2025-2026 Regular Season Game 3: Chicago Bulls (1-0) at Orlando Magic (1-1) - 7pm ET

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GAME INFO
Who: Chicago Bulls at Orlando Magic
What: 2025-2026 Regular Season Game 3
When: Saturday, October 25 at 7pm ET
Where: Kia Center in Orlando, Florida
How: FanDuel Sports Florida, NBA League Pass, 96.9 The Game (Radio)

GAMBLING
Line: ORL -5.5
Over/Under: 233.5

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ORLANDO MAGIC HEAD COACH
Jamahl Mosley
Career Record: 145-185 regular season, 4-8 playoffs



ORLANDO MAGIC STARTERS


G: Tyus Jones



G: Desmond Bane



F: Franz Wagner



F: Paolo Banchero



C: Wendell Carter Jr.



ORLANDO MAGIC BENCH

G: Jase Richardson



G: Anthony Black



F: Jett Howard



F: Tristan da Silva



C: Goga Bitadze



ORLANDO MAGIC DEEP BENCH
F: Jonathan Isaac
F: Noah Penda
F: Jamal Cain (two-way)
C: Orlando Robinson (two-way)
C: Colin Castleton (two-way)

Injuries: Jalen Suggs (injury management) and Moritz Wagner (knee) are OUT.


Chicago Projected Starters
G: Tre Jones
G: Josh Giddey
F: Isaac Okoro
F: Matas Buzelis
C: Nikola Vucevic

Bench
G: Ayo Dosunmu
G: Kevin Huerter
F: Dalen Terry
F: Patrick Williams
C: Jalen Smith

Injuries: Coby White (calf) and Zach Collins (wrist) are OUT.

[DiplomaticMagic]

Terrified of this game. Bulls are fresh legs and can run you out of the gym.

And no Suggs but Jase should make his debut.

[RookieStar]

WCJ revenge game vs Vuc revenge game

Also Bulls trotting out their lower-salary Wagner in Matas vs Wagner

[ORLMagicGirl15]

I must say that Jalen look fantastic in his offensive role. He looks a lot more composed.


EDIT: I most definitely posted this in the wrong thread. Didn’t realized that you made a Bulls one. I thought it was the Hawks thread.

[thelead]

Let's see if Jordan Poole... I mean Paolo shows up tonight.

[I Rasharted]

Let's see if Jordan Poole... I mean Paolo shows up tonight.

[eyriq]

Let's see who starts for Jalen

[3ddman23]

I calling an L in this one as well. Back 2 back. The bulls run & gun. If the magic play even remotely like they did vs the hawks they are losing the game.

[MasterGMer]

I am worried about this game. Bulls could beat us if somehow we play like we did against Atlanta at the end.

[Idiosyncratic]

Win tonight and yesterday feels way less bad.

Hope we see Jase, but not even sure it's guaranteed. Might just be Jett.

[basketballRob]

Paolo, Bane, and Wendell have been bad amongst the starters. Franz also barely has a positive net rating. Franz has been good offensively but not really defensively. Wendell has an -11.6 net rating.

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[yoyojw17]

Time to see how they bounce back after a disappointing night. Yeah.... i don't care if its back to back.... i just want to see them pull their ish together and light a fire under some buts.

Energy was lacking.... focus was lacking.... and Hawks trumped us in both categories to barely get a win.... with umpteen free throw misses.

No jogging back and complaining that you didn't get a foul paolo while your man streaks to the basket. lol

[VFX]

I don’t get the reason for sitting Suggs. Does he look injured out there in the past two games? No. He looks like one of three players on the team with energy actually playing defense.

But yeah sure if you wanna lose to the Bulls on a back to back then go ahead.

[thelead]

I don’t get the reason for sitting Suggs. Does he look injured out there in the past two games? No. He looks like one of three players on the team with energy actually playing defense.

But yeah sure if you wanna lose to the Bulls on a back to back then go ahead.

I agree in principal, and we both know the game becomes infinitely harder if Suggs is out, but that is an indictment to the $600 million plus in payroll Paolo, Franz, Bane, and WCJ are eating up when we're talking about a game against the Bulls.

Unacceptable that effort is an issue if Suggs is not out there. I'm sure we all saw Suggs play psychologist out there talking to WCJ multiple times to keep his head up. WTF was that??? That is a problem IMO.

[basketballRob]

I don’t get the reason for sitting Suggs. Does he look injured out there in the past two games? No. He looks like one of three players on the team with energy actually playing defense.

But yeah sure if you wanna lose to the Bulls on a back to back then go ahead.

He needs to work himself up to more minutes. I don't think he'll ever be a 30 mpg+ player during the regular season. He plays with too much intensity and would probably flame out.

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[basketballRob]

I don’t get the reason for sitting Suggs. Does he look injured out there in the past two games? No. He looks like one of three players on the team with energy actually playing defense.

But yeah sure if you wanna lose to the Bulls on a back to back then go ahead.

I agree in principal, and we both know the game becomes infinitely harder if Suggs is out, but that is an indictment to the $600 million plus in payroll Paolo, Franz, Bane, and WCJ are eating up when we're talking about a game against the Bulls.

Unacceptable that effort is an issue if Suggs is not out there. I'm sure we all saw Suggs play psychologist out there talking to WCJ multiple times to keep his head up. WTF was that??? That is a problem IMO.

I think we need to start giving Jase about 15 mpg to see what he can do. Our guard rotation has looked awful when Suggs is out. Jase would pull some gravity to give Bane more open looks.

Tyus just drains all of the energy out of every lineup he's in.

Mosely's job is on the line if his doesn't figure things out. That's why i think he'll ultimately pull the plug on Tyus' minutes.

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[rcklsscognition]

Lose tonight I’m done. Out with Mosely and in with the guy with white hair.

[dsg2021]

121 and 111 points we let go so far. I struggle to understand how his Preseason defense keeps Jase out of the rotation in this new style of Magic ball (especially when his College D was good so he can still improve on that side).

TDS and Jase looked like top 5 offensive players on the whole team in Preseason, and TDS has already been real proof of it in the 2 games too.

[basketballRob]

121 and 111 points we let go so far. I struggle to understand how his Preseason defense keeps Jase out of the rotation in this new style of Magic ball (especially when his College D was good so he can still improve on that side).

TDS and Jase looked like top 5 offensive players on the whole team in Preseason, and TDS has already been real proof of it in the 2 games too.

Jase badly outplayed Tyus in the preseason.

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[SOUL]

Dosunmu is gonna go off I think he's like 15-19 or something his last two games against us lol