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  2. harryfromphilly

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    You have to understand that it is not Cole hate. (At least from me) I love him as a 6 or 7th man coming off of the bench and injecting a spark of energy. I am also ok with keeping him in the game longer if he is playing smart and hitting when he shoots.. I dont think he is consistent enough to be either a starting point guard, or in at the end. That is what I responded to. The desire to let him start. And I even said that I am ok with him moving to starting for the rest of this year, But I dont think he is a long term answer as a starting (or finishing) point guard. And yes, as JJZFL said, in this game he was no worse than anyone else.
  3. JJZFL

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    It worked until the last couple of minutes when everyone, including Cole, started to play hero ball. I don’t fault Cole anymore than the rest of them. His turnaround fadeaway near air ball with under a minute left kind of sealed the loss for us, though.
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  5. All Eyes On Me

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Gary is off the injury report for tomorrow. First game of a back to back, so I’d expect him, Kelle and JI all to play against the Clippers and sit against the Grizzlies. The Sugg/Harris/Franz/Paolo/WCJ starting 5 I believe is still undefeated.
  6. All Eyes On Me

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Yeah, the Cole hate is wild. Without him, we lose by 20+ last night.
  7. CTMagicUK

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Complaining about Cole after that game specifically is WILD. I was more scared that anyone other than Cole was going to shoot.
  8. TrueMagicFan07

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Cole play almost the entire 4th quarter? E.V.E.R.Y time Cole had the ball in his hands, I feared he was going to shoot. Sure, he did make a number of shots. But each time I saw him with the ball, I was going "get ready" and "there he goes"--my body was tensed. Fortunately he made big shots. Cole is not consistent game to game. In an earlier post I said I fear that if we make the playoffs, Cole will shoot us out of a game(s).
  9. harryfromphilly

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Agree about Your first statement, disagree about Cole If You watch him in clutch time, he never even looks for anyone else. Yes he had an amazing game, and often does, but just as often shoots us out of the game. The final seconds of the Kings game was as much about him playing hero ball as to trying to get a win. Dont mind if he starts the rest of the year, or we give AB a bit of burn, but for the future... Yes, we need the point guard that You describe To me, Cole is not him.
  10. All Eyes On Me

    2023-2024 Season Thread

    The last 4 losses put a spotlight on just how thin our backcourt is. Harris out the last 2 and Suggs out the 2 losses to New York and Indy. It’s why most of us were so upset for sitting stagnant at the trade deadline. Markelle was horrible again last night but people are afraid to say it because he’s an awesome dude and we all feel bad for him. Behind that AB is too raw, and Cole and Suggs are way too inconsistent. I still can’t believe a pro basketball team had a quarter where they shot 3-22 from the field… insane
  11. TrueMagicFan07

    2023-2024 Season Thread

    Mods, can you please pin the poll I generated about the Magic's record for the 11 games remaining this season? I don't know why anyone thought the Magic would beat the Warriors. They beat us without their best defender at center. The Warriors won without hot-headed Draymond after he was ejected from the game. Of the 11 remaining teams, there are several fighting to make the playoffs or play-ins. BY THE WAY: I FORGOT TO INCLUDE 6-5 IN THE POLL. I EDITED AND INSERTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POLL.
  12. JJZFL

    2023-2024 Season Thread

    Last night game against GS not encouraging as the first game of those 11. Let’s see if they can get back on track after two very disappointing games, or if their shortcomings will be revealed causing them to wilt in higher intensity games.
  13. Albert Lergier

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    FOR NO REASON, THE STAGE LAST NIGHT SEEMED TOO BIG FOR THE MAGIC.........NOT FOR COLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MIGHT BE TIME TO INSERT HIM AS A STARTER.....AT THE END OF THE DAY THE STARTERS ARE THE PLAYERS THAT TEAMS RELY TO WIN GAMES. TEAM NEEDS A PG THAT CAN CREATE ASSITS (5 PER GAME / 36 MPG), SCORE, SHOOT 3'S, REBOUND AND REFIEF PAOLO OF HANDLING THE BALL SO MUCH.
  14. JJZFL

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    It was also one guy dribbling the ball until the clock had nearly expired before he passed it.
  15. All Eyes On Me

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Down 1 with a minute left and we get a shot clock violation due to indecisiveness. Just can’t happen
  16. JJZFL

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Even with all of that, it was a two point game with about two minutes left. At that point all the guys who want to win the game by themselves started to go one on however many and take bad shots. It’s at the end of close games when passing is most important that we just stop. No one trusts their teammates apparently. It’s happened repeatedly. It’s very aggravating.
  17. Sumike4ya

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Absolutely agree. I was are Alehouse with the fam, and we had to leave early because I was getting too loud and probably annoyed everyone around us
  18. CTMagicUK

    2024 NBA Draft Thread

    He's a similar archetype but he plays defense which'll likely get him on the floor a lot sooner. Until I see Jett make an impact in an NBA game I'm not factoring him in as a reason not to draft somebody. Plus you really can't ever have enough 6'5+ guys who can pass/dribble/shoot.
  19. CTMagicUK

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    To be honest at this stage of the season every game feels massive.
  20. orlandoholic

    2024 NBA Draft Thread

    I don’t know.. Isn’t he too similar to Jett Howard, who also can’t get minutes for us? I don’t hate the player, but i think we can do better for this roster
  21. orlandoholic

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    that’s crazy fortune but at the same time another missed opportunity.. This was just as brutal as loosing to the Pacers and Knicks in very important games..
  22. CTMagicUK

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Yea tbf it wasn't a good game for my "the xs and os are fine" take to follow.
  23. CTMagicUK

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Just checked the other scores. Somehow we got lucky and the Cavs, Pacers and 76ers all lost.
  24. CTMagicUK

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Deserved to lose. The lack of effort on the glass was depressing. Thought Paolo was the worst player on the floor honestly. Terrible defense, terrible rebounding, terrible shot selection. Without Cole that would have been a blow out.
  25. orlandoholic

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    This one is on coach.. Coincidentally i mentioned it before the game and it showed up massively against the Warriors.. We can’t draw up anything, we can’t exploit mismatches and coach has bad feeling for when to take timeouts. He lets opponents go on too big of runs. We was only down one, team was playing hero ball and you let it go away again?? That’s piss poor feel for the game. Yeah and like i said before the game. We dribble dribble dribble offense too much. We had 3 days to prepare for this game. You knew the Warriors would have a back to back and then you don’t come up with a game plan to physically stress them out? No bully ball?
  26. All Eyes On Me

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    We missed 10 free throws on 21 attempts. We lost by 8 points. Smh And not only that, it was a one-possession game in crunch time. If we could at least shoot league average from the line we’d have won this game
  27. All Eyes On Me

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    We deserved to lose this one. That first quarter was some of the worst professional basketball I’ve ever seen from an offense. Free throw shooting is a major problem and it’s somehow getting worse. Draymond getting tossed probably hurt us more than it hurt Golden State. The starters were all bad. Again. Franz needs to stop disappearing against good teams. Cole was excellent. We missed an opportunity here… Steph was bad and GSW was on the 2nd night of a back to back while we were on extended rest. Just inexcusable to come out that flat. Im more annoyed by this game than anything… oh well, on to the next one
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