RELIABLE OR NOT?: Orlando Magic’s Search for IDENTITY continues in London
The Orlando Magic again fell flat with a poor defensive effort as they continue their run of inconsistent play.
The Memphis Grizzlies blitzed them early with another hot-shooting start that did not dissipate. The Magic never fully reeled the Grizzlies back in and their stars failed to deliver consistent scoring to stabilize the team as they fell further and further behind.
The team is still struggling to find the one thing they can count on. Not even their ability to get to the line or the rim has been consistent lately and that only further puts the team in a deeper hole.
The Magic return home from Europe with a split but still with loads of questions as they begin the second half of their season.
00:00 Orlando Magic’s Inconsistent Struggles
10:59 Magic’s Defense and Free Throw Woes
18:38 Paolo’s Lack of Foul Calls
23:27 Magic’s Struggles and Coaching Critique
35:07 Magic Struggles with Inconsistent Play
42:50 Fix Defensive Issues Now
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14 Comments
Hey Phillip hope all is well, I am tired of the us not moving up the mountain, we take one step forward and two steps back after. 😔I do not comprehend the regression in our identity!
Our record is about the same of every team on the east coast. We just need to stay healthy the rest of the season. And we'll be just fine.
Trade Franz or Paolo. Bring in a shooter
Haven’t seen Mosley implement a single offensive game plan all year.
You keep talking about our defense and not offense with this team and Mosley. But even when we had an elite top 5 defense our offense was so poor we were barely a playoff/first round team. We have mostly offense minded players and it’s an offense minded league. It’s almost to the point where it seems Mosley is paying you to not criticize that aspect of his responsibility or you don’t know how inapt we our on offense vs every other team in the league or basketball in general. I expect better from you as a reporter and keeping it real, but ok, defense defense defense… that’s all we got and all we can do and improve on for all time…
The only thing consistent about this team is the bad coaching, it's crazy… Weltman, whatever happens after the trade deadline it's on YOU
The only consistency with the Magic this year is their inconsistency but at least they are consistent with their inconsistency!🤔🤷🏼♂️😱😂👍🏻
Blaming this on coaching is a cop out. They’re failing at basic fundamentals, boxing out, 3 on 2s, etc. AB literally turned over an inbound pass today to a guy who had his damn back turned, it literally doesn’t get worse than that. That has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with coaching, full stop.
Head coach and coaching0
Head Coach and coaching staff is the problem.
The offense is so broken that it makes the defence bad too.
Need a better Center
Yeah, it’s time to fire that coach because he doesn’t hold none of his players accountable. I mean he doesn’t call them out when they’re playing bad. He allows his forwards to dribble the ball into the last five seconds of the shot clock just a disgusting, ugly offense and every player looks like they’re scared to shoot it like they are trying to pass it to someone we in the corner somewhere for them to make a horrible shot that misses every time this is so disgusting. I don’t like this team. I don’t like the coach and it’s very bizarre that they seem to be laughing and joking before the game, laughing and joking after the game It’s like they really don’t care. We need to get some players in here that will hold other players accountable in this coach is a joke. He let his team just do whatever they want and we don’t have a big man at all. Wendell Carter is always on the three-point line trying to shoot three big old soft coward doesn’t want to play down low.. Buck The Magic
Yeah, it’s time to fire that coach because he doesn’t hold none of his players accountable. I mean he doesn’t call them out when they’re playing bad. He allows his forwards to dribble the ball into the last five seconds of the shot clock just a disgusting, ugly offense and every player looks like they’re scared to shoot it like they are trying to pass it to someone we in the corner somewhere for them to make a horrible shot that misses every time this is so disgusting. I don’t like this team. I don’t like the coach and it’s very bizarre that they seem to be laughing and joking before the game, laughing and joking after the game It’s like they really don’t care. We need to get some players in here that will hold other players accountable in this coach is a joke. He let his team just do whatever they want and we don’t have a big man at all. Wendell Carter is always on the three-point line trying to shoot three big old soft coward doesn’t want to play down low.. Buck The Magic