<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Sacramento (17-21) at Orlando (15-22) 7:00 pm EST ORLANDO, Florida (Ticker) -- Mike Bibby scored a career-high 42 points in his last meeting against the Orlando Magic and can't wait to see them again. Bibby leads the Sacramento Kings in the start of a six-game eastern road trip Saturday when they meet the Magic for the second time in seven days. In last Sunday's 104-100 victory over Orlando, Bibby made 13-of-23 shots, including five 3-pointers, and hit 11-of-12 free throws before hurting his back in the fourth quarter. Kevin Martin scored 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds and Brad Miller added 21 and 12 for the Kings, who have won five of the last six encounters against Orlando. After scoring 19 points Tuesday against Phoenix, Bibby struck again Thursday with 40 to lead six players in double figures as the Kings won their third straight game with a 118-109 triumph over the Los Angels Lakers. Kenny Thomas collected his first triple-double with 16 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists and Miller added 16 and 12 for for Sacramento. Back home after the end of an eight-game road losing streak, Orlando is looking for its first three-game winning streak since December 26-30. Hedo Turkoglu scored 24 points and Dwight Howard had 19 with a career-high 21 rebounds to lead the Magic in Friday's 104-93 triumph over the Charlotte Bobcats.</div> http://www.nba.com/games/20060121/SACORL/preview.html Discuss the game in this thread. Sorry I didn't make a preview, I didn't have time today. Hopefully we can win our third consecutive game and Howard can continue playing great against the weak frontcourt of the Kings. GO MAGIC!
Dwight 19 and 15, he's avg 19 and 18 in the last 2 days. Jameer didn't play. Francis also had 9 boards. All of our starters played at least 44 minutes in the OT game tonight. Turkoglu led the way with 22.
Nice win for us tonight. Jameer was out with a sprained right midfoot. Francis made a layup towards the end of the 4th quarter and tied the game, 74-74. It went into overtime and we came through, even with our horrible shooting (.337)... we made a lot of free throws though and we played great defense in the 2nd half... Kings only had 28 2nd half points I believe. Dwight continues to rock... 19 points and 15 rebounds, leading the league in rebounds now.
Poor shooting night for orlando (29/86 337%) but the defense came through. Francis was big at the end of regulation to tie and in overtime with the free throws. Stevenson and francis did a good job on bibby only (17pts on 8/22 shooting) Orlando did a good job of getting back into it after the half.
This was a great win with three of our key players, Grant Hill, Keyon Dooling and Jameer Nelson, out with injuries. I was very happy with the way Francis and Howard played and I'm practically in love with Deshawn Stevenson's game this season. He can stick someone on defense and he can knock down a jumpshot from the just beyond the arc consistently. He is really stepping up his game this year and he is proving how effective he can be when giving a staring role. By the way, It's great to see people posting in these game forums. I encourage all of you to stay active because the more people we get posting, the better this forum will be. GO MAGIC!
