How Orlando Magic Can Learn from Bucks Defeat
The Orlando Magic showed resilience and their identity in an NBA Cup loss against the Milwaukee Bucks. In their second game since Franz Wagner’s injury, the Magic again showed their resolve and that they will not be a pushover. More than that, they showed they can win.
But little plays throughout the game cost them and Damian Lillard made the plays down the stretch to ice the game and send themselves to Las Vegas and the Orlando Magic home. A critical lesson for the Magic before the Playoffs.
0:00 Intro
5:15 Magic’s Resilience
10:51 Magic’s Culture
15:27 Playoff Test
20:32 Learning from Loss
25:06 Jalen Suggs’ Performance
30:11 Magic’s Defensive Strategy
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13 Comments
I feel like Suggs has tried to take the game over the last two games and I thought he did pretty well at it, especially tonight. How do you see him progressing?
What do we do with Cole Anthony? He is really disappointing..WCJ also offensively struggles under the basket. He can’t gather himself quickly enough. Can we package them somewhere for a talented guard? One that can create, shoot and pass?
I can't complain about Jalen tonight. He did what he could. The little things might matter but I notice the effect of his absence on the team when he went down. That was a full panic that led to the Bucks taking a sizable run. This team can't afford more bad news so I'm glad that he's okay. He's been courageous for the team as a leader every bit as much as the other two have been.
Aside from this the team is still growing and I'm loving how Mose has them all getting stuck in. Good thing we have a string of homers coming because we could really do with a break.
Edit: 15/25 is 60% so 15/24 is higher. Anyhow we did really good on Giannis and if JI were there he'd be sweating all game.
Coach went with some questionable line ups that clearly weren’t working and stuck with them. I feel last nights loss was on him.
Go Magic 🎩
28:40 Giannis shot .625 %
Jalen Suggs if you read these comments THANK YOU!!!! Thank you for your heart, thank you for your hustle, thank you for caring!!! You’re a really good basketball player but you seem to be an even better person. THANK YOU!!!
Goga Goga Gadget got #1 on top nba plays for last night on Giannis ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
McClung instead Anthony
As a Bucks fans you guys have a powerhouse on your hands. The Magic fully healthy will make some noise for years to come! Respect 💪🏾
Well if the org insists on running the show through Suggs and Black then I would say it's just another example of this front office and their never ending quest to be the best at evaluation rather than development. But hey, that's just my opinion.
I had to edit my splits below when I realized my tables might have rounding errors and then realized I wasn't even accounting for deviations in volume. Didn't make much of a difference. I like the idea of game to game splits thought.
Don't worry I'm still tracking my regular stats with some new ones added. I'll be back with them another day. Today I thought we might play a game of choose your player based on the stats. Shall we?
Player 1 –
in 29 career games with 34 or more minutes played
20 points 6 assists 2.9 turnovers 6.9 rebounds 1 steal .2 blocks
36 mins 3 seconds .40/.37/.91 14.7 Game score +/- -4
Player 2 – (533 days older today than player 1's 2nd to last game)
in 102 career games with 34 or more minutes played
21 points 4 assists 2.2 turnovers 5.2 rebounds 1.3 steal .5 blocks
36 mins 25 seconds .46/.30/.83 splits 15.3 Game score +/- -14
Player 3 (92 days older today than player 1's 2nd to last game)
in 94 career games with 34 or more minutes played
24.1 points 5.2 assists 3.2 turnovers 7.3 rebounds 1 steal .6 blocks
36 mins 41 seconds .46/.33/.75 splits 17.6 Game score +/- -95
Wanna play again?
Player 1
in 8 career games with 20 or more field goal attempts
27.3 points 5.8 assists 2.9 turnovers 5.6 rebounds 1 steal .3 blocks
34 mins 19 seconds .47/.35/.92 splits Game score 19.5 +/- +16
Player 2 (601 days older today than player 1's last game)
in 37 career games with 20 or more field goal attempts
27.6 points 4.7 assists 1.7 turnovers 5.1 rebounds 1.5 steals .4 blocks
35 minutes 50 seconds .49/.32/.86 splits Game score 20.4 +/- +116
(+70 in 3 recent games)
Player 3 (159 days older today than player 1's last game)
in 41 career games with 20 or more field goal attempts
28.4 points 4.6 assists 3.1 turnovers 7.9 rebounds 1 steal .4 blocks
36 minutes 38 seconds .45/.36/.75 splits 19.6 Game score +/- -41
I don’t think it’s appropriate to say your team has “a culture” unless you’ve had that “culture for 10 years”. More likely you have a good coach or good players/a good team.
Nuggets were saying “Nuggets culture” the year after they won and that was a joke. They have Nikola Jokic & when he’s gone they’ll be bad again
Honestly, what happened to Cole Anthony? I wanted him to get more time because he was buckets before. Dude has seemingly been missing everything lately. Now, I cant complain that we haven't seen much of him.