Tonight's Game: Sixers @ Magic

Magic (45-25) vs Sixers (34-34)

Amway Arena

7 PM

Sun Sports

Probable Starters:

Howard C Dalembert

Lewis PF Evans

Turkoglu SF Iguodala

Evans SG Green

Nelson PG Miller

Another possible playoff matchup against another scary team for us. Every team with a good point guard is scary, especially a big PG. Miller tore us up in the last meeting between these two teams.

Philly is finally going to get above .500, if they win this game. The Magic need this win after losing to the Sixers last month, in a terrible game we should have won. In that game, Miller and Green, the Sixers’ starting backcourt, outscored Orlando starting guards, Jameer Nelson and Maurice Evans, 52-2. Magic coach Stan Van Gundy called the Sixers “the best running team in the league.”

“Twenty-plus fast-break points is the way we’re trying to play,” Cheeks said.

They used all that running to their advantage and it helped keep Dwight mostly out of the game. Orlando All-Star Dwight Howard, who managed 14 points on 6-for-13 shooting and 16 rebounds. He also went just 2-for-7 from the free-throw line.

“I was just frustrated. I couldn’t hit a lot of shots. I missed a lot of free throws,” Howard said. “It was just myself. They played great defense, but I was really frustrated on the offensive end.”

And we need this win even more to prove to ourselves, and to the Wizards, that we are better than that terrible showing on Wednesday. Time to show the league what we can do. We have to win this game tonight.

Plus, losing this game would put us in a bad spot at attaining SVG's goal of 55 games. Third Quarter Collapse has the table of the upcoming games and projects the rest of the season here.