The Orlando Magic (hereafter Orlando) directed a surprise defeat of the Philadelphia 76ers (hereafter Philadelphia).
Orlando defeated Philadelphia 119-109, 10 points in the NBA 2022-23 regular season away game held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA on the morning of the 31st (Korean time). With this, Orlando ended their losing streak with 20-31, and Philadelphia ended their 7-game winning streak with 32-17.
On this day, Orlando performed very well with 12 points and 10 assists. And Paolo Banquero scored 29 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists, and Moritz Wagner also helped the team win with 22 points and 5 rebounds. Philadelphia had Joel Embiid with 30 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, and James Harden with 17 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists.
Philadelphia made a 21-4 score run from the beginning of the first quarter as Harden and Embiid exploded. In the ensuing attack, Orlando pursued with the Wagner brothers’ efforts. Nevertheless, Philadelphia finished the first quarter with a 30-17, 13-point lead thanks to Shake Milton’s 3-point shot, which led the bench time.
The second quarter was a fierce scoring battle. Philadelphia’s bench players succeeded in extending the score to 20 points at the beginning of the second quarter. Then, Orlando put in their starters at an early point, but seemed to collapse before Embiid’s brute force. However, Fultz and Suggs took turns taking the lead, and Bankero and Franz Wagner started the perimeter scorer. So, Orlando pulled off a 29-14 score run, narrowing the score to 52-62, 10 points.
Orlando’s momentum continued in the third quarter. As always, Orlando gave Philadelphia the first half of the quarter, but after Vanquero managed to play Andone, Franz Wagner turned the tide with a perimeter scorer. Here, Bankero scored 14 points, including two 3-pointers, in the quarter alone, and Fultz completed a double-double with 10 points and 10 assists. As a result, Orlando entered the fourth quarter with a 92-90, two-point lead.
Orlando briefly tied the game to Montrezl Harrell early in the fourth quarter, but Moritz Wagner equalized. And Franz Wagner managed to reverse it. Then, Moritz Wagner broke Philadelphia’s defense by creating an andone in a row. However, Philadelphia led the game to a clutch battle with Harden and Embiid’s struggle.
Two minutes before the end of the game, the Moritz brothers took over the court. Moritz Wagner responded with a footback dunk when Embiid scored, and Franz Wagner scored a wedge by helping to score a fast break to Bankero following the steal. Afterwards, Orlando defeated Philadelphia by 119-109, 10 points. 먹튀검증