27th in accuracy<\/a>\u00a0(34.3 percent) this past season, even after adding Desmond Bane. His 39.1 percent mark led the Magic, although core players like Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner, Jalen Suggs, Anthony Black and Wendell Carter Jr. all shot between 30.5 and 34.5 percent.<\/p>\nWith no first-round pick due to the Bane trade a year ago, Orlando will have to nab a shooter or shot-creator with a mid-second-round selection.<\/p>\n
Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner and Desmond Bane are all solid playmakers relative to their positional peers, but the offense remains a slog because none of them are genuine offensive engines.<\/p>\n
A high-end creator and scorer could go a long way toward finally pushing this attack into the top half of the league, but getting that could require a drastic move.<\/p>\n
A Paolo Banchero or Franz Wagner Trade?<\/p>\n
There are moments when it looks like Orlando’s wealth of size and playmaking at the forward spots could make it one of the most dangerous teams in the league.<\/p>\n
But the need for Banchero and Wagner to both have the ball, and the inability of either to become reliable three-point shooters (at least so far) may make this pairing untenable.<\/p>\n
If the Magic were to make either available, they could certainly get a point guard who’d fit the description above.<\/p>\n
But it may still be too early to give up on that duo. Banchero is 23, and Wagner is 24. They check just about every box you’d want from forwards, with the exception of three-point shooting.<\/p>\n
And while that’s obviously a pretty important one to have empty, Orlando could justify mostly running it back and just trying to surround those two with more reliable catch-and-shoot threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-point shooting has plagued the Orlando Magic for years now, an area new head coach Sean Sweeney will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-311400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}