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GAME INFO
Who: Orlando Magic at Golden State Warriors
What: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 33
When: Tuesday, January 2 at 10pm ET
Where: Chase Center in San Francisco, California
How: Bally Sports Florida, NBATV, 96.9 The Game (Radio)

GAMBLING
Line: GSW -3.5 (opened GSW -4.5)
Over/Under: 230.5

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ORLANDO MAGIC HEAD COACH
Jamahl Mosley - Career Record: 75-121



ORLANDO MAGIC STARTERS

G: Anthony Black


G: Jalen Suggs


F: Franz Wagner


F: Paolo Banchero


C: Goga Bitadze


ORLANDO MAGIC BENCH

G: Cole Anthony


G: Gary Harris


G: Caleb Houstan


F: Moritz Wagner


C: Wendell Carter Jr.


ORLANDO MAGIC DEEP BENCH
G: Trevelin Queen (two-way)
F: Chuma Okeke
F: Admiral Schofield (two-way)

Injuries: Joe Ingles (ankle), Jonathan Isaac (hamstring), Jett Howard (G-League Assignment) and Kevon Harris (two-way) are OUT. Markelle Fultz (knee) is QUESTIONABLE.

Golden State Projected Starters
G: Chris Paul
G: Stephen Curry
G: Klay Thompson
F: Trayce Jackson-Davis
F: Jonathan Kuminga

Bench
G: Brandin Podziemski
G: Gary Payton II
F: Andrew Wiggins
F: Dario Saric
C: Kevon Looney

Injuries: Draymond Green (suspension) is OUT.

I think this will be competitive. I'm taking Orlando outright.

Is Carter definitely coming off the bench again? Kind of hoping we can showcase him to the Warriors front office tonight.

Should be an interesting matchup regardless with the bigs the Warriors should put out there

Feels like we should win this one and then lose vs Sacramento

We have the front court advantage. They have the guard advantage. The Warriors haven't looked good all year yet their bench is really good and they are deadly from the outside. Should be an interesting game. Hopefully the Magic can display the discipline they did not have in the Phoenix game and come out of this one with a win.

Start WCJ.

RichCollab wrote:Start WCJ.

RichCollab wrote:Start WCJ.

I like his offense off the bench for now.

davey_wavy wrote:

RichCollab wrote:Start WCJ.

Offensive rating will definitely improve with WCJ back in SL. He looks like he is close to being fully back.

RichCollab wrote:

davey_wavy wrote:

RichCollab wrote:Start WCJ.

Offensive rating will definitely improve with WCJ back in SL. He looks like he is close to being fully back.

I hope your right. Im a big WCJ fan. But Goga man.... Goga

We have great POA/perimeter defenders. What we need is a rim protector that will second-guess their minds in driving to the pain.

We need Goga there to make GSW try to make shots outside with Suggs/Black/Harris/Franz draped all over them

Goga had a bad game against Phoenix, but he has 3 put backs and a steal that led to a fast break dunk by AB. WCJ is like a big PF that doesn't finish well around the basket. For example, on one possession, he traveled under the basket while he was trying to pump fake a player.

I do think Wendell can have higher peaks when his shot is falling. Goga is always the same, and that probably helps win games against bad teams. Wendell could have a really bad shooting night that could contribute to a loss to a bad team.

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warriors going small....we should punish them inside....they will pack the paint....we're probably going to see some zone against us at some point....hopefully mose and the coaching staff has them prepared...let's cut down the self-inflicted wounds...the turnovers got to get that under control

RichCollab wrote:

davey_wavy wrote:

RichCollab wrote:Start WCJ.

Offensive rating will definitely improve with WCJ back in SL. He looks like he is close to being fully back.

I think this is true...but, given our Forward tandem, this would be a crazy imbalance even further...WCJ's good, but we just don't have such a great need for more frontcourt offense. Id rather keep him than lose him, but he's the least valuable contributor of our core. I'm not saying he's the worst player, but his skills are least important to the way our team plays best...that's why I throw him into trades for a guard that can shoot all the time...having our 3 best scorers all in the frontcourt is a hard ceiling...WCJ can shoot a little, but he's not exceptional enough to call him a stretch 5.

RichCollab wrote:

davey_wavy wrote:

RichCollab wrote:Start WCJ.

Offensive rating will definitely improve with WCJ back in SL.

I highly doubt that. Goga currently has a 117 ORTG, second highest on the team only behind Ingles and the highest by some margin of all starters (6.7 better than that of Banchero who is has the second highest one among the starters). His offensive rebounding in particular has been huge for our offense. When Goga plays, our offensive rebounding rate is much higher (33.6 compared to 28.2 when he is on the bench).

CP3 and Curry are fierce competitors...that's going to be the fun stuff to watch. If our two defense-only (mostly) guards can keep them under relative control - our bigs should feast. They know not to bother kicking out for open 3's anymore, so this might work against GSW's opposite makeup.

The best thing to our advantage is that they seem very discombobulated. Hopefully we can eekk out the win

Warriors havent been good but got a feeling they figure everything out vs us.

We need AB to help Franz with his shooting.

In 6 seasons, Wendell has only been over a 107.4 offensive rating once. He's been awful.



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