The NBA regular season continues, with the East ushering in a strong and weak dialogue, and the Cavaliers sit at home to meet the Magic.
The Magic team is in a state of total rot this season, the team is at the bottom of the East before the game, although the team's overall record is not good, but there are many scoring points, and the young players have good resilience, whether it is against a strong team or a weak team, the Magic can always deliver a good offensive performance.
On the other hand, the Cavaliers, as the big dark horse of the East, the team has been in poor shape recently, having fallen to seventh in the East before the game, and the team is also in a 3-game losing streak, considering that the team is only 1 win away from the sixth Raptors, and staying in the seventh probability of playing a playoff with the Nets, the team needs to win as soon as possible.
As soon as the game began, the Cavaliers showed their determination to win, and Garland hit a three-pointer from the outside to take the lead for the team.
After that, the two teams fell into a fight, and the point difference remained in one round until the end of the quarter, when the Cavaliers successfully opened the point difference by virtue of the blossoming inside and outside, and the Cavaliers took a 5-point lead at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the Cavaliers continued to exert their strength, quickly pulling the point difference to double digits, once reaching more than 20 points, but at the end of the quarter, the Magic suddenly exerted force, and the inside and outside blossomed, directly at the end of the half, the point difference was close to only 7 points.
Yi Bian fought again, the Magic team continued to exert strength, and successfully completed the counterattack at the beginning of the season, but soon the advantage was taken back by the Cavaliers, and the two teams were once again caught in a tug-of-war, and the point difference remained around 5 points.
Until the end of the quarter, the Magic team took advantage of the Cavaliers' brief mute and set off a wave of counterattacks again, and successfully approached the point difference, and the first three quarters of the battle, the Magic narrowed the point difference to only 1 point.
Entering the final quarter of the competition, the Magic team once again completed the rebound, and the point difference has been maintained within one round since then, but at the critical moment, Garland and Markkanen stood up and joined hands to hit consecutive hits, and finally the Magic team failed to complete the rebound again, losing to the Cavaliers 101-107, who ended a three-game losing streak.
Throughout the game, at one point behind by as many as 20 points, the Magic, as a fish-belly team, showed good resilience.
And continued the reconstruction phase, the team scored a lot of points within the characteristics, the whole game 7 people scored in double figures, but no one scored 20 points.
Among them, Wendalcut Jr. had 15 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists, Wagner The Greater had 10 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists, Schofield 10 points and 3 rebounds, Fultz 11 points and 4 assists, Bamba 11 points and 4 rebounds, Cole Anthony 11 points and 4 assists, and Brazdikis 13 points and 4 rebounds.
On the other hand, the Cavaliers, as one of the biggest dark horses in the East this season, despite being plagued by injuries and illness, which has led to the team's recent poor form, the team still showed dark horse attributes in this game.
The first is the explosiveness of scoring, which at one point in the second quarter stretched the point difference to 20 points, and at the same time showed the role of Garland, the core of the team in adversity.
In the whole game, Garland played 40 minutes, 7 of 17 shots, 5 of 10 three-pointers, handed over a comprehensive data of 25 points, 3 rebounds, 12 assists and 3 steals, plus or minus of the game's high of +15, and played 12 minutes in the final quarter, getting 7 points, 1 rebound, 3 assists and 1 steal, helping the team to get through the danger.
In addition to Garland, who scored 25 points, Markkanen, who scored 20 points, and Lefour, a veteran who scored 19 points from the bench, are key figures in the Cavaliers' rejection of a 20-point comeback.
Judging by the Cavaliers' old and new rosters, and the competitiveness they have shown in the face of a broken lineup, they have every chance of reaching the playoffs this season.
Of course, the team is best to reach the top six and directly lock in a seat, otherwise the team will face the Nets in the playoffs, which is obviously the last thing the Cavaliers want to see, and it can also be seen from this that the Nets in the lower half of the region have become the biggest spoilers in the East this season, affecting the performance and plans of each team.