The official: copy O-Sen stories here PAGE

[drsd]

Now that the season is upon us, those of us in Europe need somewhere to gain access to O-Sen stories.

I hope the Floridian fans can help out.

Question 1: what's on their Magic page today?

[pepe1991]

Now that the season is upon us, those of us in Europe need somewhere to gain access to O-Sen stories.

I hope the Floridian fans can help out.

Question 1: what's on their Magic page today?

This !
it's frustrating, last night i was searching for qoutes from 2016 and 2017 media day and ofc,O-sen still is locked for us.

[orlando1214]

Their main article for today is Josh Robbin's piece on media day. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to just copy and paste it on here though. It's mostly just about the team's expectation for their identity under Clifford in his first year. There are a lot of quotes from the Magic players, all of which can be heard in the interviews on the Magic's website.

To sum it up though, AG said they want to be that hard-working defensive team that other teams dread to play. Clifford said these next few weeks of training camp and preseason games are very important and should be enough time to get people on the same page. Then Vuc and Fournier both basically said the team needs to start following through with what they've been saying about improving and becoming that hard-working team, that they've been saying it for so long, and it's time to start actually doing it.

I agree with them about that. All the things they've been saying is great, but they always say the right things around this time of year. I want to see them actually do it. I am hopeful for this year though, and I think we will start seeing that improvement

[Xatticus]

Now that the season is upon us, those of us in Europe need somewhere to gain access to O-Sen stories.

I hope the Floridian fans can help out.

Question 1: what's on their Magic page today?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/25/gdpr-us-based-news-websites-eu-internet-users-la-times

You can use a vpn or proxy to spoof a location where the content isn't blocked. You can probably find an add-on for your browser that would allow you to do this.

[rcklsscognition]

Here, try this. Go to https://www.hidemyass.com/en-us/proxy

Put https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-magic/ in the address bar that's on the vpn site. Go to site options, and check all the boxes, you want to turn off cookies, scripts, etc.

That will load up the page and remove all the blockers from the O-sen. I have to do this even in orlando because they block you unless you pay. What kind of business are they trying to run?

[OrlandO]

Here, try this. Go to https://www.hidemyass.com/en-us/proxy

Put https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-magic/ in the address bar that's on the vpn site. Go to site options, and check all the boxes, you want to turn off cookies, scripts, etc.

That will load up the page and remove all the blockers from the O-sen. I have to do this even in orlando because they block you unless you pay. What kind of business are they trying to run?

Their pay wall is so weak... you can just copy the text before it finishes loading and paste it in a doc for reading.

[PennytoShaq]

Or you can just pull the cached result in google.

[Driguez]

Now that the season is upon us, those of us in Europe need somewhere to gain access to O-Sen stories.

I hope the Floridian fans can help out.

Question 1: what's on their Magic page today?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/25/gdpr-us-based-news-websites-eu-internet-users-la-times

You can use a vpn or proxy to spoof a location where the content isn't blocked. You can probably find an add-on for your browser that would allow you to do this.

Was gonna post the same. VPNs are readily available for phones if that's your device of choice.

[Optimus_Steel]

This is probably the quietest training camp ever. Guess most people are numb by now, understandably so as there just isn't much excitement and expectations low.

[Catledge]

This is mostly OT, but some of you may find this interesting: I decided to check out The Athletic because I've moved around a lot and am a fan of teams from all over the place across various sports. My conclusion is that it's not worth the money. And it's not a lot of money.

It's trying to bill itself as a pub with a beat writer in every major sports city, and it needs to hire several dozen more people before it can really make that claim. It hasn't published anything Magic-related since the Mo Bamba feature on Aug. 27. Its Gators coverage is ok, but still not nearly as good as what you can get for free and legit elsewhere. Nothing on US soccer even though important American players made news in Germany (one scored, one injured). Euro soccer coverage is pretty thin in general.

I hope it gets better because I like the idea of the kind of publication The Athletic says it wants to be, but it's not there yet IMO.

[drsd]

Was trying to look something up UCF wise, and NCAA.com blocks Europe.

Sad.

[drsd]

Above: cached result in google
Above: Their pay wall is so weak

These things are not relevant to our European experience. There is a total block.

Only a dodgy-proxy (which is quasi legal at best), or a a paid-VPN (again quasi-legal) "solves" our experience.

The O-Sen has had months to do something, but their parent company has done nothing. This is all sad as a paid-fix is a simple solution. But no, nothing.


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[drsd]

As today is a game day, any stories of note?

[PennytoShaq]

“If the Orlando Magic were the Golden State Warriors or the Houston Rockets — winning teams with returning coaching staffs and well-defined identities — then the Magic’s preseason opener Monday night in Philadelphia against the 76ers wouldn’t mean much, if anything. The most important goals would be to get into game shape and to avoid injuries.

The Magic, still reeling from six consecutive losing seasons, aren’t in that fortunate position.

As cliché as it sounds, the truth is the Magic cannot afford to take an exhibition game lightly. Every practice and every preseason game need to build up to something Orlando can take into its regular season. The team must generate some positive momentum — not through winning in the preseason but through setting a tone and forging an identity.

“It starts tomorrow,” swingman Evan Fournier said Sunday before the team left for Pennsylvania.

“It should be about how you play. We always talk about the Spurs, how they play the same way if they’re down 20, up 20 or overtime, whatever. You should have one way to play basketball and you should do it every single day.”

What, exactly, do the Magic stand for? Over the last six seasons, the team’s style of play has never coalesced. It has shifted from coach to coach and sometimes it has even shifted within individual coaches’ tenures.

Steve Clifford, Orlando’s fifth coach since the start of the 2012-13 season, wants his Magic team to be balanced and wants his players to know what, exactly, is expected of them at all times. Those are skills and habits — skills and habits that must be developed over time.

“To me, that’s the biggest thing: that we’re super-organized, we have good purpose of play and we have good intensity,” Clifford said.

On Monday night, Clifford likely will limit players to no more than 24 minutes. Clifford said experimenting with atypical lineups, such as playing bigs Nikola Vucevic and Mohamed Bamba simultaneously, will occur in subsequent practices and exhibitions.

The Magic have held only six practices since the start of training camp, so it’s much too early for them to have solidified an identity. Players haven’t had much time to acclimate to each other or to Clifford’s system.

“Like Coach said, he doesn’t care if we win or lose [Monday night],” point guard D.J. Augustin said. “It’s just being organized and playing hard and playing the right way. That’s all we’re looking to do, no matter the outcome. These games don’t count, but it counts for us, just learning each other and just playing hard.

“Even tomorrow night, playing against another team, it’ll be fun,” Augustin added. “But at the same time, we’re trying to get each other better and make each other better and just going out there and playing hard. We want to play like it’s a real game, but at the end of the day, it’s just learning and getting reps up.”

Clifford expects to see some newness Monday night. He acknowledged the team is “not totally organized” yet.

That’s what preseason exhibitions are for: building that habit.

“I want us to do the things that we’ve been working on here for these practices,” Clifford said. “We’ve been best when we’ve been playing with pace, when the ball’s been moving and we’ve had a good defensive mentality, I’m sure like most teams in this league.”

[Howard Mass]

Everyone,

Newspapers are struggling these days and it's not right to make it harder on them to stay in business.

Besides, you cannot cut and paste entire articles. This thread will be moved soon.