{"id":427568,"date":"2023-02-25T22:08:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T03:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427568"},"modified":"2023-07-24T08:13:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:13:54","slug":"pacers-pull-away-in-second-half-to-beat-magic-121-108","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pacers-pull-away-in-second-half-to-beat-magic-121-108\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers pull away in second half to beat Magic 121-108"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers had one of their most complete performances on both ends of the floor this season to beat the Orlando Magic 121-108 at the Amway Center in Orlando on Saturday night, winning on the road for the first time since Dec. 23.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">this is Pacers Twitter and you just watched a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PacersWin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#PacersWin<\/a>.\ud83e\ude84 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/61ibXTDjZh\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/61ibXTDjZh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pacers\/status\/1629670690075865088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Pacers improved to 27-35. The Magic fell to 25-36.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams struggled to generate offense in the first half, shooting under 40 percent and the Magic held a one-point lead going into the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Pacers busted right through the deficit with a 9-0 run to start the third quarter and never relinquished the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Myles Turner led the Pacers with 24 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist.\u00a0All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton added 15 points and dished out 14 dimes.<\/p>\n<p>Franz Wagner dropped a team-high 21 for the Magic &#8211; his 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a020-plus-point performance this season, while No. 1 overall pick Paolo Banchero was next on the list with 19 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic struggled mightily from 3-point distance. They made just six of their 29 attempts (20.7 percent). They also accumulated only 16 assists, tied for their third fewest this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers, meanwhile, dished out 34 assists, tied for the second most by an Orlando opponent this year.<\/p>\n<p>Goga Bitadze made his Magic debut, ironically against his former team, and in just nine minutes had six points and six rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-11, 250-pounder signed a contract with the Magic last week after being waived by the Pacers earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic begins a three-game road trip Monday against the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers had one of their most complete performances on both ends of the floor this season to beat the Orlando Magic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427569,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,16758],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Myles Turned led Indiana with 24 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist, Pacers snap 11-games road losing streak","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427568"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427568"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}