Speaker 1: Break was breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines, So
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Speaker 2: We now take our attention to the Orlando Magic. You
Speaker 2: know it's bad, right, You know it's bad when the
Speaker 2: one bright spot of your division is the Orlando Magic.
Speaker 2: That's where we're at. The Orlando Magic are the best
Speaker 2: team potentially in this dogshit division. Key additions Anthony Black,
Speaker 2: Jet Howard, Joe Ingles Key Subtraction Bowl Bull. This is
Speaker 2: the only team in modern memory with ten guards on
Speaker 2: a twenty men roster that this is insane. I don't
Speaker 2: know what they're doing. Even guys that were rumored to
Speaker 2: be traded, like Cole Anthony just sign a three year,
Speaker 2: thirty nine million dollar extension in the draft. They went
Speaker 2: out and go, I don't know, two more guards just
Speaker 2: for safe measure. Anthony Black, he's not really in the rotation.
Speaker 2: Jet Howard not really in the rotation. We're just gonna
Speaker 2: let him sit there and marinate like good chicken. You
Speaker 2: go with markl Foltz and Gary Harris and Jalen Suggs
Speaker 2: and Caleb Houston and Kevon Harris and trevl and Queen.
Speaker 2: You get the picture, folks. A lot of guards, a
Speaker 2: lot of guards. But I think that kind of diminishes
Speaker 2: how good this roster can be. Powlo ban Caro will
Speaker 2: come off with the Rookie of the Year season that
Speaker 2: he had and he's gonna even be better. I think
Speaker 2: he could legitimately, once he finds his stride, he could
Speaker 2: average twenty five points a season a game. Franz Wagner,
Speaker 2: I think he could be most improved player this year.
Speaker 2: He was incredible in World Cup play, leading Germany to
Speaker 2: a gold medal, but also they were undefeated, and I
Speaker 2: like markl Foltz. I like Cole Anthony to lead this
Speaker 2: group of guards, which means I think the Magic are
Speaker 2: probably gonna have a very very deep team, twelve work
Speaker 2: team guys. In a game, they should be fresher than
Speaker 2: a lot of teams. What is their upside, that's the question.
Speaker 2: I think this is a playing team. I think this
Speaker 2: is a team that could legitimately win the division. This
Speaker 2: is a sneaky playoff team. The Magic in March from
Speaker 2: March on were five hundred, so I think that's what
Speaker 2: they're gonna be going forward. I really do. The nice
Speaker 2: part though, of the magic is I think they have
Speaker 2: a lot of pieces that they can make some moves
Speaker 2: if they wanted to. At the deadline. They have enough assets.
Speaker 2: You could probably package Anthony Black. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: teams that would like a six to seven guard. You
Speaker 2: have draft capital, you have young players. You can get
Speaker 2: probably anything you want. You can probably get Pascal Saukham
Speaker 2: if you want it. You got a starting five of
Speaker 2: Wendell Carter, Franz Wagner, marcl Foltz, Paolo and Jalen Suggs
Speaker 2: with Cole Anthony first man off the bench. What you need,
Speaker 2: or what they need, is veteran leadership. Of course, that's
Speaker 2: why Malcolm. I think Malcolm Brognen really makes a lot
Speaker 2: of sense for them. Do a deal with Portland Orlando.
Speaker 2: Do a deal. We could use some wings. You guys
Speaker 2: got a lot get us win. Now. They also have
Speaker 2: Jonathan Isaac there, who's supposed to be good when he's healthy.
Speaker 2: You need somebody, probably with veteran mentorship, who can slow
Speaker 2: these guards down. Do they need another guard? Probably not.
Speaker 2: They could actually use a guy like Jeremy Grant. Do
Speaker 2: a deal with Portland Orlando do a deal with Portland.
Speaker 2: I like these Magic I think they have a very
Speaker 2: bright future. I think they win forty to forty four games.
Speaker 2: It's time to chop it up with the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 2: Oh gross, just a team that has a lot of
Speaker 2: issues culturally with that roster. You've had some turnover, You've
Speaker 2: had a lack of turnover with players you probably should
Speaker 2: have turned over, Key Losses, Kelly oubre Kai Jones, Thee Mahollick,
Speaker 2: Dennis Smith Junior, Key additions Brendan Miller in the draft,
Speaker 2: Nick Smith Junior who I like in the draft. Miles
Speaker 2: Bridges signs his contract officially announced. That's the one where
Speaker 2: you wonder, why is this man still on the roster?
Speaker 2: LaMelo Ball agrees to a multi year extension. Frank Neilikina
Speaker 2: signed an extension. PJ. Washington agreed to an extension. I
Speaker 2: don't really know what to make of this team. Sometimes
Speaker 2: things that they do in this franchise in general just
Speaker 2: leave me speechless. Why why you ask just why? Why?
Speaker 2: Why let me count the ways?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Okay? So instead of cutting ties with Miles Bridges when
Speaker 2: they had the chance at I don't know in like
Speaker 2: the last ten months. You re sign him and then
Speaker 2: guess what, you resign him and he breaks his probation
Speaker 2: and is accused of domestic violence once again, throwing pool
Speaker 2: balls at his girlfriend's car window while his babies are
Speaker 2: in the car. Shot shocking stuff from Miles Bridges. I
Speaker 2: tell you the Hornets, I don't know why they can't
Speaker 2: just get out of their own way. Michael Jordan has
Speaker 2: sold his majority share at the franchise. The team has
Speaker 2: a chance to draft a once in a generation player,
Speaker 2: which is Scoot Henderson, and yet you pass on him
Speaker 2: for Brandon Miller, who by the way, also has his
Speaker 2: own off the court issues. Has struggled that summer league.
Speaker 2: Isn't some guy that you think can immediately respond as
Speaker 2: a franchise altering player. He just gets named I think
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, maybe even less in a
Speaker 2: wrongful death suit. Kaya Jones' former first round draft pick
Speaker 2: ig lived himself out of the league. Half of Twitter
Speaker 2: joked that this team was going to sign Kevin Porter Junior.
Speaker 2: That's how bad things are in Charlotte is that people
Speaker 2: think you're gonna make the disastrously wrong move when given
Speaker 2: the chance. What do you have left. You got LaMelo
Speaker 2: five years, two to sixty million dollar extension. I think
Speaker 2: he's worth it. You've got a great point guard surrounded
Speaker 2: by a c of toxic mididity. Yeah, toxic mididity. I
Speaker 2: said it. A bunch of mid guys who are toxic.
Speaker 2: Miles Bridges. I like PJ. Washington. He's just been at
Speaker 2: the wrong place in the wrong time. I think he
Speaker 2: was the last major free agent to sign and he
Speaker 2: found almost no interest anywhere else for the price, which
Speaker 2: I think is weird because he's a good piece. I
Speaker 2: like him. A lot three for forty eight is very
Speaker 2: good deal. I like Mark Williams. He's a nice little piece.
Speaker 2: He had him last year, sophomore season. He's already snatched
Speaker 2: blocking people. Gordon Hayward. Is he going to be healthy?
Speaker 2: Terry Rozier, does he even want to be there? You
Speaker 2: lost Kelly Ubre, which I mean, I don't think that
Speaker 2: was such a huge loss. Dennis Smith Junior. No one
Speaker 2: knows who can reliably hit a three pointer on this team. Besides,
Speaker 2: I don't know Terry Rozier. This is just not a
Speaker 2: good roster, folks. This has got flashes of excitement, but
Speaker 2: not a team that you want to watch on a
Speaker 2: night to night basis. They'll sneak up though some games
Speaker 2: when you're not watching right. They'll beat a team that
Speaker 2: you have no idea how they beat. They'll beat the
Speaker 2: box on a Wednesday. That's what they'll do. But short
Speaker 2: of a rebuild, I can't see how this team gets
Speaker 2: better anytime soon. We end our preview with the Washington Wizards,
Speaker 2: who I think are my pick for the worst team
Speaker 2: in the NBA. I watched them last night, the whole
Speaker 2: game played the Indiana Pacers. The Indiana Pacers blew them
Speaker 2: out by like over twenty. Key editions Jordan Pool in
Speaker 2: the trade, Tias Jones, who I love, Balao Kulibali who
Speaker 2: they got in the draft, and Landry Shamat who's in
Speaker 2: street clothes in game one. So that tells you everything
Speaker 2: you need to know. Key subtractions Bradley Beal, Poor Zingis,
Speaker 2: and Monty Morris. The Wizards are gonna be bad, folks.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be I don't know even what the plan
Speaker 2: is because you've got guys like Pool and Tias Jones
Speaker 2: who are grown, who are in the middle of them
Speaker 2: of their career, and that's not changing right, This is
Speaker 2: the team you want to be rebuilding around. You blew
Speaker 2: up the bridge, you get rid of Porzingis and beale
Speaker 2: your two max players for a boatload of picks and
Speaker 2: some interesting players. So that's not bad. This team, though,
Speaker 2: is gonna lose. They're the East Coast in terms of
Speaker 2: the equivalent amount of games lost. I don't think a
Speaker 2: team is gonna be as bad as them, except for
Speaker 2: maybe the Portland Trailblazers. A lot of games losing. You
Speaker 2: add Jordan Pool, which means you're gonna be chucking a lot.
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole went zero for six from three last night.
Speaker 2: My man Kyle Kusman put up twenty five, but he
Speaker 2: was chucking. We already saw that. Denny Abdya is pissed
Speaker 2: off at how little these guys want to pass him
Speaker 2: the ball, just casually launching thirty footer after thirty footer
Speaker 2: four seconds into the shot clock. That, of course, is
Speaker 2: the Jordan Poole experience, so get used to that. What
Speaker 2: is left on this roster. They got Patrick Baldwin Junior
Speaker 2: from the Warriors, A nice little piece. I like Danilo Gallinari.
Speaker 2: DANIELO Gallinari, if you're better he's gonna be putting up
Speaker 2: ten fifteen points a game. I think he's gonna be
Speaker 2: looking to get moved at the deadline. I think Landry
Speaker 2: Sham is terrible. Tias Jones is a good piece. He is.
Speaker 2: I like COO's Coos, I just don't know the team.
Speaker 2: I like ballall Coolibali a lot, but he's a brand
Speaker 2: new baby. He's a rookie. Over the next three years,
Speaker 2: Washington has four first and five seconds. They can gain
Speaker 2: even more draft capital by moving guys like Jones, Gallinari,
Speaker 2: Daniel Gafford, deln Wright. Maybe they're good in twenty thirty.
Speaker 2: Until then, enjoy Jordan Poole chucking eighteen shots a game.