It gets even worse. For the past 13 seasons, the Magic have not had a top 20 offense, let alone better than league average

During this 13 year stretch, their average ORTG position was 26th. They are 18th this year so the streak might come to an end. The last time the Orlando Magic have had a top 20 offense Dwight Howard was on the team, coached by Stan Van Gundy with Hedo Turkoglu and JJ Redick. Shaq had just retired the season prior.

Zach Lowe, is that you?

The magic remind me a lot of post big ben steelers, their defense is normally pretty good to one of the best, while their offense leaves a lot to be desired. A team that’s gonna be good enough to make the playoffs year after year but probably won’t do much when they get there

Our average 3pt % was significantly better from 2000 - 2015 than it has been form 2015 - to now.

Those late 2000s Magic teams had such good shooting all around Dwight, it made them so scary

Thanks for this, I really needed a kick in the face today

14* years

Not just league average, they haven’t been in the top 20 that whole time. That part is currently on pace to finally end, as they’re sitting at 16th - though, they’re also currently as close to dropping to 25th as they are to rising to the league average.

it’s not fun to watch a team pull all their eggs into one basket year after year and watch a poorly ran offense every season as a result, like it’s cool we shoot a lot of FTs but our entire offensive identity is going to inevitably get exposed in the playoffs

Orlando should stop looking for shooting: with that core it won’t work, but rather look at Houston.

Last season they were only slightly better scorers than Orlando (55.3TS to 55, 24th to 28th). Despite this Ime Udoka made them into above average offense with 12th offensive rating in the league. He just used one simple trick: when you miss the shot you can shoot again if you got the rebound.

With best rebounding team slight inefficiency in shooting ain’t a problem: just shoot more shots. They got 5 shots pg more than opponents. And boom, they got good offense.

This season? They got worse TS than Magic (57.2 v 57.3, 19th and 18th). They also got 7th offensive rating to 16th by Magic. And only because they got hard drop off after Steven Adams got injured.

Before Giannis came along Bucks had an all-time terrible 13 year run.

In the 13 years from 2004 to 2016 they had just 1 single winning season (2009).

I called it the Ray Allen curse. After George Karl gave him away for literally nothing we couldn’t catch a break.

Giannis pulled the Bucks out of the terrible Doldrums and now Bucks have had a winning season 9 straight years!

NOTE: Bucks have gone 8-2 in last 10 games. Bucks are now 26-31 on the season attempting to reach a winning season for the 10th time in a row. The franchise record is 12 straight years with a winning seasons from ‘80-‘91.

I feel like they shouldn’t have sent all those firsts for Bane. He has some talent but he wasn’t going to change a whole offense. You could see the tunnel vision in Memphis.

Sometimes it’s okay to look at what other organizations are doing and just taking that. It’s clear that what you are doing isn’t working