Headline Surfer photo illustration / Nicola Vucevic, the starting center for the Orlando Magic, will be counted on to get the team into the NBA playoffs like he did last season.
By SERA KING / Headline Surfer
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Orlando Magic open the 2020-'21 regular season tonight against the Miami Heat at the Amway Center.
The game starts at 7 p.m. Limited tickets are available. Or you can watch the game live on Fox Sports Florida or listen to it on the radio at 96.9 The Game.
The Magic will need to be sharp on both ends of the floor if they hope to have any chance at winning their home opener against a Heat squad known for its excellent offense and defense with two-way players like perennial All-Star Jimmy Butler and budding superstar Bam Adebayo.
“You can’t give possessions away, to me, that’s what they’re good at,” Magic Head Coach Steve Clifford said. “They have a way to play at both ends of the floor, obviously, that’s very successful. There are a lot of things that you have to do defensively to make it hard on them for forty-eight minutes.”
The Magic will be counting heavily on their starting center, Nikola Vucevic tonight and throughout the regular season in hopes of making the playoffs, just as they did last season with Vucevic leading the way.
Vuvevic is looking to expand his 3-point shooting.
“The thing about him playing outside the line is, he does two things; it’s not just his shooting, it’s his passing and it’s his playmaking,” Clifford said. “If you guys remember, go back to the bubble, he has an uncanny ability to drive by even perimeter players when they are closing to him. So, I think the more he shoots and better he shoots the three, it’s going to open up more (of the) other aspects of his game.”
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