ORLANDO — Nothing’s safe now that Victor Oladipo is out for the season. On paper the Pacers going down to Orlando looked like “W” but in real life it was a hard slide as they dropped their fourth straight 107-100. Indiana playing the back end of a back-to-back after getting blasted at the crib on Wednesday night by the Wizards looked lost without their team leader.
Myles Turner led the Pacers with 27 points and 7 rebounds but the NBA’s leader in blocked shot didn’t register a single one in Orlando. He balled out though!! Bojan Bogdanovic dropped off 21 while both Darren Collison and Thaddeus Young had 16.
Indiana struggled to shoot the three only hitting 4 of 19 for 21 percent and only getting 16 points from their bench. It’s hard to win games without any bench play. Domantas Sabonis who averages 14 points per game only had 4.
The Magic had five players in double figures including Terrence Ross’ 30 off of the bench. He scored 13 of them in the fourth quarter. Nikola Vucevic dropped off a solid 17 points after being named to his first All-Star game of his career. So he was feeling it. Former Pacers DJ Augustine popped them for 20 including 9 straight free throws in the final 1:26.
Orlando ended a fourth game losing streak and an eight game skid against the Pacers. Up next at Miami on Saturday.