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Orlando Magic I:First Moves

Posted on June 29, 2013 at 08:42 PM.

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Well as new GM I looked at the Magic as a complete rebuild. We were young, that was a good start. I saw two problems quick though. Glen Davis and Al Harrington. Granted Jameer Nelson is a problem too but we will get to that later. Glen Davis, he may win a ring this year, but not in Orlando. Glen Davis was shipped with Doron Lamb to OKC for 20 Year Old Jeremy Lamb and defending specialist Thabo Sefolosha. So where to with Al? Phoenix. E'Twuan Moore and Harrington were shipped there for Markieff Morris and a second round pick in the upcoming draft. After all the dust from those trades had settled, we were left with a lack of a young back up guard. We made a quick dip in the free agent market to pick up Darius Johnson-Odom and shifted him to the PG position (OVR went from 68 to 63). So that left us all with this first day depth chart (Minutes in Parenthesis)

12-13 Orlando Magic Day One Depth Chart - YearOne
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
PG	Jameer Nelson (30)	Darius Johnson-Odom (8)	Beno Udrih (2)
SG	Aaron Afflalo (33)	Jeremy Lamb (15)	Thabo Sefolosha (15)
SF	Mo Harkless (34)	Hedo Turkoglu (18)
PF	Tobias Harris (34)	Andrew Nicholson (10)	Markieff Morris (8)
C	Nicola Vucevic (33)

Our plan of attack for this year is obviously a good draft pick, but why not try to win a little? Jameer Nelson will probably stick it out as our PG for one more year in the hopes we draft maybe a Trey Burke or MCW. Same goes for Afflalo. And hey, we already have positive cap and we get Turkoglu and Udrih's expiring contracts so maybe this won't be terrible. Signing out is your man, bake502 or Kruise_Kontrol whichever you prefer.