Running off at the typewriter. …

Can we now please stop with all of the ridiculous rhetoric?

Five games That’s all it took — five games into an 82-game season — for a slice of Orlando Magic fandom to lose its collective mind. After the Magic got off to a 1-4 start, coach Jamahl Mosley should be fired, they said. Desmond Bane was a bust, they insisted. The sky was falling, the season was doomed, and somehow the franchise that had been preaching patience for years was suddenly supposed to operate like an SEC football program after a bad Saturday.

This is what happens when the college-football mentality seeps into the NBA bloodstream; when every snapshot becomes a referendum; when every bad quarter becomes a crisis; when every slow start becomes a firing offense. Never mind the context

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