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GAME INFO
Who: Orlando Magic at Utah Jazz
What: Regular Season Game No. 27
When: Tuesday, December 17th at 9pm ET
Where: Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City, UT
How: Fox Sports Florida and NBA League Pass (TV), 96.9 The Game (Radio)

GAMBLING
Line: Bucks -6.5
Over/Under: 208

PREVIOUS MEETINGS
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ORLANDO MAGIC PROJECTED STARTERS

G: Markelle Fultz



G: Evan Fournier



F: Aaron Gordon



F: Jonathan Isaac



C: Nikola Vucevic




ORLANDO MAGIC PROJECTED BENCH

G: DJ Augustin



G: Michael Carter-Williams



F: Terrence Ross



C: Mo Bamba



Deep Bench
G: Josh Magette (two-way)
G: Melvin Frazier Jr.
F: Wes Iwundu
F: Amile Jefferson
C: Khem Birch

Injuries: Al-Farouq Aminu (knee) is OUT.

Utah Projected Starters
G: Mike Conley Jr.
G: Donovan Mitchell
F: Bojan Bogdanovic
F: Royce O'Neale
C: Rudy Gobert

Bench
G: Emmanuel Mudiay
G: Joe Ingles
F: Georges Niang
F: Jeff Green
C: Ed Davis

Injuries: None

Great thread, Knightro!

Surprised to not have seen any thread till now. Just hoping to see more growth from the team especially with the team being mostly healthy again. Outside of Aminu of course.

Also, more Isaac por favor!

Bojan will give us trouble.

I want to see how Vuc plays against Gobert, I think he'll need to be able to hit from the outside reliably this game for us to have a chance.

SOUL wrote:Bojan will give us trouble.

I want to see how Vuc plays against Gobert, I think he'll need to be able to hit from the outside reliably this game for us to have a chance.

Hopefully not, AG should be on him all game. The one that worries me is the Mitchell-Fournier matchup. I wouldn't say Evan's a bad defender, but defensive stopper, he is not.

This is another winnable game if we play the way we are suppose. They do have a team full of magic killers(bojan, Conley, ingles,green). Our forwards are going to be key in this game. If Gordon and issac can lock down there defenders I think we have a shot even with Conley and mitchell having big games. We have to hit wide open shoots like always. Go magic

Conley hasn't been that great, so we'll see how he looks.

Surely AG is due a bounceback game.

Going to have to win the rebounding battle and hit from the outside tonight if we want to get this win. Very hard to win in Utah. This would be a hell of a win if we can get it.

Win: just win

Star Wars night in Utah apparently.

Let's Go Magic!

Mitchell about to work this dude.

Isaac with the block on Bogdanovic extends his streak now to 29 consecutive games with at lest 1 block (ranks 3rd all time behind Dwight and Shaq).

I would switch Gordon and Isaac's matchup defensively.

Let AG navigate those screens against Bogdanović.

Knightro wrote:Star Wars night in Utah apparently.

Also Star Wars night in Orlando, Jan 4th vs Jazz.

Other than that ill-advised 3 that Gordon took after Vuc got the offensive rebound, I like the shots we are getting against them.

It's those shots from AG that drive me crazy. Taking that contested 3 early in the shotclock after just bricking one is just uncalled for.

I can't even imagine what Fultz's numbers would look like on a team committed to playing fast.

He's genuinely one of the best transition players in the league.

Knightro wrote:I would switch Gordon and Isaac's matchup defensively.

Let AG navigate those screens against Bogdanović.

It's just a comical misuse of Isaac defensively, but Cliff is incompetent so Im not surprised.