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GAME INFO
Who: New York Knicks at Orlando Magic
What: 2020-2021 Regular Season Game 29
When: Wednesday, February 17 at 7pm ET
Where: Amway Center in Orlando, FL
How: Fox Sports Florida, NBA League Pass, 104.5 The Beat (Radio)

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GAMBLING
Magic +4
Over/Under 209.5

PREVIOUS MEETINGS
January 18, 2021: Knicks 91 , Magic 84 - https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=401267363

ORLANDO MAGIC PROJECTED STARTERS

G: Michael Carter-Williams


G: Terrence Ross


F: Dwayne Bacon


F: Gary Clark


C: Nikola Vucevic


ORLANDO MAGIC PROJECTED BENCH

G: Chasson Randle


F: Chuma Okeke


F: Khem Birch


C: Mo Bamba


Deep Bench

All Injured

Injuries: Jonathan Isaac (knee), Markelle Fultz (knee), Aaron Gordon (ankle) and Cole Anthony (rib) are OUT. Al-Farouq Aminu (knee), Evan Fournier (back) and James Ennis (groin) are QUESTIONABLE.

New York Projected Starters
G: Elfrid Payton
G: Reggie Bullock
F: RJ Barrett
F: Julius Randle
C: Nerlens Noel

Bench
G: Derrick Rose
G: Immanuel Quickley
F: Alec Burks
F: Obi Toppin
C: Taj Gibson

Injuries: Mitchell Robinson (hand) is OUT.

This is important for the tank. The knicks right now has the potential to go chase a PO seed or go all in the tank. We need to let them win to encourage that "winning" mentality.

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Wow.. Aminu is back? Just in time for Ennis to be injured? Here's hoping for Aminu to double his 4min outing. Gotta get that trade exposure seen.

I'm sad to say it, but one of the most "entertaining" factors right before a Magic game this season is the guessing game 'Who's gonna get injured next'.

Never seen anything even close to what is happening to our roster this year. We are completely decimated and injuries keep piling up. New York is playing hard defense under coach Thibbs and I wonder who's gonna be the next fallen Magic soldier.

Knicks are coming after a few good wins and they are in the East playoff picture now, I hope they play hard enough against us tonight so the tank could remain on course.

Interesting to see what the new guy Chasson Randle can bring to the table. As far as I know, he's nothing more than a bench-warmer or backup of the backup in NBA at best. I'd be happy to be pleasantly surprised by him tonight. He seems like a capable scorer in the G-League.

Cole is now marked as "Ribs" on the injury report?

penny_nz wrote:Cole is now marked as "Ribs" on the injury report?

He went to all you can eat at Sonny's and ate too much.

Ducklett wrote:

penny_nz wrote:Cole is now marked as "Ribs" on the injury report?

He went to all you can eat at Sonny's and ate too much.

All these returning players from injury are going to have us pickup meaningless Ws and make us go for the play in... Man I'd just like some direction in this team other than run it back

Just saw Cole on the bench with a protective arm sling. I guess they are trying to immobilize his shoulder and arm as much as possible in order for that upper rib to heal.

Our team is like a banged-up rugby squad after a tough long season.

MaKiaVeLi7 wrote:Just saw Cole on the bench with a protective arm sling. I guess they are trying to immobilize his shoulder and arm as much as possible in order for that upper rib to heal.

Our team is like a banged-up rugby squad after a tough long season.

Ribs are such a bitch to heal as well if it's cartilage or intercostal muscles etc, as it's impossible to immobilise it

I am starting to like and enjoy Bacon's game, especially his drives to the basket and transition buckets he makes. We needed that type of player.

Good thing is he starts to show progress and confidence in his game thanks to the number of minutes he gets given our injuries situation. Only if he can start converting his 3-pt attempts at a better rate

I know Bacon is not universally loved here as people tend to love to hate on the Magic board, but he's turning into one of the few positives this year. Good pickup in the offseason.

i'm real tired of ross being a veteran and still fouling people while shooting....so undisciplined

MaKiaVeLi7 wrote:I am starting to like and enjoy Bacon's game, especially his drives to the basket and transition buckets he makes. We needed that type of player.

Good thing is he starts to show progress and confidence in his game thanks to the number of minutes he gets given our injuries situation. Only if he can start converting his 3-pt attempts at a better rate

I know Bacon is not universally loved here as people tend to love to hate on the Magic board, but he's turning into one of the few positives this year. Good pickup in the offseason.

I dislike how much of a black hole he can be on offense, sometimes he just puts his head down and throws up some crap. But being able to hit that three at a better rate certainly does make him a better threat without the ball in his hands.

I hate it when T Ross doesn't see Bamba on those rolls, he is SO open and it's a gimme

Our guards outside of Fultz have 0 idea how to make a good pass more often than not.

Steve Clifford's big man depth chart:

Vuc
Birch
Aminu
Clark
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The tall guy he saw in Walmart last night
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(When told he can't suit up unsigned pedestrians)
Forfeit
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(When told he isn't allowed to forfeit and must put 5 players on the court)
Bamba

SOUL wrote:Our guards outside of Fultz have 0 idea how to make a good pass more often than not.

One of the reasons I don't like the argument about Bambas stats sometimes. He is ABSOLUTELY not without flaws, but imagine if he was playing with guards with some vision on those Pick and Rolls, half the time he's wide open in the lane as well.

That's a really good defensive second team.

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penny_nz wrote:

MaKiaVeLi7 wrote:I am starting to like and enjoy Bacon's game, especially his drives to the basket and transition buckets he makes. We needed that type of player.

Good thing is he starts to show progress and confidence in his game thanks to the number of minutes he gets given our injuries situation. Only if he can start converting his 3-pt attempts at a better rate

I know Bacon is not universally loved here as people tend to love to hate on the Magic board, but he's turning into one of the few positives this year. Good pickup in the offseason.

I dislike how much of a black hole he can be on offense, sometimes he just puts his head down and throws up some crap. But being able to hit that three at a better rate certainly does make him a better threat without the ball in his hands.

I hate it when T Ross doesn't see Bamba on those rolls, he is SO open and it's a gimme

Right, sometimes defining T-Ross' play as "having tunnel vision" is just a HUuUuUUuge understatement.

I feel like he becomes blind right after he receives a pass, no matter how many defenders he has against him or how far he is from the basket or any reasonable shooting spot.

He just turns into a nightmare very often. His vision shrinks to a half-blind horny mosquito looking through an extremely narrow sipper in a moonless night.

Dang... we gonna win this huh?

Might as well ride the second team.

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