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Orlando Magic should embrace being the new grit and grind

Orlando Magic fans are rightfully wringing their hands over the team’s poor offense.

The Magic are last in offensive rating (94.6 points per 100 possessions, last by 2.5 points per 100 possessions), last in effective field goal percentage (44.9 percent, last by 2.7 percentage points) and last in true shooting percentage (48.0 percent, the only team with a true shooting percentage worse than 50 percent in the league).

Things are bad on the offensive end to start the season. Statistics are not significant — a 120-point game would change these fortunes dramatically and have the Magic shoot up the rankings at least a little bit — but the team is losing games right now because it cannot score.