Orlando Magic’s Shooting WOES: Accepting their sub-.500 reality
The Orlando Magic’s shooting woes have persisted all season. After a strong road trip, the shooting woes again prevented the team from taking the leap in a 116-108 loss to the Houston Rockets.
The Magic continue to struggle to find answers when they hit their scoring lulls and shooting ruts. Their lack of offensive diversity keeps them from breaking through. And the team has to accept that its shooting is going to cost them games down the stretch. There is no fix until the offseason.
0:00 Intro: Orlando Magic’s shooting struggles
5:45 Houston’s zone defense exposes Magic’s weakness
11:30 Analyzing player performances and rotations
19:04 Defensive lapses compound offensive issues
28:46 Accepting reality of Magic’s current limitations
33:54 Focusing on defense and resilience moving forward
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17 Comments
WENDELL CARTER MAKES 1 OUT OF EVERY 5 THREES HE TAKES. WE WILL KEEP LOSING GAMES UNTIL HE STOPS DOING THIS. TAKE MORE SHOTS WITHIN 5 FEET OF THE BASKET AND STOP CAMPING ON THE 3 POINT LINE. WHEN YOU DO THIS WE PLAY 4 ON 5
Our role players play better on the road because they press at home. Because they know they should win because they're home and they choke
So many players do not contribute. Also how does Caleb get scrub minutes after hitting 6 3's. We're really bad.
Coach holding back the quality players like Isaac…Cole… Bitadze for Wendell who doesn't do much of anything… Wendell's minutes could go to those three players along with Tristan so he can play in a rhythm like he did earlier in the season
WCJ not a center. Way too undersized. I'd love to see P5 play center at times
You seem pretty confident that JW will address the teams shooting. But we thought that last season and wound up with an older version of Suggs? All the writers and commentators thought it was pretty funny about JW’s perfect player. Long and can’t shoot. Fans aren’t laughing now.
Missing long 3s leads to long rebounds leading to opponent fast breaks. The disadvantages are huge. Two players who should not be taking 3s are Dell and JI. Everytime they go up for a 3, I cringe. I would understand if the shot was late on the clock, but a lot of these are the first option! Isaac even shot a pull up 3. So frustrating and just bad decision making.
Weltman's extensions are starting to look like bad decisions. Isaac and Dell are under performing their contracts. Still not sure if Franz was worth the max. Suggs could still pay off, but he needs to stay healthy.
Heeeyyy Phil you know who I’m thinking about. A player from closest team to our north 😂😂😂
The 2 runs killed us 13-2 and 12-0 runs are never going to be easy to come back from.🤔🤷🏼♂️😱😱😱
If we don’t get3-5 different players to start and for the bench then we didn’t get aggressive enough to move to the top 4 spot in the eastern conference
People saying Franz isnt worth his contract while hes in a slump are not Magic fans.
Must address shooting in the off-season! Need someone other than Paulo or Franz….the problem is…every team we play understands that!
Why hasn't caleb Houstan played since he hit those 6; three's
We stopped caring 15 games ago and thank you for finally admitting this team sucks
Mosley doesn't know how to run the offense. He's a good defensive coach, that's it.
Why mosely so scared of giving JI minutes you paying him all this money for him to get 8 minutes of playing time?he's one of the best defensive players in the league teams would kill to have JI on there team,I'm sorry but mosley time is about up he did a great job developing these guys but now it's time to bring in a coach that knows how to bring out the best in these players..