Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 1st, 2024. Coming up, Palo Bancaro is going to be out for a little while. The bucks are just getting sad at this point. And Kelly Eco comes by to talk about the Rockets after their victory over the Mavs.

Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena.

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Bad news to launch us off on our journey today.

We got some news out of Orlando.

Palo Bancaro has suffered a torn right oblique.

He's going to be out indefinitely and be re-evaluated in four to six weeks.

He's had a great start to the season, Zena. This is a huge blow to the

magic in their quest to get back to the playoffs. I mean, right now, you have to start wondering,

you know, he's 29 points a game, nine rebounds, five assists. He just had that 50 point game

the other night. We got to start thinking, wow, who's going to pick up the slack for him while he's out?

This is not exactly the deepest team in the East.

Yeah, Palo Ben Carroll is really at the core of everything that the magic do offensively.

Not only is he a shot maker in his own right, being able to get dribble drives into the

basket and find a shot outside. He also is a

playmaker for his team averaging almost six assists. It's going to be really interesting to see if

Franz Wagner can finally have like an all-star campaign and make up for all of the usage that Palo

and Carole is averaging about a 30% usage rate,

and Jalen Suggs and Franz Wagner are both under 30%.

This is their opportunity to step up,

start making some big shots,

stop, start taking and filling the gap,

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