Was it the Orlando Magic defense? Was he feeling ill? He says it was neither, but he struggled to score in the key moments late.
Asked if he was battling an illness, theSunday’s 104-99 setback to the Orlando Magic at the Kia Center.But something was amiss with his game after intermission and his voice during the postgame interview. That’s why reporters wondered if he was concealing something so that he wasn’t making an excuse for his second-half struggles.
The Magic switched their defensive coverages on Maxey in the second half. They ended up having lengthy defenders guarding him after intermission. “Obviously, he got to the free-throw line a bunch, and most of that was in the first half too,” coachsaid of Maxey going 10 of 10 from the foul line before intermission. “Just didn’t have quite as many openings I didn’t think in the second half just because of kind of putting one and a half or two on him a lot of times. I thought he made a lot of right plays though; he didn’t force too many.”fouled out with 2 minutes, 49 seconds remaining.
He made an eight-foot floater while being fouled by former Sixer Trevelin Queen to give his team a 96-93 lead 16 seconds later. Maxey missed the ensuing free throw. Then he missed an eight-foot fadeaway and a driving layup on the Sixers’ next two possessions.Maxey followed that by making a 27-foot three-pointer to pull the Sixers within one point with 1:07 remaining. However with the Magic up three, he missed a 26-foot right-wing three-pointer with 9.6 left.
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