ORLANDO —The Orlando Magic allowed a historical collapse in a critical 93-79 Game 6 loss to the Detroit Pistons on Sunday, setting them up for a Game 7 after the Magic held a 3-1 lead.

Orlando led by as many as 24 points after catching fire in the second quarter and outscoring the Pistons, 35-12. Then, the Magic could not buy a basket for the rest of the game. Afterward, Magic coach Jamahl Mosley talked about what went wrong.

"Give them credit for turning up the intensity, picking up full court," Mosley said. "Turned us over a couple times, and then they were able to get some really easy baskets, and then at the end of the day, a lot of shots didn't fall for us in that situation. We had some good looks, they didn't drop, and some of those long balls were able to lead to leak outs, and they got some early ones."

The Magic missed 23 shots in a row and went 45 minutes of real time without hitting one. Their egregious offensive falloff led to only 19 points being produced, making Orlando the only team in NBA history since the shot-clock era began tracking in 1954-55 to score less than 20 points in the second half after leading by 20 or more points at half time.

"I thought we had some good looks, and I thought we had some rushed looks," Mosley said. "I thought we were trying to find it a little bit, you know, when you don't see it drop."

In the second half, the Magic took 37 shots and only hit four of them. Meanwhile, Cade Cunningham and the Pistons capitalized on Orlando's shortcomings by scoring 55 points in the second half, 24 of which Cunningham was responsible for.

After a crushing defeat, Mosley knows his team has no choice but to move on and prepare for a do-or-die game on Sunday.

"You got to wash it," Mosley said. "You got to wash it. You got to learn from it. You got to go get Game 7. You got to do it the hard way. You know, we've been in Game 7 before, and we understand what this looks like on the road, the magnitude of it, what we know we're capable of doing in this situation. 

"Because you obviously got up big, so you know what you're capable of doing," he added. "But you've got to wash it, learn from it, and then go figure out a way to do it the hard way in Detroit.

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