SOUL wrote:Knightro wrote:I think one thing that people don't *really* want to admit because of how fun it is to win more than you lose is that this season has been a bit of fool's gold.
The Magic have absolutely FEASTED on bad teams at home and on bad teams period.
They're 22-6 against the 12 teams under .500.
They're 15-22 against the 16 teams over .500.
(the only team they haven't played yet is New Orleans)
Eh, this seems a bit like those clickbaity titles "10 things you secretly DONT want to know about the ORLANDO Magic" Knicks and Heat also have bad records against + .500 teams, Cavs have only 1 more win but 4-5 less games I think.
Ironically, I thought we were better last year at taking games off of better teams but blowing games versus the bad ones, so I'll take it still. We're the 5th youngest team that was expected to fight for a play-in spot this year and now people are legit questioning whether we deserve to be in or should be a lotto team because we're probably not going to win a series.. which nobody thought we would going into this year.
We also have wins against the Celtics, Heat, Bucks, Suns, Minny, Denver x2, NY x3, Indy x2, etc. Not all terrible but a step in the right direction.
Miami and New York have also had WAY more injuries to their key players.
Including tonight, the Magic have just 17 games lost from their top 3 players (Paolo, Franz, Suggs)
Knicks have 41 games lost from Brunson, Randle and Anunoby. Way more than that if you consider Robinson one of their top 3 players.
Heat have 59 games lost from Butler, Adebayo and Herro.