Orlando Magic will be looking for more secondary scoring on Wednesday when they will visit Boston Celtics for Game 2 of the first round playoff series of their Eastern Conference.
Despite 36 points from Paolo Banchero and 23 points from Franz Wagner, Orlando dropped the series opener 103–86 in Boston on Sunday. No other magic player scored more than seven points.
Orlando’s three other starters combined for 10 points: Point Guard Corey Joseph’s scorer, Center Vendel Carter Junior ended with four points and Kentavius Caldwell-Pope six.
Orlando coach Jamahal Mosley said, “It is our ability to ensure that when we get a rebound or we replace them, we have to make sure that we change.” “When you have a high-level defense, you have to get an easy basket.”
The Magic placed Jason Tatam to 17 points and Jayelane Brown to 16, but Boston’s tributaries committed a lot of crimes. Deric was 7 -12 from the White 3-point territory and was thrown into 30 points, and the petan came out of the bench to score 19-two more than the non-starter of Orlando.
“This is something in the form of a team that we have harmed when they come, they have two main people, but it is really others who kill you,” Banchero said. “I think we have to do a better job to get those people out of the line because they actually kill you by three. … You do a good job on the main ones, but some role on the wings, they kill you. So, we have to do a better job to take them away.”
Boston launched 49–48 on Halftime, but in the third one out Orlando 30–18 and 25–19 in the fourth.
“Looking back, this speed in the third quarter was large,” Mosley said. “Being deliberately and deliberately in some of our defensive communication pieces … (we) were in a doubles accidents. That was found for their spark.
“We have got that ball to push the floor very fast, so we are not sitting down to play against a set switching defense.”
Brown scored 10 out of 16 points in the third quarter. Junior Holiday added nine points in the third quarter after failing to score in the first half.
“I think in the first half, (magic) controlled the level of intensity of the game,” Brown said. “They were more physical than us, and in the second half, we moved it.”
Celtics scared a transient at the beginning of the fourth quarter when Tatam went into the basket and was provoked hard by the Caldwell-Pope. Tatam landed strangely on his right wrist and remained on the floor in clear discomfort, but in the game.
Tatam said his X-ray came back negative, and he felt better after the game.
“I just landed on it,” he said. “It was beating for a second, then one kind went away.”
After Game 2, the best-seven-seven series will shift to Orlando for Game 3 (Friday) and Game 4 (Sunday).
“The goal is to try and get one (on the road),” Banchero said. “Game 2 We have to come out with a high level of focus and just do what we can do to win on the road because we are not winning this series until we do it. So, this is the goal.”
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