After trading much of their veteran core, the Orlando Magic are on the surface level of a massive rebuilding project that will likely have them in the Eastern Conference bunker for years.
Still, spirits remain high throughout the organization, and their social media has done a good job at generating excitement about their young players.
Unfortunately, the Magic made a costly mistake online, prompting the team’s Twitter account to become the scene of a massive roast session by fans.
See, in one particular post, the team wrote about their high defensive rating of 113.4, which happens to be the highest in team history. Of course, that’s not exactly a good thing, as having a high defensive rating is attributed to having poor defense.
who’s going to tell them? pic.twitter.com/DmY94IZ4UT
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) April 13, 2021
Whether a mistake by the social media team or simply an oversight on their part about how the fans would react, the twitter-world was not very kind in their response.
Who is Running their twitter account? Need to be fired IMMEDIATELY pic.twitter.com/hMSCDqXNHy
— Nah Bruh🙅♂️ (@Mamadou_CB) April 13, 2021
That's cause this is their lineup pic.twitter.com/0spDj4zwbr
— Jaxson Sieckmann (@JaxsonSieckmann) April 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/KingHassan__/status/1382014409975984131
Logging on to https://t.co/b2DFmfoyzr to brag about my extremely high golf score
— nose of gonzo (@realmessyboy) April 13, 2021
Seems like this may be a clue 😂 pic.twitter.com/HGothWDC75
— Connor Dunning (@CDunning929) April 13, 2021
This is broke two ways. They ask what season they had the highest while saying what season, and they also expose themselves for not knowing high def rating is bad
— Waterbelly Bob (@SadVadis) April 13, 2021
Counterpoint: It's brilliant. Anyone who's on twitter and understands defensive rating is rooting for the tank, at this point. 😂😇
— Colin Kern (@colinmkern) April 13, 2021
— Keith C. (@kmcorder) April 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/AlexIp718/status/1382013892625367043
The tweet has since been deleted, though fans have continued with the jokes in other Tweets.
As for the prognosis of the team this season, things don’t look very good. Without Aaron Gordon, Evan Fournier, and Nikola Vucevic, they don’t have any hope of making the playoffs.
For now, all they can do is develop their young guys and hope for better days ahead.
