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Beede’s Breakdown: How Magic captured third straight road win at Detroit
Franz Wagner tied a career-high with 38 points as he and Paolo Banchero (20) guided the Magic to their third straight win at Detroit on Sunday.
Orlando scored 62 points in the paint to capture the 111-99 victory over the Pistons (6-43), who had six scorers finish in double figures.
Coach Jamahl Mosley’s squad improved to 13-1 when allowing fewer than 100 points this season and 22-1 when leading (or tied) after the third quarter.
The Magic (27-23) wrap up their five-game trip Tuesday night at Miami (Bally Sports Florida, 7:30).
Starting 5
Mosley stuck with the same starting lineup — guards Markelle Fultz and Jalen Suggs plus forwards Wagner and Banchero along with center Wendell Carter Jr. — for the third straight game.
Banchero and Wagner did most of the scoring by accounting for 52% of Orlando’s 111 points against the Pistons.
Wagner specifically benefited off the attention that Banchero attracted from Detroit’s defense. Three of Wagner’s 3-pointers, including a pair in the fourth, came off assists from Banchero.
The newly named All-Star still helped create his own shot early in the game during a stretch when the Magic’s offense failed to take care of the ball. Orlando turned the ball over 7 times in the first half.
Banchero’s pair of triples came in the second quarter when he scored 12 points before the break.
Suggs led the team with 9 points in the opening frame but failed to score again. He offered Orlando strong defense with 2 steals and a block to go with 5 rebounds.
Carter was careless with the ball early when he turned it over three times in his first 7 minutes on the floor. He didn’t record another turnover the rest of the game while scoring 7 points on 3-of-4 shooting with 4 rebounds.
Second Unit
Mosley relied on a 10-man rotation for most of the night as guards Cole Anthony and Gary Harris plus big men Joe Ingles, Moe Wagner and Jonathan Isaac came off the bench.
Rookie guard Anthony Black briefly saw the court in the first half as well.
For the second game in a row, the Magic’s bench was outscored as Detroit’s bench held a 37-29 advantage. Moe Wagner and Harris each totaled 10 points, which made up most of the reserve scoring for Orlando.
Wagner was perfect (5 of 5 shooting) from the field and added 5 rebounds with 4 assists.
In his second game back after missing 14 due to a right calf strain, Harris sank two 3-pointers on five attempts, which is a positive sign for the veteran guard as he continues to progress.
Although Isaac finished with just 5 points, he played the entire fourth quarter for the second consecutive contest. In 21 minutes, he recorded the bench’s best plus-minus rating (plus-9) while totaling 6 rebounds, a block and a steal.
Rookie Watch
Black played only the final 19.9 seconds of the second quarter for the team’s final defensive possession.
The No. 6 overall pick has seen his time on the court drop after Harris returned to Orlando’s rotation last game.
Still, Black’s length as a defender will allow him to be used by Mosley in the second half of the season after he made 29 starts in place of Fultz, who missed more than two months due to left knee tendinitis.
Email Jason Beede at jbeede@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on X, known as Twitter, at @therealBeede.
Chickens and geese that went missing from a local nonprofit’s Detroit site were found in the backyard of a nearby home, the director of operations said Wednesday.
The Full Circle Foundation, a Grosse Point Park-based nonprofit, said more than a dozen chickens and geese were believed stolen from a chicken coop on Detroit’s east side that also features the Full Circle Edible Garden.
The nonprofit provides training and job opportunities for young people with special needs.
Neighbors who learned from news reports about the missing flock found the “chickens were being held in the backyard of a vacant home not far from the Full Circle Edible Garden,” said Stephanie DiVirgil, director of operations. She said Ribbon Farm 4-H owns the flock.
“The homeowner was contacted, and she reached out to Full Circle to confirm,” said DiVirgil. “We were able to retrieve all of the chickens and geese that were found on the property, 19 in total.”
The foundation and Ribbon Farms 4-H are working to secure the site, including cameras, fencing and lights.
“We will likely start a fundraising campaign to have these items installed,” DiVirgil said. “We’ve gotten amazing support from the community, including offers to help pay for these additional security measures.”
DETROIT (WXYZ) — Human remains were found in a furnace of an home on Detroit’s west side, the Detroit Police Department tells us.
The remains was found by an individual working on the home in the 5200 block of S Clarendon just after 11 a.m.
Anyone with information can call 313-596-2260 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-SpeakUp.
Stay with WXYZ.com for updates on this developing story.
The Detroit Police Department is investigating after a 5-year-old child was shot in the arm near a park on Tuesday.
The shooting happened at about 8:50 p.m. near the Fargo-Oaklfield Playground on the city’s west side. Police Chief Todd Bettison says the child was in front of his home riding a bike with his father supervising at the time of the shooting.
Bettison says an individual at the park fired multiple shots, striking the child. He says the boy’s father reported hearing shots and the child falling from his bike.
Bettison says the child is expected to be OK.
Bettison says the person appears to have been firing shots randomly, which he calls “problematic.” He says a person of interest is described as possibly between 15 and 16 years old and wearing a mask. He says the person is known to frequent the area.
“When you fire a weapon, what goes up must go down,” Bettison said. “To parents and everyone, know where your kids are. Juveniles should not have guns, and whether you’re an adult or a child, you should not be firing a weapon inside of the city limits.”
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield released a statement, saying in part, “By the grace of God, this young boy will recover from his injury and is on his way home from the hospital. With that said, this incident was senseless and could have had a much more tragic ending.
“Every child in Detroit deserves to feel safe riding their bike, playing outside, and simply being a child in their own neighborhood. We cannot accept a reality where our children are placed in harm’s way because someone chose to recklessly fire a gun.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-Speak Up.
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