The Orlando Magic lost 115-93 to the Minnesota Timberwolves on a night when the game slipped away in the third quarter and never came back. They scored only 15 points in that frame, went 2-for-14 from three, and entered the fourth quarter already down 26 points.
That is why Jalen Suggs keeps landing at the center of the conversation around this team now: through two games, it is still hard to tell what the Magic are or who they want to be. The loss was not just about one bad stretch. It was another reminder that the opening two games have left the roster looking unfinished, with too little evidence to say the shooting problem has been solved.
Desmond Bane was supposed to help fix that. Instead, he went 1-for-5 from deep and the offense still stalled when it needed a lift. That matters because the Magic did not just miss shots; they had to keep building possessions around a player they added for spacing, and the results were uneven even before the game got away.
The turning point inside the turning point came early in the fourth quarter. Bane picked up two frustration fouls within the first two minutes and fouled out, ending any chance for the Magic to use the new piece they brought in for this exact kind of problem. Nobody is panicking, but the picture is incomplete. The puzzle pieces are not clear at this point, and after a season-opening homestand that has already produced two games and one heavy loss, the next step is less about conclusions than about whether the Magic can show a version of themselves that looks finished at both ends of the floor.
