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Thursday night, the Magic had a chance to redeem themselves after a 30-point loss to the Celtics (Monday). The first half the Magic dominated the Celtics building 27-point, but that lead disappeared in the second half. The Magic were too comfortable and Celtics chipped away at the lead and came back. The Celtics outscored the Magic 54-25 in the second half and won 91-83. You can say this loss was worse than Monday’s for the Magic because they gave up a huge lead.
Dwight Howard on the Magic’s loss:
“We just thought that it was going to be easy after the first two quarters,” Howard said. “We can’t allow that. We’ve got to change.”
“What the Celtics did was they stuck with the game plan,” Howard said. “Not once did they fight or get mad at each other. They just kept playing. They stayed together, and that’s how they won the game.”
Doc Rivers on the Celtics win:
“That was a character builder for our team,” said Rivers. “It really was. It’s all we talked about at halftime — not a big game plan thing. We didn’t make any changes. We just kept talking about it being a character builder for the basketball team. Let’s get back in it. Let’s hang in there long enough to give yourself a chance to win.”
In the video below Kevin Garnett called the game a bar fight.
