Orlando Sentinel · Nov 19, 2025
Bianchi: Magic are finding their rhythm while fans need to find their perspective
The Magic's Desmond Bane drives to the basket against the Warriors at Kia Center on Tuesday in Orlando. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)Running off at the typewriter. …
Can we now please stop with all of the ridiculous rhetoric?
Five games That’s all it took — five games into an 82-game season — for a slice of Orlando Magic fandom to lose its collective mind. After the Magic got off to a 1-4 start, coach Jamahl Mosley should be fired, they said. Desmond Bane was a bust, they insisted. The sky was falling, the season was doomed, and somehow the franchise that had been preaching patience for years was suddenly supposed to operate like an SEC football program after a bad Saturday.