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With Weltham confirming that the Magic will be making minimal additions during the offseason, where do you see the Magic ending up record wise next season?

Proj Lineup:

PG: Fultz, Cole, Cannady
SG: Suggs, Harris, RJ
SF: Franz, Okeke, Houstan
PF: Banchero, Isaac, Bol
C: Wendell, Bamba, Isaac

I think we will win 32+ if we are relatively healthy. Hornets won 34 with rookie Lamelo and Cleveland won 44 with rookie Mobley and Dallas won 33 with rookie Doncic. I think Paolo will be more impactful than Lamelo.
Our frontcourt is propably set at Wagner/Banchero/Carter but guard rotation will be crucial. Will we resign Harris, will we start Ross, Anthony or Hampton, Suggs or Fultz as starting pg ?

zaymon wrote:I think we will win 32+ if we are relatively healthy. Hornets won 34 with rookie Lamelo and Cleveland won 44 with rookie Mobley and Dallas won 33 with rookie Doncic. I think Paolo will be more impactful than Lamelo.
Our frontcourt is propably set at Wagner/Banchero/Carter but guard rotation will be crucial. Will we resign Harris, will we start Ross, Anthony or Hampton, Suggs or Fultz as starting pg ?

I think Banchero can be as impactful on offense as Lamelo in his rookie season, but defensively Lamelo was a surprising plus especially as a rookie, yet to be seen w/ Banchero.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Fultz, Suggs & Cole switched in and out of the starting lineup, considering with the Banchero pick we will still be suffering from lack of outside shooting.

If two out of Banchero, Franz, Suggs, or Fultz make leaps in their 3 pt shooting ability I can see the Magic winning around 30 games. If not I think the lack of spacing will hurt the team more than anticipated.

Fingers crossed they're able to resign Harris and hopefully one more vet presence for cheap that can hit an open jumper.

I see the team winning around 26 games next year, I think the spacing will hurt the team, defensively they should be around league average but offensively they'll be bottom 10.

The team is headed for 24-26 wins next year as currently constructed. Part of it is the lack of 3 point shooting. Other part of it is just how young they are. They might be okay on defense next year if they can get a fully healthy season from Suggs and Isaac. The bigger issue is how much better the rest of the league got. Even in this past draft, some of the other bad teams are going to be better. Detroit is going to be better with the addition of Ivey and Duren to Cunningham and Bey. The Thunder are going to be better; the Thunder have 4 guards that could start on our team tomorrow (SGA, Giddy, Williams, and Mann). The Blazers and Pelicans are going to reload and try to win next year. I don't see too many of the playoff contenders falling off. Maybe the Nets if they implode. I really see us competing with the Kings, Pacers, and Rockets for Victor Wembanyama.

I am hoping for mid 20's so we end up with decent odds for Wembanyama. That would be some pairing with Paolo and VVagner.

I actually think we are going to end up in the mid 30s, dependent upon FA and what other teams do, and assuming a healthy team. I could see us finishing ahead of DC, NYC, IN, Detroit... Who knows, FAs could leave or injuries occur and other teams decide to bottom out.

I think around 30. Always depends on injuries, etc.

Some teams are going to be worse than we expect. Really depends on our development and how quickly Banchero adjusts.

Def Swami wrote:The team is headed for 24-26 wins next year as currently constructed. Part of it is the lack of 3 point shooting. Other part of it is just how young they are. They might be okay on defense next year if they can get a fully healthy season from Suggs and Isaac. The bigger issue is how much better the rest of the league got. Even in this past draft, some of the other bad teams are going to be better. Detroit is going to be better with the addition of Ivey and Duren to Cunningham and Bey. The Thunder are going to be better; the Thunder have 4 guards that could start on our team tomorrow (SGA, Giddy, Williams, and Mann). The Blazers and Pelicans are going to reload and try to win next year. I don't see too many of the playoff contenders falling off. Maybe the Nets if they implode. I really see us competing with the Kings, Pacers, and Rockets for Victor Wembanyama.

I agree, a good amount of teams are also getting back important contributors back due to the bubble and shortended offseason last yr.

I think the Kings will be better and the Spurs potentially worse if they trade Dejounte Murray. So setting the Magic up to be in the top 4 for the Wendenyama sweetstakes.

I think if we got Jabari we would've been better this season due to fit but Banchero is worthy of a #1

Assuming we finally have a mostly healthy season, I could see anywhere from 27-35 wins.

40…assuming we show some balls and pay some shooters and play to win instead of patiently coddle ball hogging children

I think there's a good chance the Magic have the worst record in the league again.

The only other clear tanker appears to be Oklahoma City. Maybe Houston? Maybe Indiana?

Portland and Sacramento aren't tanking. It seems like Detroit is going to spend money in free agency which would probably take them out of the tanking race too.

I’m thinking 28-54

With how hyped up this draft class is, i think you will find more tanking teams this season. I wouldnt be surprised if we win 30 games unless we are one of those teams tanking.

I say 24-26 wins. If the starting backcourt is Fultz and Suggs, they will be very bad again. Your starting guards can't be that horrific at 3-point shooting if you want to win.

I'll say 41-41. I think we have too many young players to bring in another high lottery pick. We need to try and win while remaining flexible with our cap.

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basketballRob wrote:I'll say 41-41. I think we have too many young players to bring in another high lottery pick. We need to try and win while remaining flexible with our cap.

There's like a 0.0% chance of the Magic going 41-41 this year in my opinion.

Not unless they plan on spending every single nickel of their cap space on veteran free agent and trade additions.

They're looking at having the youngest rotation in the league by a mile. No chance they're good unless Banchero is unexpected a Luka/LeBron mega impact prospect. And even if he is, the Mavs won 33 games and the Cavs won 35 games in those two's rookie seasons.

24 year old at PG - 22 year old backup
21 year old at SG - 21 year old backup
21 year old at SF - 24 year old backup
20 year old at PF - 25 year old backup
23 year old at C - 24 year old backup

Knightro wrote:I think there's a good chance the Magic have the worst record in the league again.

The only other clear tanker appears to be Oklahoma City. Maybe Houston? Maybe Indiana?

Portland and Sacramento aren't tanking. It seems like Detroit is going to spend money in free agency which would probably take them out of the tanking race too.

So we’ll be adding a healthy Fultz, assuming a healthy Isaac, some version of Suggs that really can’t be any where near that bad. RJ can’t be any worse. Adding top pick in the draft.

The team is young but it was younger last years sans Gary harris. We should expect improvement at just about every position just on the nature of development. Young teams will be better and there will be some surprisingly bad teams.

I’d say penciling in 5 wins based on the above is a no brainer. Will he front office try to tank come late February? I don’t see how they can unless there are injuries

We’ll see what happens with FA but some teams are going to get worse this year either by FA moves, injuries, and/or decline (old age)

37+

Too early to tell, the moves in free agency will tell us a lot, if the FO use the cap space to accumulate future assets we're likely going for another development season that could end with some tanking post all star, if we go for vets in key positions of need I see this team finish around 36-41 wins.

28-32 but i always end up predicting more than we get so it'll be closer to 25.

SOUL wrote:I think around 30. Always depends on injuries, etc.

Some teams are going to be worse than we expect. Really depends on our development and how quickly Banchero adjusts.

I have it at 30 wins, expecting "normal" injury levels. But a really healthy Magic team could land on 34 wins and be compeative for the play-in all the way to the end of the season.

Even the homer in me cannot see a play-in though, as all the bad teams have interesting rosters. (There will not be a sub-20 win team in the East this year).

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