BOSTON – In NBA locker rooms, the only thing more disliked than, say, country music is the proverbial moral victory. Players and coaches alike despise the notion of taking any sort of satisfaction or sense of accomplishment out of a game where their team played well throughout, only to lose at the end.
While all those things certainly ring true with the Orlando Magic, there’s no denying this: They have the look and feel of a different sort of team of late – even if their record suggests otherwise and they’ve been forced to try and stomach a couple of moral victories.