It felt like the Orlando Magic were constantly scrambling. Trying to keep track of the Denver Nuggets’ cutters and ball handlers as Nikola Jokic passed out dimes from the high post to find open shooters. The Magic were trying to keep up. Their defenders rotated to try to cover and collapse the paint or to reach out to those shooters.
Often they were too late. Or sometimes too many. And Denver just fired the ball to the open man. Or, worse, they would fire the ball at the hoop and let Nikola Jokic or Mason Plumlee collect the rebound.