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Who: Denver Nuggets at Orlando Magic
What: Regular Season Game No. 25
When: Wednesday, December 5th at 7pm ET
Where: Amway Center in Orlando, FL
How: Fox Sports Florida/NBA League Pass



Orlando Magic Projected Starters

G: DJ Augustin


G: Evan Fournier


F: Jonathon Simmons


F: Aaron Gordon


C: Nikola Vucevic


Bench
G: Jerian Grant
G: Terrence Ross
F: Jonathan Isaac
C: Mohamed Bamba

Deep Bench
G: Isaiah Briscoe
G/F: Wesley Iwundu
F: Jarell Martin
C: Khem Birch

Inactive: Melvin Frazier Jr. and Timofey Mozgov

Denver Projected Starters
G: Jamal Murray
G: Malik Beasley
F: Juan Hernangomez
F: Paul Millsap
C: Nikola Jokic

Bench
G: Monte Morris
F: Torrey Craig
F: Trey Lyles
C: Mason Plumlee

Deep Bench
G: Brandon Goodwin
G: DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell
F: Tyler Lydon
C: Thomas Welsh

Injuries: Gary Harris (hip), Will Barton (groin), Michael Porter Jr. (back) and Isaiah Thomas (hip) are OUT.

Denver's third leading scorer at 16.6 PPG.

Knightro wrote:

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Denver's third leading scorer at 16.6 PPG.

He played like crap last time and it didn't slow them down at all... who's his replacement?

OrlandO wrote:

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Denver's third leading scorer at 16.6 PPG.

He played like crap last time and it didn't slow them down at all... who's his replacement?

Malik Beasley

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Denver's third leading scorer at 16.6 PPG.

He played like crap last time and it didn't slow them down at all... who's his replacement?

Malik Beasley

48% fg 40% 3pt... do not let Jokic pass to this guy.

It would be great to get a win at home against Denver. They are playing amazing. Pretty good test.

This team has so many offensive weapons it's going to be extremely difficult to win with our current rotations. They aren't the best defensive team in the NBA which could help if our team continues to shoot the ball better.

Our last game was the first of our road trip and we had a pretty bad shooting night as a team shooting - 40/30/75 However, we picked up from there against some pretty good defensive teams. If Coach wants to win this game he will need to shorten the rotations unless we are surprisingly getting value out of our consistently bad 2nd unit.

Denver is 4-4 on the road and have won 6 straight with wins over Toronto, Portland, Lakers, Thunder and ofcourse the Magic.

If the Magic could some how pull this win out it would be pretty special and build a lot of confidence during this very tough stretch.

OrlandO wrote:

ChosenSavior wrote:

OrlandO wrote:He played like crap last time and it didn't slow them down at all... who's his replacement?

Malik Beasley

48% fg 40% 3pt... do not let Jokic pass to this guy.

If Beasley has a big game against the magic tonight you can officially slide him in to magic killer territory from here on out. He has been slowly getting there the last couple of seasons lol

Riding home last night i tuned in for the post game show on the radio and Ross was being interviewed and when asked about this game he said, "we owe them one." Yeah, they want it. Bring that energy tonight and show us how you want it Magic!

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I was at the game where Tim Hardaway threw the TV! I thought it was going to shatter all over the court but didn't lol. And the crowd went crazy when DA picked it up and plugged it back in. They actually both signed the TV and it was auctioned off for charity lol.

So we are playing arguably the 2nd best team in the west who is currently on a 6 game win streak on a back to back? This has 10+ plus point loss written all over it. Clifford has gotten this team to show up and fight most nights this year though. I'm really just hoping for a close competitive game tonight. A win though would be amazing and would really raise some eyebrows around the league imo.

I think we had a breakthrough defensively on a few plays in the half of the last game against the Nuggets. They pick so well and were killing us. What I saw was the big actually step all the way out to guard the ball handler after the pick. It was way better than what they were doing by just leaving the ball handler unguarded until the player picked could recover.

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Hoping for a win. We are are a playoff team in the east this year. This will be a good test of our defense. Lets bring our best defensive effort. JI will need to step up his active defense. AG needs his open 3s to in. Vuc will be steady. Its our guards who is overmatched. Hope this is a win. Go Magic!

I don't like being overly optimistic, but I feel we can pull this off even tho I won't get down on the team if we don't as long as we play right.

Let's Go Magic!

Holy crap Jokic didn't even try to contest our first two attempts. If he's going to play like that we should just attack him.