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Best place to sit in the house. Ooh, hit us up on the

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Best place to sit in the house. Go ahead and let us know sports

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fans have this kind of thing mastered for me. It is left side of

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the couch. I have to have the TV. It's on a swivel.

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Gotta have it just slightly pointed in my direction to where my wife on the

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right side of the couch does not realize that the TV is actually slightly tilted

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in my direction. That's the key. But that sort of corner spot on

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the couch, left side, best place to be. I was gonna say,

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do you know what it is? Straight off for it? Like, do you do? You have to think about it at all and I thought

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we might save it. But since you said yours, I have a funny one that the very first thing I thought of. Is there a better place

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in the house to sit than on the pot? Hey, you are by

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yourself, the world is yours, no interruption, full privacy, hopefully for

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the most part. I don't want to speak for everyone, but you all

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alone. That's got to be up there for the best spots to set when

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you are tag teaming parenting at the house. It is one thing that kind

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of gets you out of it for a couple of minutes. Yeah, but

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you gotta let you know. You go from playing a zone defense to like

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letting it. Gotta let her know, like it's his man demand now right,

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because I'm out. But the only problem is not a comfy seat like

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comparatively to a couch. It's not that it's like got jagged edges on that,

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but it's what it stands for. Yeah, you're right, it's the

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principle, Yes, the principle of the pot. That's a fair answer.

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Yeah, let us know what you think. Hit us up on the iHeartRadio talk back time now for our in the zone player of the night And when

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you knock down a buzzer beater the way this guy did, well, you

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get the award. Murray makes some moves. It's not so much about what

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Jamal Murray did over the course of the game. It's about what he did

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wings for eighteen ninety nine that comes with French fries, and that was really the selling point for my co host Tyler Karen. You know, I would

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be lying if I said that I was happy with how the last two games

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have gone for the Magic. If I don't allow myself to think about it

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too long and too hard. There really is no difference between the first two

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games in this series. Put very simply, the Magic show terribly from the

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field, They shot terribly from three, they defended well enough to win,

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and the two bigs for Cleveland, Evan Mobley and Jared Allen, are dominating

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the glass. And even though the Magic defended well in this series and the

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numbers back that up, they can never sustain a run in the effort to

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claw back in these games because they give up easy baskets to Evan Mobley and

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Jared Allen. In order to sustain a run, you have to get stops

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and then score on the other end, and the Magic can do that for brief stretches, but eventually the defense breaks down and Evan Mobley or Jared Allen

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are able to nullify that. There's a part of me that is so dumbfounded

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with how professional basketball players which the Magic are. How these guys can look

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at the rim with a wide open shot and not make anything. It's not

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like these guys have never played in a high pressure situation before. You don't

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get to the NBA unless you have been through immense pressure at some point in

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your basketball life. Jalen Suggs played in a national championship in college. Pallo

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Banko played in the final four during Coach K's final year as a coach.

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You think that was pressure and he played great. Franz Wagner played in a

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World championship for his country this past summer. These guys know pressure. I'm

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not buying into that narrative that they are shrinking in the moment. So why

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is it that they can't make shots. It's not like the Calves are defending

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them well from the perimeter. They're allowing the Magic to shoot from the perimeter

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and the Magic can't make anything. I have no explanation for it other than

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this potentially that Cleveland has put a carnival rim on the Magic side of the

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court. I expect at some point the NBA will launch a full investigation in

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this. And the way that I view these games is like the Magic are

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at the circus and Cleveland has their handout asking for five dollars. They give

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the Magic three balls. They know they're not going to make the shots,

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and then they miss and go sorry, this overstuffed oversized, Teddy Bear is

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going to have to go to somebody else now, somewhat kidning aside, I

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got to talk to the fans for a second, because you guys are driving

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me nuts. I can't tell you how many different posts I've seen on social

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media of fans complaining that the Magic didn't do anything at the trade deadline,

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or already negotiating who the Magic are going to keep and get rid of heading

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into the offseason. These are all conversations that I love to have Tyler,

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and I welcome them on this show, but can we just give it a

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single minute. This franchise hasn't been to the playoffs since the Bubble, and

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before that it was ten years. I'm not saying that you should be enjoying

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this moment right now because the Magic are getting their asses kicked, but you

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should be living in the moment. Stop worrying about what this team is going

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to do in the off season. Worry about right now, Yell at the

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coach, question rotations, whatever you want to do. Tell players they need

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to shoot better, but stop worrying about the off season. There will be

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plenty of time for that in a couple of weeks, and if the Magic

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continue to play poorly, There'll be plenty of time for that come next week.

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But right now, this is just about the series that you were all

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dying to see the Magic in. This is what's driving me crazy, Tylers.

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All year, all Magic fans are doing is pounding the table. We

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want the playoffs, we want the playoffs. Then you get there and you're

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like, we got to get rid of this guy and bring someone else in.

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Can you enjoy it or live in it for one single moment? Please?

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Just one? And I mean, here's the thing. Are we surprised

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by the first two games of the series. Yes, the fact that the

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Magic havn't scored. I think the number is they've scored one hundred and sixty

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nine points over the last two games. That's the lowest over any two games

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sample size in back to back games this entire season. So yes, the

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Orlando is surprised that they scored one hundred and sixty nine points, but to

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some degree not what were we expecting because a lot of Magic fans expected a

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one to one split Magic and six. That was the expectation, but it

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was It's not from out of this world to say the Magic plate not to

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their standard in back to back games out on the road in their first playoff

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series that most of this roster has been through. That's not an outrageous statement

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to make. And with that being said, you're down, oh two,

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You're not out of this yet. Everyone and their mother predicted magic and six,

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whether it was Orlando or like, Magic and six was all I heard

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for a week straight, and I had some hesitation on that. I even

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jumped in on it though it said, all right, magic and six, let's do it. That is still achievable the road there is less likely.

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You have to win four straight instead of four of six. That's a tall

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task. But the surprise for me is that the Magic had no bounce back

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whatsoever in that second game. That the guys that outside of Gary Harris made

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a couple more threes. But that's the surprise. Game one didn't surprise me.

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Game one was like, yeah, okay, worst case scenario, that's

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how that was gonna go. And I thought the Magic looked like they were

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ready for the moment, but or just got cold. And we've seen them

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get cold throughout the course of the season, but usually there's a bounce back

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effort from this team. It's one of the things that I've appreciated about the

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Magic over the course of the season is that when they play poorly, they

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tend to put it together a little bit that next game. The playoffs are

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a different animal because you're playing the same team and the game planning that goes

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into that. So it is a different season. Perhaps it should be digested

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differently. But that's the surprise to me is not either game by themselves,

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but that they're their follow up effort to Game one was let's go out and

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do the exact same thing again. There's really no difference between those two games

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outside of Donovan Mitchell got to thirty in the first one and didn't in the

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second one. Yeah, it has been a team that's bounced backs, but

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it hasn't been all season long that the Magic. I've lost one out in

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the road and then won one out on the rod. No, there have been plenty of three game skids out on the road, but they'll least lose

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in a different way. Like if they lost back to back games to Cleveland.

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I wouldn't say I'm surprised by that. It's that they lost in identical

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fashion. Yeah, it was Game one was bad, and how I summed

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it up to you from my personal opinion, and what I saw game one

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was bad was an ideal. You shoot thirty percent from the field, twenty

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percent from or six that was the guars, twenty percent from deep, and

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sixty percent from the free throw line. Those aren't good numbers. But you

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had twelve turnovers. That's an okay number, and nine of them came from

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Pallo. I wasn't demoralized after the Game one. You know, it was

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a lot of things that, Okay, you clean this up, and quite

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frankly, again, if you make shots, if you make makeable shots, you're not asking for anything outrageous. It's saying you knock down a couple of

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wide open threes, you shoot closer to thirty percent instead of twenty percent from

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the field, you shoot at a decent clip from the free throw line,

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the freebies, and you're in that ballgame. It wasn't like you were asking

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for too much. Last night completed. Last night was demoralizing a bit.

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You give up nine offensive rebounds to Jared Allen, all the things that you

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said, Okay, we can't let them do this. In game two,

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they the Calves did it, and again physicality wise, wasn't an issue in

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game one. It seemed like an issue in game two. So things somehow

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seemed to get worse from game one to game two. Yeah, because it

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caused for concern absolutely all of a sudden. It feels like the game one

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was okay, the Magic defended well, but they're they're off struggled, no

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surprise. Game two it started. It's starting to feel like it's a personnel

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issue and there, and that's why you have people online that are screaming about

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the about what the front office should do. I just I don't ask that

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you stop bringing that up. Just stop doing it now. Just wait,

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because yelling about needing three point shooting solves nothing. Yelling about well you need

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more size, need more size, and it was is crazy because all year

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we go the Magic advantages their size and now they're outsized all of a sudden.

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Yeah, I'll wrap with this and going back to the I said it

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to close out the season on every pregame show. I said in Milwaukee,

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I said in Philadelphia of all it takes is one. Remember five days ago,

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six days ago when we were talking about the two seed, and now

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it's looking like the Magic are and the slip to the play in. That's

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how much the vibe changed. And just a six day span, two seed

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to play in game. That's that's what happened over that stretch was losses on

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the road to Houston, Milwaukee, Philly. You win at home in the

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final game of the regular season against Milwaukee, morale was back up and it

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was like, all right, here we go again. The Magic have that

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opportunity at home, where they've been significantly better all season long, to get

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back on the horse. And you get not one, but two games at

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home. Get the confidence, get the momentum, get the fun and joy

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of the game back in yourself because the Magic have not had fun the last

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two nights, not at all. Jamal Mos miserable. The players look miserable,

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but that home game could reinsert some life. If they can win back

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to back games, then we'll have a completely different conversation. But right now,

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the Magic look overmatched. Never overmatched is