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Orlando Magic FAIL to meet expectations | What can they BUILD with and what do they NEED?



Orlando Magic FAIL to meet expectations | What can they BUILD with and what do they NEED?

The Orlando Magic entered the season with ambitions to make the second round and win homecourt advantage. They ultimately failed to meet those goals through a combination of injuries and regression.

Still, Orlando had a lot of things to be excited about. They established their defensive dominance and identity. They developed their two stars into true building blocks. They have the foundation to be a great team.

The pressure now is on management to meaningfully address obvious needs and give the team the personnel to boost themselves into the contention tier.

0:00 Intro: Magic’s 2024-2025 season review
5:42 Injuries derailed Magic’s playoff aspirations
16:54 Banchero and Wagner: Magic’s superstar duo
22:33 Playoffs expose team weaknesses for improvement
28:41 Magic need more offensive creators

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9 Comments

  1. The challenge with being an extremely physical team is that your own players also get hurt. Banchero, F Wagner, and Suggs played 46, 60, and 35 games respectively.

  2. They can bring Steph, Klay and Jesus and they wouldn’t be able to make threes with this team and this coach. Plain and simple. Look at Cleveland and what’s the one thing they change between seasons.

  3. I feel like we don’t have a starting center WCj Goga. & Mo are all decent backups to me I want a veteran ball handler maybe CP3 or Mike Conley jr type then the best scoring or athletic wing that’s twitchy and swap KCP and Cole out for another shooter if possible

  4. Are we gonna talk about the 3 fouls and coincidentally Paolo was gonna over take Kareem and kobe after overtaking LeBron for youngest player to have the most 25 points playoff games

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