The ahead of schedule Magic play like a Jalen Suggs team- they want to outwork you, perhaps bruise you and definitely mean-mug you.
I have a theory that nobody in the NBA has punked their opponents more often this season than the Orlando Magic. After wandering the purgatory between the bottom of the league and its glamorous middle for more than a decade – they weren’t even a play-in team last season! - the Magic have come out this year as gangbusters. They’re a top-five team in the East, and possibly the most impressive team in the league relative to expectations.
I’m still not sure that you could’ve seen this coming, at least this season. The Magic announced their intentions to start winning some games for real when they pursued Fred VanVleet in the offseason, but they only came away with 36-year-old Joe Ingles and a pair of rookies drafted in the lottery . As things stand, Banchero and Wagner are posting league-average efficiency rates on Orlando's 23rd-ranked offense.
He isn’t the sort of player that makes All-Star games, but if you could pinpoint a spiritual flag-bearer for the Magic team, it would be Jalen Suggs. Let’s call this the Marcus Smart effect, where Suggs wouldn’t be anyone’s nomination for the best player on this team, but he has ingrained himself into the team culture and in doing so become the fabric of their identity. His effect is psychic.
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