Basketball world champion Franz Wagner was devastated after the play-off exit with the Orlando Magic. “I expected more from myself. It sucks, especially now at the end of the season. I have the feeling that I let my team down a little,” said Wagner, visibly upset. Orlando lost the decisive seventh game of the first round series in the NBA at the Cleveland Cavaliers with 94:106.
Wagner, who had had an outstanding season up to that point, only managed six points. The 22-year-old had his weakest result of the season. In January, he also only scored six points in Sacramento – albeit in just five minutes on the floor.
His brother Moritz Wagner contributed three points on Sunday, for both of them it was their first play-off series in the NBA. For the Cavs, who now face the Boston Celtics, Donovan Mitchell once again stood out with 39 points.
Orlando was clearly inferior from the second half of the game onwards and could not rely on Franz Wagner, as was so often the case this season: only one of his 15 attempts from the field found the basket – a rate of a good six percent at the worst possible time. Magic lost the series 3-4 and have been waiting to advance to the second round of the playoffs since 2010.