The Return of Oladipo: Tobias Harris achieves double-double to help the Magic win over Bucks

My favorite player on the Orlando Magic is Victor Oladipo. I wish I would have purchase tickets to seen him return. I can't wait to be there on in December when I come to another game. Oladipo reminds me of a cross between Tony Allen and Dwyane Wade. On Friday night not only did Dipo return, but Tobias Harris scored a double-double to help the Orlando Magic defeat the Milwaukee Bucks 101-85. Here are the stats for each team for this game.

Orlando Magic Top 5 Scorers

Tobias Harris- 26 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists, 10/18 FG, 5/6 FT, 1/3 3PTFG
Nikola Vucevic- 18 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 6/11 FG, 6/8 FT
Evan Fournier- 15 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 5/13 FG, 3/6 3PTFG, 2/3 FT
Victor Oladipo- 13 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 3/10 FG, 6/8 FT, 1/3 3PTFG
Aaron Gordon- 8 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 3/3 FG, 2/2 FT, in 14 minutes and 49 seconds



Milwaukee Bucks Top 5 Scorers

Brandon Knight- 24 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 9/17 FG, 2/8 3PTFG, 4/5 FT
Giannis Antetokounmpo- 19 points, 7 rebounds, 9/15 FG, 0/2 3PTFG, 1/1 FT
John Henson- 10 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 4/5 FG, 2/2 FT
Ersan Ilyasova- 6 points, 3 rebounds, 2/5 FG, 2/2 FT
Jabari Parker- 6 points, 3 rebounds, 2/5 FG, 2/2 FT



Orlando Magic Thoughts

1. Do you want Tobias Harris to get an extension?  I know that I do.  Impressive double-double and shooting for him this game
2. So nice for Dipo to return, as many of you know I've been wearing his jerseys and T-Shirts at the games.  He didn't have a good shooting night, but 6 of 8 from the free throw line is good.
3. Where do you fit in Evan Fournier with Oladipo back now?  Do you go with Fournier at small forward, moving Tobias to power forward?  Have Fournier become our sixth man?  What would you do Magic fans?  I'd like your thoughts on this?
4. While Aaron Gordon won't win rookie of the year,  he has been a solid rookie so far.   I personally would like to see him start more, but then we paid Channing Frye 8 million a year, so I want to see coach Jacque Vaughn find a way to use Channing Frye more in the offense, getting him open for the three point shots.
5. Rookie point guard Elfrid Payton only scored 2 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 1/5 shooting in over 22 minutes of playing time tonight.
6. Tobias Harris has 3 double-doubles so far this season in the first ten games.  If he goes at this rate he will have anywhere from 24-26 double-doubles for the season, go on give him the extension Magic,  if not then draft Stanley Johnson out of the University of Arizona.

Milwaukee Bucks Thoughts

1. I would have liked to see Jabari Parker taken over more in this game. Jabari only took 5 shots in this game.  I'd like to see him take 12-15 shots a game and get his feet wet.  I still believe he will win rookie of the year though.
2. Good solid performance from point guard Brandon Knight, and wing player Giannis Antetokounmpo better known as the Greek Freak.  
3. At 4-5, so far I feel that Milwaukee is better this year than last year.  If they can win 45-50 percent of their games this year, they can sneak into the 8th seed in the Eastern Conference.

Final Thoughts

I'm impressed with this win for the Orlando Magic.  The Magic are now 4-6 in their first 10 games.  If Orlando can get 40 wins they to me will sneak into the playoffs.  A little part of me wants this team to tank and find a way to land Emmanuel Mudiay, another part of me wants us to sneak into the playoffs and try to knock off Chicago, Cleveland, Toronto, Washington or possibly Miami. So what did you like about this game?  What didn't you like about it?  Magic fans send me your comments on this game. Thank you for reading Pro Basketball Hoops Land. The place where you can read articles, send comments and purchase Orlando Magic pro basketball merchandise