Magic Crushed Nets: Mikal Bridges Tried So Hard With 44 Points

Orlando Magic Crushed the Brooklyn nets with the final score of 119-106.

“I mean yeah, there’s a lot of excuses in the world, but that’s definitely one. Just the traveling and not having 24 hours before and having a tough game in Miami,” Bridges said. “Give credit to Orlando, too, they’ve been playing well. I know they’ve been not winning all their games, but they’ve been playing well. … They just played harder than us.”

Mikal Bridges make his career high as he scored 44 points for makes some hopes for the Nets, as he score 6 of 9 shots from deep, and 12 of 12 from the charity stripe this was his career high as well. However, the rest of the Nets’ players scored overall 52 points, only 2 shots out of 26 shots from behind the arc.

“Really, we didn’t make shots, if you want to boil it down to one particular thing. Besides Mikal we were 2-for-26 from 3. So we were searching, trying to find ways to score the basketball,” coach Jacque Vaughn said. “I’m not an excuse guy, guys gave what they had across the board. Tough back-to-back, a lot of learning lessons.”

Bridges got only help from his 2 fellows as they both also got double-digit, Cam Thomas contributed 18 points and Cam Johnson scored 10 points. meantime, the Orlando Magic have a 52.9 percent of shot accuracy and have 8 players who scored in double digits.

“They kind of controlled the energy of the game. We were step behind a little bit and that’s probably part of the reason why we lost,” Johnson said.

“They [were] getting out in transition. Back-to-back, the heavy legs so we didn’t get back on defense, stuff like that. They were getting in our paint. So it was just a tough game overall,” Day’Ron Sharpe said. “I didn’t really look at the box score to see the 3s, but back-to-back, heavy legs, so I guess that played a part in it.”

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