Trae Younger played via a neck destroy to ranking 28 factors, John Collins had 21 factors and 10 rebounds and the Atlanta Hawks beat the Orlando Magic 111-99 on Wednesday night to total a two-game losing sail.
Younger left for the locker room late in the third quarter after Orlando’s Cole Anthony hit him with an elbow in the face on an offensive unhealthy. Younger used to be deemed to bask in a neck cramp and returned with 5: 31 closing after Orlando purchased to 104-84. He completed with four rebounds and 4 assists and made his handiest 3-pointer with 2: 41 closing.
“My neck has been somewhat sore after which getting that elbow to the face real roughly grew to change into my neck,” said Younger, who made 11 of 22 shots. “I wouldn’t declare whiplash, nonetheless it made my neck feel roughly uncommon. I real had to pass to the support and ranking it rubbed out. That’s somewhat powerful all it’s — it’s sore, nonetheless it’s all unbiased.”
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Atlanta gained its fifth consecutive avenue game — a feat made more spectacular by the truth that it opened the season 1-8 some distance from residence. The Hawks are the predominant personnel because the 2004-05 Philadelphia 76ers to practice up a seven-game avenue losing sail with a 5-game winning sail some distance from residence, based mostly on Elias Sports activities.
Lou Williams scored 14 factors, and Cam Reddish added 13 factors to support the Hawks beat the Magic for a second time this season and for the fifth straight time staunch via the last two years. Atlanta bounced support from a 132-126 loss to Houston two nights earlier whereby it surrendered 44 fourth-quarter factors.
“I real admire the procedure that we spoke back tonight, coming on the avenue and real being solid all the procedure via the sport,” Atlanta coach Nate McMillan said. “The things that we talked out, we did them. Attempting to play a supreme game, we are in a position to’t accomplish that, nonetheless we’re going to strive.”
There used to be no fourth-quarter drama on Wednesday from an Orlando personnel that misplaced its sixth straight game, for the 12th time in the previous 13 video games and dropped to 2-9 at residence. The Magic trailed by 10 in the predominant quarter, by as powerful as 23 early in the fourth quarter and never mounted powerful of a second-half of imprint. The Magic’s handiest lead in the sport came at 3-2.
Terrence Ross scored 18 factors for Orlando. R.J. Hampton, who began his first game of the season in build of residing of injured guard Gary Harris, scored 15 factors. Anthony missed nine of his first 10 shots and completed with real seven factors.
“We focus on about the next man up and these guys who came in, they played interesting and played together,” Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said.
FOURTH-QUARTER FALTERINGS
One among the NBA’s most attention-grabbing closing groups last season and all the procedure via their stirring postseason bustle, the Hawks bask in struggled in that residence to this point. Already, Atlanta has blown four video games whereby it led after three classes — none more painful than in Monday’s fourth-quarter cave in in opposition to Houston.
“We were a factual personnel last 365 days ending video games,” McMillan said. “We grew to change into a better fourth-quarter personnel with our execution (last season) and that’s something we now bask in to perform again. We bask in to trace the urgency which bask in to be played in fourth quarters.”
TIP-INS
Hawks: Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury sat courtside. … Younger came into Wednesday because the NBA’s leader because the 2018-19 season in 30-level/10-support video games (37) and 20-level, 10-support video games (73). … Atlanta improved to 4-2 when allowing fewer than 100 factors.
Magic: Mo Bamba missed his second game — this time resulting from a sprained ankle — and Chuma Okeke purchased his first birth up. Said Mosley of Bamba’s destroy: “They examined it out somewhat bit and it used to be more tender than they anticipated, so we’ll real proceed day-by-day with him.” … Jalen Suggs, who hasn’t played since Nov. 29, had his fractured unbiased thumb reevaluated and Mosley said the rookie is “progressing.”
UP NEXT
Hawks: Host Denver on Friday night.
Magic: Host Miami on Friday night.
