The Orlando Magic have fallen wanting expectations this season, taking part in roughly .500 basketball since their 10-4 stretch in November and getting into Sunday’s matchup with the Pelicans only a half-game forward of the Tenth-seed Warmth.
Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel suggests the workforce might find yourself making head coach Jamahl Mosley the scapegoat for these struggles, calling it a typical however misguided transfer usually seen across the NBA.
Bianchi factors to accidents to key gamers like Franz Wagner, Jalen Suggs, and Anthony Black as main components that disrupted Orlando’s capacity to construct consistency.
On the identical time, he highlights points with effort and toughness in key moments, together with losses to groups just like the Raptors and Hawks throughout crucial stretches of the playoff race.
He concludes that if the Magic resolve to half methods with Mosley, it gained’t be as a result of he’s a nasty coach, however fairly as a approach to shift blame for a workforce that hasn’t met expectations and has lacked depth when it mattered most.
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