The only thing that will completely take away the heartache of the Magic’s last-second Game 2 loss to Cleveland on Friday night is to win the series.

Coming back from two double-digit deficits in each of the first two games certainly gives the Magic a lot of confidence heading into Game 3 on Sunday night. But there are things they want to correct.
One of the biggest is the familiar regular-season habit of getting off to slow starts.
The Magic dug themselves a 30-16 hole in the first quarter Friday night (shooting just 31 percent) after surviving a 33-19 first-period deficit in Game 1.
In the two first quarters of the series, Cleveland has held Orlando to 34 percent shooting and 17.5 points per quarter.
Numbers game
LeBron James’ buzzer-beater in Game 2 marked the first time in NBA history that the first two games of a playoff series have been decided by that slim a margin, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
There have been only three other times in league history that opposing teams played consecutive games decided by a point at any time in a playoff series: Games 5 and 6 of the 2006 first-round series between Cleveland and Washington, Games 4 and 5 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals between the L.A. Lakers and Sacramento, and Games 2 and 3 of the first-round matchup between New York and Philadelphia in 1989.
Second-guessing
Great shot by James or not, in what has been a familiar crescendo this season Magic Coach Stan Van Gundy put the last-second loss in Game 2 on his shoulders.
He said that he should have guarded the Cavs’ inbounds pass differently, though he wouldn’t elaborate further in case it comes up again.
“I’d like to have that last one back from a coaching standpoint,” Van Gundy said.
“They were looking for the backdoor lob to LeBron the same play they ran against Indiana earlier in the regular season. . . . We should have defended it differently. It’s crushing enough to lose as a coach, but when you’re the guy who could’ve made the difference, it hurts a lot more.”
No fear
If there was good that came from the heartbreaking loss, it might be that the Magic now seem to have no fear of the Cavaliers.
F Hedo Turkoglu said that watching the Cavs’ jubilant celebration was fuel for them going into the rest of the series.
Turkoglu was outstanding in Game 2, scoring 21 points.
A good decision
Cleveland reserve G/F Sasha Pavlovic’s statistics didn’t jump off the page Friday night, but his nine points in 21 minutes did provide the Cavs with a boost off the bench that was absent in their Game 1 loss.
Though it wasn’t that much of a stretch for Coach Mike Brown to insert Pavlovic, a starter on the Cavs’ 2007 Finals team, into the rotation, he said he didn’t actually decide to do it until he was driving to the arena Friday afternoon.
“He has played some big games, played some big minutes, and he has done some nice things on both ends of the floor,” Brown said. “We wanted to try to give them a different look by going with a little more length and athleticism in Sasha.”