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We definitely never saw a KCP lineup last year.

Exactly. I understand the fair expectation for Franz having a better 3p%, but it's utopic to believe that everyone will have better % in the same season. A couple examples, Suggs had a great 40%, will maintain it? KCP had great % in teams that were contender with MVP caliber players with him. Will be the same with us and our usual spacing issues? Finally, old grandpa Ingles had the best 3p% in the team and is gone. Some will improve, others will regress, that's normal in an NBA season, but until now we're far away from being a top shooting team.

I'm really excited to see guys like AB, Jett, and TDS fight for playing time. Even if only one breaks out, that's a huge win.

because Franz had a terrible shooting season. I don’t think he’ll repeat that. We traded a terrible shooter in Fultz with a great shooter KCP And it’s safe to assume that AB and Suggs are improved shooters. Paolo has improved and had a whole summer of working on his shot! I’ll bet everything he’s a good shooter! So yeah, i expect us to be a good shooting team

Apparently the Magic haven’t embraced it because KCP is a shooting guard (or maybe small forward). Someone has to bring the ball up the court and start the offense for the Magic and by process of elimination, that’s Suggs. So I’m not sure what the guy above is talking about.

https://x.com/Josh_Cohen_NBA/status/1844726521560219908 Dope video breaking down the corner 3 point shot, which Kenny is the best corner 3 point shooter in the league.

Sometimes we tend to over think things. Right off the bat i cannot understand why now. I just checked he was signed this season and next season already. The extension kicks in the 26-27 season. I guess management is simply trying to create a 4-5 year window for this team. Problem is we don't know this team yet. Anyhow maybe it has protections we don't know about. Because, again, why now? If he has a serious injury this year it just becomes a 5 year lead weight of a deal.

Extension for injury? :P Well, that's another move that is perfectly in line with management philosophy. It's well known that I don't agree with, but at least they're consistent.

I’m watching League Pass.. But try StreamEast. Google it. It’s usually a good source

+1 from me. I’m rooting for the same thing but experience has generally been that hoping for a lot of internal growth during the summer hasn’t panned out most of the time. Given the youthfulness of the team, this time could be different. Answers start appearing in about 3 weeks. I don’t put too much credibility on preseason games, although it’ll be fun to see the Magic out there on the court.

I don’t really agree with that first part. As of now, KCP replaces Harris as the starting SG. That’s a huge upgrade as Harris is a great corner shooter but didn’t provide much else. Also he was injured a lot. And when you look at the bench unit. When healthy, Fultz was playing but he was really the PG. Ingles was handling the ball the majority of the time. So Fultz was just terrible for spacing. That was part of the criticism last year why we’d have Ingles handling the ball and not provide too much spacing as he was a facilitator and Fultz being completely ignored. So we don’t know yet how our lineup will look like. But either way, we won’t have that issue that we have a complete non shooter on the floor. AB, even off ball is a huge upgrade in that regard. But i completely agree with that second part. It all depends on how Cole, AB and probably TDS will be able to playmake. That’s a huge negative imo. At the same time i feel like we will ride it and see where we end up at the All Star break. If we lack playmaking, i feel like we can really go out of character and trade for one. We have good movable contracts and players and a lot of depth to not sacrifice. But i’m rooting for this team to grow internationally and that they continue this ride together. They are just a joy of a team.

Not to be a Debbie-Downer, but we were 24th last year in 3P% and 15th in FG%. I think we'll make SOME improvement there, but I don't see up jumping to a top 10 true shooting team. If we can jump from 24th to like just league average (15th!), I think that's a win. Let's temper expectations on "good shooting team" here. We'll make good decisions and will make smart passes, leading to good looks that we can hopefully hit. Excited for the season to start already!!

But Kerr has said that he views Kuminga as a power forward and not yet a small forward in the traditional sense, so Green at the four next to a non-shooting five like Jackson-Davis or Looney clogs the floor too much and basically boxes Kuminga out of the starting equation — unless Kerr either puts Green primarily at center or goes with the more uncomfortable jumbo look of Kuminga, Green and a center on the floor. – via Kerr is a bad coach imo. Nobody can convince me otherwise. He started off great as a coach but i see arrogance in his coaching style and ideas.

Not to rain on anyone’s parade but I went to a few Magic games last season, and in the pregame warmup they would often hit multiple three’s in a row and made it look very easy. Very different during the game when the pressure’s on and they were being defended. Would not draw any conclusions from watching shooting in practice with no defense.

This is random but I had to edit the thread title it was "PreSeason" and the capital S was driving me crazy lol

Here is a better "list". https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-top-100-players-ranked-how-lebron-james-jayson-tatum-anthony-edwards-stack-up-ahead-of-2024-25-season/ Top 100 players in the NBA. Make sure to notice the very bottom where is shows how many players each team has. Magic end with 4. Paolo right ahead of Chet is interesting. Suggs and Franz pretty high and KCP round out the Magic.