DESERVED THEIR FATE: Orlando Magic CRASH into Play-In as Magic MISS Critical Opportunity
The Orlando Magic’s playoff hopes wobbled in a costly loss to the shorthanded Boston Celtics, sending the team to the 8-seed and a road Play-In game against the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Magic lacked urgency from the beginning despite holding the lead through the first half when the Celtics overwhelmed them with three-point shooting in the third quarter. While Orlando fought back to tie the game in the fourth quarter, they still fell short, suffering the fate they deserved having to go on the road to play their way into the postseason.
It was an unsurprising result considering how much the Magic have struggled all year with consistency in their energy, intensity and execution. The Magic made their bed and have to lie on it as the Celtics proved their championship culture no matter who is in the game for them.
00:00 Magic’s struggles against Celtics
05:36 Magic’s costly turnovers and decisions
13:01 Magic vs Celtics game analysis
25:47 Lack of mismatch exploitation
32:27 Breaking down the Magic’s loss
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13 Comments
The commentary team kept pointing out that Orlando was playing with their starters and Boston with their bench. Embarrassing at a national scale.
I was scoreboard watching while Raps were playing. I thought something was wrong w score ticker, what happened in that third quarter. Joe Muz is the coach of the year idc
Been thinking this whole season that they are playing as if the other team is going to hand the game over without having to play hard. Too much clowning and "swagger," not enough pride on what they built over the last two years. They don't look like they want to do what it takes, no discipline.
Mosley gotta go point blank
Unless there's something wrong with Desmond, Mosely's decision showed a total lack of situational awareness.
They lost the game in the 3rd quarter again. Once again, the Magic bench was outplayed.
43 3point attempts???? ffs.
Can we please find a way to move on from Wendel Carter???
At times those guys looked like they were playing a pickup game at a local rec center… at 11pm … on a Saturday night.
Yall should hire Doc rivers
You can't coach effort. You can't coach desire and determination to win.
Same old story they will never learn apparently
Give me first-rounders from Orlando, Boston, you get your backups, and you can play with two second-round picks (Williams & Shulga) that we traded to you! Check ball! And those two second-round picks scored 5 points, and Boston wins by 5!!!!! Man, Boston is just making our entire organization look like clowns! First time in Boston history that three or four players had career high points in the same game 🙁
This was an organizational failure. Play in teams don’t deserve to sit guys we losing the plot
Mosley will be gone. No point in keep piling on question is Where does Suggs/wcj go
Forget the identity, these boys need some dog in them. They have more talent on this team than most yet lack determination. I say they have long found their identity and most likely won’t make it out of the play-in. “Quit” When an NBA team plays its intact starting rotation and bench against eight rotational players of the other team and lose…eg, the Orlando Magic. Also, no offensive game plan that a sustain itself. Keep the players and run the staff.
Only way i can forgive this Magic team is if they go to at least game 6 with the Celtics but this team is an embarrassment