REMEMBER Jalen Suggs? How Suggs can FIX Orlando Magic’s offensive frustrations

REMEMBER Jalen Suggs? How Suggs can FIX Orlando Magic’s offensive frustrations

Jaylen Suggs, remember him? Why Jaylen Suggs could be the answer to all of the Magic’s questions and fill the two interrelated needs everybody is focused on this year. It’s time for Lockdown Magic. You are Locked On Magic, your daily Orlando Magic podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. And you are indeed locked on Magic. Today is May 27th, 2025. Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend and a meaningful Memorial Day. My name is Philip Rossik. the senior writer over at Orlando Magicaily.com. You can find me on Twitter, philipr_omd. On today’s episode of Lockdown Magic, why the Orlando Magic’s two key needs are interrelated. Solving one can solve the other and solving one can leak out to the other as well. Plus, Jaylen Suggs, remember him? He was pretty good. We’ll talk about how Jaylen Suggs fits that equation and where he fits on the Orlando Magic moving forward. We’ll talk about that coming up here in just a moment. First, we want to thank you again for making Lockdown Magic part of your day every day. We want to thank you especially for making Lockdown Magic your first listen of the day every day. We want to make We want to thank you for making us a part of your day every day. If you’re one of our everydayers, we’re all part of Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. We all have an understanding of what the Orlando Magic need. Um I am going through the locked on mock draft right now. Uh I I can preview that I did make a trade. uh sub substantial trade. We’ll talk about why I didn’t like the trade I make, why I like why I ended up doing it, what I’ve learned. We’ll get to that as we get closer to lockdown macaka. It is ongoing. You’ll yell at me about the trade. I know you will. It it’s it’s not something I’m super great super pleased with, but it did accomplish the goal that I was trying to accomplish and I think ultimately came out okay. We’ll we’ll talk we’ll talk about all that in the future, but we all know what the Magic Magic need shooting. Worst three-point shooting team in the league last year. There is just no stretch know the Magic were there’s one stretch where the Magic were decent, but the Magic were not a good three-point shooting team last year. And obviously that is such a huge factor to creating space. Um, obviously like it very much feels like the Magic need a point guard or need a true playmaker or need just more guys who can create on and off the ball. And that’s one of the reasons why I want to talk more specifically about Jaylen Suggs because of how vital he is to adding to that equation. But what I think a lot of us are not considering or a lot of us are not or at least I have it maybe said so explicitly. I think I’ve mentioned it in parts of other episodes but let’s just lay it out all on the table. The magic shooting need and the magic’s playmaking need are connected. And by improving the playmaking, the magic will inevitably improve the shooting. So what do I mean by that? Simply adding a shooter isn’t going to be enough for the Orlando Magic. If it were enough, Kavius Calwell Pope would have worked. We all like, look, I think all of us could acknowledge that Kavius Cwell Pope was not the exact player of the Magic were looking for. I think we can all acknowledge that yes, while there is a lot to like and a lot that made sense about Katavius Kolope, yeah, the the the lack of volume was the bigger issue. The lack of the ability to kind of create his own three-point shots, just get up a ton of threes, that was an element that was missing. But barring that, barring that need, yes, a career 38% three-point shooter, a player who shot 40% from three and three the last four seasons before this one and adds to the team’s defensive identity. It made sense. Obviously, it didn’t work out that way. Kavius Golope ended up shooting only 34% from three. Had his worst three-point shooting season since 2016. Um, his lowest scoring average since his since 2021, I believe. and essentially his worst offensive season since his rookie year. Contavius Cwell Pope did not fix all the Magic’s problems. Now, some of that was injury for sure, but still Kenny should have made shots. He was getting looks that he normally makes all of his, you know, yeah, he probably took fewer wide open shots than maybe he did in previous years, but one shooter alone isn’t going to fix the problem. Yes, if the Magic want to improve their shooting as a team, adding a high volume shooter that can make shots at 36 37% on 78 threes a game, transformative. But the Magic are also going to need France Vagner to shoot better than 30%. They’re going to need Paulo Beno to shoot like he does in the playoffs when he’s over 40% in the playoffs and can kind of get to his spots and do whatever he wants. Those are your volume shooters. And yes, I’m going to talk more about Jaylen Suggs. Jaylen Suggs as a spot-up shooting option is a huge huge boost to this team. But that’s the thing, that’s the next part of this equation is playmaking creation driving creates better three-point opportunities. Jeff Welman said this during exit interviews that the Magic’s internal shot quality metrics did not look good at various points during uh during the season. He said he pretty much said like our shot quality increased or decreased depending on who was in or out of the lineup. And you can actually kind of see this in the numbers before Fran Vager’s injuries. We’re going to even include Paulo’s injury. Magic had a 110.3 offensive rating shot, 31% from three. Lee worse in that stretch. From Fran Vagger’s injury to Paloan Carroll’s return, they had a 1051 offensive rating shot, 31% from three. Obviously, you’re missing your key players. That’s what happens from Paloan Carroll’s return until Jaylen Suggs injury. So, about two weeks, Magic had a 1012 offensive rating and shot 27.7% from three. From Jaylen Sugg’s final game of the season until the end of the home stand, 108.6 offensive rating, 30.9% from three. Obviously, three-point shooting has an effect. Obviously, the guys in and out of the lineup had an effect. Obviously, Paulo Bentro needed to get up to speed and get comfortable had an effect. The fact that the Magic so few guys who could attack off the dribble outside of Paulo, outside of Fron, we’ll give Cole Anthony some respect. We’ll give Jaylen Suggs some respect. that the fact that the Magic have so few guys who could create tension in the defense and kick out for open shots that affected the Magic’s three-point shot quality that affected the offensive rating. In the final 18 games when the team turned to Cory Joseph as a starting point guard, the Magic had a 113.6 offensive rating and shot 36.2% from three. That was 17th in league. Contavius Cwell Pope was near 50% during that last 18game stretch. But as we mentioned many many times with Joseph on the court, Magic had a 115.6 offensive rating with Joseph on the floor nearly two exactly two points per 100 possessions better than the team’s average overall during that time. If there is a stronger argument, there is probably no stronger argument that the Magic need a true point guard than that. And that continues with the idea that, you know, yes, Cory Joseph struggled in the playoffs. He was not a playoff performer. We didn’t expect him to be. But this is why I I think the Magic’s biggest need this summer is not three-point shooting. Yes, they need players who are capable of making threes, and they shouldn’t go get a playmaker who can’t make shots. You know, like there’s a reason why they let Markel Folz go and maybe Markel Folultz was a bigger loss than everyone anticipated. Like I I you could go back last year, I argued that. I was like, I I I think Mark the Magic and Miss Markell more than people think. Um, it was the right decision. Don’t get me wrong, as much as I love Markeel, they need shooting. The Magic needs shooters, but they need playmaking more because playmaking is going to get Paulo an easier three-point shot. It’s going to get France an easier three-point shot. Get Cavius Colop, if he’s still on the team, more open three-point shots. It’s going to increase the quality of those three-pointers so that yes, your percentage can be a little bit better. And as even those numbers tell us, as even those numbers tell us, the Magic don’t have to be much more than average to be good at three-point shooting or to be good offensively. They just have to be respectable. And they were so far below respectable this year that it didn’t matter. And that’s where we’re heading. That’s the path ahead for the Magic is they’ve got to get to that level of respectability, for lack of a better way to phrase it. They’ve got to get to a level where teams aren’t ignoring them at the three-point line. And that’s why the playmaking part and the three-point part are so interconnected because better playmaking is going to lead to better three-point shooting. The question is, do the Magic have that on the roster more than they think? This is the ultimate question, and this is probably what the Magic wanted answered this this season that they didn’t get answered because of all the injuries. Jaylen Suggs, we’re going to talk about how he fits into what’s next, both on the court and off the court, and what Jaylen Suggs brings back to the Magic since it’s been so long since we’ve seen him. We’ll get to that coming up here in just a moment. But first, today’s episode of Lockdown Magic is brought to you by Wayfair. The days are getting longer. The weather has warmed completely up. Someone turned the furnace all the way up to 10. You’re spending some time outside. 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Shop a huge selection of outdoor furniture online this summer. Get outside with Wayfair. Head to wayfair.com right now. That’s w afir.com. Wayfair, every style, every home. The last time we saw Jaylen Suggs on a basketball court was January 25th, 2025. That was four months ago. And frankly, being deprived of Jaylen Suggs basketball for four months is just wrong. Just just wrong. especially since it’s going to be extended out until o early October. So nearly eight months without uh nearly nine months, eight and a half months without Jaylen Suggs on a basketball court. All that energy, all that kind of compressed bottle of of emotions. It’s It’s just wrong. It It’s just wrong. And And we know Jaylen is uh Jaylen was at game three in Minneapolis, hometown Minneapolis with Anthony Black. Um, we saw Jaylen Suggs on Twitter responding to a clip from Kavius Scholope’s appearance on Dwight Howard’s podcast. This is a dude that is all about his teammates, believes in everything this team is doing, and frankly is the heart and soul of this team. Like part of the Magic struggles throughout January and February were that Jaylen Suggs wasn’t around. That the Magic did not have Jaylen Suggs to kind of power them through the doldrums. This is a guy that just does not quit. Uh is just a constant drum beat of enthusiasm and energy. Of course, what was kind of hidden in all that is yes, thrust into a bigger role, Jaylen Suggs really started to showcase what makes him so much of the answer for the Orlando Magic. This season, he averaged a career-high 16.2 points per game. only shot 41% but on a career-high 13.7 field goal attempts per game. Shot 31.4% from three but on a career-high 6.9 attempts per game. So the efficiency was not there but up to 88.2% from the foul line. 3.7 assists per game. Uh almost a career highs short of his rookie year. 2.9 turnovers a game. Back to where he was about his rookie year but on the ball a lot more. Jaylen Suggs was on track again to be all defensive team. Like all those things we know what we’re getting from Jaylen Suggs. If anything, the biggest thing the Orlando Magic probably learned this year is that, yeah, Jaylen Suggs probably isn’t going to be your primary guy. And and that’s okay. That’s an okay thing to learn. But there were a lot of games that he willed the magic into. Uh that game against Milwaukee, especially in the NBA Cup, just an absolutely gutsy performance. That guy had nothing to be ashamed of in that game. Nothing to be ashamed of on that day. And yet, nobody took that loss harder than Jaylen Sucks. I I like I was glad to be in the building that night just because I was like I I you know we knew this guy cared but I was just like dude you I wanted to go up and say like dude you have nothing to be ashamed of. Like there’s nothing to be upset about tonight. You got beat by Damen Lillard and Jiannis ono. They needed everything they could to beat you. You left it all out on the floor. There’s nothing to be ashamed of. But that dude takes takes it hard and and that dude cares. Jaylen Suggs though was not meant to play that role. And in fact, what we saw early in the season was far more indicative of the direction the Magic wanted him to go. It’s just five games, so I don’t want to read too much into it, but through five games before Paulo Ban Carol’s injury that just threw everything up in the air, Jaylen Suggs shot 17 for 40 from three, a 42 and a half% field goal percentage. And that’s eight three-point attempts per game on open shots. Let me get my let me get my my stats here. On corner threes, let’s just do corner threes. corner threes. He was just two for four. All of his threes were above the break. 15 for 35 on above the break threes. Um I don’t have those numbers ahead of me. Seven assists from Paulo Bancerero alone. This was a clear outlet, a clear player that the Magic could lean on and rely on and a clear player who was developing as a true catch andoot option. a true catch and shoot option. In fact, if you look at his catch and shoot stats, if I can get there in time to to tell you, according to second spectrum, Jaylen Suggs on catch and shoot shoot shots in those first five games, the smallest to small sample sizes, I’m not going to not going to debate you on that. In those first five games, again, as I stalled to pull up the stats because I was not on the right page before I prepped here, Jaylen Suggs shot 53.1%. Going, and I’m going to again stall so I can get the right stats here. Sorry, apologize for that. 17 for 32 on catch and shoot threes. That’s five games. So, I don’t want to like blow it out of proportion, but that’s what the Magic envisioned for him. Add in a few more drives, add in a few more attacks off of secondary breaks, put him next to another creator, and now you’ve unlocked your volume shooter. This, I think, is the biggest this honestly like the biggest disappointment of this season was we didn’t get to see that Jaylen Suggs develop. We didn’t get to see what that Jaylen Suggs looked like. It, you know, even if it would have taken a little while to get going, but to have him back in late January or even early February when he was supposed to come back against the Cavs or around the time of that Cleveland game that we don’t talk about, Jaylen Suggs didn’t get to showcase to us what he worked on and what the magic planned for him. If this is the Jaylen Suggs that Jaylen Suggs looks like when both Paulo and Frs are healthy and he’s playing off of them, that’s the Jaylen Suggs the Magic did offensively. That’s the kind of Jaylen Suggs that makes the volume shooting problem less of a problem. Now again, granted, Magic did not shoot well early in the season. There’s still some struggles, but Jayen Suggs was not that struggle. Jaylen Suggs developed himself or is on track to develop himself into that volume shoot. Now, it’s just five games. So, I don’t want to sit here and say, “Oh, that’s what he would have been.” Yeah, there’d be some troughs, there’d be some lows, there’d be some downs, but very clearly Jaylen Suggs has improved dramatically as a three-point shooter, even if the percentages don’t show it in that role as a spot-up outlet for Paulo Bancero in a way that Kavius Cow put maybe wasn’t. that that’s proof that it can work. Get him in a lineup where he’s playing off of Paulo, where he’s playing off of France, where he’s playing off of somebody else as a secondary or tertiary creator, as that volume shooter, as that guy willing to take the gutsy three, the three you have no business taking, which he has taken many times throughout his career. get him to be that player and that solves one of the Magic’s needs. Again, this is why I think creation is a bigger issue than three-point shooting because a a lot of these players are better three-point shooters than they showed us. Contavius Cwell like you know, yeah, Contavius Copes can be offered in a lot of trades and and I’m not against the Magic trading him. I am also a big- time believer that contavius Cwell Pope is not going to shoot 34% from three next year. He is going to be 38 39%. He may be done being 40% for the rest of his career, but he is a he is a great three-point shooter. You know, Fran Vagner will figure out his three-point shot eventually, even if it’s just to get to 33 34 35%. Paulo Vancero should be a 34 35% three-point shooter at his volume. Jaylen Suggs, I think, can be a 37 38% three-point shooter at six or seven threes per game. But getting them the quality shots they need to be that great, to be that player. That’s the goal because the Magic might, you know, the Magic are going to bring back a lot. Whatever you think the Magic are missing, Jaylen Suggs brings back part of that. Mo Vagner brings back part of that. And yeah, I’m not sitting here saying the Magic need to sit tight and not do anything. They have to do something. That’s part of what I teased about in the lock about what I did in the lockdown lock draft is you have to be willing to take a risk on something on something big perhaps. But Jaylen Suggs is a significant addition and if this team is healthy there is at least some evidence that Jayen Suggs can really turn the tide, can really change things about this team. And that’s one of the great mysteries that this season didn’t solve. One of the things that the Magic have to gamble on or the Magic have to consider as they think about what comes next. But obviously Jaylen Suggs matters for another reason and another big piece of this puzzle. We’re going to talk about the consequences of his contract coming up here in just a moment. So, I’ve been teasing it a little bit. Uh, I’m not going to reveal what I did in the lockdown mockdraft yet, but I did make a move. I did make a trade, a sign, and I will say a significant trade for probably the exact player you’re thinking that I made a trade for. I’ll talk a little bit more uh when we get a little bit closer to unveiling the lockdown mockdraft. my strategy, my thought process, uh what I think was real, what I think wasn’t real, uh what other offers I had on the table, what I was thinking about, and why I ultimately did what I did. So, we’re we’re going to get to that. You’ll rake me over the coals like you always do. I would always say fake trades are stupid. I’m bad at them. Uh but thought processes and process matters more. And and and I I’m still convinced that some, you know, and I I actually did this. I went through the whole league. Every roster was like, “Okay, who am I missing that I’m not thinking about?” I I I still kind of think like Jeff Waltman’s going to do something that doesn’t feel obvious to us. So, uh, I went for the I went the obvious route. You can guess who I traded for just by just by me saying that. Um, we’ve talked about him on this show before. We’ll we’ll do we’ll do another trade episode here coming up and talk a little bit more about specific targets um in later this week. That I’ll get to that this week. We’ll talk specific targets. I’ll start hinting more about what I did. Again, you can guess what I did at this point. Um, we’ll go into those details later. But as I as I was doing that, I had to actually sit down and do math. And and I was told there would be no math. But the reality of the NBA now is in order to do transactions, in order to think about any of these things, you have to do math. You have to put the numbers into the table. You have to figure things out. And we’ve been hinting at this. We’ve been previewing this. The Orlando Magic are right on the cusp of entering apron territory. And everything gets more complicated once you get into apron territory. Just doing anything gets more complicated when you get into apron territory. And a big reason for this is the Orlando Magic are, you know, were under the tax this year. they blow past the tax next year because of the contracts they’ve handed out and they obviously even with the salary cap rising another 10%. Will blow past the tax in two years when Paulo Banker’s contract comes up and a big reason for this is the Magic gave that big contract to Jaylen Suggs. Not only did they give that big contract to Jaylen Suggs, they frontloaded the deal. So the pain is going to be felt now. Now, I I think it is very reasonable for the Magic to try and stay under that first apron. They’ll they’ll be a tax team. There’s no avoiding that at this point. Um but I think they will do try very very hard to avoid that first apron. And that was one of my goals as well. And so, as I was looking through deals, I had to I had to make sure the deal a was legal but fit under the first apron, too. And it gets harder. And and one of the reasons why I think the Magic will make moves on draft night is trades made on draft night are calculated under the 2025 cap. So if it’s if it’s deal is consummate, you know, not consummate is not the right word. Um if the deal is finalized and official on draft night, it’s operating under the 2025 cap. If they wait till July 1, it gets significantly more complicated because the again by my math the Orlando Magic are about $20 million, a little bit less than $20 million under the first apron. 11 of those 11 of that 20 is reserved for Mo Vagner’s extension. Sorry, reserved for Mo Vagner’s option, which I do anticipate the Magic will pick up. Um, and so that leaves you a little bit of wrigle room. Now, Gary Harris is eight million dollar uh $8 million. That really tightens the titans it and and again, that’s one of the reasons why I didn’t really love the deal that I made because I included Gary Harris in it, which would require me to pick up that team option, but I felt like the risk was worth the reward at that point. Um it doesn’t include the draft pick and the and the and the rookie uh and the first round pick uh exception. Um, so the Magic, the Magic are going to be probably operating above the first apron heading into the season and then use the trade deadline to get back under the first apron. And Jaylen Suggs contract is a big reason why. Jaylen Suggs will make $33 million next season as the in the first year of that deal. Now, it goes down by about two uh it goes down by about $2.5 million every year after that. So, it gets more comfortable. you know, it it’s very very possible the Magic will be in better shape um after the tra, you know, as look, the Magic will be in better financial shape as those contracts age. Um I also operated under the assumption Powell is going to get the 30% super max because he’ll make all NBA next year. Um but Powell is going to get a max. Like that’s going to happen. He’s going to get paid $51 million per year in the first season of that 20 of of his extension, which kicks in in 2027. These that sounds like monopoly money. I I I know I’ve been warning you for the last few years that this is going to sound like monopoly money. It is monopoly money, but this is the direction the league is going. This is just these are the numbers now. You got to get used to kind of a different kind of scale. Um, Jaylen Suggs is a player the Magic need to hit. And look that you’re you’re under strict financial scrutiny already. It is it is going to be increasingly hard to have three players over $30 million per year. It’ll eventually get up to 35 and be 35 sooner than you think. But look, Paulo is taking up 30% of the cap. France’s going to be about 22% in two years. half of your cap is going to be wrapped up into two players. And so who else you hand out these massive contracts to matter? Now look, the again I I said this at the time, the reason why I think Jeff Welman handed out the contracts he handed out was to set salary slots. They were players that he was very comfortable with, believed would continue to grow, and obviously like Jonathan Isaac, Wendell Carter did not grow, the two big ones did not grow the way they they they hoped they would last year. It is imperative that both players take next steps or frankly it might be imperative that you understand that that you need to cut bait early. It would not shock me if both Jonathan Isaac or Wendell Carter are on the move. Carter will be tougher to move for value. Isaac I think still has a lot of value and cache around the league. Would not shock me if he is on the table and I was frankly kind of surprised that more people haven’t been asking me about him. Um, and I’ve been able to kind of hold on to him as a potential future trade piece, but Jaylen Suggs has to hit because so much money is put into him. and you want him to be your third scoreer, but obviously he helps you in a number of other ways. But he if he can become your volume shooter, if he can become the guy that takes six, seven, eight threes per game, makes 37 38% of them and is your top defensive player and all defensive player, then you have the best 3 and D player in the league and that’s worth $30 million a year. Now you just have to add creation whether that comes from Jaylen Suggs who can do a little bit of that or from an external piece like yeah like Anthony Simons like Kobe White like Colin Ston like all the players that we talk about on the trade market. That’s going to be the key for the magic. That’s going to be so key to whether this whole thing works because now we’re now as Keith Smith told us a few weeks ago now we’re playing the apron dance. Now we’re waiting. Now we’re, you know, kind of fully invested in this roster and the next move is to cut is to figure out where we can cut and trim some fat. And you hope that Jaylen Suggs is meat. You hope that it’s not fat because look, there there’s fat on the roster. Like Jonathan Isaac probably don’t need a $15 million player off the bench. Um, you know, Wendell Carter, is he gonna be worth the 1819 million in two years? Like that’s 1819 million is not going to kill you. Not going to break the bank. The magic don’t have necessarily bad contracts or immovable contracts, but it’s just knowing how to spend your resources. It’s just knowing how the next phase of this rebuild is not only the improvement of your top players and adding top talent, but maximizing your resources elsewhere on the roster. And the fact of the matter is that yes, there is probably a time down the road when you trade when Jaylen Suggs is the trade you make for that last big piece. This is not that time. Jaylen Suggs is safe. He is a core player of this team. Unless the Magic are getting a super duper star out of it, they’re not trading him because he is essential to their identity. But everyone’s always on auditioning. Everybody, nobody is ever truly safe as Bo Harrison would tell you. And so Jaylen Suggs has to step up and deliver. He has to prove that he is worth the extension. And look, I think he is. I think that was the right move. I think the Magic did the right thing with him. We can debate the numbers. We can debate that. I think ultimately that was the right choice. It’s the same deal. They Would they have gotten him cheaper if they waited for the offseason? Absolutely. Would have been a lot of hand ringing, though. You know, not that there’s a lot of teams with cap room, but yeah, the Magic probably overpaid to take care of their guy and make good with an agent. If they waited this summer, probably would have gotten him for less and he probably feel less of this financial pinch. But the magic, that’s not the way Jeff Alman operates. For better or worse, that’s not how he operates. And so now the Magic have to navigate this financial reality and they need Jaylen Suggs to hit. And whatever role in whatever form they fashion for him, that’s the contract. That’s the decision that’s going to determine whether the Magic are able to do the things they want to do and get where they want to go in the playoffs. It’s a lot of pressure, but look, Jaylen Suggs has gotten better every year. He has clearly made himself a critical part for this team and there’s no reason to think that he won’t deliver in some form or fashion. I want to thank you all again for listening to today’s episode of Lockdown Magic. You can of course find me on Twitter, Philip RR_MD, and on Blue Sky, Philip RR. You can subscribe to the podcast, Apple Podcast, Stitch, your tune in, Hamilton, Google Play, Spotify, Odyssey, and all podcast to your podcast enable device. You can find us on YouTube as well. Just search for Locked on Magic. just crossed 4,000 subscribers on YouTube. So truly appreciate everybody who subscribed. Even if you don’t watch every day, subscribe to the YouTube. Helps us out so much. Appreciate you all for that. For the latest on the Orlando Magic, including my top 10 games of the season, which will publish tomorrow. Can check that out at Orlando Magicaily.com. Find us on Twitter, Omagic Daily. And for even more Orlando Magic content, be sure to check out my Patreon page, Orlando Magic Hub, at patreon.com/orlandomagichub. As always, thank you for your support. 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The Orlando Magic’s two biggest needs are interconnected. Their shooting needs will get fixed by better playmaking. They may also get relief from the return of Jalen Suggs.

Suggs was looking like the Magic’s answer for volume shooting before all the injuries hit. If he can pick up where he left off before all the injuries, he could transform the Magic’s offense on his own.

0:00 Intro: Magic’s needs and Jalen Suggs’ potential
5:36 Playmaking drives better three-point opportunities
11:45 Jalen Suggs’ impact and development
17:53 Suggs as a catch-and-shoot option
23:28 Magic approaching salary cap apron territory
29:04 Importance of Suggs living up to contract

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