Theoretically sheltered from the United States’ world beating effort in the “Catching the most coronavirus” race, 24 teams of the world’s best athletes are set to compete for the highest prize in basketball: The NBA championship.
Not every team has a chance of winning. Not every team will make the playoffs. Not every team is even good! (sorry Wizards). But every team in this tournament has a story and in the Orlando Adventure I will attempt to tell those stories.
This edition we are going to be talking about the Orlando Magic.
Yes. That’s right, the Magic. They are not a good basketball team but somehow they made the playoffs with a 33-40 record. Even more amazingly they beat the Bucks in the first round of the playoffs.
Sure it’s only one game but they actually won! Somehow the Magic who have defined mediocrity for the past decade or so, beat the top seeded Bucks. The same Bucks who are led by the reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and have been winning games in historically dominant fashion all season.
It wasn’t through some flukey buzzer beater or ejection either. They led from the start of the game and comprehensively beat the Bucks at every facet of the game till the end of the whistle for a final score of 122-110.
I don’t know what crazy voodoo magic they’ve been doing in Orlando but it seems to have worked. Coach Budenholzer looks like a polar bear lost in the desert and Milwaukee need him to find answers fast.
In this condensed bubble basketball format I don’t know if he’s gonna get them. Games are on every day. There is no homecourt advantage. There is even less time to make adjustments for a team that historically doesn’t know how to and if you live in Milwaukee you should probably start panicking.
Conventional wisdom would say this is all a fluke. That Giannis will right the ship and the Magic will revert to mediocrity they are so known for, but this is 2020. Nothing makes sense anymore. If anything the Orlando are more than likely to pull an upset than ever.
Who knows? Maybe the stars will align, Markelle Fultz will remember how to shoot and Magic win in 7.
If that's the case we're only a few more games away form Orlando truly making Disneyland the most Magical place on Earth.
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