![]() Magic: Gary Harris left with a right hand injury. The Jazz won back-to-back games for the first time in ten starts. Sexton returned to the Utah lineup after missing the past five games with a hamstring strain to score 18 points, while Kessler had 13 points, nine rebounds and a career-high seven blocked shots. They are gone 2-2 on a five-game Western trip. The aggressive Markkanen has shot double-digit free throws five times in his last seven games. The 7-foot Finnish star set career highs on both free throws made (17) and attempted (21).īefore this season, Markkanen only had five games where he shot more than 10 free throws. “I felt like I spent most of the game on the ground after those fouls,” Markkanen said.įacing strong closeouts, Markkanen often took the ball to the basket and the Magic - without much rim protection - were forced to foul. Remarkably, Markkanen led the game in scoring despite not having a single field goal after the first quarter. “I think there was a bunch of moments in the game where we didn’t quit and that’s definitely something to build on.” The Magic erased a 12-point fourth quarter lead with a 19-6 run that was capped by Markelle Fultz’s layup with 42.1 seconds to play that made it 108-107 for Orlando. “We were just switching everything and I thought he’d probably shoot a 3, so I tried to stay down and not to foul, but I got a piece of it and we won,” Markannen said. Wagner, who scored 26 points, matched a career best of five 3-pointers, including an off-balance 28-foot runner to beat the third-quarter buzzer.
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