Orlando Magic Preseason Stats

I’m a little disapointed by Gortat’s numbers but it’s not a big concern at this point IMO. I’m still kinda glad that J-Will wasn’t around to take minutes of Duhon. I like the way he reacts with the team but if he can’t get his shot going, he has zero excuse not to hit his free-throws (you can’t be a PG and shoot worse than Dwight!!!). I’m very pleased with Jameer’s assists, I really think it will be very important factor in the future. In the meantime, I’m not really concerned about VC’s lack in that category. He’s very much in the flow of the offense and doesn’t seem to stop the ball movement in the way he did early last season. I don’t know if Rashard’s lack of rebounding has to do with him playing 3 and besides the team dominates the glass so… MP will need some time but he still can contribute in the defense.
The team is obviously in a good rythm and it will be very imortant to get that head start coussin, like last year, early in the season while the other teams still trying to find themselves. I’m also very impressed by the team’s D. The day they’ll cut the TOs we’ll might have to change their name. Looking forward for the rest of the analysis.

Turnovers is what is the big story here. It’s hard to be down on a team that just cruised to 25 point wins, but the shot will stop falling and the Magic need to play tighter.

Too bad Dwight’s most likely never going to get that free throw mark up.

We still look really good and still need to prepare for the size we will see against Boston after they knock the Heat out the playoffs.

I really really like that Vince isn’t dominating the ball on the court. He plays so well in that role and was primarily what made him so good the second half of last season. When he turns into Vinsanity he looks more like Allen Iverson.

Brandon Bass’s #‘s look better than all but 2 players’. People make alot of Dwight and Bass’ turn over rates but when your team gets you the ball late shot clock to try to get a score from a late iso- You should expect turn overs. Additionally the amount of time those 2 get their number called in the post gives a greater breadth of time for the possibilty to create a turn over. This explains why Malik Allen and Rashard Lewis have 1.2 turn over rates, are they really taking care of the ball better?- Probably not, the ball is simply not in their hands enough to give them opportunity to turn it over. Typically the only time higher usage rates don’t translate to higher turnovers to get a superstar. Think Olujawon type playing.

but I can’t really get excited about preseason stats. And I don’t really think anyone else should get too amped about them either. They’re nice, and I am glad the team is sending all the right messages. I think the reported general mindset of the team is the most encouraging factor at this point (although ‘reported’ is the key word in that sentence.) I am a little worried about an expectation gap (to borrow a political phrase) between the fans and the team this season.

BTW, did anyone else notice that every ESPN expert (besides JJ Adand) picked the Heat to finish first in the East? I am really surprised that this is the safe pick, given that most great teams take at least a year to come together.

Nothing too dissapppointing here, rather the gaudy per 36 numbers vc are probably the most impressive considering how hard of a time he had adjusting to the magic style of play during that january stretch. He looked comfortable out there during the preseason which is really encouraging.

The new literature supported by numbers indicate that there is some co-relation between preseason and regular season success. It is true that everybody plays a notch below the regular season, and quite a bit of experimentation is going on, but applying that condition to all teams creates a meaningful level of comparability. As for the Magic, since they blew all competition out of water, there are reasons to be hopeful for a carry over into the regular season.

As we did at the preseason’s halfway mark, here’s a look at some per-game, per-minute, and advanced stats for each player on the team. We’ll go into greater depth, which includes attending to the effectiveness of various lineups and some Synergy Sports Technology data, …

I hope so. Somehow, even from as far back as mid-summer, it seems we are behind on deferred posts …

I don’t want to sound gluttonness but there were some pretty significant analyses … which I certainly have no time to conduct (though the prospect surely piqued my interest), but neither did I proffer any for greater consumption … placed on the burner that seemed to have never come to a boil.

Just a reminder I guess (pardon me if I have just missed the posts).