It has been just over a week since the Orlando Magic’s season ended in disastrous fashion by blowing a 3-1 lead to the Detroit Pistons in the first round of the NBA Playoffs.

The lowlight moment of Orlando’s collapse came in Game 6, when the Magic squandered a 24-point lead due to a historic shooting slump in the second half. It is a playoff meltdown that is still being talked about, and one of the more recent examples came when Rachel Nichols and Chris Mannix made fun of the Magic on the Open Floor NBA Show presented by Sports Illustrated.

"That quarter and that half was abysmal," Nichols said.

"I've never seen anything like that," Mannix said. "That was like — I had some people joking with me, like you could have inserted ex-college basketball team into that game at that same point. And they probably would have been able to close out Detroit down the stretch."

The Magic managed to score just 19 points in the second half of Game 6 as a result of missing 23-straight shots.

"I mean, a tanking team trying not to score would have probably accidentally closed out Detroit during that stretch," Nichols said. "I mean, look, this offense lacks cohesion. They don't seem united as a locker room or as a group. We talked about it toward the end of the regular season."

Nichols also touched on what the next head coach of the Magic will be dealing with after the organization fired Jamahl Mosley on April 4.

"There's just a lot of low-hanging fruit here for whatever coach comes in," Nichols said. "There's just a lot of things to clean up and to improve that don't even happen on a basketball court that I think, you know, are going to be attractive to whoever wants to take this job. I also have to look a little bit at the roster construction."

Nichols also did not bother mincing words concerning the trade for Desmond Bane.

"Desmond Bane so far has not lived up to the trade," Nichols said. "I'll be interested to see what Mikal Bridges does in this next series because if he disappoints, I think between him and Bane, you're going to see another sort of evolution or referendum on the way GMs make trades again. 

"So look, I think a new coach might help Desmond Bane and make that trade look better," Nichols added. "But I do think there's just some pieces on that team that don't quite fit together and maybe a good coach can make them fit in a way we just haven't seen over the last four or five years."

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