Postgame Live - Game #72 - Magic @ Cavs

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1:06Man, this is, times are tough folks, times are tough here. You know, if you look at this game on the schedule back in August when it came out, or even just this past week, you look at it and you go, schedule loss, right? Second, I have a back-to-back. Cleveland had two days off, all that kind of stuff. The problem with that is, I personally can allow it to be a scheduled loss if you be Indiana on Monday. You losing to Indiana on Monday eliminates the opportunity or the option for this to be a scheduled loss. You had to win this game because you blew it last night and instead, you'll lost again. So, yeah, this is tough because this is now the 6th straight loss for your Orlando Magic. And as I feverishly refresh the standings on ESPN.com, which are just taken their sweet

2:06time, normally they're very fast. Yeah, these are not good times in Orlando basketball because eventually whenever this decides to load, it's going to put your Orlando Magic, excuse me, I can't believe I'm going to say this out loud, it's going to put your Orlando Magic. I believe the nine seed because they're going to own the tie-breaker against Miami, but tied for the 10th seed is what I think is going to happen, which is a very, very bad place to be for a team that wanted to be top four and the fact that we have two and a half weeks left of the season. Yeah, this is painful. This is really, really painful. You go on that seven game win streak and you think we've turned things around and emotionally you feel that and statistically you can see it, right? The standings, like we've turned it around where the five seed were two games back of the four and oh, man, you throw it all away, throw it all away, so tough, but we're here

3:13to talk about it. Thanks for being here. This is the 6th main show post game live. This shows all about you getting involved in the chat, super chats, regular chat, just whatever. This is a venting session tonight. Again, it's really annoying that we have to keep doing this, but we have to keep doing this. I wish we could get on here and have celebrations and hip-hip array, but instead we have to keep coming on here and just vent about the frustrations and the pain that we are experiencing the season. But anyway, we get to do it because we're sponsored by Thrive, Mark Abraham, die hard, Magic Fan. He is furious with the state of things right now. He's a season holder and he's a financial advisor with Thrive, and so he is looking to help Orlando Magic fans be wise with their money. If you could use a little bit of help in that category, maybe you're looking for a financial advisor, maybe it's not you, maybe it's someone you know, family member, friend, neighbor, co-worker, classmate, whomever, give Mark a call, 407-366-4364, shoot him an email, visit

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5:18This year aside, forget this year, the previous two seasons. You know how many times the magic lost when they scored 131 points? Can't be that many. Can't be. All right, so really fast, ESPN has updated it, it still has us as the eight seed, which is interesting because Orlando Charlotte Miami all tied right now on 38 and 34. So it has figured out the tiebreaker thing, which I don't know, I don't know how it's gotten to this because the magic, the magic's division record, that's not better, right? The head-to-head thing, I guess you're five and no against Miami, but you have a losing record in a Charlotte, I really don't know how, how this has gotten to this conclusion. So whatever, I don't know if that's right, I have a feeling ESPN might be messed up because

6:22I don't think we're the eight seed right now based on tiebreakers, but I might have to look into that after the show, or if one of you is a, wants to, you know, go down the rabbit trail of, you know, tiebreakers and those kinds of things, I don't know, but regardless of this is not good. You don't want to, regardless of the best, the magic are tied with the same record with the Tennessee, which is never great. So I, I, I, man, what a, what a disappointment. Charlotte absolutely destroyed Sacramento tonight, which is why we're in this spot, which the magic host Sacramento on Thursday, by the way, that's not nothing. So, well, I say that. We hosted Indiana last night. So nothing's guaranteed anymore. All right. We got a couple super chats from no, no Biona, Kenobi. Oh wait, no B1, Kenobi. I'm an idiot. I'm an idiot. Thank you for that super chat and comes right back with a tough loss, but I love what Jamal can is doing 100%.

7:22Jamal can take a bow, man, take a bow because he has been terrific. And I feel he's only getting better. Like his aggression tonight. Absolutely love it. Jail Lawson in the super chat says writing is on the wall. No way Moses back next season, even if we go eight and two, very possible, the rest of the way, these L's killed everything. It feels over 150% agree, 100%. It's over. Absolutely. You can't, you can't come back from this. And you can anyone, not you, I mean, anybody can just point to lots of things, right? The number one thing people are going to point to is injuries. And again, on a night like tonight, I could hear those arguments. I could hear the second out of it back to back. I could hear the injuries against a team like Cleveland. That's very good. And they're playing very well. I can't hear it because of what happened 24 hours ago. I will, I can't, I cannot listen to it. You can have those kinds of excuses. If you take care of the things

8:26that you should take care of. Again, if the magic, if the magic won last night, comfortably, I'm not saying like how they almost won at the end of the game because even though they played terrible, if the magic had won, comfortably last night, at least 15 points where the game was not in jeopardy in the second half. And they turn around and play like this tonight, I could actually sleep tonight. I would be like, man, the team gave, gave it. They're all tonight. You know, they lost by five second out of back to back. Donald Mitchell was going crazy. James Harden with ridiculous behind the back passes. And like, I could live with it. But you didn't take care of business last night. That's, that's the biggest sin of the, of these two here between last night and tonight. It's last night. Last night was the problem. I mean, tonight wasn't good, wasn't great either. Like again, give it 136 points. That's not great. But again, I personally can live with the excuses if you took care of business last night, but you lost the privilege

9:31of excuses for today. You go out there and do what you did last night. You have no choice but to bounce back tonight and the magic we're not able to do it. Thanks for those super chats, guys. Keep them coming. Oh, man, we are, we have 10 games left in the season. 10. I just can't, I just cannot believe this is where we are with 10 games left. Tied for the 10 seed, four games over 500. Man, what, what a just a broken, broken season. Just completely missed the mark. It's really, really tough, Pillus Wall. All right. Let's, let's, let's just hit some of these messages from the chat. Why not? Let's just, let's just go for it. Big Shanty says P5 with back to back good games. He looked

10:34pissed at our guys all night because of effort. That's what I like to see from him. Yeah, Palo, I mean, just terrific last two nights. Really, really good. Yeah, I mean, I would be furious too, right? Like you dropped 39 last night, 30, yeah, 36 tonight. That's, um, what, 75 points in 24 hours and two Ls. Shish, man. It's really, really tough. Um, interesting. I'm getting a statistician statistician just kidding. Um, I'm getting from a source and I don't want to, I don't want to tell you the source in case he's wrong. I don't want to throw him under the bus. Not that I believe he's wrong. I just, I don't know. One source is telling me that a three way tie may go to the previous division

11:34winner. If so, that is a stupid rule by the NBA. I don't want anything decided by last season, right? That's last season. And I'm saying that from a position that would help the magic. That is dumb. If that's true, I hope that's not right. It should go to the division record, which right now belongs to Charlotte, right? Like it makes sense. Like if you're in the same division, which all three teams are, it should go to the, uh, the team with the, the best record in the division. I don't know. Um, okay. Um, Tyler says, does anyone ever go and play the song on YouTube? I might go and do that. So this has been such a long time. I missed that song and used to play the song emoji, which is exclusive only for our channel members. Thanks Tyler for being a channel member. I, I just can't like, I have to be in a winning mindset to play the song. And when the team isn't winning, I can't play it. Like it, it almost like, uh, it almost, um,

12:36damages the song, right? Stains the song if you play it during a losing streak to me. Todd, another channel member says, what if we miss the playoffs and win the lottery? Well, oh, do I have news for you, Todd? We do not have our draft pick this summer. So if we miss the playoffs and win the lottery, congratulations to the Memphis Grizzlies for winning the first overall pick. Ta-da. Ta-da. Oh, man. Say and soul said, uh, wish the Maddie kind of guard like Donna Mitchell, you think? Dude is a madman. Just a madman. Oh my gosh, guys, I really just, I'm just defeated. Absolutely defeated. Absolutely defeated. Uh, Clement says entertaining game to watch at least, but man, the defense

13:41is awful and most of it looks like he wants to cry after every game. He wants to be fired. I, I, I, I get the sense he knows he knows and I don't know. Maybe that's just, maybe that's me looking at it through that lens because it feels just obvious, right, that it's going to happen. Um, but he looks like a guy that knows he's got 10 regular season games left and one play in game to however many playoff games depending on how that goes right left. That's always got. So, uh, Big Shandy says Dell looking like a cone out there all night. Yeah, not Wendell's best game tonight. No, sorry. No, sorry. Um, Joe says if they have to play the Hawks and then the hornets in the play and they might get bounced, brother, there's a chance we don't get to play in games.

14:45If you're in the nine 10 game, you get one shot. You can't, oh, I see what you're saying. If, well, kind of, yeah, you could get to if you win the 19 game, but then yeah, you could play probably the other way around, although the hornets are on fire. Who knows? You can play the hornets in the first game in the Hawks and the second game, but at this rate, I, I still believe Philly is going to end up down there personally. I said they wouldn't, they wouldn't make the playoffs to be in the play in and that has come true so far. I think Philly could end up in the nine 10 game. I really do. And so, who knows? At this rate, I just think Charlotte in Atlanta, they're just playing so hot right now. They're going to keep moving up. Yeah, Big Shandy says where does our pick fall realistically for Mr. playoffs? And Joe says in Memphis. Yep. Yep, that's it. That's it. Colin Cordero says if we, if we weren't cooked already, we're deep fried now. Yep.

15:50Absolutely, absolutely cooked. Real estate with Evans says, screamed, I hate this team when Mitchell hit the dagger woke up the whole house. Yeah, that sounds about right. We got a couple super chats here. This one's from Mr. TV says thank you for being competitive tonight, but I refuse to get my hopes up even if we went out, my excitement will come back when we make it out of the first round. I think it's totally fair. Totally fair. I would be right there with you. I would be. Gosh, I don't know. I would say if the magic, if the magic, which is big if they do end up making the playoffs. And they win a second game in that series. My intrigue and excitement would go up, but not before that, right? Like now, now I'm not even good to go to go to on that

16:57aperture. I'm going to stick with that. If the magic win a second game in the series, I might go, okay, hold on. Maybe we can dip a lot of factors into that, right? But if that were to happen, you know, they they go up to one in a series or maybe it's two two after game four, I might go, okay, I'm back. I'm excited. But until then, can't bring me back. Can't do it. Now one caveat, one, one caveat to that. And this is the biggest if ever. If Franz Wagner comes back and if he looks good and if the team starts playing well, all before the end of the regular season, which is 10 games, my excitement level might go up because I might start to tell myself this team has their weapons. Finally, and other teams should be scared of them. But that I just that just feels impossible at this point.

18:03All of it, much less, I should say, each of it feels impossible, much less all of it. Earl Rudd says positive idea, seven seed, Franz back, Celtic revenge. That's interesting. That's kind of where I'm where I'm saying, right? Like if we somehow find our way out of the plan, which right now we are not training that direction. If Franz comes back and looks good, I think it's possible that this team could have a competitive first round series. But I'm not getting getting like last season, last season, you lose the first two games, you win game three at home, you trail to one. If that happens this year, I am not excited yet. Nope, not doing it. When game four tied the series to two, I will get excited. But we got to make the playoffs first, boys and girls. We are a long, long way from that. Jail Lawson with the Super Chat, injuries are part of the problem, but they aren't the entire thing. It was clear from week four, the philosophy wouldn't work. Hashtag Mike Bologna in the O.

19:08Yeah, injuries 100% agree. They are part of the problem, but they aren't the entire thing. Good news. My statistician has come back to me and says, yes, I am wrong. Don't know where I read that. Wow. Good thing I did not out my source. He now says he thinks it's cumulative head-to-head and we're six and two against Miami and Charlotte. We'll see. I could have sworn it was division record, but cumulative head-to-head would be awesome for the magic. It'd be great. Sam, a fellow host of the six-man show post game live. Oh, yeah. He says, Lovante, David retires, Mike Evans leaves, raise going to lose 90 games, magic sucks, bolts, all I have left. Cup run, question mark with eyes. Gosh, I refuse. I refuse to get my hopes up with Tampa right now, just because of the state of sports everywhere else, except for Arsenal, by the way, although Arsenal lost a cup final on

20:12Sunday, but at least it was the baby cup. Yeah, the bolts are one of the best teams in hockey, and I just can't bring myself to get my hopes up because I'm scared. I'm scared. But yeah, Lovante, David. Wow. Shout out. Announce this retirement today. Absolute legend. We'll love that man forever. Yeah. Tough, tough stuff, but I get it. I totally get it. Big thanks to our sponsor, BetterHelp for partnering with us for this important conversation about mental health. This Steve Smith here, former NFL Y receiver and host of the 89 show on YouTube. So having a counselor and working with BetterHelp, that gives you an opportunity to really start to unpack, but people don't understand when you unpack things. You also open up a box. But you're not always sure what's inside. So I think that's why seeing a professional is extremely important. If you need someone to open up to, visit BetterHelp. That's better H-E-L-P dot com slash 89 to get started. The Bleacher Report app is your destination for sports.

21:18Right now, the NBA is heating up, March Manus is here, and MLB is almost back. Every day, there's a new headline, a new highlight, a new moment you've got to see for yourself. That's why I stay locked in with the Bleacher Report app. For me, it's about staying connected to my sports. I can follow the teams I care about, get real-time scores, breaking news, and highlights all in one place. Download the Bleacher Report app today so you never miss a moment. Todd Whitcom with the Super Chat says, season tickets up 9.6% for me, by the way. Not right. Yikes. That is rough, Todd. I know that obviously we have a lot of, you know, viewers, listeners, friends who are season ticket holders and they've all told me that their number went up. I haven't heard a percentage put on it. Basically 10% is really, really tough given the state of things right now. It would be one thing if this team lived up to expectations.

22:21If this team lived up to expectations, you, anybody could maybe understand another uptick, right? Maybe. Again, 10% I think is crazy. But to do it given the current state of absolute underachieving is ballsy. I'll put it that way. All right. Tiebreaker basis. These are official rules. Three or more teams tied. Number one, division leader wins tie from team not leading division. Well, that doesn't count because they're all in the division. Number two, better winning percentage in all games among the tied teams. Wow. That's so interesting. Okay. Well, that's why the magic are currently in the eight seed because they are six and two against Miami and Charlotte. There you go. You heard it your first or last. I don't know. The chat's probably already figured it out by the time I get to them. At least Sanders for the super chats. As our offense is broken or our defense is

23:21broken. One of them is always broken every single night. That's an indictment on coaching. If we keep mose any longer, we're teaching that failure is okay. Yeah. That kind of goes back to what I was saying at the beginning. We find new ways to lose every night. It feels like. Just think about the last eight days. Think about this streak. Right? What was last Monday? Oh, Atlanta. Atlanta was last Monday. Think about that game. You just got absolutely just destroyed in Atlanta, right? You made it look respectable in the second half, fourth quarter, but you got destroyed. You turn right around. You play the defending champs. You play them. You play them pretty well. Not good enough, obviously. Then you turn right around on Thursday, right? I'm getting that. I'm getting my days mixed up. No, that's right. Thursday, Thursday, Charlotte, wolf, the worst game of all. That's the worst team you played

24:29last week and you lost to them in the worst way. You turn around Sunday. You didn't actually play that well. Sorry, Saturday. You didn't actually play that well Saturday against the Lakers. I didn't think the match played that well, but they played enough to be in the game late. You lost that game late with good defense, I would say. I would say the defense on Saturday was quite good. You turn around Monday, defense. You give up what 85 points in two quarters to the Indiana Pacers, Barf, and then tonight just new ways to lose every single time. Mass is watching this team as brain rot at this point. It's awful. It's awful. Saiyan Soul says, we'll getting a point guard be the big offseason discussion. I don't, I mean, it'll be a discussion. It won't be the big one. The big discussion will be head coach. That has to be the first domino. But then you have to talk about

25:37well, gosh, here we go. Here's the thing like you do the coach thing first and then you build the personnel question mark, right? Like you look at big man, you look at point guards based on how the new coach and the coaches staff want to play, right? Man, it stinks that we're in March. We're talking about the offseason. This is like this is like pre 2024 all over again. David with the Super Chat says, should Suggs still be our starting point guard next season? Well, back to back point guard questions for next season. Yeah. Um, it's a great question. It's a great question. Love Jalen Suggs to death, obviously. One of my fair players to ever wear Orlando magic, blue and white. But the best ability is availability, right? So it's a question mark that this front office is going to have to have to look at.

26:38They have to, right? It's their job. All right, let's go back to let's go back to the chat for a little bit here. I'm at the part of the chat where people where I started the show and people are realizing that, yeah, Darth Kevin is here. Ditalys says, good evening, dark Kevin. Yes. Colin says, Darth Kevin has arrived. Not a good sign. No. Yeah, if you're listening to the podcast, it's it's it's dark. We just got another super chat from Hey Scoot says, Miller says, France is our best player and Mosley and Palo are having problems all in one broadcast. Uh, yeah, Reggie Miller, whatever. He's he's a clown. Not that he's 100% incorrect on, you know, the Mosley and Palo thing. I mean, who knows, right? I just think Reggie Miller, he just likes to talk about everything and anything. I don't I don't take anything. He says, too seriously. Big chancey. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Says Desmond took 13 shots,

27:41three threes and 36 minutes. Yes. I've been I've been waiting for an opportunity to talk about that. I Desmond has been great this year. Got off to a slow star. Obviously, picked it up in the middle of the season. Terrific, right? But during this stretch, I just I need more. I need more consistency from from our friend, um, Desmond Bay, I'm trying to pull up his game log. Yeah, last night, uh, took five threes, 15 shots in 32 minutes, one of five from three, Saturday against the Lakers, four of 14 from the field, one of six from three, 16%. These three games in a row, just not, not great. Now, before that, he had 24 in Charlotte, shot the ball well, 16 against the thunder, shot the ball well, um, and then 18 in Atlanta, shot the ball. Okay. Yeah. Well, from three,

28:47shot the ball well, but it was a minus 24. Oh, I remember that. I remember that Atlanta performance, not Desmond Bay is best. But yeah, these last three games in particular, man, we got to have more from Desmond Bay and have to have to do it. Josiah Cooper says the team hurts my soul. Yep. Rough. Blake says, Oh, what could have been what we could have been? I don't know, ma'am. I don't know. We could have been. We'll never know. It's an absolute loss season. Ken Ramos says six man shows basically my AA meeting rip. Yeah. Just a place to be with other maniacs who are just miserable because this team stinks. Tyler Morrison, channel member says, I'm so happy. I'm sorry. I'm happy we got both Jamalcane and Jett Howard. Hope they stay hungry and get good run in the playoffs. Excuse me. Yeah, Jamalcane's been awesome. He's been so, so good. I've been really, really happy for him. He has, yeah, he's I think has earned

29:54a spot next season on NBA roster, potentially. He's been that good. It will be Orlando. I don't know, but I think he's been that impressive. Yeah. And Josh, as expected, I knew the chat would have solved this before me. Says three way tie break is based on head to head record between all three teams. We have a six and three record combined against Charlotte and Miami. They are four and four and three and five. Well, there you go. Love to see it. That's, I guess that makes sense. The division record thing would also make sense, but the idea of it's there to protect against really, really bad teams, which the magic have the wizards in the same division, right? Which I bet. Well, I don't know. Either way, that that bodes well for the magic for now. We'll see magic have played nine games against those teams. The other two have played eight and the magic. Wait, are we done playing Charlotte? I know we're obviously done playing Miami.

31:01We've played them way too many times. I feel like we have one more against Charlotte. Am I crazy? Or have we done all four? Let's see here. Do we have one in April? We don't. We don't. Okay. So we've done all all four with Charlotte and we've done all four with Miami. Oh, duh, that makes sense. That makes sense. No, all of them are done. You're only going to play eight games total against the other two. So yeah, that was really that was a missed observation by me. So those records are final. That's fascinating. That's fascinating. So the magic will own that three-way tiebreaker if it were to happen at the end of the season. That's very interesting. Look at this. We're exploring and figuring things out in real time on the show. I think this is G.I. Mikey says finally got Kevin on the firemose train. Ha ha ha. Brother, I've been on the train for a while now. Okay. A while now. Yes. I gave him a longer leash than

32:08many people. I absolutely am aware of that. But yes, been on the train for a while and it just feels undeniable at this point. Undeniable. Mass says seasons over. Pretty much. It's going to take a miracle. Going to take a miracle to salvage anything from this. Joe says if they don't be the kings, they can go on a 14 game losing streak. What are the kings? They have... Oh, they want to lost one in a row. Good for Sacramento. Good for Sacramento. I was trying to see if they are on another big losing streak, but they are not. They are three and three in their last six. Look at them go. Look at Sacramento go. Proud of them. But yes, I can't lose that game on Thursday. You just can't do it. Guys, sorry. This tonight's just a mess. Just I'm just kind of

33:10scatterbrained. Honestly, I just can't be bothered anymore. This is just tough. Let's just run through the box really fast. We talked about Jamal Cain. He was just been great. Tonight was really, really good. 17 points for him. 606 have to line. That just shows the aggression. Six boards as well. Three assists. No turnovers. Plus eight. Is that a team high? That is a team high. Plus eight for Jamal Cain. Good for him. Palo. Another great offensive night. 36 points for him. 13 of 15 from the line. Wendell. 15 points. Which you love to see. But five boards. Yeah, I got beat on the glass a lot. Fowled out of the game. Committed a lot of tough fouls. Guys getting passed into the rim. Like it just wasn't a great night from Wendell. I thought again offensively you'll take 15 points for sure. But rebounding defense. Not great. Tristan. 18 for him. I thought Tristan was quite good tonight. With six boards as well. And three assists. We talked about Desmond Bain. I

34:12just need more from Desmond. The team's struggling. I need you to step up 17 points. Seven boards. Three assists. Two deals for him. 15 points for Jamal Carter off the bench. He was great. And the rest of your bench just didn't give you enough. I thought jet Howard was okay offensively but defensively. Not great again. Fowled on a three pointer. Couple easy backs gets given up. Go go wasn't great either tonight. Four points for him. Two boards. No append. I came in and played four and a half minutes. Mo Wagner came in and played five minutes tonight. So Mo Wagner obviously benched the last couple games because there's performance. Actually played pretty well. I thought in those five minutes. But I don't know if he was just gassed at that point. Gosh. Excuse me or what? But he left and did not come back. Obviously it made made sense not to come back at that stage at the fourth quarter. But part of me wonders if we went to him earlier. It could have made a bigger impact on the game. But Matt issue 48% from the field 35.9% from three 92% at the line.

35:1835 of 38 at the line. Shout out to the magic for that at least. I'll give him that. Man the cabs only had six offensive rebounds. It felt like way more than that. That's pretty wild. Donovan Mitchell with 42 for Cleveland on 14 of 22 from the field. It's pretty wild. Any team stats that are interesting. Let's see. Magic in the first quarter. They lose the second. Lose the third and win the fourth. They get only 38 points in the paint. That's tough. Only six fast break points. 28 bench points. They only turn the ball over nine times. How about that? All right. Let's just go to the scores around the league really fast. There's not many. Magic lose to the gabs. Next beat the pelicans. Hornets win by 44 over the kings and the suns currently lead the nuggets by two. We will go back to the standings here just to reiterate. Magic are now tied at 38 and 34 with both the Charlotte Hornets in the

36:21Miami Heat, but they own the three way tiebreaker there, which is great. They find themselves a game back of the 76ers. Two games back of the six seed. The Atlanta Hawks. Two and a half games back of the Toronto Raptors. And now obviously that four seed. It was gone on Saturday. It's really gone now seven games back of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Eight days ago. We were sitting here saying you're two games back of the calves and you still have a head to head game. You could be a game back of the calves this week. And now you're seven games back. That is crazy. What a fall from grace. And yeah, Cleveland continues to win. So that gap has just been huge. Yeah, they are now 18 games over 500. The calves are and the magic are four. Oh, you hate to see it. You hate to see it. All right, last couple thoughts from the chat. And we're going to call it a night, man. I'm just

37:22kind of just kind of over it. This is tough. Tough, tough, tough. Moves with Mac. He says, I'm blaming this season on Jay Howard. You got to find somebody to blame. Might as well. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Blake Timber says, I saw France maybe back Thursday. That fake news. That is that I've not heard a people of that sounds like fake news. Kevin Ascent says, Darth Kevin my old friend. Yes. Yep. Mass as top four protected is this season top four protected? Is this season's picked top four protected? I thought it was unprotected. Someone fact check on that. I could I thought this one was unprotected, but we'll have to look

38:23into that. Jordan says Windell is not a center. That's it's an interesting conversation. Interesting conversation. Chris says, is the string going to start anytime soon? I'm right here, Chris. Chris, I'm here. Chris, can you hear me? Um, American Bruce says the only game I went to this year was a free ticket. That's telling you something rip rip. Aronda says is Franz dead negative. Franz actually practice with the Oswald magic yesterday. So that's something very interesting. Um, let's see what else here. Last couple thoughts. We got a I mean, we're pushing 40 minutes here, which you never, I'll never do for games like this. I'm just kind of my head's just spinning. Speed demon says even Orlando City is sad right now Orlando City is horrible right now. Obviously you shine. You sign Antoine Griesman, which is great, but he's not going to get your

39:25until July. And the who knows what the team's going to be like in July. If we keep losing games five nil season can be over in July. And Griesman can't. Griesman's not going to stop the other teams from scoring. Not going to stop us giving up five goals of game. It's all a mess. Everything's falling on a part. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, Brent says, what are y'all, what are y'all in here crying? Oh, it's a Lakers fan. Well, Brent, we're in here crying because our team is falling apart. Brent 10. What are you doing here? Oh, wait, we got a super chat. I missed earlier. It's a very generous one from Lee says boys bad news. We sold out on this roster. We have no way to get a real point guard. Sugs always hurt and has little value. A B is our most tradable player, but it has to be Sugs because we can't afford him. That is bad news. That's sad news. Um, but that is

40:28definitely something we're going to have to talk about this summer. Obviously, right? Um, and it's something that my F, we talked about pretty quick because hey, we know it better than anybody from the Desmond Bay and trade last year. Trades can happen when teams have been eliminated from the playoffs. Right? That's, and that's the interesting part of the NBA. That's why the magic made a trade for Desmond Bay during the NBA finals. So that means if the magic, if the magic season ends, let's say it's, let's say it's a play in game. The magic season ends in a play on game. They can make trades with other teams that are eliminated right away. So who knows? Anyway, again, that's very rare. What we saw last year is very rare, but you never know it can happen. And so those conversations have to happen pretty quickly. Uh, at the conclusion of our season, whenever it is, thank you so much for that very generous super chat. Lee really appreciate

41:29appreciate the support. Um, David, he says any love for Stan Van Gunday is our coach next year. I think he's done very tired, very tired. Uh, he, he said it himself that he's not, I don't say he's not, maybe, maybe it is the right phrase. He's not built for today's NBA. It just, uh, he's, he's too old school, I think, is kind of how he feels, but, um, yeah. Yeah, I'm done. I'm done, guys. The end. Good night. Bye. Just kidding. All right. Uh, yeah, that's going to be end. I've said all I can say. I've hurt all I can hurt. I've sad all I can sad. Some sad. Uh, magic back in action. Thursday hosting the woeful Sacramento Kings.

42:30Let's see if they can beat a woeful team for the first time this week. Rough. Appreciate it. Right. Tune it in. Love you all as always. Uh, yeah. I'll talk to you Thursday. Let's go magic. Yeah. The Bleacher Report app is your destination for sports. Right now, the NBA's heating up, March Manus is here and MLB is almost back. Every day, there's a new headline, a new highlight,

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