#Washington Wizards at Orlando Magic
Amway Center- Orlando, FL
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401584887)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/washingtonwizards/comments/1872qv8/game_thread_washington_wizards_314_at_orlando/kbbu8zf/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|WAS |26|30|33|31|120|
|ORL |31|35|36|37|139|
###Player Stats
**Washington Wizards**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|D. Avdija|27:39|22|9-12|1-2|3-4|3|1|4|5|2|0|0|1|-9
|K. Kuzma|34:32|23|9-20|1-4|4-5|0|3|3|6|0|0|4|1|-11
|D. Gafford|26:19|4|2-2|0-0|0-0|1|2|3|4|1|2|0|3|-6
|J. Poole|26:08|19|5-12|4-7|5-6|0|5|5|2|2|1|2|3|-6
|T. Jones|20:49|7|3-10|0-2|1-2|0|3|3|4|2|0|0|1|-8
|B. Coulibaly|25:07|7|2-5|1-1|2-2|1|4|5|0|0|0|2|1|-17
|C. Kispert|20:24|13|4-7|2-5|3-5|0|1|1|2|2|0|1|1|-18
|D. Gallinari|11:37|6|1-4|0-1|4-5|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|1|-12
|L. Shamet|18:25|5|2-6|1-3|0-0|0|1|1|1|1|0|1|4|-8
|J. Davis|9:38|0|0-1|0-0|0-0|1|0|1|0|1|0|0|1|-2
|E. Omoruyi|9:40|10|3-5|1-2|3-4|1|0|1|1|1|0|0|3|-2
|J. Butler|5:07|4|1-2|0-1|2-2|0|0|0|3|2|0|0|0|1
|A. Gill|4:35|0|0-1|0-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|3
**Orlando Magic**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|F. Wagner|30:48|31|11-14|4-6|5-6|3|3|6|3|0|1|2|1|9
|P. Banchero|26:46|6|2-8|0-0|2-3|1|3|4|4|0|0|4|2|8
|G. Bitadze|23:43|8|2-5|0-0|4-4|1|6|7|2|0|1|1|1|7
|J. Suggs|28:41|22|9-15|3-6|1-1|1|2|3|3|2|0|2|4|4
|A. Black|26:58|7|3-5|1-2|0-0|0|5|5|3|0|1|2|1|4
|J. Ingles|19:52|12|5-7|1-1|1-1|0|4|4|6|1|0|2|1|16
|G. Harris|19:19|8|2-2|2-2|2-3|0|2|2|4|2|0|1|3|20
|C. Anthony|26:09|25|9-16|3-5|4-5|3|3|6|5|0|2|1|4|14
|M. Wagner|18:30|11|5-7|0-1|1-1|0|4|4|1|0|1|2|1|18
|C. Houstan|10:00|9|3-3|3-3|0-0|0|3|3|1|0|0|1|3|-4
|C. Okeke|5:07|0|0-2|0-1|0-0|0|0|0|2|0|0|0|0|-1
|A. Schofield|4:07|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|WAS|41-87|11-29|27-35|28|20|14|10|3|7|22|37|
|ORL|51-84|17-27|20-24|34|22|5|18|6|9|35|54|
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Fuck you Magic and see you in 2 days once more!
I just hope Deni’s injury isn’t serious, he tied his season-high of 22 points (career-high is 25 points), he was balling tonight!
Also, Poole was benched for the entire 4th quarter once more.
Banchero had just 6 points on 2/8 FG, 2/3 FT, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 turnovers, and we still lost by so many points lol.
Edit:
WUJ said in the postgame conference that Deni’s injury wasn’t something significant, and he (Deni) was ready to go back, but WUJ said that he thought the game was already out of reach, so that’s why he didn’t sub him back in.
Thank god Deni is okay.
I don’t even feel like we played that bad. They just went nuclear from 3… 17-27. Not gunna win any games when that happens. Not mad about this one
I hope they switch something up for Friday’s game against these same Magic, in this same arena, at this same time. Rest Poole or Kuz or something.
If the orlando Magic shoot 17-27 from 3 against anyone in the NBA, its over
The wizards played well (outside of Bilal and Gaff but I’m not worried about either) for 3 quarters against a very good team.
Hope Deni’s injury isn’t serious, he was on his way to his career high. At least he was just chillin on the bench
After the trade deadline I want to see all defense line-ups with Rollins, JD, Bilal, Deni, Kuz, Gaff, Geno, Jared Butler. I don’t care if the Wizards can’t score more than 80, just stop giving up 140
Gafford scored our first basket 70 seconds in and then was never heard from again. 4 points 3 rebounds in 26 minutes. Crazy how much we underutilize him sometimes. Dude is just running up and down the court
I see Johnny Davis got a rebound. That’s nice. I’m happy for him.
On the positive side, Orlando didn’t reach 140 points. That’s a defensive win for this team?
Stuff like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCSJXJWMi3A) is what’s gonna get people fired and cut the rebuild short. Even when Poole manages not to have a viral-for-the-wrong-reasons, we’re letting other teams just style on us. No owner or front office wants to be looked at as a complete joke. We already had the AAU comments and we get ragged on after like almost every game. With Kuz and JP and Tyus as 3 of the starting 5, there’s always gonna be an expectation of at least competence. After some of these games, the Wizards put up like 2 minutes of footage of the postgame. The Wizards photo page hasn’t gotten updates. I dunno man. We were always “The Washington Wizards bruh” but this feels like rapidly approaching rock bottom. December 15th is I think the first day trades can be made. They need to go ahead and do that. Maybe even pull a Al Horford and tell those 3 guys we’re prioritizing the development of the youngins.
Bilal magically re learned to play bad towards the end 😂
I hate all the talk about Jordan Poole and Kyle Kuzma being cHaMpIoNs. They’re both medicore and are leading this team to 3-15. What winning culture bullshit were people talking about??
A couple of impressions after belatedly finishing watching the game:
Franz Wagner looks like a killer! But the Magic as a team look like nothing special to me, despite their good record. I see them as a play-in team.
I love seeing all this improvement from Deni. The shooting, the confidence, the driving, the finishing, it all seems to be coming together for him. I don’t know how much credit Unseld deserves for Deni’s development, but it might be quite a lot.
Bilal got starter minutes. It’s good to give him time to have some bad stretches and work out of it. I am content.