Offense stalls as Raptors continue mastery of Magic

The Orlando Magic’s offense stalled during the second half and the Toronto Raptors pounced.

Norman Powell scored a career-high 33 points, including 19 in the third quarter, as the Raptors pulled away for a 90-83 win over the Magic Friday night at Amway Center.

The Raptors (14-4) improved to 3-0 this season against the Magic (7-11) and have now won the past seven meetings dating back to last season’s playoffs.

The loss also snapped a threegame home win streak for the Magic, whose 83 points were a season low.

Evan Fournier had 19 points and six assists, while Markelle

Fultz scored 15 points and Mo Bamba had 11 for Orlando, which shot 34.6% from the field and couldn’t overcome a season high 24 turnovers. Toronto converted those turnovers into 18 points.

Magic forward Aaron Gordon returned to the starting lineup after missing three games with an ankle injury and finished with eight points and eight rebounds in 32 minutes.

Fred VanVleet chipped in 22 points for Toronto. He combined with Powell for 10 of Toronto’s 11 3-pointers.

Raptors leading scorer Pascal Siakam managed just 10 points on 4-of-22 shooting.

But Powell more than made up for Siakam’s struggles, scoring 15 points during a decisive 20-2 third-quarter run that saw the Raptors turn a 51-40 deficit into a 60-53 advantage.

The Magic were 3 of 19 from the field with six turnovers during the 7-minute, 33-second stretch.

Powell alone outscored Orlando 19-12 in the third quarter.

The Magic scored six quick points to grab some early momentum in the fourth and close within 66-65. Bamba had four of those points off two dunks — the first came off an offensive rebound and the second off a lob from Al-Farouq Aminu.

But the Raptors pushed the lead back to 10 after a threepoint play by Chris Boucher and the Magic never got closer than