Cade Cunningham paired 29 points with 11 assists as the visiting Detroit Pistons defeated the Orlando Magic 106-92 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Cunningham also had six rebounds for the league-leading Pistons, who overcame some early shooting woes to crush the Magic 31-18 and 25-17 across the last two quarters.<\/p>\n
Tobias Harris scored 23 points for Detroit, while Jalen Duren posted 16 points and 10 rebounds, and Ausur Thompson compiled nine points, 11 boards and three blocks.<\/p>\n
Paolo Banchero had 24 points and 11 assists for Orlando, Tristan da Silva added 19 and Desmond Bane chipped in with 17 points and seven assists.<\/p>\n
Rebounds and turnovers were issues for the Magic early, and the hosts had 11 fewer shot attempts, but they led 26-23 after one quarter thanks to Detroit\u2019s 9-of-28 shooting, including 0 of 10 from deep.<\/p>\n
Orlando\u2019s lead grew to nine points as the Pistons missed their first 15 3-point attempts.<\/p>\n
Cunningham posted 15 points and five assists at the half for Detroit, while Banchero had 17 at the main break, including 12 of 14 free-throw attempts, as the Magic held sway 57-50.<\/p>\n
The Pistons upped their defensive pressure and discovered their shooting radar, pinching their first lead of the night when Harris stuck a three for 67-65 with 6:44 left in the third frame.<\/p>\n
Cunningham scored 10 points for the period and Harris had nine, while Orlando went 7 of 21 and was outrebounded 14-9.<\/p>\n
Despite da Silva draining his third three in the dying stages, Detroit dominated for 12 minutes to lead 81-75 going into the fourth.<\/p>\n
Bane knocked down a trey early in the final period to knot the score at 83, before the Pistons used a 14-2 burst to sprint clear 97-85.<\/p>\n
A pair of Banchero buckets \u2014 including a dunk \u2014 trimmed Detroit\u2019s buffer to 101-92 with 1:17 left, before Thompson scored the last five points of the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham paired 29 points with 11 assists as the visiting Detroit Pistons defeated the Orlando Magic 106-92…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,48,6,47,76,3883],"class_list":{"0":"post-634078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-magic","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-orlando","12":"tag-orlando-magic","13":"tag-orlandomagic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116158711975575885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}