After a mixed preseason, the Orlando Magic basketball players are now benefiting from their magnificent talents and the Wagner brothers.
Moritz Wagner (M.) doesn’t always succeed in everything, but you can rely on his great effort Photo: Kevin Kolczynski/ap
European sports fans may be amazed, but in American sports leagues professional teams go up and down like a roller coaster. Even though it was prime, the following season often has unpleasant surprises in store. Or vice versa: A team that languished with no chance of participating in the play-offs and was considered a hopeless case can be celebrated as the team of the hour.
Of course, this also applies to the NBA basketball league. So while the Memphis Grizzlies, for example, are threatening to collapse this year, the Orlando Magic are turning out to be the favorites.
The basket hunters from Florida, who only won 34 of their 82 games last season, are currently on a winning streak of seven games (12:5 overall). This last happened in the so-called franchise history in 2011. This season, the Orlando Magic have not only swept away underdogs, but rather top teams such as the Boston Celtics and the NBA champion Denver Nuggets with the league’s most valuable player, the Serbian Nikola Jokić.
The NBA regularly lets the mustiness out of its halls with shock ventilation. The teams fill up on oxygen. The bottom-ranked teams use the draft to select the best new talent from the universities; they gain the stars of tomorrow and new hope. Fairness boosters such as the salary cap, a salary cap or the luxury tax for overly ambitious team owners with deep wallets, act like guardrails that show the way up for those who have just been left behind.
Best bench in the league
The Orlando Magic are consistently taking him. And that’s certainly not because team owner Dick DeVos, a staunchly conservative billionaire, recommended his book “Rediscovering American Values,” in which he praises values such as honesty, compassion and self-discipline, hard work, charity and forgiveness, as night reading to the professionals . Head coach Jamahl Mosley’s team, one of the youngest in the NBA, is patiently taking things step by step. The newcomers, known as rookies, not only fit in, but also become top performers in no time.
Paulo Banchero and the German Franz Wagner act as the team’s pillars. The 2023 rookie Anthony Black is consistently ordered into the starting lineup by the coach, even though he is still visibly struggling and is actually only convincing defensively. Mosley wants to send a signal: the future belongs to the young.
The team plays aggressively, physically and quickly. And the special push is provided by the substitutes, who are not just additions, but in the truest sense of the word – an asset. The Orlando Magic currently have probably the best bench in the league, and that includes Franz Wagner’s brother Moritz. You can tell that the brothers from Berlin traveled back to Florida as world champions, champions who spectacularly beat Team USA, among others.
Franz Wagner delivers reliably as usual; The winger scores an average of 19.5 points per game, while his brother quite regularly achieves the feat of scoring more points than minutes played, i.e. around 18 in 17 minutes of playing time. Moritz “Mo” Wagner is one of the most effective bench players in the league who brings an additional value: total dedication. He doesn’t feel relegated to his role as a “second unit” player, but rather takes on the role of the so-called aggressive leader on the floor.
He shares the part with builder Jalen Suggs, which is why the audience in the Amway Center sometimes even admires the magician’s march through while standing. You are amazed and sometimes enthusiastic. Meanwhile, veteran Joe Ingles ensures calm and balance, and three-point specialist Gary Harris puts his long-range throws into the net with elegiac equanimity.
In short: the team is currently working like a well-oiled machine. The high-speed machine could quite safely bring the Orlando Magic into the knockout round of the league, despite the expected stuttering. “I want to take the next step,” says Franz Wagner.
2023-11-29 10:50:00
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