surpassing a Dallas Mavericks 30-0 run<\/a> against the Oklahoma City Thunder in December 2023, according to the NBA.<\/p>\nTo make matters more embarrassing for the Magic, the Raptors were without starting guard Immanuel Quickley, leading scorer Brandon Ingram and rotation reserves Collin Murray-Boyles and Jamison Battle.<\/p>\n
Still, the Raptors ran the ball down the Magic\u2019s throat, with Orlando contributing 10 turnovers to the cause during the run. The Raptors\u2019 half-court offense is their biggest weakness. Nearly every coach speaks about the importance of taking care of the ball before playing the Raptors, trying to keep their offensive pace down. Orlando coach Jamahl Mosley, who has been under fire recently for the Magic\u2019s disappointing season, was no exception.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t give you one set way of (forcing turnovers),\u201d Mosley said before the game. \u201cYou can bring the ball up the floor and think you\u2019re by yourself, and all of a sudden Scottie (Barnes) is flying in from the baseline to (trap) the ball. The next time you\u2019re in the post, you think you\u2019re alone, and RJ (Barrett) comes with the double team. \u2026 They play off each other very well and fly around and cover for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the Magic were doing a lot of this to themselves: There were single-minded drives into traffic, targets for passes not looking at the ball and weak takes in transition. The Magic turned the ball over 12 times in the first quarter, tying a team record for most in any quarter. They turned the ball over 19 times in the first half, after which they trailed 70-43. Since March 16th, the Magic ranked 26th in defensive rating and 21st in net rating entering Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
The Raptors made them pay, with Sandro Mamukelashvili scoring 11 points, including two of the Raptors\u2019 four 3s during the spurt. The Raptors went 9 of 13 from the field and 7 of 7 from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n
The Raptors came into the game at 41-32, in fifth place in the Eastern Conference, two games ahead of eighth-place Orlando (39-34).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Raptors could hardly miss. The Orlando Magic seemed desperate to give them open chance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,76,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-686978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-orlando-magic","11":"tag-raptors","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-raptors","14":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116315192344745763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}