"Three" was the Magic word tonight. As in 3 pointers. We hit 13 of them tonight and tied the season record for the most threes in a game allowed by the Pis
tons. Your Magic came on top tonight 103-85 against the surging Detroit "Bad Boy" Pistons. The Magic only missed 6 threes the entire game which amounts to 65%. MVP of the Game Keith Bogans carried the Magic with 19 points and a rating of +25. After the game, Keith Bogans told David Steele and Matty Goukas that Stan Van Gundy has been preaching "defense!, defense!, defense!" to them all week. They know the offense will always be there on most nights, but defense is the main weakness. Tonight they limited the main weapons on the Pistons team with tough perimeter defense.
tons. Your Magic came on top tonight 103-85 against the surging Detroit "Bad Boy" Pistons. The Magic only missed 6 threes the entire game which amounts to 65%. MVP of the Game Keith Bogans carried the Magic with 19 points and a rating of +25. After the game, Keith Bogans told David Steele and Matty Goukas that Stan Van Gundy has been preaching "defense!, defense!, defense!" to them all week. They know the offense will always be there on most nights, but defense is the main weakness. Tonight they limited the main weapons on the Pistons team with tough perimeter defense.The two main Magic-killers, Billups and Wallace, were out of the norm today. Instead of them being on the good-shooting, tough-defensive side, it was the Magic, limiting those two to a combined shooting night of 8-26. The Magic led the Pistons at halftime by a score of 52-45. A 7 point lead against a team who was on a 10-game win streak is an impressive feat. Especially because they are our biggest rival since last year's playoffs.
Rarely do you see a game where the team with less rebounds, wins. The Pistons outrebounded us, tonight, 44-36. Normally, winning the rebounding category, means a "W
" in the win-loss category. We got lucky tonight because we caught fire from 3 point land though. This won't happen everynight so getting a power forward to start alongside Dwight for rebounding a defense is manditory. He can't do it alone.
" in the win-loss category. We got lucky tonight because we caught fire from 3 point land though. This won't happen everynight so getting a power forward to start alongside Dwight for rebounding a defense is manditory. He can't do it alone.Dwight "Superman" Howard only had to score 8 points, on 2-9 shooting, along with 8 rebounds, 4 blocks. He also had 5 turnovers. But he had a +/- of +17.
A win like this is very impressive, very satisfying. Away and in the Palace, is something else. Spectacular win and exactly what we needed coming out of the All-Star break and heading into Toronto tomorrow night. See you in the Magic @ Raptors game thread later.
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