NBA: Franz Wagner brilliant with new career upturn - Magic

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Franz Wagner has led the Orlando Magic to an impressive comeback against the Bucks with the best game of his yet young NBA career. Milwaukee's Big Three around Gianni Antetokounmpo is in the end too strong, Wagner provides a new career high but for a stir.

Orlando Magic (7-28) — Milwaukee Bucks (23-13) 110: 127 (Box score)

What an exclamation mark of Franz Wagner: career benches, best scoring performance of a rookie this season and engine of the strong comeback experiment of the Magic. The German powdered with 38 counters against Milwaukee his previous Career High (28).

He sank strong 12 of his 20 experiments from the field, 4/8 threesome and remained perfectly from the free-wurflinia (10/10 FT). With this Stating, Wagner became the first magic rookie with at least 30 points at Shooting Splits from 50/50/100 since Dennis Scott 1990. In the franchise history, only Scott (40) and Shaquille O'Neal (46) More points as rookies achieved. In the current season no NBA newcomer came on more counters.

In addition, the 20-year-old collected 7 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal and 1 block each. Otherwise, the decimated Magic — among other things Mo Samba and Terrence Ross are located in the Corona protocol, Cole Anthony is missing (ankle) — but only Wendell Carter Jr. (19 and 10 rebounds) and Gary Harris (13) Double Digits. Moritz Wagner came from the bank to 7 meters in 11 minutes, but had problems at the degree (2/7 FG).

Ultimately, the Big Three of the Bucks was too strong for Wagner and Co. Milwaukee secured the fourth victory in Series, Gianni Antetokounmpo (28, 6 Rebounds and 6 Assists at 10/19 FG), Chris Middleton (21) and True Holiday (18 and 10 Assists) were the most important factors. Bobby Ports also scored 19 counters (5/5 threesome), 17 of them half-time one.

Strong Franz Wagner fueled Magic comeback

In the first half, everything looked like a simple blowout for the guests. Milwaukee presented fire hiss from the distance and had already collected at halftime 13 of the 17 triples. After a Wagner threesome, the Bucks started behind the strong shoot a quarterly cross-border 26: 5 run, just before the half-time break, the lead was up to 29 meters.

But Orlando was not beaten, that was primarily for Wagner. The Berliner fueled with 14 meters in the third round a 19: 0 run, with which the hosts fought back in stroke distance. In the final portion he followed another 13 points, score himself against antetokounmpo strong, hit his threesome and brought the magic a few minutes before the end to 8 points ran.

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But then the bucks began again. First Middleton, then Holiday and finally Gianni marked important buckets, while Orlando emanated empty in six possessions in a row. The Greek scored 11 points in the final portion, Holiday 9, and so the guests brought the game relatively safely home.