2022-2023 Regular Season Game 72: Orlando Magic (29-42) at Los Angeles Lakers (34-37) - 9:30pm

Post #101 » by **ChosenSavior** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:33 am

Austin Reaves came in and changed the complexion of this game from the Lakers. Have to do a better job on him.

Post #102 » by **eyriq** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:33 am

I think we survived the haymaker from the Lakers

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #103 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:34 am

10 3s already in the first half for the Lakers. Well, we know how this game will go.

Post #104 » by **ChosenSavior** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:36 am

Rough 2nd quarter. Lucky to only be down 10. Lakers bench and their 3 point shooting are the main difference.

KillMonger · Post #105 » by **KillMonger** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:36 am

Man our pick and roll defense is horrible.... Making Austin reeves look like CP3

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thelead · Post #106 » by **thelead** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:37 am

Knightro wrote:The Magic concede the 3rd most wide open 3s per game.

But teams have only made 38.9% of them coming into tonight, which is just 17th in the league.

That percentage keeps going up though...

Good info. I didn't care what the stats said early on. You can't win in the playoff giving up open shots, let alone open 3's. It's just a STUPID strategy in 2023. If we want to build a winner Mosley better fix that.

richi_v25 · Post #107 » by **richi_v25** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:37 am

Well we're actually playing better than i thought but those last few minutes were hard to watch, our 3 pt shot is nonexistent tonight.

GameOver25 · Post #108 » by **GameOver25** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:37 am

It feels like we're 0-82 this year in making more threes than the opponent each game. Going to need Knightro to query this for me.

Post #109 » by **Knightro** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:38 am

On pace to attempt 12 fewer threes for the game.

Hard to consistently win when you're virtually guaranteed to be outscored by 12 to 18 points from the 3PT line pretty much every night.

thelead · Post #110 » by **thelead** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:40 am

The +/- of the bench minus Kevon hurts my eyes... crazy numbers for a half

richi_v25 · Post #111 » by **richi_v25** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:40 am

ChosenSavior wrote:Austin Reaves came in and changed the complexion of this game from the Lakers. Have to do a better job on him.

In pure magic tradition that scrub is going off on us.

Post #112 » by **Knightro** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:40 am

GameOver25 wrote:It feels like we're 0-82 this year in making more threes than the opponent each game. Going to need Knightro to query this for me.

Magic have made more threes than their opponents 20 times this season.

They've made fewer 51 times.

Post #113 » by **eyriq** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:43 am

thelead wrote:The +/- of the bench minus Kevon hurts my eyes... crazy numbers for a half

We miss Moritz's scoring off the bench

Post #114 » by **Knightro** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:43 am

Knightro wrote:
GameOver25 wrote:It feels like we're 0-82 this year in making more threes than the opponent each game. Going to need Knightro to query this for me.

Magic have made more threes than their opponents 20 times this season.

They've made fewer 51 times.

They've only attempted more threes than their opponent 16 times this season.

55 times not.

thelead · Post #115 » by **thelead** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:46 am

richi_v25 wrote:
ChosenSavior wrote:Austin Reaves came in and changed the complexion of this game from the Lakers. Have to do a better job on him.

In pure magic tradition that scrub is going off on us.

Austin Reaves isn't a scrub. He's a bench player averaging 11/3/3 on 51/38/85 splits. I'd GLADLY have him on our squad.

Post #116 » by **eyriq** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:46 am

This is one of those halfs where we're getting beat because the other team is knocking down shots and not really because we're doing anything wrong. We're just getting beat.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #117 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:46 am

Orlando will be down 20+ In the 3rd quarter if they don’t figure out their 3 point defense.

RichCollab · Post #118 » by **RichCollab** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:47 am

eyriq wrote:This is one of those halfs where we're getting beat because the other team is knocking down shots and not really because we're doing anything wrong. We're just getting beat.

We gave up way to many open 3s.

thelead · Post #119 » by **thelead** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:48 am

eyriq wrote:This is one of those halfs where we're getting beat because the other team is knocking down shots and not really because we're doing anything wrong. We're just getting beat.

If you give up a ridiculous amount of open 3's to an NBA team in 2023, you are doing something wrong.

Post #120 » by **Knightro** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:48 am

thelead wrote:Good info. I didn't care what the stats said early on. You can't win in the playoff giving up open shots, let alone open 3's. It's just a STUPID strategy in 2023. If we want to build a winner Mosley better fix that.

I don't know if it's necessarily a strategy or if the Magic just have a team full of young and dumb defenders who are prone to lazy effort and mistakes and because of that Mosley's dumbed down the defensive schemes to keep them from giving up layups.

The Magic are top 5 in the league in fewest shots allowed at the rim.