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Too much going on in life at the minute to give my energy to this dumpster fire, haven't watched any of the last 6 or so games and doubt I'll watch another game until change happens. Fire everyone.

This is not really true. The Magic have a very good record this season in games decided by 3 points or less. It's like 12-3 or something.

We sold that game hard down the stretch but I feel like a month ago we'd have let that slip away against a surging Heat team on their home floor. This time we locked it up. Good win.

Could even throw the Hornets after that in there, they're on a great run lately and they blew us out a couple months ago.

We're on a 6 game win streak. Our next 2 games are against the Heat, currently on a 7 game win streak, and the Hawks currently on an 8 game win streak, both on the road. Very big games in the East seeding race.

Agreed.

That was certainly a game of basketball. Felt like everyone lost their heads after the JI injury. We won that's all that really matters.

Paolo Banchero has shown remarkable growth. Him basically admitting he wasn't happy with how he played pre All Star break and then coming back and being THIS version of himself... That takes a lot of maturity. He's been a beast and he was a beast last night. My man I'm sorry I doubted you (but you did give me a lot of stuff to doubt) if you're this guy from here on out this team might actually go where they want to go in the coming years. Desmond Bane is going to, quite rightly, get a lot of the plaudits for this win (send Memphis 2 more picks Idgaf) but shout out Tristan Da Silva man, feels like he needed the All Star break too because the last 5 games or so he's been crucial.

The Isaac contract amendment is crazy. Really not sure why Isaac has agreed to that. He was on 51 games played, he needed to play once more to get that next year guaranteed. I'm guessing the Magic told him he would be sat out the rest of the year to avoid that guarantee kicking in but that's still a bluff you can call if you're Isaac, couple of injuries etc. Because this just surely means JI is getting waived or traded in the summer. That's the only way to read it. Good for us flexibility wise. But very bizarre.

Well we complained when the squeaked past bad teams. This time they never even looked like losing from minute one. Keep going. Post All Star break Paolo is different. Don't know if he needed to let his body really recover from some injuries or what but he's looking like the star we were promised.

Just gonna start saying we're going to get blown out before every game. We've had two of our best wins of the season after I've done that lol

I agree with this. We've reached "winning basketball games is bad actually" levels of commentary. That being said, feel like we're getting blown out by Minny. (Last time I said this we had one of our better performances of the year so here's hoping lol)

Unless you were a 6'5 D1 power forward who only didn't get drafted by virtue of being undersized for your amount of perimeter skill you'd have been a 4" taller regular dude.

Jevon Carter is, unironically, the best roleplayer this front office has ever brought in.

Shout out to Jevon Carter by the way. Like that guy a lot already.