on the menu
Franz increased his stock just by sitting there and witnessing this disaster lol
Just eliminate both teams
Nah bro
We Pistons want that Knicks rematch and revenge :)
Yeah well if yall are gonna play how you’ve been playing this series then I’m looking forward to it.
To go from scoring 60 points in the first half to 19 in the second half is the most bat shit thing I’ve seen in a playoff series.
Reading the top comments in this thread is hilarious
All kinds of anger from Knicks fans. Wonder what that is all about:p
They’re scared of the potential matchup down the road lol