Michael Wilbon

But I don't know.

I don't know that they can.

And it looks like now Luka and Reeves are going to wind up back in the lineup.

for the next series or late in this series if it gets late.

Not yet.

They are.

It's too odd.

Yes, it is.

But, you know, there's an asterisk because Orlando, this is what we thought they were.

What they're doing now is what we thought they were, not what they did offseason.

So here they are with Bankero and Franz Wagner.

When you have those two players and they're young vets, they've been around three, four years now.

When you have those two players and slugs at point guard, you need to be a top-four team in the East.

They didn't play like it.

They had to play their way in.

But, yeah, Tony, so that would be the second, if you want to call it a surprise, in the East, that would be it.

And they did it like they did it two years ago when Denver was defending champs.

And Minnesota got rid of them.

So they're without their starting backcourt.

Devin Chinzo with the torn Achilles is obviously done for a year.