SELF-DESTRUCT: Orlando Magic's Costly Errors COLLAPSE vs. Lakers—Why Paolo Banchero Needs HELP Now

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On today's episode of Lockdown Magic, Orlando Magic had a win in their grasp, a huge one

against the Los Angeles Lakers and they let it slip by, it wasn't Luca, it wasn't LeBron,

it was the magic that cost them execution errors and a frankly bit around all season long,

bite them in a critical game.

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Everybody made mistakes.

If you want to blame one person, you're right.

If you want to blame another person, you're right.

If you want to blame the officials, you're probably right on that too.

In fact, the officials making mistakes probably cost the magic this game as much as anyone

did because Palo Bancaro, as the last two-minute report, will surely show us on Sunday, probably

should have been called for a foul on LeBron James on that inbound pass late in the fourth

quarter.

And Jalen Suggs certainly should have been called for a foul on Austin Reeves for hip-checking

him into oblivion on that last play that LeBron hit his three.

You can blame whether as Palo Bancaro doesn't mean I don't know who was supposed to guard

LeBron, but there was clearly a switching this communication that led to LeBron getting

wide open for three.

I don't know who you're supposed to blame because I haven't watched the plays back, but

whoever was supposed to cover LeBron James when he got underneath the basket, you can

blame that.

You could blame Palo Bancaro or Jalen Suggs, and Jalen Suggs took responsibility in the

locker and map of the game for failing to inbound the ball up to with five seconds to

play, for 4.7 seconds to play.

You could blame Jamal Mosley for calling a tie-mount after Wendell Carter grabbed a rebound

off a Deandre Aiton miss on a very confusing play.

You could blame Desmond Bain for a tough shot, and blame the whole offense for a tough

shot that Desmond Bain had to take with said two point, with said three point lead that

led to those Aiton free throws.

You could blame the magic for not executing down the stretch and pulling away further

and further.

They were up by five with an opportunity to put some distance and instead they wasted

the clock and ended up with a bad shot that did not go in.

There's a lot of blame to go around today.

There is.

And unfortunately, the thing that has to be said, the thing that the takeaway that I would

have from this game is it's not just one of those things, because yes, Luke Cunard

hit the game winning shot before tenths of a second or six tenths of a second left.

Yes, the magic did not have a tie-mount because the magic chose to call tie-mount after

getting a rebound off a mystery throw when the Lakers had to foul.

Yes, the magic chose to challenge a very close play that the referees in Orlando and in

Cicaccus determined was not off LeBron James, so they didn't have timeouts at the end of

the game.

It was a cascading and multiplying list of errors.

Things that frankly are not new, errors and mistakes that have happened repeatedly

throughout the season.

Yes, your Orlando magic have the second most wins in clutch situations.

If you look at that net rating and I've mentioned this a million times before, if you look

at that net rating minus minus point three, I think net rating entering today's game,

that's a team that should be losing in clutch situations.

There's so many of the clutch situations are exactly like this.

That LeBron lob that Palo had to block and send out a bounce to the baseline that led

eventually to the Canard 3, that exact play happened against supporting Trailblazers

back in November.

Remember that game?

The magic won that game.

They got away with it, but it cost them.

They were down two when Bane hit that three.

Remember that game and turned the season around?

What has happened far too many times?

And so this is a magic problem.

This is not about one play.

This is not about one mistake.

It is about so many mistakes that happened through the course of the game.

It is a magic falling behind by 14 in the first quarter.

Coming out really dead-legged, throwing the ball around, 18 turnovers for 22 points.

29 free throws for the Lakers, and the Lakers get to line a lot.

But the magic were in the bonus, or the Lakers were in the bonus with seven minutes

to go in the third quarter, and in the bonus again, very early in the fourth quarter.

It was Wendo Carter with three fouls in the first half.

Gogobot Todd's in with three fouls in the first half.

Tristan Silva, who was on a heater early in the game, with three fouls in the first half.

The playoffs are about execution.

Look, I know it's crazy for me to talk about the playoffs,

when the magic are sitting in the play.

Guess what? The Hawks speak the warrior tonight.

They're officially ahead of the magic. Half game ahead of the magic with the tiebreaker.

Now, that's going to even out at some point, and the magic do play it,

Lena, on April 1st in this building.

So that is not decided yet.

There's 12 games ago.

It is a four game losing streak.

It's concerning, and it is frustrating, but it is not time to panic.

I will tell you that much.

But at the end of the day, as I've said a million times,

all of this, the playoff chase, this team's goals,

they are all in the magic's control.

And Orlando did the job tonight.

They held the Lakers, one of the best offensive teams to lead to 43 second half points.

Luca Dongett, who had 17 points on 7 for 11 shooting in the first quarter,

finished with just 33 points, so 16 points in the final three quarters,

and 12 for 30 shooting.

That's quick math off the top of my head, five for 19, the rest of the game.

He was three for 13 from three.

The magic can do all the details.

They can do it all.

But when games get tight, their offense doesn't execute.

They needed to get good shots.

They did not get good shots.

They needed to stop the Lakers from getting good shots.

Well, guess what?

Lakers got a lot of good shots.

That tenard three was inevitable, because Austin Reeves missed two wide open

threes down the stretch.

LeBron passed on some open threes to attack the basket.

They let guys get to the rim way too easily down the stretch.

This is, frankly, this is nothing to do with the Lakers.

The Lakers played hard.

They played desperate.

They got themselves back into the game.

They defended, forced the magic into tough shots, but the magic did not help themselves.

And look, blame the coaching staff.

Absolutely, blame the players.

Absolutely.

This game is a failure on all fronts.

A game the magic had in the bag up five with what two and a half minutes left.

A game they had in the back.

And they failed to win up to with five and a half seconds left in the ball.

That's a win.

If you take care of your business.

And frankly, like that's the issue.

I've said this a million times over the last few weeks.

The magic control their own destiny.

You take care of your business.

Your business will take care of you.

The magic we're doing that last week.

A week ago, everything was hunky door.

And now it just feels like you need to have that feeling of a win.

And look, this has been a tough stretch.

The magic we're not favored to win this game.

So this would have been stealing one.

And you've got to steal some if you want to climb the standards.

And this team is good enough to win these games.

If you don't believe this team is good enough to win these games,

then you've already given up on the season.

They're good enough to win these games.

This is a disappointing loss.

This is a loss to be angry about.

And while, you know, like look, the team can't be too up or down.

This team is frustrated with themselves.

And that's what they should be.

And taking it out on the Indiana Pacers on Monday is essential.

And frankly, Jalen Suggs told us in the locker room,

we're going to win on Monday.

It's got this losing streak.

It's going to end on Monday.

And then he hits.

And again, there's no easy part to the magic schedule.

They're all tricky.

Like Monday's a must win.

You cannot lose games to taking teams.

You got to start beating some teams.

You're equal to, well, here comes Indiana.

You got at Cleveland, tough back to back,

but magic or good on the second night of back to backs.

You got Sacramento.

You're going to win some this week.

If you take care of your business,

but guess what, we're not here to feast on taking teams.

Like you got to do that.

That's that's expected.

This was a playoff game.

This was a game that both teams knew they needed for the playoff race.

Treated with playoff intensity, played at a playoff pace.

And the magic had the Lakers down on the mat, one, two, kick out.

And then they got rolled up if you want to go with the wrestling, wrestling analogy.

They got, they took a backslide.

And I couldn't kick out.

This is all on the magic.

There was their execution errors and it's been execution errors

that have happened all season long.

Little things that compile and add up.

Little things that metastasize.

It wasn't the Luke Canard three.

That's a symptom of the bigger problem.

Because in the end, Orlando had this had this game won.

And it came down to the Lakers score 52 points in the pain to the magic 36.

It came down to the Lakers at 19 second chance points.

Team that's not a great offensive rebound team.

They had 14 offensive rooms.

Orlando had 21.

It wasn't like they were chopped liver.

They won that.

And the magic have to be better rebounding team.

That is who they have been all year long.

They struggled with eight and they struggled with Hayes.

Rim running was the Lakers best offense for

a lot of the night with the attention Muka was getting.

The magic gave up 29 free throws.

Just unnecessarily physical and frankly,

some dumb fouls throughout the course of the game.

They turned it over 18 times and only force 12.

The magic lost this game more than the Lakers won.

Lakers took the game.

Again, I say this.

I use that analogy all the time.

You got to take the game.

No, nothing's going to be handed to you.

You got to take it.

And unfortunately, it was the execution errors that cost them.

So you might be wondering, where was the magic star?

Why didn't Palo bancaro finish the game?

This wasn't on him.

Because the defense is here.

He is seeing right now our ludicrous.

I'm going to tell you why this wasn't Palo's fault coming up here

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If you look at the box score,

this was not a good game for PaloBandCaron.

Frankly, we'll get to the box score a little bit deeper.

It's really hard for the magic to win games

when both PaloBandCaron and Desmond Bain shoot this board.

Palo was four for 14, Desmond Bain, four for 14.

Like, the magic are not going to win many games

and frankly it was a miracle

that they were able to stay in this game

as long as they did.

Credit to the magic.

Give them that credit even if it wasn't enough in the end

because at the end,

the magic do need PaloBandCaron to deliver for them.

He was four for 10 in the paint,

three for seven in the restriction area.

Just not enough, not enough scoring from him.

Frankly, not enough shots for him inside the paint.

It was a struggle to get in the paint all game long.

But that's kind of been the point lately.

That's kind of been the issue for the magic lately

is that they can't get to the interior.

I've noted this a few times lately

but the magic are taking a ton of threes.

Magic ended up with 38.

I believe they had 13 in the first quarter

and look, they were making them.

They were like five for 13 in the first quarter.

But this is not a team that lives on the perimeter.

The Orlando Magic are not going to win by shooting threes.

They got to find a way to get to the paint.

And that's leading to a little bit of a chicken

or an egg problem.

Look, Palo's struggling.

Second straight game where he really struggled to shoot.

Four for 14 shooting, over three from three.

He got the line for eight free throws.

I'll take the eight free throws all day long.

Five rebounds, six assists, did have to return armors.

So he finishes with 16 points, a team high 16 points.

And frankly, I was ready to write the bit,

the article saying like, Palo had a bad game

but he still delivered when it mattered.

Like that was going to be my conversation with you today.

If the magic had won this game,

oh, Palo hit that tough shot along the baseline.

He was making positive plays.

But this is the reality.

And I'm not trying to dive into this on my Patreon page

if you're a subscriber there.

Teams are throwing three guys at him.

Every single time.

And look, Lucas sees exotic play, exotic defenses all the time.

There is clearly a difference

between Luca Doncic and Palo Bancara.

I'm not sitting here saying like, Palo shouldn't be able

to figure this out, like some of this is on him.

But if you watch and look,

Palo is nowhere near the jump shooter

and certainly gonna have the shooting confidence

that Luca Doncic has right now.

So on top of those execution errors,

and this is part and parcel to the execution errors

that led to the magic's downfall

and will lead to the magic's downfall this season.

Like we all see the writing on the wall here.

Part of what's happening is teams are daring

to magic to shoot.

But Palo Bancara touches the ball.

There are three guys watching it.

He catches the ball in the wing.

They bring the player in the post to the opposite corner.

His man stays on the block.

So he's got a man guarding him, a man on the block,

a man at the elbow.

He's at the top of the key.

Man guarding him, man on one elbow, man on the other.

I've said this to the last two playoff series

at the problem that the magic have,

is that Palo and Franz, and Franz Wagner fixes a lot,

Desmond Bain fixes a lot,

Desmond didn't have a great game tonight.

Neither of those players had a great scoring game

for the magic thing.

It is a minor miracle they stayed in the game,

credit to this team.

Talk about that in the box score.

But defenses aren't bothered by the magic shooting.

It is a problem.

And whether it's scheme, it is,

whether it's personnel, it is,

the magic aren't going to be the best version of themselves

until defenses respect their shooting.

Or until they respect something happening off the ball,

that they don't have to commit three players to Palo.

I've said this all year, even when Palo was at his worst.

I hope I've made it clear I've said this all year,

maybe I have.

Even when Palo was at his worst,

he was never chucking.

He was taking shots at, you know,

some more difficult shots that you want sometimes,

sometimes forcing his way to the hoop.

He was taking difficult shots because those are the shots

he needs to take.

But he wasn't just taking like 25, 30 shots.

Like, honestly, there were games where I was like,

I want Palo to shoot 25, 30 shots.

Just, you know, screw it.

Like, no one else is helping you do your thing,

but do your thing, bud.

He's never done that.

That's not who he is.

That might be the perception of who he is

because he's kind of an over dribbler.

And again, like, I'm not sitting here saying Palo

is not without fault.

And look, he needs to finish.

He was maybe looking for files that weren't coming his way.

He was a very weirdly officiated game.

Palo needs help.

Playing in simple.

Palo needs help.

He needs someone that's gonna get him an easy shot.

He needs someone that's gonna be a threat.

Like, he got to run a lot of Palo bane actions together.

Just so defenses don't have to duck under screens.

And you can give a little bit of a lane,

but even then, they're just committing guys to the ball.

They're just committing players to the basketball.

This may be a conclusion a lot of you have gotten to.

And I think I've been on this conclusion for a while,

but it sure feels like we've reached the ceiling

of what Palo can do within this current offensive set.

It's just not working and like I get it, and I know,

and I'll be the first to say this.

Well, I know it's an average offense.

You look at the pure numbers.

They're landed on Magic are an average offense,

like 15th, 16th and the league right one.

That offensive game tonight, both teams are back.

The Magic are an average offense,

which should be a victory.

That's all we freaking asked for.

But this is the thing.

These execution problems, that happens when the game slows down.

I want to talk more about that tomorrow,

but the game slowed to a crawl.

This was played at a pace of 95 and a half possessions.

Lakers had a 110.5 offensive rating,

Magic had a 108.3 offensive rating.

This was a defensive slugfest.

These team teams were beat each other up defensively.

The Magic only had a 102.7 offensive rating with Palo on the floor.

128.8 defensive rating.

A lot of that is end of the game

and the very, very beginning of the game.

Then again, Bane was at 96.2, Carter's at 96.2.

You look at the defensive rating,

the whole bench played incredible defense all game off,

but we'll not worry about that right now.

The whole purpose for the Magic right now,

and as we begin thinking about the offseason,

is how do we maximize Palo and his guess?

And I just got to ask that question

by one of the Laker reporters.

Like, what does Palo need?

And my first response was space.

Like, again, I'm gonna put this out and do a playbook on this.

I hope watch where defenders are when he touches the ball.

And if he can, if he doesn't move quick

and he lets defenses load up against him,

he's going up against three guys.

And again, Palo needs to be better.

He needs at least a nominal jumper

to scare defenses away from that a little bit.

But the way this team operates right now, no one else is attacking.

Again, like the Magic score only 36 points in the paint.

What do I say every time, when the paint, when the game?

The Magic ignored the paint.

They took more threes than they did points in the paint.

Because the Lakers are doing what the Thunder did,

what the Hortons did, what so many teams are doing now,

is they're just saying beat us from three.

You wanna know why the Magic are taking so many threes?

It's because that's what the defense wants them to do.

And with so many bodies in the paint,

and so few guys willing to attack,

the Magic can't get out of the wrong way.

Look, Palo didn't play well enough today.

Like, against a superstar team, against a playoff level team,

like the Lakers and the Lakers are playoff team.

Again, there's no shame in losing to the Lakers.

It's the way you lose that matters.

You didn't get blown out, but losing because of your own mistakes,

that's a problem.

If the Lakers beat you, so be it.

And I'm not here to take credit away from the Lakers.

They won the game.

They scored more points.

They did what they had to do.

Magic beat themselves.

But to beat these teams to win in the playoffs,

which is ultimately where we want to win,

you need your stars to play well.

And, frankly, yes, Franz Wagner helps a lot.

But this team isn't set up to help Palo be his best.

And I think a game like this, just sitting in the back,

like a game like this, just sits as a reminder.

Let's look at it and play great either.

The Lakers still came out on top.

And I get it.

The margin is really small.

It's one shot.

Like I said, it wasn't just one shot.

It was a series of cataclysmic errors.

Somebody Palo himself.

There's a series of cataclysmic errors

that cost the team this game.

And the superstar couldn't bail them out.

Let's run through the rest of the box score.

We'll talk about by the magic,

we're able to even be in this game.

We'll get to that coming up here in just a minute.

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As we do after every game, we'll rip off the bandaid,

go through the final box scores,

you'll end the magic fall to the Los Angeles Lakers.

105 to 104 on loop canards.

Game winning three with 0.6 seconds left.

I have not watched the play again.

I do know that Jalen songs, which have probably been called for a foul.

Before the ball was inbounded, he completely decked Austin Reeves.

A lot of guys following something.

It's a weird game and a lot of ways.

But ultimately he just came down to a miss switch.

The magic we're switching every screen.

Someone didn't switch.

And loop canard the most dangerous three point shooter on the floor.

A guy who has killed the magic here over here got wide open for three.

And the Lakers who missed so many wide open threes during the fourth quarter.

Hit the one that mattered.

Hit the big one at the end.

Again, like I said, it's going to be hard for the magic to win.

When that palo band carer shoots four for 14.

Desmond Bay shoots four for 14.

Bane was one for six from three.

Palo over three from three.

The two combined to go 11 for 11 for foul line.

Palo had eight of those three throws.

Palo with five rebound six assists three turnovers three steals and a block.

Bane had five turnovers five assists.

You know, again, it's just.

More signed at the magic had this game in their hands.

There's again another sign like if the magic spec players play the way that we expect them play.

And look, the Lakers probably say about same about LeBron about Reeves about Luca.

But if Palo and Bane play the way that that we expect them to play.

That's a win.

So again, and the turnovers are just killer eight turnovers between your two best players.

The guys who have the ball in their hands the most.

Just really, really rough.

And I don't know if the the inbound turnover counted for Suggs or counter for Palo, but it was.

Again, it's just it's execution.

Like I don't know how many times I have to say it's about the little things.

It's it's not about the big stuff all the time.

It's about digging out an offensive rebound.

It's a 50 50 ball.

It's that like LeBron made a winning play knocking that ball off the pallet.

Plain and simple, whether you thought the time out should be called like the magic should be able to inbound the basketball.

That shouldn't be a problem.

That shouldn't be complicated.

You know.

I know a lot of people are blaming the refs and maybe there is some blame because because of the weird call after the eight and free throw.

And I think like again, like we didn't get we didn't ask Bose about the decision called a time out.

But I think it was literally the rest blew the blue the play dead.

And the magic we're going to inbound it anyway.

So they call time out to advance the ball, which which makes sense to me.

I don't think the magic wanted you wanted to call that time out.

The play was blown dead for some reason.

But again, just like it should be able to inbound the ball.

And you know, being missed a lot of shots at the rim.

And that's some open threes with some shots.

Obviously just kind of couple way up block by Jackson Hayes.

It was just a really sloppy game.

And there are lots of opportunities for the magic to pull away Orlando trail by 14 very early in this game.

Luca was unstoppable in the first and the first half.

He said 17 of his 33 points in the first quarter.

7 for 11.

Yeah finishing game with 33 12 for 30s.

There was five for 19 the rest of the game.

Magic did a good job on Luca.

They showed him bodies.

They can follow him a ton.

They can test it him well.

You know, they made him take some tough shots.

And look, he's going to make shots.

He's going to miss shots.

He missed he missed a bunch today.

That door was wide open for the magic.

To win this game.

They really got back in this game.

No, because of their bench.

That's not something we've said a lot this year.

The magic got nine points from Goga Patata.

A great work off the bench.

9.7 rebounds.

Five assists.

Fantastic game from Goga Patata.

10 points from Jamaican.

There's one for six from three, four for 10 overall.

That makes him three for four on two point field goals.

Five rebounds from him.

Great game to play some great defense on Luca.

The magic gave Luca to him and said go for it.

And he really was a disciplined defender.

Really impressive job from him.

13 points from Javon Carter again.

Five for 13, three for 11.

Never the most efficient shooter.

But he gets his shots up.

He's not afraid to shoot it.

You start out third only behind Powell and being on field goal.

Attempts is or is not a problem depending on how you want to look at it.

But 13 points he was plus 18 on the game.

The magic just got a lot from their bench.

And they were like plus 11.

From the time Luca came out at the beginning of the first quarter.

So when he came back in in the second quarter.

Unfortunately, and this was something I pointed out on my public thread.

The magic did not replicate that in the second in the fourth quarter.

And that that should have been the first sign of trouble.

Now again, I want to give the magic defense credit.

They really defended well.

But they gave up a lot of open threes down the stretch.

The lakers just missed.

Like the lakers, the laker, like the magic or dodge and bullets.

The shot selection wasn't good.

They're playing this kind of rough shot up and down game.

The magic do not want to play track meets.

But they also don't want to play this low.

They don't want the game to be this.

Grind it out and and.

You know, frankly, like the magic's problem.

Layton games is they go to clock kill mode too early.

But on land of did get contributions.

Like Palo and and Bane struggled.

Jalen Suggs was scored 14 points at six assists.

Did half three chart overs.

Five for 10 shooting two for seven for me.

That makes them three for three on twos.

Again, maybe settling for threes a little too much.

Made a couple early.

But.

Just struggle and just just struggle to get anything going off.

It's a credit.

The lakers defense.

The lakers defense playing really well.

Much better than they played.

Played in in the first meeting.

The lakers defense was playing like it did in the first meeting.

The magic when this game running away.

Like the magic's defense was on point.

Like if the magic play defense like this Monday.

They're going to win by 20.

The magic play defense like this on Tuesday.

They're going to have a shot to be Cleveland.

The magic play this defense on Thursday.

They're going to win by 20.

If the magic play this kind of defense against Toronto and limit some of the mistakes on Sunday.

Next Sunday.

They're going to win that game.

That's a big game.

Like the magic tonight showed how capable they are of winning these games is just about execution execution and finishing.

How that window Carter had a really nice game overall 13 points five for eight shooting nine rebounds a steal.

My only problem with Wendell.

Is and this is a problem just generally and again my pal who needs some help.

A lot of guys caught the ball and didn't know what to do with it like like several times the lakers switched like Luke canard on to Wendell Carter.

Or goga batat say and they didn't look they didn't even look once in the post.

It was like a quick seal.

And they went away from it.

They went back to a pick and roll with like eight or Jackson Hayes guarding pal or something like that.

It's just like no get the ball to the post.

And even then Carter would catch the ball and not look at the basket.

He made some jumpers made some big shots late.

They made some big plays late.

But and make some big rebounds late.

Obviously the rebound with the eight and eight and free throw for whatever happened there.

But.

You got to look to score and look he's plenty capable like I thought he played a really fine game.

But it's just like he's got to be more aggressive like no append a drove on the brawn and was like oh I'm stuck.

What do I do and didn't really look to shoot or didn't look to shoot on the first look you kind of slowed it down and.

It was just a mess and look the lakers.

Made the magic second guess a lot of things just played in simple like you want to talk about why the offense didn't execute particularly well.

It just it just just slow everything was just slow.

And the magic second guess a lot of things and that second guessing is how defense is smothery like Orlando makes a lot of people second guess and like Lucas going to make some second guess shots.

But that's why Orlando's defense was so good throughout the game.

But again, I'll point this out and repeat it.

What happened at the end of the game is not an isolated thing.

We have seen the magic struggle to execute time and time again in late game situations.

And yeah, that is partially on the coach for not preparing the players.

But I think that's mostly on the players for not trusting what they're doing and trusting themselves and getting rattled and getting a little ahead of themselves.

Everyone's to blame tonight.

Like everyone's to blame tonight.

But we got to put this one in the rearview mirror.

The magic get a winnable game on a winnable game on whatever day it is on Monday against Indiana game they should win.

I would expect them to win that game.

The papers are on a 16 game losing streak. Don't be the team that they break that streak again.

Please, um, they lost by 15 tonight that San Antonio.

Give 130 for points.

The magic or still ahead of Miami Miami loss tonight.

There are still 12 games remaining.

You go seven and five in those games that gets you to 45 wins.

Probably need to go eight and four to get the 6C.

Maybe nine and three.

That's,

that's a me a tall task.

No doubt.

this way, you got five tanking teams remaining,

win all five of those games, win all five of those games,

beat Atlanta, beat Toronto,

and then just gotta find two more wins somewhere.

You got to trick without Kate.

You got Phoenix, you know,

you got Chicago, you know,

we counted Chicago, they're one of the tanking teams.

You got Boston in the last day of the season,

maybe they need that game, maybe they don't.

The magic could put themselves in a hole.

And again, like just like the way this game ended,

they have no one to blame but themselves

for the hole that they are in.

They've always had no one to blame but themselves.

We could clearly see the potential they have

to be a solid team.

I'm not gonna say you're saying there'll be a great team.

We could clearly see the potential they have to be a solid team.

And frankly, they have squandered this opportunity.

But you can't go back and change the past.

It's done, we'll assess it at the end of the season.

All the team can do is push forward.

A win-on Monday will make everybody feel a little bit better.

A good game Tuesday and Cleveland,

regardless of the result,

will make everyone feel a little bit better.

A win Thursday will make everyone feel a little bit better.

And then you got two days off

before a humongous game against the Raptors in Toronto.

And if you win that game,

then we can start getting optimistic,

getting happy, and dissipate some things.

It is never easy.

It is not supposed to be easy.

It is supposed to be hard.

It's supposed to test you.

And the magic right now are getting tested,

and they are struggling to pass.

Plain and simple.

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