Orlando Magic Review on ELOOnline
The Orlando Magic season is two weeks from its conclusion. The focus for the organization has slowly turned toward the NBA Draft and the next stage of the team's growth and development. The players have dispersed from Amway Center and from Orlando for a brief vacation and they will be going in and out of the city as they prep for the 2013-14 season. It is a long way away.
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What Went Right: Positivity
Over the next few weeks Orlando Magic Daily will be taking a look at the things that went right and wrong this season as Orlando ended its season with its first Lottery season in six years.
The season was a tough one to get through. It would have been easy to give in to despair pretty quickly and disparage the players on the team and the organization's fate. Dwight Howard...
Orlando Sentinel beat writer Josh Robbins reviews Magic's season
I will begin my review of the Magic season Monday with What Went Right/What Went Wrong. The season reviews though are coming in fast and furious. I have already compiled a video recap of the season with highlights from big moments this season.
For the perspective of someone who is probably with the team as much as anyone, we turn to Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel.
Saturday...
Video recaps of 2012-13 season
Next week I will do my yearly review of "What Went Right" and "What Went Wrong" for the Magic this year. That will be our more in depth review of the season that ended last night.
Until then, while the ink is still drying on the season, we are going to reflect and look at where we have gone this season and where we are going. There is a lot that is going to...
Orlando Magic season review
ORLANDO, Fla. As a team with a first-year head coach and a first-year general manager that finished the NBA season with five first-year players, the Orlando Magic were certainly expected to go through some growing pains.
And to be sure, the bulk of the past four months were painful. As one of their rookies, backup center Kyle OQuinn, put it succinctly, if not quite elegantly: Losing...
What went wrong on Magic's final play in Chicago?
It is a common refrain from me, from Jacque Vaughn and from everyone else. This is a year for young players to grow and learn. This is a year to make mistakes and create habits.
The habit part is probably the most important for this young squad. The one thing the Magic are guarding against in this period of losing is complacency or acceptance of losing. This is perhaps some of...
Pop praises Vaughn on Magic's development
The Orlando Magic have a 19-57 record, one win up on the Charlotte Bobcats for the worst record overall in the league. While it's not the most attractive record, very few (if any) will say the Magic are heading in the wrong direction in the long term. Jacque Vaughn has been praised by his peers this season and his mentor is no exception.
After the San Antonio Spurs defeated...
What has happened to Andrew Nicholson?
Things were going great for Andrew Nicholson.
His advanced post game made him a player who could instantly get inserted into the lineup and produce for the Magic. Orlando could trust him with the ball to score more often than not. It was refreshing to see from the rookie that he was able to contribute almost immediately.
Nicholson though has recently found himself buried...
Gregg Popovich says Jacque Vaughn has 'done a great job'
At the end of Wednesday's loss to the Spurs, Jacque Vaughn did something a bit different. Usually he points an acknowledgement to the opposing coach at the end of games before heading off to his locker room. For his mentor, Gregg Popovich, Vaughn went down to the other end of the court and visited the Spurs' head man and gave him a hug.
There are a lot of San Antonio...
Coach Popovich says Spurs could face Thunder at full strength minus Ginobili Thursday
AT&T Center – For Jacque Vaughn, tonight marks his first time visiting the AT&T Center from the visitors’ locker room as a new head coach, as Vaughn’s Orland Magic (19-56) prepare to face the San Antonio Spurs (55-19).
In the contest, Tony Parker (sore left ankle), Kawhi Leonard (sore left knee), DeJuan Blair (stomach flu), and Manu Ginobili (strained right hamstring...
Previewing Magic-Spurs with Project Spurs
The Magic are unabashedly following the Spurs and Thunder model for rebuilding their organization. Several members of the Magic organization came directly from the Spurs and their family tree, including head coach Jacque Vaughn. So there will now, at least with this management in place, be a tie between the Magic and the perennially successful Spurs.
As things stand today, Orlando...
Gameday Q&A: Spurs vs. Magic
The San Antonio Spurs are hosting the Orlando Magic tonight for the second meeting of the season and first at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.
The Spurs are struggling as of late and have dropped their last two games against possible playoff opponents. The Magic are going through their own woes this season. Their 19-56 record this season hasn't been a pretty sight...
Magic at Bobcats game preview
Game time: 7 p.m. ETTV: FOX Sports Florida
Hedo Turkoglu wouldn't be shocked if he didn't play in his first game back from suspension, but Orlando Magic coach Jacque Vaughn might have to give the veteran forward some minutes with the injuries piling up.
The Magic will try to avoid an eighth straight defeat on Wednesday night when the league-worst Charlotte Bobcats go for...
Magic-Bobcats Preview
Hedo Turkoglu wouldn't be shocked if he didn't play in his first game back from suspension, but Orlando Magic coach Jacque Vaughn might have to give the veteran forward some minutes with the injuries piling up.
The Magic will try to avoid an eighth straight defeat on Wednesday night when the league-worst Charlotte Bobcats go for their first-ever three-game winning streak...
Magic aim to head down Thunder's road
ORLANDO, Fla. It wasnt long ago when the Oklahoma City Thunder found themselves going through what the Orlando Magic are now.
As rough as things have been for the Magic, at least they didnt have to endure a 1-12 start that prompted a coaching change in 2008. Rob Hennigan, the Thunders newly appointed director of collegeinternational player personnel, could have been forgiven at...
Magic aim to head down Thunder's road
ORLANDO, Fla. It wasnt long ago when the Oklahoma City Thunder found themselves going through what the Orlando Magic are now.
As rough as things have been for the Magic, at least they didnt have to endure a 1-12 start that prompted a coaching change in 2008. Rob Hennigan, the Thunders newly appointed director of collegeinternational player personnel, could have been forgiven at...
Al Harrington done for the year?
Al Harrington was here in a flash. He contributed in some key wins and was the toy Magic fans could not wait to see.
And then in a blink his season appears to be over.
Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel asked Jacque Vaughn following Wednesday's loss to the Knicks whether Al Harrington's troublesome injury kept him out of the game. After all, Harrington had spent...
The Coach: How Good Is Jacque Vaughn Out Of Time Outs?
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Is Jacque Vaughn...
Vaughn ejected in ugly loss to Pacers
Indiana is the kind of team that can get under any opponent's skin. Even the typically cool and even-handed Jacque Vaughn.
The physical play and the lack of whistles finally got to the mild-mannered Vaughn. After referees called a double technical foul on Kyle O'Quinn and Roy Hibbert while they battled for a post-free throw rebound, Vaughn asked for an explanation. He...
Magic's rotating starting lineup, and the opportunity for youngsters
On opening night, the Magic sported a veteran-looking lineup with Jameer Nelson, Arron Afflalo, Hedo Turkoglu, Glen Davis and Nikola Vucevic. Only Vucevic could be considered "young" and the team was establishing the base for its future growth by bringing rookies along slowly.
That experiment lasted all of one game. Hedo Turkoglu broke his hand and the Magic had two...
The top plays of the Magic's first half
We are actually a little bit past the halfway point of the season, but the All-Star Break is as good a demarcating line as any to split the season into two halves.
The season so far has gone as expected to some degrees but is still a frustrating exercise with the team mired in a tough losing stretch -- two 10-game losing streaks and the current stretch of losing 24 out of the...
What to expect from Magic in season's second half
The Magic are back from their break and preparing to take on the Bobcats as the beginning of their push to the end of the season. The Playoffs are getting further out of reach and the team has been limping for a few months now. It is frustrating to watch for sure.
There is still work the Magic can do and still work the Magic must do in the final months of the season. Remember...
Magic rookies' college experience helping them succeed
Andrew Nicholson has never been a flashy player. If he were, he might have gained the interest of bigger college programs and been on a much bigger stage.
Instead, the steady post player toiled his trade quietly and consistently at St. Bonaventure for four years. That has always been Nicholson's way it seemed. He came to basketball relatively late.
When he got to Orlando...
Magic Wands: vs. Trail Blazers
Orlando, Fla.
(25-25) vs. (14-36)
Time/TV: 6 p.m./FSFlorida
Line: Blazers by 3.5
Tickets: $6-$877 on Vivid Seats
Season Series: Lost 125-119 in Portland on Jan. 7; Tonight in Orlando
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Portland
95.0...
Through struggles, Magic can grow stronger
ORLANDO, Fla. First came the question, then the snicker. The reaction from Orlando Magic forward Kyle OQuinn was delivered unfiltered and uncontained, like water boiling over a pots edge. His words showed that the thickest of thunderheads come with humor as well as a silver lining.OQuinn stood near his stall in a quiet locker room after the Magics 86-76 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers...
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