Orlando Magic's schedule expires quickly

The Orlando magic needed the all-star break to resist.

They had to get away and recover for the stretch run and the last 26 games of the season. They had dropped into the Play-in tournament in the overall ranking and were sitting in the all-star break in seventh place in which the team did not want to be.

The team gave the team the chance to refresh and ready for another after the break boost.

That is what the magic used last year when she rose from the eighth in the east to the fifth stage at the end of the season. They went 17-10 after the All-Star break last year to make this breathtaking ascent.

The magic is confident that you can make this ascent again. They used a homemade schedule to build up some victories and (mostly) took care of the business against opponents in the overall ranking.

That remains the formula of Orlando. The team is currently in a home state in seven games and has entered the all-star break with the opponent's percentage win.

The magic has playoff experience and everyone knows what it takes to make a playoff boost.

But urgency is still the word of the day. The magic quickly loses its schedule. In contrast to last year, when Orlando played 10 out of 11 games at home (7-4 in this route) in early March, the team is now in this critical route.

There is no time to waste.

“These last 26 games will be more difficult before the break than those before the break” HomeCourt Advantage.

“We will give the best of every team. Every game will be a playoff atmosphere. For us, we have to have the mentality that we will try to escape, to play defense, play who we play and try to improve our game a little more. During this time only focused and intended with what we do. “

You don't have the same pillow to wait and build your victories. You have to win these games now. And because they are sitting in the overall ranking, the teams around them – namely the division rival Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat – also have “easier” schedules.

The magic has no time to wait. This is the part of the schedule where you have to make an effort.

Home cooking

The Orlando Magic plays a distance of 10 out of 11 games at home the last three games before the All-Star break. The magic are two games in a home stand with seven games in which they will play four of the seven games against teams that lose records (including the victory on Sunday against Washington Wizards).

If the magic gets the ship in order and the overall ranking will drive up, this will happen in the next week before the team picks up a difficult road trip with five games, which includes stops in Milwaukee, Houston and Cleveland.

In addition, considering Orlando Magic, you have to make up sixth place in Detroit Pistons and played most games in the league, you have to steal games to get victories and build a pillow on your competitor.

It only increases the urgency of these games and this moment. The magic must now win and reset in the race for the sixth race and separate from the Miami Heat- and Atlanta Hawks for the lead of the Southeast Division and the seventh place in the east.

In the games on Monday, the magic had won four of their last six games and won them a lead of a game before the heat and a lead of two games against the Hawks. The heat and the falcons played each other on Monday evening.

However, the Orlando Magic only takes a place for sixth place with the Detroit Piston's step. The pistons are three games before magic for the sixth and have a winning series with six games. The magic does not make the ground at a time in which they are and have to stack victories.

The schedule will come for everyone. The victory over the wizards was necessary. You cannot afford to drop this kind of games.

But this game had a big effect. Magic was sitting during the majority of the season and waiting for the schedule to be excluded for them. But with another Wizards game from her schedule, the magic now only has the easiest remaining schedule in the league through the gain of the opponent.

The game on Tuesday against the Cleveland Cavaliers will help to win this percentage again – as well as the game on Thursday against the Golden State Warriors. But the Orlando Magic will then remove three more opponents among 500 from their schedule with the Toronto Raptors and the Chicago Bulls.

The street of the heat and the Hawks

In the meantime, the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks play the remaining schedules of the sixth and seventh time. The Miami Heat still has three games against the Washington Wizards.

In addition, the Orlando Magic played most games in the league with only 23 remaining games. The heat has four games in their hands and is three games behind the magic and the Hawks have two games in their hands and also follow the magic through three victories.

Orlandos clues against both teams will shrink quickly. There are a lot outside the control of magic.

In addition, the heat ends a road trip with five games and a distance of nine out of ten on the street on Monday. They went 3: 6 through the first nine games of this route when the game in Atlanta was pending on Monday.

Miami then plays 10 of the next 11 in the Kaseya Center – just like the current stretch that is in Orlando. In contrast to magic, however, only three of these opponents are below 0.500.

The heat still has 18 home games – the magic only has 12 (and 11 street games). In fact, these advantages shrink.

Similarly, Atlanta started a run of 12 out of 14 games at home with the 114-108 win of Orlando after the All-Star break. The Hawks started this stretch 0: 2.

They play five teams with records under 0.500, including the Heat in Atlanta on Monday and Wednesday in Miami (two critical games for Orlando Magic, who are against big games against the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors).

The point is that everyone now runs through the schedule in which they can use advantages and points where they have to start stacking.

If the magic returns home from your road trip in March, you will probably know whether you are safer in your place for the seventh and the division crown or whether you can attack the pistons in sixth.

In contrast to the Orlando Magic, Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat, the Detroit Pistons have the remaining schedule for the 13th port, including the two games against the Thunder von Oklahoma City. You still have a road trip with four games on the west coast and two more three-game street trips.

The magic knows that it doesn't concentrate on it. This is for us that we have to think about and worry about. The magic knows that your goal must be to win the remaining games on your schedule. You can only check your results.

And so it is clear that this is the time for magic to promote the profits that you could lead to the post -season.

All statistics and information that the games enter on Monday.