Jeff Weltman, Magic to evaluate ‘everything’ this summer, including medical issues
Are the Magic, as currently constructed, good enough to make a deep playoff run? That was the question posed to Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman less than 24 hours after Orlando was eliminated from the first round of the NBA playoffs for a third consecutive season. “Here’s what I’ll say to that,” Weltman said last Monday, “We went up 3-1 against the No.
1 team in the East ...
Are the Magic , as currently constructed, good enough to make a deep playoff run? That was the question posed to Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman less than 24 hours after Orlando was eliminated from the first round of the NBA playoffs for a third consecutive season. “Here’s what I’ll say to that,” Weltman said last Monday, “We went up 3-1 against the No.
1 team in the East and had we stayed healthy, I’d like to imagine where we would’ve gone in this series and beyond. “When you build a team for the playoffs, you try to construct a roster that has the attributes that we have,” he added. “And it’s not easy to get the positional versatility, the guys that can elevate their games when they matter the most, the physicality … A lot of the way that we’re built is designed to be successful in the playoffs and I think we unfortunately didn’t see enough of that.
But when healthy, we got a pretty good look at that. I don’t see any reason why we couldn’t have competed with anybody else in the East if we could compete with the No. 1 team like that.
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