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Today, we're going to talk about the Orlando Magic, a team that made the playoffs after an injury-riddled season.

I would argue like handled its business this year in a way that

was professional kind of given that both Paulo and Franz Wagner missed significant portion

of the season. Obviously Mo Wagner missed almost the entirety of the season. They just dealt with

injuries. Jalen Suggs misses the back part of the season due to a knee injury.

It just feels like this team was snake bitten and they still figured out a way to at least be

like annoying to the Celtics in the first round.

Yeah.

And that says something to me.

Like that says that this was at least a, I don't know if it was a step forward,

but it wasn't a step backward. I think is at least the fairest way to put this year.

Yeah. I mean, they're a really interesting team. And for some of these previews,

we've talked about identities and do teams have identities? If they do, what does that mean? And

how far can that take a team? And with Orlando, it's an identity

on one side of the ball. Like, you know, this team is absolutely going to defend the heck out of you.

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