Dooling played only 10 minutes and proved ineffective in the 104-95 loss to the Golden State Warriors. It was his first game back and many hoped he could at least slow Baron Davis. No such luck. Baron Went off for 33 points, 9 assists, along with, 3 assists, 2 steals, 2 blocks, and 13-27 from the floor.
The Magic (.45%) did shoot better from the floor than the Warriors (.40). Once again Golden State threw up a three point barrage, hitting only 6 out of 24 attempts (.25%) and the Magic hit 10-21 (.48%).
Where the Magic's problems lay, was in the 'turnover' and 'steal' columns. GS forced 20 turnovers, and 19 were from the starters ! Only 1 turnover (Foyle) was from the bench players. And the worst part about it is that we onlyThe Warriors did a stellar job on Turkoglu and Jackson's defense helped force 7 turnovers by Hedo. Now, while Turk did have 23 points and 5 rebounds, the bad overshadowed the good. Every turnover given up to an amazing offensive team like this, leads them to baskets going the other way. The Warriors did just that and amassed 27 fastbreak points, and only allowed 7 to your Magic.
Dwight did have a great game with 26 points, 12 rebounds, 5 blocks and amazingly shot 10-14 from the free throw line. Rashard added 21 with 8 rebounds and 3 three-pointers, but all that scoring just wasn't enough.
Our bench only scored 10 points and compare that to the Warrior's 22 bench points. We can count on a strong showing by the big three, but we need more consistency from the guards if we don't want a repeat of last season in the playoffs.
The Magic hit five 3-pointers in the first quarter to extend their NBA record streak to 67 games with five or more 3s.
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