Deadspin | Magic hope bench displays up in Game 2 vs. Celtics

The Orlando Magic shall be on the lookout for extra secondary scoring Wednesday after they seek advice from the Boston Celtics for Game 2 in their Eastern Conference first-round playoff collection.

Despite 36 issues from Paolo Banchero and 23 from Franz Wagner, Orlando dropped the collection opener 103-86 in Boston on Sunday. No different Magic participant scored greater than seven issues.

Orlando’s 3 different starters mixed for 10 issues: level guard Cory Joseph used to be scoreless, heart Wendell Carter Jr. had 4 issues and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope completed with six.

“Our ability to make sure that when we get the rebound or we do turn them over, we have to make sure we convert,” Orlando trainer Jamahl Mosley mentioned. “You have to get easy baskets when you have a high-level defense as they are.”

The Magic held Jayson Tatum to 17 issues and Jaylen Brown to 16, however Boston’s supporting solid equipped quite a lot of offense. Derrick White used to be 7-of-12 from 3-point territory and tossed in 30 issues, and Payton Pritchard got here off the bench to attain 19 — two greater than Orlando’s non-starters.

“That’s something as a team we harped on coming in, is that they do have two main guys, but it’s really the other guys that kill you,” Banchero mentioned. “I think we just have to do a better job of getting those guys off the line because they really kill you from three. … You do a good job on the main guys, but some of the role guys on the wings, they kill you. So, we have to do a better job taking them away.”

Boston trailed 49-48 at halftime, however outscored Orlando 30-18 within the 3rd and 25-19 within the fourth.

“Looking back at it, that momentum shift in the third quarter was big,” Mosley mentioned. “Us being deliberate and intentional in some of our defensive communication pieces … (we) had a couple mishaps. That’s what got to their spark.

“We’ve were given to push that ball up the ground so much quicker so we are not sitting down enjoying towards a suite switching protection.”

Brown scored 10 of his 16 points in the third quarter. Jrue Holiday added nine points in the third quarter after failing to score in the first half.

“I feel that within the first part, (the Magic) more or less managed the depth degree of the sport,” Brown said. “They had been extra bodily than us, and in the second one part, we more or less shifted that.”

The Celtics had a momentary scare early in the fourth quarter when Tatum drove to the basket and was fouled hard by Caldwell-Pope. Tatum landed awkwardly on his right wrist and remained on the floor in obvious discomfort, but remained in the game.

Tatum said his X-ray came back negative, and he was feeling better after the game.

“I simply landed on it,” he said. “It used to be throbbing for a 2nd, then more or less went away.”

Following Game 2, the best-of-seven series will shift to Orlando for Game 3 (Friday) and Game 4 (Sunday).

“The objective is to take a look at and get one (at the highway),” Banchero said. “Game 2 we need to pop out with a better degree of center of attention and do just what we will be able to do to get a win at the highway as a result of we aren’t profitable this collection until we do. So, that is the objective.”

–Field Level Media