After the Magic’s Game 4 loss, Steve Clifford described his team’s effort.
“It was not good,” he said, “it was phenomenal.”
And it was, with the Magic putting themselves in position to win heading into the fourth quarter. But as Clifford later added, “this is a make or miss league.” When the fourth quarter began, the Bucks made, the Magic missed.
That leads us to our first takeaway....
Middleton goes off
Watching Khris Middleton struggle with his shot over the first three games of the series, there was this sense of doom for Orlando that he was a ticking time bomb.