If it’s now how you start, then it’s how you finish.
Unfortunately for the Detroit Pistons, the game ended the same way it began.
A late shooting slump doomed the Pistons, who fell to the Orlando Magic 115-106 on Friday night at the Amway Center. Detroit is now three games behind the Miami Heat for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
A Nikola Vucevic jumper 25 seconds in broke the scoreless tie. Orlando got out to an early 7-0 lead, which forced Stan Van Gundy to take a timeout just over two minutes in.