They say that there are two certainties in life, those being death and taxes. I have thought very carefully about this and would like to add one other inevitability to the list: Orlando’s anemic free throw rate.
You have to go all the way back to 2012 to find a season where the Magic don’t rank in the league’s bottom third in this metric. In fact, they’ve finished dead last on three different occasions in the years since. It’s one of the most extended periods of free throw-drawing futility that the league has ever witnessed.
It just hasn’t been a part of the team’s game, and now that they’re again interested in winning it’s something that needs to be monitored.