3/1 - Hornets vs Magic

[woosah]

Charlotte Hornets @ Orlando Magic
6pm Amway Center

PG Mo Williams SG Gerald Henderson SF Michael Kidd-Gilchrist PF Cody Zeller C Al Jefferson

vs

PG Elfrid Payton SG Victor Oladipo SF Tobias Harris PF Channing Frye C Nikola Vucevic

ABOUT THE HORNETS:
Charlotte is giving up an average of 100.5 points over the past six games after allowing 89.1 while winning 12 of the previous 16. That prior stretch started with a 98-90 win at Orlando on Jan. 3, the Hornets' fourth victory in five visits.

Kemba Walker had 30 points in the latest matchup there, but he's out recovering from knee surgery, leaving Williams and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist to pick up the slack.

Williams, though, is averaging 7.4 points over his last five games against the Magic (19-41), and he's totaled seven while shooting 2 for 13 in the past two.

Kidd-Gilchrist had 17 and 12 rebounds at Orlando in the January victory, and he's averaging career highs of 10.8 and 7.3, respectively, overall.


ABOUT THE MAGIC:
"I thought the biggest challenge (upon taking the job) was establishing an identity and what our message was going to be. In season, you can't change an entire program, but we had to pick a few things to identify and emphasize. So far we've committed to those areas and we've seen growth and we'll stay with that."

One of those areas is defense, as Orlando is yielding just 93.0 points per game under Borrego. However, that's not been enough lately, as the Magic fell 95-88 at East-leading Atlanta on Friday, two days after losing 93-90 in overtime to Miami, ending a three-game winning streak.

Nikola Vucevic is averaging 26.0 points in three games, scoring 21 with 15 boards against the Hawks. The center had 20 and 10 against the Hornets in January.

Victor Oladipo had a team-high 21 points in that meeting after totaling 25 on 34.6 percent shooting in the previous two at home.

[Orlwillbeback]

Just win im tired of losing

[OrlandO]

i still dislike mo williams from when he was on the cavs

[MagicStarwipe]

Not as worried about this team without Kemba Walker. Still, anything is possible against the Orlando Magic. Zeller career high, Kidd-Gilchrist career high, some unknown bench player dropping 5 threes on us. We'll see.

[in-limbo]

Looking forward to it tonight.. I got Chinese so you know it's a party.

[woosah]

Frenchie and AG both still out injured.

Mo scored 50+ this year so we can't ignore him . Hope to keep that defensive effort high and get this win tonight.

[Truth24]

Hoping Harkless gets more burn this game if AG and Evan are still out, he played some great defense last game.

[woosah]

LMAO at all these Willie Green plays in the top plays segment.

[TreasureCoast]

Thank god Janero Pargo was waived last month

[SOUL]

willie green for 35 mins lets go

[Orlwillbeback]

How much we lose by tonight?

[FloridaHoosier]

OMG! Free throws, people!

[SOUL]

so tired of frye

[SOUL]

zeller is not being guarded

[magicman112]

Game just started and Frye has already cost us 5 points. Awesome.

[SOUL]

CMON FYRE STOP **** GUARDING THE PG

[magicman112]

And of course Al hits a 3 against us.

[RookieStar]

You guys are able to watch it online? All links are dead for me.

[SOUL]

seriously watch how much frye follows the ball and expects another man to just cover his guy and forget about their own

[MagicStarwipe]

We have so many deflections that don't lead to steals.