Orlando Magic vs Denver Nuggets Prediction: Can the Western Conference leader break the strange losing streak?

Denver's three previous road games have ended in losses to the Nuggets. Can the Western Conference leader break this strange losing streak with a game at Amway Center against Orlando?

The team played their last game at home against New York. Before the game, the Knicks looked like one of the most uncomfortable opponents for Orlando, which proved true. The Magic scored less than 100 points and lost 98:102, leaving them 3.5 wins behind the top ten of the Eastern Conference.

With the loss to the Knicks, everything is clear. And if you take the stretch of the last five games, Orlando has three wins, including over tough Minnesota and third-team Philadelphia in the East. Let's not forget that the Magic have beaten Boston, the top team in the league, three times this season.

The Nuggets played Minnesota twice before their road trip to Orlando. In the first road game against the Timberwolves, the team took the court without four players from the starting lineup, including Nikola Jokic, and lost by a score of 98:128. In the return home game, the main Denver roster attacked aggressively from the first seconds, scored 49 points in the first quarter, and eventually won with a better margin than they had on the road, 146:112.

Orlando doesn't do a good job guarding opponents at the three-point arc, but they are the fourth-best team this season in two-point defense. That is why Denver had such a hard time in the first game against the Magic this season and has had such a hard time the past few seasons. The Nuggets shoot a lot of shots from beyond the three-point line and are in the middle of the second ten in their respective rankings. The upcoming meeting between Denver and Orlando will likely again be a low-scoring affair. Although they will surely end in a win for the more powerful Nuggets, there is little doubt that the difference in the score will be significant. We're betting on a hard-fought win for Denver in a low-scoring game.