Sweeney has been active in meeting with players. He has been pounding the pavement to learn his new team.<\/p>\n
He was in Las Vegas for Summer League and met with several players there — Jalen Suggs, Paolo Banchero and Desmond Bane were among the players in attendance. He visited Banchero in Seattle before then. He stopped in Minneapolis to visit Suggs. He went to Texas to work out with Desmond Bane and Anthony Black.<\/p>\n
He was in Los Angeles last week<\/a> as many players stepped in for the Rico Hines Run and group workouts at Pepperdine.<\/p>\n Sweeney is getting a feel for his team. Just as he is likely devising how he wants to deploy those players<\/a>. <\/p>\n All of that remains a mystery as they enter the final month before training camp.<\/p>\n Everyone seems optimistic. But there are still a lot of questions. He is beginning to answer those privately with his new team.<\/p>\n “He\u2019s really shared the vision in which we want to play and the type of player he wants me to be for our team to help maximize our unit as a whole,” Suggs told Jason Beede of the Orlando Sentinel<\/a>. “The fact that we get to connect here and continue to chase a common goal of making deep playoff runs and go and accomplish something that the city has never done before, it\u2019s nothing short of a blessing.”<\/p>\n This team faces many questions. Many are centered on the team’s best players. The Magic need a healthier Franz Wagner and a clear All-Star season from Paolo Banchero to have any chance.<\/p>\n But the biggest key to Sweeney’s development and his team will be how he relates to Suggs and how quickly he can get Suggs on the same page and maximize his role on offense.<\/a><\/p>\n Suggs is the key to unlocking so much of what the Magic can do and what they can be. <\/p>\n That time with Suggs is valuable. The Magic need Suggs and Sweeney on the same page to manage and grow this team. He is a key to both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n Suggs is halfway there<\/p>\n The Orlando Magic are an unconventional team.<\/p>\n Everyone can acknowledge that the team desperately needs better outside shooting. But the other big need is still the right point guard or table setter to get the ball to the best players in the right spots and keep the team organized and calm.<\/p>\n
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