{"id":411524,"date":"2026-09-26T20:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411524\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:06:39","slug":"the-difference-in-challenge-expecations-for-orlando-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411524\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference in Challenge, Expecations for Orlando Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And then, when you look at the other part of it in terms of health, yeah, this team needs Franz Wagner, and they needed him in that <a href=\"http:\/\/v\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pistons<\/a> series. I mean, he had Cade Cunningham in jail. Cunningham could not do anything with Wagner guarding him. I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s the whole reason why the Magic went up 3-1, and it certainly isn&#8217;t the whole reason why they blew the lead. I mean, no one&#8217;s soon forgetting that Game 6 collapse, but without a legitimate, bona fide number two on the floor who\u00a0is a two-way threat the way that Wagner is, it really messed this team up. And I think Paolo did his best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And then, when you look at the other part of it in terms of health, yeah, this team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5834,139,141,1239,140],"class_list":["post-411524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411524","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=411524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}