How Good are the Orlando Magic really?

How Good are the Orlando Magic really?

Behind the electrifying second-year play from Palo bonero the Orlando Magic have firmly placed themselves as one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference and one of the best young cores throughout the entirety of the NBA the question remains why is the NBA media not giving

Them the proper coverage and how far can this team go in the playoffs they do have a timeout decide not to use it Curry way downt bang bang oh what a shot from curry with 6 T of a second remaining yo what is up everybody welcome back to another episode of Game

Time it’s try Dom and we’re going to jump right into things here today if you guys do enjoy today’s episode make sure you guys drop a like And subscribe for more it is greatly appreciated and helps the channel out a ton without further Ado let’s talk some Orlando Magic

Basketball now the Orlando Magic have quietly crept into the upper echelon of Eastern Conference playoff teams and currently sit at 37 and 27 after a little bit of a concerning loss to the New York Knicks here yesterday but hopefully things can get smoothed out as we get closer and closer to the playoffs

And this team goes for their first playoff run since 2020 back when they had nicoa vich Aaron Gordon and a very different team in fact if you look back to that team the only player that Still Remains on today’s current roster from then is uh Marquel Foltz who was

Actually in his first year in Orlando after being moved on from Philly after his struggles as a first overall pick there he then went to Orlando was able to average 12 points per game for them in those playoffs but the team has not made it back since a lot of that has

Been due to some injuries to players and just the overall rebuild process that led them to be able to draft Paulo bonero last year who has been the clear leader of this team in pretty much every statistical category I mean when you look at what bonero does on the

Basketball floor it is amazing and especially being a Duke fan it’s awesome to see the success that he’s been able to immediately have in the NBA being one of the most successful first overall picks in recent memory something we’ll get to here in a minute but he leads the

Team in points per game he leads the team in assists per game he leads the team in rebounds per game and he has just been phenomenal um helping lead this team to be one of the best defenses also in the NBA currently sitting at the fourth best defensive rating a lot of

That is due to him and his ability to be a helps side Defender for blocks be a good steal guy a guy that you can put as uh defender on big wings and be effective there but also due to another recent High overall pick for them in

Jaylen Suggs who I think has been really a catalyst for this team to take such a big jump this year because over the first few years of his career we’ve seen a constant improvement from you know his first season where it was looked at maybe he got drafted too high maybe he

Isn’t what we thought he was going to be to now it’s like oh he’s getting comparisons to Marcus Smart and not like oh like early Marcus Smart no he’s getting comparisons to be like a potential Defensive Player of the Year type of guard so it’s something to keep

In mind as we go for further into the future and we’ll talk about some of his individual stats as we go a little bit further along obviously Paulo leads the team but the number two um would obviously be fron Vagner fron Vagner is a guy that a lot of people thought might

Be able to take an All-Star jump coming into this season he wasn’t the one to do it it was actually Pao and I think that made total sense I mean there’s no no no way that the Orlando Magic are as far as they are or doing as good as they are or

As sex successful however you want to put it without poo though I think fron is a very good player and has been very solid as number two for them here throughout this season I think the big question mark about frons would be if you can get his three-point percentage

To go up shooting under 30% this year isn’t exactly where you want those numbers to be especially on five attempts per game if it was on a lower attempts it might be a little bit easier to pass by because he wouldn’t be taking him so often but it is something of

Concern and something that you want him to work on going into the future especially considering last year and in his rookie season he shot over 35% both seasons on on less attempts than he’s been shooting this year so maybe something to be concerned about going into the future

Now he has increased his averages every single season as well going from 15 points to 18 points up to 20 points this year to this point and I think yeah he’s just been a very a very underrated second option for Paulo a guy that also can playmake at that forward position

It’s kind of just amazing to me how good of Playmakers these um both these forwards are for this team in the fact that like yes this team doesn’t really have set point guard that you look at and it’s like oh that’s their point guard no matter what they’re going with

Him for the future right I think jayen Suggs has really shifted into an two guard role Marco folz might not be on this team going into the future and Anthony black is a little bit too young to really be fully taking those Reigns mostly being a defensive guy to this

Point so the fact that fron and Paulo have been such great Playmakers at the forward position has been huge for this team and helped lead to a lot of success the next guy I think that you would look at is a guy that has dealt with some

Not played exactly a ton of games for them throughout this point only playing 37 games in wend Carter Jr now we’ll see how much of a part of their future he is he is locked out for the next couple years but he’s only been averaging about 11 points per game this year and

Obviously has dealt with some injuries he does shoot 42% from three unlimited attempts which I think is something that you really like to see out of him as that ability to be a stretch five when he is on the court um but with obviously him not playing as much we’ve seen a

Little bit more from Mo Wagner we seen quite a bit from Goa bat as well and overall I think just a lot of guys have been able to step in and try to contribute and prove their worth to this team throughout this season as this team

Is a team that has dealt with some injuries to a lot of players uh this is actually the season that Jaylen sugs has already played his most games in a season throughout his entirety of his career 58 games so that’s good to see for that part but obviously with r

Carter dealing with some injuries Marquel folz dealing with some injuries only playing 27 games throughout this point and then you know having an older guy like Joe Eng Les who has played 50 games but he is 36 years old and though he’s been a crucial locker room guy for

This team it’s lot for some other guys to get minutes when he doesn’t play so just lots of stuff in there but I do think that W Carter Jr when healthy is probably the first fourth most important guy to this team and if it’s not him it’s definitely their Sixth Man of the

Year type of player in Cole Anthony now he recently um signed an extension I believe back in October for 3 years off of his rookie deal so we’ll see him locked up here in Orlando for the foreseeable future barring any trades he’s been averaging over 11 points

Nearly 12 points per game um has not started a game all season has played all 63 of his games off the bench but that has not been bad he’s able to come in be a scoring plug he’s not exactly an amazing playmaker though he is averaging

I think the third most assist on the team I think a lot of that just comes with the fact that he does play the point guard position the balls in his hands a lot but really it’s just that microwave scoring that you can get off the bench from him which I think has

Been very good for this team as for some other notable players like I said Anthony black I think has provided some good starts for this team he’s still very young only 20 20 years old and is a rookie he’s only averaging five points per game but where he really hangs his

Hat has been on the defensive side of the ball and to this point I will say he shot relatively well from three-point range at 40% only on one and a half attempts per game though so we’ll see how that kind of expands throughout the rest of his career because if you can

Have him and Jaylen sugs both be good shooters then maybe you don’t need that true number one type of point guard guy um but it is something to keep in mind as we go towards the future is I think coming into the season I looked at this

Team and I said well both these guys are very similar who’s going to be able to stand out and I think Suggs has definitely done that throughout this season um beyond that I think Mo Wagner has been solid especially as a scoring guy off the bench um there’s not exactly

A ton of you know scoring bigs that you would treat as kind of stretch stretch fives um Off the Bench that can come in and give you 12 points per game so I think he’s been been beneficial to this team and it’s also always cool to see

Brothers play with each other so it’s been cool to see fron and mo play on the same team the past couple years here and then Goa patate I think is a guy that has given this team some underrated minutes um he started 33 games for them he’s only averaged five points but I

Think he’s a guy that has been U welcomed in the rebounding Department because there has there isn’t really a lot of rebounding on this team this team though I think they have very good playmaking forwards they don’t exactly have like a center that’s averaging 10 rebounds obviously poo is leading them

In rebounds and even when when plays he averages less rebounds than P at 6.7 compared to 6.9 so I think having a guy like Goa who can step in and give you some minutes and just be able to rebound the ball a little bit better um than a

Lot of these guards who are skinnier like Anthony black I think is like 67 or 6’8 but he’s only averaging two rebounds in the 18 minutes per game that he’s getting like there’s just a lot of um rebounding issues I think with this team and so Goa has been a guy that’s been

Able to just consistently get you about five boards per game which which I think has been good and then another guy that we’ve actually seen play more games than he has kind of in recent memory is Jonathan Isaac um Jonathan Isaac averaging six points per game four

Rebounds and about a block per game as well as almost a steal per game I think the defensive potential is still there for them still still there for him sorry um but yeah I think he could still be maybe not a defensive player of the year

Type of guy anymore I think he’s dealt with so many injuries it would be hard to see him ever put a campaign together that um equated to that but yeah I think when you watch him you still see all the tools there you still see a guy that is

No matter what impactful on defense and so his contract isn’t fully guaranteed for next year in fact this year his contract wasn’t fully guaranteed until he um made it quite a way through the season where he was only guaranteed I think 7.4 7.6 million out of his 17

Million um until you know a certain point throughout the season where the rest became guaranteed so I’d be interested to see if this team actually cut him going into the offseason maybe tried to sign him on a cheaper deal or if they stick with him and don’t open up

That extra cap space which they don’t necessarily need but I do think could be helpful and it’s something interesting that a lot of teams have or a lot of um not teams a lot of people have started to kind of speculate if this team will

Go out and try and get like a big guy well they have some money flexibility because Paulo’s extension is going to come up in well it’ll come up in three or two years two years um his extension will kick in but he’s not going to be eligible to

Even sign it for a year and then um fron and sugs extensions are also coming up here pretty soon so or actually before apos so both things to note there um that you’re going to have to extend these guys once that money gets put on

The books it’s a little bit harder to go out and sign a guy in free agency or trade for a guy on a big contract so I do think that’s where you know potentially Mar fultz doesn’t come back because he’s also on one of the larger contracts and I think that same thing

Kind of applies to Jonathan Isaac something we’ll get to to here more in a minute but yeah I just I want to give all all praise to this team for being able to put the season that they have together I think it’s out done a lot of people’s expectations I don’t think a

Lot of people expected this team to be a real playoff um compeer and a real playoff team as obviously you know Atlanta is a team in the Eastern Conference that has struggled a lot throughout the regular season and not been the team that I think some people

Thought they could be the same with Brooklyn Brooklyn has been very under underwhelming I was going to say under mediocre but they’ve been than that um and so I do think that Orlando is one of those teams that kind of took advantage of that situation where there were a

Couple teams that you know have made the playoffs and even made deep runs in recent Seasons that haven’t performed maybe necessarily to expectations throughout this season and they’ve definitely taken advantage and um scooped up those wins and put themselves in a good position to uh go on a playoff

Team and get some good or go on a playoff run and get some good experience for these young guys that they have put together throughout the last couple of seasons and it’ll be really interesting to see how poo does in his first player I think that’s my most interesting thing

There I don’t expect Orlando necessarily to go to the Conference Finals or anything like that in fact if they made it beyond the second round I’d be very surprised um and even right now they’d be matched up with the New York Knicks in the first round who I view as wi

Healthy um a team that could really make some noise in the playoffs and potentially push to a Conference Finals type of run so though Orlando is in um the weaker of the two conferences I do still expect them to be a little bit of early exit but that’s not a bad thing

Because um you could look at it similarly to how Cleveland responded from being an early exit last year right where obviously they bring in Donovan Mitchell they go to the playoffs and then they lose to the Knicks in the first round in a series that they were

Expected to win I think Cleveland has responded great throughout this season they’ve been holding the two seed for quite a long time throughout this season um in the Eastern Conference and then even that has been done well sustaining lots of injuries and I think a lot of

The guys on that team have talked about how that playoff experience has really helped their mindset going into this season how they want to extend that so I I do think that Orlando could find themselves in similar position to that um well so having a little bit more of a

C cap flexibility going into the future as really you only have those three guys um kind of at the top that you have to focus on extending and I think are clearly core pieces for this team going forward as for the rest of the team I still think it’s quite flexible to move

Guys around and see where you want to go with things um surrounding those players like I said Jonathan Isaac contract would fully End by the end of next season but I could see a potential chance where they do get rid of him prior to that Marco foltz’s 17 million

Will fall off the books at the end of the season and this team is actually going to have some good salary cap space as we get to the off season they’re going to have about $36.4 million again if you cut Jonathan Isaac I think that frees up about another $10 million and

Then there is some team options that you could decline that being chuma oiki who’s um on a $5.2 million or sorry he’s on a $5.2 million option for this year um so his money will fall off Gary Harris’s money will fall off and then I believe that you could get rid of Joe

Engles $ million team option for next year so you have a little bit of flexibility to potentially go out and have about $40 million and really try to make a play for a guy in free agency which would be interesting to see because I don’t think Orlando is

Necessarily looked at as a big free agent destination but if you can you know find a guy that doesn’t necessarily want to resign with his team or if you can throw enough money at um one of these unrestricted free agents when we kind of see who actually makes it to

Free agency CU obviously there will be extensions and some other stuff um and restricted free agency and all that or even throw a lot of money at um a guy like I think Tyrese Maxi will be a restricted free agency come this offseason he’d be an interesting guy to

See you throw some money out or even um potentially offer a trade up for a guy like anony Simons or who knows maybe even a Jordan pool um I do think you kind of have that role filled with um with uh why is his name escaping me with

Cole Anthony um on this team so I don’t think you really would need to go after a guy like Jordan paol but I do think that maybe there’s an Avenue where you go and you take a contract that maybe a team doesn’t necessarily love on their

Team and you bring it to your team where you can allow him to kind of um succeed in a different role for your team similarly to what they did when they went out and they got Mar folz because I believe they only traded like a second

Round pick and this was a few years ago when they did it so I don’t remember the exact transaction off the top of my head but they didn’t trade much for Marquel fon I was just amazed that Philly had given up on him so early and though I

Don’t think he’s really put himself in a position where he’s going to be a Bonafide starter for the rest of his career I think he revived his career with Orlando his story um in getting back to being a pretty good NBA player with Orlando is something um I think a

Lot of people should look at and commend him for because you know whatever went on with his shoulder coming out of college and just a clear difference from being a unanimous number one pick in a draft with guys like Jason Tatum with guys like Donovan Mitchell and he was he

Stood above the best or stood Above the Rest um by a ton and obviously that’s a big reason why Philly trades up they go take him and then that struggle that he went through and clearly wasn’t the same player for him to get to the point where

He is now um I think you just have to commend him for his work ethic to get back to that point and um yeah I that’s really all I guess I had to say on that point um as for other guys though um you will have Mo Vagner locked up for next

Year you will have one down locked up for next year somebody that I don’t know necessarily look look at as a lock for this team he’s on a pretty movable contract at about $10 million uh for the next two seasons so again I could see this team being a team that really

Focuses on trying to make some moves um come the offseason but before you get to the offseason you got to talk about playoffs and you got to see what they can do in the playoffs and they haven’t won a lot recently in the playoffs the last time that they made the playoffs

Like I said was in 2020 back um the last year that they had Aaron Gordon the last year that they had nicool abovich for a full season um both of those players and then obviously the first year that Marquel was there the only guy that has any playoff experience on this team outside

Of Joe Engles um especially with Orlando he’s the only guy um at least from a continuity perspective that’s still here but the last time that they actually won a playoff series you have to go back another decade all the way back to 2010 um when they had Dwight Howard and he

Led them to back-to-back Conference Finals appearances after they had reached the NBA Finals the year prior right so it has been quite a while for Orlando um since they’ve experienced that playoff success and I’m sure not only is the city yearning for it but players are yearning for it because um

When you get a guy like poo in the building Who as a rookie is able to go on and win the Rookie of the Year average over 20 points per game start to get LeBron comparisons as a rookie and then Elevate his game going into his second season upping his three-point

Percentage by about 7% becoming an All-Star for the first time becoming the best playmaker on your team at the power forward position while still being a very good help Defender and helping lead you to even more success throughout the regular season especially from a win’s perspective so I think what he’s been

Able to do is phenomenal and brings or should bring more Spotlight to this team though I don’t think it has yet and I honestly part of the reason I was I wanted to make this video um but I might have held off on this video for another

Week or two but part of the reason I did end up making it was because I saw a couple posts on Instagram where it was like how is Pao so disrespected as a number one overall pick to the fact that nobody in media talks about him and from

That I kind of thought about this and I was like let’s look at the last 10 number one overall picks and who’s the most successful out of them well wemi he really he’s in his rookie year the Spurs have been terrible we didn’t expect them to be very successful I think some

People thought they might be able to fight for a playing spot um I started to get convinced of that I do think due to some of the lineup Antics that hurt them a lot earlier in the season but we’re going to kind of remove Wy from this

Conversation if we look at the other nine of the 10 um recent first overall picks well you have Palo who has his team um they currently sit at the five seed they did sit at the four seed which would be home court advantage in the playoffs I do think would be huge for

Our first series with this team um if you can secure home court advantage though I don’t think there’s a ton of teams that necessarily have a huge home court advantage in the NBA I do think there’s just an advantage of okay if you got a seven you play at home you also

Get to start the series in your building like that that’s just a lot for a young team like I’m sure the ns are going to be um High going into that first playoff game with such a useful team or such a youthful team um so I do think that that

Would be huge for them but yeah Pao has his team currently sitting firmly in the playoffs right Cade has the Detroit Pistons um securing the record for the most losses in a row though I don’t put that blame on Kaden I think kade’s been fantastic I think think it’s a team

Around him from a success standpoint he’s not there yet Anthony Edwards I would say is the closest to Pao but he’s playing with another recent number one overall pick who we’ll get here in a minute Zion Williamson um is also playing very well also playing with multiple All-Star level players next to

Him right and on a team that has kind of been underperforming for the past couple years so Zion finally has the Pelicans firmly um also sitting at the five seeds similarly to what Pao has his team doing both Duke guys so shout out to both of

Them for that and then DeAndre Aton has helped lead the Suns to the finals as their what third best player and at this point is kind of falling out of the Trailblazers future plans due to his lack of production on the floor marqu fultz obviously we’ve talked about his

Uh struggle startus career Ben Simmons struggles don’t even I don’t think they even need to be talked about I mean he just had a season ending injury and I don’t know how much longer he’s going to be in the NBA at this point and then car Anthony towns um obviously on the same

Team with obviously on the same team with Anthony Edwards dealing with his miniscus injury that I just talked about in my last video which I’ll link in the top right for you guys um and then beyond that it’s Wiggins who obviously we saw have some success and helped the

Warriors win NBA Finals as a role player for them and I think in that run was probably their second best player but um he’s only made one Allstar team throughout his career and obviously that team doesn’t do what it did without Steph Curry and then Anthony Bennett

Which I think is self-explanatory by the name um looked at as one of the worst busts of the NBA history yeah I don’t I don’t know how to describe that of the history of the NBA so Paulo I think especially with it being his second year

In the league and having more or equal to success of any other pick especially from the fact that he is the engine for his team he’s what’s taking his team as far as it is like Anthony Edwards I think is probably the most comparable from that perspective only being in his

Fourth season having taken his te to the playoffs having won a playoff game right as the lead guy but he also plays next to like I said another uh number one overall pick in currency towns and a multiple time Defensive Player of the Year and a guy that will win it this

Year in Rudy goar so I do think you just have to commend Pao for being able to be so successful in the NBA a league that a lot of people look at young guys coming into the league at this point I mean look at the rockets for example I think

This a prime example they’ve drafted a ton of guys at the top of the draft um the primary one I think and their highest pick of the bunch being Jaylen green and then obviously they have Jabari Smith in the same draft as Pao and they’ve drafted like guys like

Shenon and other guys um that they’ve put together in their roster but they’ve had top five picks for the past I don’t know five years ever since I got rid of Harden the past four or five years and they’ve just put all these top five picks together and they still haven’t

Seen any anywhere near the level of success that the Orlando Magic have seen in just two seasons where just two seasons ago we were talking about if Paulo was going to go number one if it was going to be Jamari Smith if it was going to be Chad hren both guys who go

To different organizations and aren’t the number ones that not either of those organizations where I think OKC is obviously seeing a lot of success with Shay and the whole group that they have there but poo goes to a organization where he is the number one he’s looked

At the face of the franchise and he’s taken that franchise farther than anybody has in recent memory so I just think you have to commend him for his ability to immediately adapt to the NBA game and immediately produce um on an NBA court and then obviously I touched

On um Jaylen Suggs and his increase and ability to kind of develop into a much better player than we thought he might be early in his career um as he struggled he struggled up mightily coming into the NBA when he first entered the NBA he only played 48 games

His rookie season he averaged about 11 points per game he only shot 20% from three and 36% from the field though really atrocious numbers I mean his field goal percentage was a barely above League average three-point percentage so that’s just how bad and how inefficient he was coming into the league though it

Was his best playmaking year from an assist perspective but I think as he’s slowly moved away from being a point guard and really developed into this defens minded two who works as more of a spot up shooter and can develop his three-point shot we’ve seen dramatic

Increase in his ability to not only be effective on the floor help the team win but also just secure his place as a true NBA player which I think became questionable those first two years in the league since his rookie season he has increased his three-point percentage

177% so his points per game may not have gone up in fact he’s shooting less field goals than he did his rookie season and barely more than he last year whilst shooting 7% higher three-point percentage this year than he did last year on a much higher attempts he’s

Averaging almost five and a half attempts per game compared to three and a half attempts per game last season and then like I said if you go back to his rookie year I mean it’s nearly doubled his three-point percentage which is just something that not a lot of players have

Been able to do throughout NBA history and I think Beyond Paulo and Fran’s early success in their careers I think he’s a guy that you have to look at and for his ability similarly to what marel folz did going his team to kind of revitalize their career after a

Struggling first couple seasons is amazing to see um and even to get in conversations with a guy like Marcus Smart who is one of very few guards to have won a defensive player of the year especially in recent memory um is something to commend and when you look

At his three-point percentage from that perspective um I was actually listening to Zack L podcast which is why I have this comparison up because they brought it up there um so shout out to that but yeah he’s never shot as well as Jaylon sugs has shot this year the highest

Percentage that U Marcus Smart has ever shot was 36% on 4.3 attempts per game back in 2018 2019 and the most attempts that he’s ever shot was 6.7 where he only shot 31% per game and that is this season with Memphis so I think the fact

That Jaylen Suggs is shooting it at such not only a pretty high clip um comparably to where he was coming at coming into the NBA but also at such a high volume and a much higher efficiency than uh where he was at just a few years

Ago go I think it’s amazing to see and is going to be a big part of what we see this team do come in the playoffs because there are like the game slows down and you have to have um reliable Shooters we see this every single season

We talk about it all the time for the NBA Playoffs but if you can have such a consistent um guy out there that can hit his shots and be a point of attack Defender like he is um I think that’s amazing for this team and not only sets

Up this team to have a very good playoff R this year but hopefully even more success going into the future so really that’s that’s kind of what I got that’s kind of what I got for this team um I guess one other thing I briefly wanted

To mention I I do think a lot of this early success we’re seeing from the magic and we’re seeing from poo I do think we kind of started to see over the summer with Team USA where though he kind of had some inconsistent minutes and he didn’t end up playing in their

Last game for the most part he averaged like eight points per game throughout their um run there in uh the FIFA World Cup but his first game with Team USA he put up 21 points he had four blocks he was a plus plus minus of 22 he shot

75% from the field 100% from three on both his attempts and I think you saw him go be able to go overseas and fit in so well with so many other talented players that when he came back I think he was wanting to see that success

Coming back into the NBA and I think we saw a lot of that um ability for him to play some small ball Center and that um help defense ability really on a prime stage over the summer and so I think his ability um to not only succeed against

Overseas talent and some of the best talent in the world um coming into the season and then obviously them not getting to where they wanted to be getting that third place um uh final placing scoring what whatever way you want to put that get ending in third

Place over the summer I think kind of fueled some of that fire coming in this season for him and I think he’s used that and um just been an amazing player so I just wanted to shout out Paulo I think he is one of the future stars or

Current stars of this league but he’s going to be um a face of the NBA for the next 10 to 12 to 15 years I don’t I don’t even know I mean the guy is not exactly old by any means um and I think he’s only getting better I mean he’s

Only 20 21 years old leading his team to the playoffs as an All-Star in his second season so I think the sky’s a limit for him and it’s just awesome to see uh every season it feels like there’s just another young player that’s like takes a jump and he might have

Taken a bigger jump than almost any young player has in recent memory um especially just from a winning stando point so that’s really going to do it for me today I hope you guys did enjoy make sure you guys drop a like And subscribe for more like I said it helps

The channel out a ton it’s been your boy Dom from game time and I’ll will catch youall next time peace out guys fron Vagner he’s 52nd best player in the league they say who the guy from Orlando yeah I do not agree with that number 30 on the list Paulo

Banero who the 30th best player in the league that’s why I’m saying so if you got two people out of the top 100 on your team Orlando Magic you should be winning games if you have two people that’s under the top 50 you should make the playoff

The Orlando Magic have been one of the most disrespected teams in the league this season! Paolo is already an all-star in his 2nd season, Franz is a 20 ppg scorer, and Jalen Suggs has developed into one of the best role players in the entire league. Why doesn’t the media cover this team? How good will the Magic be in the playoffs? What does the future of this team look like?

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