Orlando Magic thread

[Hedonist]

4 game losing streak (last 3 v below .500 teams). and they don't even have injury problems.

just not clicking? post-finals syndrome?
or do they have a real problem? i.e. Carter not as good as they need, missing a real playmaker, perimeter D is too weak?

[Andrew]

On the halftime show of the Cavs/Nuggets game, Byron Scott just opined it's the absence of Hedo Turkoglu while Avery Johnson's take was the struggles of Jameer Nelson compared to the way he was playing last year before he was injured.

To me, it seems like a little bit of everything. Nelson's been injured again this year and isn't playing as well as he did last year, as Johnson noted. The offseason re-tooling doesn't seem to have worked out quite as well as they'd hoped and I think Dwight Howard's got to be a 20 and 10 player for the Magic. Of course, they've still got the fifth best record in the league despite the four game losing streak.