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GAME INFO
Who: Oklahoma City Thunder at Orlando Magic
What: 2020-2021 Regular Season Game 6
When: Saturday, January 2 at 7pm ET
Where: Amway Center in Orlando, FL
How: Fox Sports Florida, NBA League Pass, 96.9 The Game FM (Radio)

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GAMBLING
Magic -6.5
Over/Under 218

PREVIOUS MEETINGS
December 29th, 2020: Magic 118, Thunder 107 - https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=401267212

ORLANDO MAGIC PROJECTED STARTERS

G: Markelle Fultz


G: Michael Carter-Williams


F: Dwayne Bacon


F: Aaron Gordon


C: Nikola Vucevic


ORLANDO MAGIC PROJECTED BENCH

G: Cole Anthony


G: Terrence Ross


F: Gary Clark


C: Khem Birch


Deep Bench
G: Jordan Bone (two-way)
G: Karim Mane (two way)
C: Mo Bamba





Injuries: Jonathan Isaac (knee), Al-Farouq Aminu (knee), James Ennis (hamstring) and Chuma Okeke (knee) are all OUT. Evan Fournier (back) is QUESTIONABLE.

Oklahoma City Projected Starters
G: George Hill
G: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
F: Luguentz Dort
F: Darius Bazley
C: Al Horford

Bench
G: Theo Maledon
G: Hamidou Diallo
F: Aleksej Pokusevski
F: Mike Muscala
C: Isaiah Roby

Injuries: Ty Jerome (ankle) and Trevor Ariza (personal) are OUT.

Again, the upcoming schedule looks pretty favorable. We play Okc and Cleveland twice in the next 3 games. If we come out of that stretch 6-2 or even 7-1, just temper your expectations because the following week we play @Dallas, @Boston twice, and Milwaukee.

We are still a flawed fringe playoff team at best, && our record will level out and show that by the end of the season.

PrimeThyme wrote:Again, the upcoming schedule looks pretty favorable. We play Okc and Cleveland twice in the next 3 games. If we come out of that stretch 6-2 or even 7-1, just temper your expectations because the following week we play @Dallas, @Boston twice, and Milwaukee.

We are still a flawed fringe playoff team at best, && our record will level out and show that by the end of the season.

I fully expect to be a sub .500 club unless Fultz miraculously becomes an all star level player.

Is bamba actually going to play? or is he going to stub his toe and be out another 18 games? Maybe he gets poked in the eye by a trainer and misses the rest of the season?

The Effect wrote:Is bamba actually going to play? or is he going to stub his toe and be out another 18 games? Maybe he gets poked in the eye by a trainer and misses the rest of the season?

I still believe in his skill set but have given up on him for this team.

January hasn’t been super kind to us these past few years. And our defense is shot..so here’s hoping for the best. Good luck Magic. Hopefully we can give some of the younger players a go with all the injuries we have.

ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:January hasn’t been super kind to us these past few years. And our defense is shot..so here’s hoping for the best. Good luck Magic. Hopefully we can give some of the younger players a go with all the injuries we have.

Outside of Bamba, there's really no young guys to play who aren't already playing. I guess Clifford could explore playing Fultz and Anthony together more, but that's basically it.

Karim Mané doesn't count

Hopefully we can get Ennis back soon. With Evan possibly out, we could get a look at a lineup with Ennis and Bacon.

Can't we sign a 10day or something? Just to spell things for Evan Ross and Ennis?

That starting lineup spacing

In this situation why is Ross completely out of the question as a starter? Kind of ridiculous.

SOUL wrote:That starting lineup spacing

When the league zigs, we zag

How is Fultz expected to create with MCW, Bacon and AG as options to kick it out to?

Probably going to be an L with Fournier and Okeke out. MCW is a great energy bench piece and a really good defender, but not sure how he'll work as a starter with AG and Fultz not being great shooters either.

Cmon Bamba.. play already

Should be an easy win without Fournier.

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easy win

We'll see how the team bounces back after that beatdown that was suffered on Thursday. At least T. Ross is back.