At 7:00 a.m. Beijing time on April 26, the first round of the NBA playoffs is in full swing, and the Aurado Magic is at home against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Before this game, the Cavaliers led the Magic 2-0, and it is worth mentioning that when the Cavaliers led 2-0 in the series, they had a 15-0 series record and had never been overturned, while when the Magic were down 0-2 in the series, they had a 0-9 series record and had never turned the tables. In this way, the Cavaliers should be on the verge of advancing to the next round of the playoffs. Although both teams are dark horses in the Eastern Conference, the Cavaliers have significantly more playoff experience, while the Magic are a real super young team, and the star Banchero is only 21 years old.
As a young dark horse team, the Magic really can't adapt to the intensity of the playoffs, and their performance in the first two games was disastrous, with G1 scoring 83 points and shooting 36.3%, and G2 scoring 86 points and shooting 32.6%, scoring no more than 90 in both games, which is a bit of a retro basketball feeling. In the first two playoff games of his career, Banchero played an average of 41 minutes per game, scoring 22.5 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal, shooting 3 of 11 three-pointers, shooting only 27% from three-point range, with a total of 15 turnovers, surpassing James to become the player with the most mistakes in the first two playoff games of his career, James had 14 turnovers in the first two playoff games of his career in 06, 4 times in the first game and 10 times in the second game.
In this game, the two sides are in the starting lineup, the Magic side is sending Banchero, Wagner, Suggs, Carter and Harris, and the Cavaliers are sending Mitchell, Garland, Allen, Mobley and Strus. At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Allen jumped the ball to win, the Cavaliers took the lead in getting the ball, Garland drove straight into the flying body to pick up the basket and scored the first goal of the game, Mobley raised high in the box to make fouls, stood on the free throw line and made two free throws, Mobley jumped to the basket and continued to hit, and the Cavaliers started a wave of 6-0. Wagner Jr. made a 2+1 three-step confrontation layup, Mitchell also had a difficult jumper at the free throw line, Banchero hit a turnover jumper at the free throw line, and Suggs and Wagner Jr. rushed into a three-point shot one after another.
In the first half of the first quarter of the game, the scores of the two teams were still very close, you chased me to catch up with the lead, but in the second half of the first quarter of the game, the Magic began to break the deadlock and establish a lead of about 10 points, Wagner scored 4 points in a row in the restricted area, and Anthony hit a three-pointer in the bottom corner, and the first quarter ended, the Magic led the Cavaliers by 10 points 31-21. At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Anthony turned and shook off the defense to score a layup to help the Magic team take the next city, LeVert broke through the toss and won steadily, Anthony was extremely aggressive, striding meteor to hit the basket and scored a difficult goal, and also caused a free throw. Not to be outdone, LeVert smashed the Yellow Dragons and caused damage, Banchero and Suggs immediately scored five points inside and out, and the Magic at home became more and more courageous, playing a completely different performance from the previous two games.
On the other hand, on the Cavaliers' side, the state was completely untouched, and the star Mitchell took the lead in playing iron, and the team's three-point shooting rate was less than 2 percent, and at the end of the half, the Magic 61-45 had a 16-point lead over the Cavaliers. At the beginning of the second half of the game, Yibian fought again, Wagner's dream footsteps in the restricted area shook off the defense, and the flying body wiped the board to score, opening the third quarter of the game, Banchero faced the defense of the ultra-long three-point shot and blossomed directly, Carter squeezed into the inside to make a strong layup, Banchero was unstoppable, and repeatedly scored inside and outside shots, Allen ate cakes under the basket, and the hammer slammed the slam to help the Cavaliers stop the bleeding a little, and the Magic side, immediately set off another wave of offense, continue to expand the lead, Banchero and Suggs felt hot, and continuous three-point shots pierced the heart of the basket。
The game was completely one-sided, the margin was widened to more than 30 points, and the Magic led the Cavaliers by 35 points at 96-61 after three quarters. In the final quarter, the two teams also changed to the bench lineup in advance, and the game entered garbage time early, and the outcome completely lost suspense, and in the end, the Magic beat the Cavaliers by 38 points 121-83 at home, setting a new record for the largest point difference in the playoffs this season, and the big score came back to 2-1. It seems that magic is not as weak as we think.
In terms of statistics, on the Cavaliers' side, Mitchell had 13 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists, Garland had 5 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists, Allen had 15 points and 8 rebounds, Mobley had 10 points and 2 rebounds, and LeVert had 15 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists. On the Magic side, champion Banchero blasted 31 points, 14 rebounds and 5 assists, Wagner Jr. 16 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists, Suggs 24 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Fultz 11 points and 2 rebounds, and Anthony 10 points and 3 assists.