December 18: Revenge on Mickey

MyDaughterLovesTomGordon

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Sort of a sneaky big game here? Back to back home losses against the Magic would be embarrassing, but "Tatum's missing" and "it's a matinee, those are weird games" excuses are sitting right out there for the taking. Will the Cs give themselves a reason to lose?
 

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It didn’t occur to me that I’d sit down this afternoon and think “man, I wish they could go back to shooting as well as they did on Friday.”
 

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It didn’t occur to me that I’d sit down this afternoon and think “man, I wish they could go back to shooting as well as they did on Friday.”
At least on Friday, they had part of one quarter where the three-point shooting was dead on.
 

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Magic have shot about 90 percent from the line in these two games.
 

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Agreed. They had, however, been awful on the road before arriving in Boston last week. Things can change quickly in the NBA.
All I know is that if you don't come away from these Orlando games wondering how the Cs are going to handle Paolo going forward, I don't know what to say. He really may be a bigger Tatum.
 

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All I know is that if you don't come away from these Orlando games wondering how the Cs are going to handle Paolo going forward, I don't know what to say. He really may be a bigger Tatum.
Yeah, I wasn't sold on him at Duke, but he's ready made for the NBA.
 

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Odd choice to challenge. They better be right.
Yeah, especially when they could've challenged the Williams "foul" on Bol Bol that seemed clearly an offensive. That would have both given them the ball and taken away a potential 3 points from the Magic. But at least they won this challenge.
 

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Defense playing way different without Tatum out there at all..

I mean, duh. But still.
 

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When will the 3 point shooting stop being so grotesque?
I’ve been of the mind that the high percentage 3 point shooting was a function of their excellent passing and drive and kick, but even when that’s not going, that doesn’t explain numbers that low. Like, it just doesn’t.
 

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Outhustled for maybe the game's biggest rebound. And so it goes.