SUNDAY, NOV 1
7:00PM
UNITED CENTER
CHICAGO IL
WATCH ON FS FLORIDA
LISTEN ON ESPN 580 / SALSA 98.1 FM (ESP)
FIRST ROAD GAME
REGROUP
... AND JUST WIN
Evan Fournier
1st Road trip of the season ! Chicago, Nola and Houston! #Puremagic ✈
John Denton
.@OrlandoMagic G/F @EvanFourmizz hurt his ankle on Fri while scoring 22 pts, but vowed he's definitely playing on Sun vs. @chicagobulls
John Denton
.@OrlandoMagic coach SSkiles not happy how team changed style when game got tight. Lots of passing, cutting in 1st 3 Qs. Apprehensive in 4th
John Denton
Head coach Scott Skiles put his team thru a film session with 70 clips.
``When we posed the question today of who was guarding (Westbrook) it was dead silence,’’ Skiles said of a candid moment inside the film session. ``We attempted to make an adjustment on the high-pick-and-roll with Westbrook but we got a lot of blank stares and 1,000-yard stares and didn’t do it. We weren’t there at that moment and either got caught up in our shots not going in or things that you can’t do.
``We’ve got to get to a position where it’s not, `Hey, we did a lot of good things and we took a step forward. And we almost beat Oklahoma City,’^’’ Skiles said with stern seriousness. ``We have to get legitimately angry about it, take some action and do something about it. Be more in-tuned with the game, be in your spots, set your screens and do your job.’’
``We’re not going to relent off our message. The tape doesn’t lie,’’ Skiles said of continuing to hold players accountable for their actions. ``They’ve been good at looking at it and responding when we’re talking about it, but at some point it has to translate out onto the game floor. What we’ve encountered in these two games also happened in the exhibition season. We’d be up 15 and the other team would make a run and we’d slow down.
``We can look at it now and say, `Well, we should be 2-0.’ But there are too many things going on long term that need to be corrected,’’ Skiles stressed. ``Even if we were 2-0 we would have looked at the same 70 clips, talked about (the mistakes) and not focused so much on the result. … We haven’t reacted poorly, but we haven’t reacted great, either.’’
Josh Robbins
In close games, Magic players said they have to start thinking about "playing to win" instead of "playing not to lose."
rcklsscognition wrote:Orlando Magic teammates Evan Fournier and Andrew Nicholson are up against tomorrow's extension deadline btw.
FLASHBACK
PREVIOUS GAME
Victor Oladipo earned the first triple-double of the NBA season in Orlando's loss to OKC.
The Orlando Magic had 4 players w/ 20+ points. It was the 1st time that's happened since 11/1/09 (at TOR)
The 136 points by the Orlando Magic were the most they have scored since scoring 139 on 1/13/09 at SAC.
The 275 combined points sets a new Orlando Magic record for most points scored by two teams in a game. Old mark: 271, 12/30/90 vs DEN
