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GAME INFO
Who: Detroit Pistons at Orlando Magic
What: 2024-2025 Regular Season Game 18
When: Saturday, November 23 at 7pm ET
Where: Kia Center in Orlando, Florida
How: FanDuel Sports Network Florida, NBA League Pass, 96.9 The Game (Radio)

GAMBLING
Line: ORL -9.5
Over/Under: 205.5

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ORLANDO MAGIC HEAD COACH
Jamahl Mosley - Career Record: 113-150 regular season, 3-4 playoffs



ORLANDO MAGIC STARTERS

G: Jalen Suggs



G: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope



F: Tristan da Silva



F: Franz Wagner



C: Goga Bitadze



ORLANDO MAGIC BENCH

G: Anthony Black



G: Gary Harris



F: Jonathan Isaac



C: Moritz Wagner



ORLANDO MAGIC DEEP BENCH
G: Cole Anthony
G: Cory Joseph
G/F: Jett Howard
G/F: Caleb Houstan

Injuries: Paolo Banchero (oblique) is OUT. Wendell Carter Jr. (foot) is QUESTIONABLE.


Detroit Projected Starters
G: Jaden Ivey
G: Malik Beasley
F: Tim Hardaway Jr.
F: Tobias Harris
C: Jalen Duren

Bench
G: Marcus Sasser
G: Wendell Moore Jr.
F: Ronald Holland II
F: Simone Fontecchio
C: Isaiah Stewart

Injuries: Cade Cunningham (hip) and Bobi Klintman (calf) are OUT. Ausar Thompson (re-conditioning after blood clots) is QUESTIONABLE.

Cade Cunningham will miss his first game of the season tonight with a hip injury.

He is averaging 23.5 PPG, 7.2 RPG and 8.9 APG.

Trap game.

RichCollab wrote:Trap game.

There's certainly some elements to it.

First game off a road trip is always difficult, especially so when you ended the trip with a big emotional win.

Pistons missing their best player.

Natural reaction would be relax and play down and not up.

But the Magic have also been so good at home. I feel good that the energy will be there when it needs to be.

These games never let up, do they? I'm still enjoying the last one.

Knightro wrote:Cade Cunningham will miss his first game of the season tonight with a hip injury.

He is averaging 23.5 PPG, 7.2 RPG and 8.9 APG.

Still a Cade Fan but he is really a tricky player to build around. Especially as the lead ballhandler & scorer. The stats are nice & his defense is better but his TO still killing them (almost 5 per game ) & his efficiency is still below leaque average + low FTr.

I’m expecting Denver KCP to show up in 5 to 6 weeks. Needs to get past the 1st month and half of his new baby.

Obviously the Pistons are better than they were last season, but we took care of business against these kinds of teams at home last year so I think we will be fine tonight, especially with Cade out.

RichCollab wrote:I’m expecting Denver KCP to show up in 5 to 6 weeks. Needs to get past the 1st month and half of his new baby.

If the baby has had anything to do with it and his baby and baby mama are now both doing fine, it seems like we should see Denver KCP show up tonight.

Yea there veterans scare me in this game... Beasley, tobias, fontechioo & of course hardaway jr could have big games. The advantage is the magic play so good at home. It's the same thing every game. Limit the mistakes, hit open shoots and play stifling defense and you win.

They've got a lot of good players. Fontecchio is a Magic killer. They have good size with Duren and Beef Stew. Beasley and Tobias are both capable of having 20 pt games. Ivey might want to make a statement with Cade being out.

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Hopefully, the German Elephant shows up.

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Feels like a trap game for sure

I don't think they've gotten blown out more than once or twice so they're dangerous. Beasley has the most threes in the league over the last 3-4 games or something. Lot of vets that can shoot. Have to run them off the line. Put Duren in a lot of actions, hope our bench wears them down. Doing those things will make it very uncomfortable for 'em.

Playing teams without their best player is always a little tricky. So, who on this Piston team about to have a career night?

Hopefully the focus is tight because it definitely feels like a trap game

RichCollab wrote:Trap game.

I came to this thread to post exactly this.

Cade is probably the only player in their draft class that I may or may not prefer over Franz. lol
Seriously though, I wanna see Cade in a better team and org first.
Don't hurt me!!!

Magic probably lose because I used all my sports team luck with UF's insane win over #9 Ole Miss as 2 TD underdogs.