As we near the quarter-point of the season, those early season trends that are still lingering start to become a little stickier. The sample size may be small, relatively speaking, but when aligned with the eye test there’s a growing level of confidence in the takeaways being meaningful assessments, as opposed to glitchy irregularities. It’s possible to understand the nature of the basketball teams we’re dealing with.
And the Magic? Well, the Orlando Magic are a team that don’t like to run.
Through the opening stretch of the current campaign, the Magic have been unable to get much going in the open court, ranking either at or towards the very bottom of the league in the majority of metrics that measure this aspect of the game.