Sacramento 107, Orlando 90
Kings Cruise Past Magic in Win
ORLANDO, Fla., Mar. 7 (Ticker) -- With so many weapons, the Sacramento
Kings had no problem resting Chris Webber against the Orlando Magic.
Peja Stojakovic collected 28 points and 10 rebounds and fellow All-Star
Brad Miller added 22 and 13 as the Kings pulled away in the second half
for a 107-90 victory over the lowly Magic.
Mike Bibby scored 26 points and Doug Christie chipped in 13 and a season
-high 12 assists for the Kings, who played Saturday night in Miami and
gave Webber the night off to rest his surgically repaired left knee.
"I felt (that) this early in him coming back, combined with it being
back-to-back games, I thought it made sense," Kings coach Rick Adelman
said. "Now he has two days till we play again (vs. Golden State on
Tuesday)."
"We have been playing without Webb for 50-something games this season,"
Miller said. "I know what I have to do out there and that is how we look
at it."
The Kings trailed by as many as 10 points late in the second quarter but
pulled within 54-53 at the break. Sacramento scored the first 12 points
of the second half, taking a 65-54 lead with 9:40 remaining on a jumper
by Stojakovic, who had eight points during the burst.
"We did not do the things necessary to come into the locker room with an
extended lead like that," Magic coach Johnny Davis said. "They closed the
game to one and now it's a different ballgame. They have the momentum. We
come out in the third quarter, we didn't play particularly well and they
just got away from us and we couldn't respond." Sacramento limited Orlando
to 39 percent shooting (35-of-89) and led by as many as 21 points in the
final minutes.
"We picked up our energy at the end of the second quarter," Stojakovic said
. "We carried it all the way to the end. We were more aggressive defensively."
Juwan Howard scored a season-high 26 points to pace Orlando. All-Star Tracy
McGrady, who was guarding by the hawking Christie, added just 13 - two after
the break - on 4-of-15 shooting.
"You never shut a guy like that down because of what you did - usually it's
a combination of things," Adelman said. "But Doug made him work and our
guys were intent on making sure he helped on him."
"I really didn't have that feeling tonight like I was going to have an
outstanding game," McGrady said. "And also, they was doing a great job of
loading up every time that I got the ball. Vlade was walking over there,
just making me give it up. All night I was really playing out of my comfort
zone."
The Magic were without forward Drew Gooden, who had an infection on his right
leg.
"It's day-to-day with Drew," Davis said. "Certainly we missed him tonight
and hopefully he'll be ready against Miami (on Tuesday)."
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Kings shake off the Magic, 107-90
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Published 5:53 p.m. PST Sunday, March 7, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Peja Stojakovic scored 12 of his 28 points in the third
quarter, and the Sacramento Kings shook off their early sluggishness to
defeat the Orlando Magic 107-90 Sunday night.
Mike Bibby had 26 points, while Brad Miller added 22 with 12 rebounds.
Doug Christie had 13 points and a season-best 12 assists. Sacramento, the
NBA leader in assists, had 30 on 38 field goals. The Kings also made all
24 of their foul shots.
Chris Webber sat out, as the Kings didn't want him to play on his surgically
repaired left knee on consecutive nights. The Kings lost 102-96 at Miami
on Saturday.
For the Magic, Juwan Howard scored a season-high 26 points, and Tracy McGrady
, Tyronn Lue and DeShawn Stevenson each added 13.
Drew Gooden sat because of infected hair follicles on his right leg.
In the first half, the Kings airballed four jumpers, were outrebounded by a
team that rarely crashes the boards and let Orlando take a 10-point lead with
3:01 left before the break.
Sacramento finally woke up on Stojakovic's three free throws with 2:35 left
before halftime. That got the Kings going, and they trailed 54-53 at
intermission.
Coming out of the break, Stojakovic and Christie hit consecutive 3-pointers
to start a run of 12 unanswered points. Stojakovic's jumper with 9:40 left
in the period put the Kings up 65-54, as Sacramento scored 25 points in less
than five minutes.
Stojakovic shot 9-for-17, including 3-of-7 on 3 pointers.
Orlando got the deficit down to four points, but Sacramento went on a 14-4
run and the Magic never got back within single digits.
The Kings largest lead was 21 points, 107-86 with 1:54 left.
Notes: McGrady missed two free throws, the only missed foul shots in the
game. Orlando was 17-for-19 from the line. ... Until Sunday, Gooden was
Orlando's only player to avoid missing time because of injury. ... The
Magic's 122-92 loss at Sacramento on Nov. 21 remains their worst defeat
of the season. ... Sacramento has won eight of the last 10 meetings against
Orlando.
-- The Associated Press
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