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Orlando Magic’s stagnation is part of the process of learning

When there are no games and the season is suspended and put in limbo, it is easy to let your mind wander to bigger picture issues. It is easier to look at the flaws in the Orlando Magic and worry about how to improve them. It is really easy to forget what you have in the present.

This feeling is not something that cam because the season was suddenly suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic that has halted most of the world. The Magic’s season was already in a sort of limbo.

The team had given itself enough distance from the teams outside of the playoffs that it would take an epic collapse — FiveThirtyEight gives them a greater than 99-percent chance of making the playoffs — for the Magic to miss the playoffs.