ORLANDO – Several hours before tipoff while addressing the media after morning shoot-around, Orlando Magic Head Coach Steve Clifford described what his message to the team was going into Thursday’s preseason finale against the Miami Heat.
“I just told the guys I want us to look more like the Magic,” he repeated to the media.
What that meant, essentially, was that he wanted his team to look more like the squad that won 22 of their final 31 games last season and their first three of this year’s preseason rather than the one that got smashed in their last two exhibition contests.