Kirk Goldsberry

Yeah, I just don't see Orlando being able to score the number of points it's going to take to keep up with an average night from Charlotte.

Now, Charlotte had a nightmare night shooting the basketball, which, as you know, is their signature skill in this sort of revival.

They ranked first or second in both three-point volume and efficiency down the stretch, which I've never seen in years covering the league.

They were blending volume and efficiency.

Long story short, they're the best shooting team in the league.

They had a nightmare and still won the other night.

So if they can just have an average night, if Khan can make a couple of threes, LaMelo was what, two of 16 from three, and they still won.

So if they get to 110, 120, 125, I just don't see the offense I watched against Philadelphia keeping up with that.

I think Desmond Bain, by the way, played incredible basketball for Orlando.

It looked like a great transaction.

And then I have it in front of me, the rest,

of the magic were three of 21.

And unlike that shooting night, I just called out about Charlotte.

That can happen with the Orlando magic.

That's their kind of shooting.

They do not shoot the basketball.

And so if you can take away two point offense from Orlando, and I think Charles Lee is a good enough coach to do that, or at least contain it.

I just don't see on the scoreboard, the most basic stat of them all, the point total for Orlando getting high enough to beat Charlotte.

I don't feel great about it because of that home teams usually win these kinds of things, but yeah, I think we're in unusual times.

Well, a lot.