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GAME INFO
Who: Orlando Magic at Los Angeles Lakers
What: 2024-2025 Regular Season Game 17
When: Thursday, November 21 at 10:30pm ET
Where: crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California
How: FanDuel Sports Network Florida, NBA League Pass, 96.9 The Game (Radio)

GAMBLING
Line: LAL -5.5
Over/Under: 216.5

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ORLANDO MAGIC HEAD COACH
Jamahl Mosley - Career Record: 112-150 regular season, 3-4 playoffs



ORLANDO MAGIC STARTERS

G: Jalen Suggs



G: Anthony Black



F: Tristan da Silva



F: Franz Wagner



C: Goga Bitadze



ORLANDO MAGIC BENCH

G: Cole Anthony



G: Gary Harris



F: Jonathan Isaac



C: Moritz Wagner



ORLANDO MAGIC DEEP BENCH
G: Jett Howard
G: Cory Joseph
G: Mac McClung (two way)
G: Trevelin Queen (two-way)
F: Caleb Houstan

Injuries: Paolo Banchero (oblique) and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (birth of child) are OUT. Wendell Carter Jr. (foot) is QUESTIONABLE.


Los Angeles Projected Starters
G: Austin Reaves
G: Dalton Knecht
F: Cam Reddish
F: LeBron James
C: Anthony Davis

Bench
G: D'Angelo Russell
G: Gabe Vincent
G: Max Christie
C: Christian Koloko

Injuries: Christian Wood (knee), Jarred Vanderbilt (foot), Jalen Hood-Schifino (hamstring), Jaxson Hayes (ankle) and Bronny James (heel) are OUT. Rui Hachimura (ankle) is QUESTIONABLE.

Starting lineup has NOT been announced with KCP out.

Knightro wrote:Starting lineup has NOT been announced with KCP out.

Knowing mosely Gary Harris starting next to Jalen

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KCP having a baby roughly the same time as Jokic...

Can’t believe I’m gonna stay up to watch this.

VFX wrote:Can’t believe I’m gonna stay up to watch this.

Why is that?

You guys think we let our rookie guard Bron or sic our best wing defender on him but gonna make our offense more anemic than ever

VFX wrote:Can’t believe I’m gonna stay up to watch this.

We are suckers for pain

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as expected.....need to keep missing threes from the SG position

While I can sympathize with that lingering feeling of doom (I get up in the middle of the night to watch Arsenal after all), I mean, shoot, if it's really that unenjoyable, just don't watch? We aren't that bad are we?

I'd love to be able to watch, unfortunately games are often during the work day / kids dinner time etc.

No good choices outside of AB who forces us to play Cole as backup PG. Gary can't hit anything and defends decently while Jett is streaky and can't defend. KCP not hitting anything but defends well.

Jett off the bench to replace Harris, or does Cole get the call?

Regardless of whichever of Cole or Jett plays with the bench, what we need dearly is them to step up offensively

WCJ just announced OUT for tonight

SOUL wrote:No good choices outside of AB who forces us to play Cole as backup PG. Gary can't hit anything and defends decently while Jett is streaky and can't defend. KCP not hitting anything but defends well.

Why not start Jett and let him go ham? Then 2nd half we clamp down the defense.

The Magic will loose again because 45% of their shots are 3 pt attempts and they only shoot 30%

Orlando Dawg wrote:The Magic will loose again because 45% of their shots are 3 pt attempts and they only shoot 30%

We don't have guys that score well inside of the paint with regularity active without Paolo (and WCJ a bit).

They literally need to just hit open shots. Really hard to expect a team to barrel into the paint without being great finishers outside of the Wagners and also ask them to play elite hounding defense. This isn't 2004.

There’s a reason why we get so many open 3’s. It’s a solid defensive game plan to pack the paint and take your chances against our shooting from deep.

Hold down the turnovers, Lakers defense isn't good