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AB really isn’t doing much on the offensive end tonight. He dribbles the ball slowly up the court, hangs around for a few seconds, then just dumps it off. He is just not the kind of quick guard who darts in and out of the opponent defense that we need.

I missed the team early this season And when p5 was out were Franz was operating, That was FUN! and we just got broken. been a fan for 30 years now. This is not new, this is what magic basketball is about.

I just thought since it’s so negative and rightfully so I’d post something positive. Paolo’s last ten games: 27.9 PTS 46.2 FG% 35.4% 78.4% FT% 6.5 REB 5 AST I think he is 100% healthy again. Those are similar numbers to his breakout playoffs last year and at the beginning of this year. He is still only 22 years old. I know we aren’t winning but I think Franz and Paolo are pretty low on the list of problems. Make moves in the off-season Weltman! Go Magic!

These games are like watching the movie Groundhog Day. The same thing keeps happening over and over again. A disastrous 3rd quarter, which spills over into much of the 4th quarter, And then we finally decide to play with a sense of urgency and desire. Unfortunately, by then it's usually too little too late.

It’s pathetic to watch this guy sit on his hands and do the least possible to improve this team and still keep his job. Trading second round picks for cash doesn’t count for sh**. He has proven that he can’t get a team over the top. As soon as he leaves a team they get proactive and win a championship. Wash rinse repeat. ownership do you want to win or just fill seats with whomever??? Fans of the Magic or not.

Har har har... brilliant my man. Top tier sarcasm

Have anyone saw the game winning shot Pacers executed over bucks? those offensive sets are beautiful to watch. It it were magic, we Paolo would be inbounding and all 4 others ar just waiting on their specific position sans Franz. Mosely should be taking notes. His days as a motivational speaker is over, he needs to coach now.

Exactly! Thank you!!!! By the way: When the Magic's second unit entered the game last night, that's when the Pelicans' backups went on a run and cut into our 30 pt. lead 10 pts+.

Joseph just seems to play the basic role of setting the table, hitting open shots, and giving us serviceable defense. I'd play him in the starting lineup the rest of the year, too. As for AB, I like him but I'm not even sure he's a PG. And honestly, I'd rather not see Cole again on the court. Lol

With Franz and Paulo on board, we're beyond playing/losing for a lotto pick. I personally like seeing the two continue to grind and get better. Paulo's numbers over his last 10 are very impressive: 27.9, 6.5, 4.1 with shooting lines of 49.2/37.3/80.2.

There he is.. right on cue

With Paolo Banchero's 24 points and Franz Wagner's 20, tonight marks the first time in franchise history during the play-by-play era (since 1996-97) that two #Magic players have scored 20+ points in the first half of a game. Via twitter

I thought it was all about not disrupting the cohesive atmosphere that these players have developed over the last two or three years. Lol i guess winning matters. Who would’ve thunk it?

Great L. I’m in tanking mode. Mosley is.. i dunno how to say it nicely. He’s throwing out darts on his lineups. Howard back in the doghouse for little reason. Caleb Houstan suddenly getting first off the bench. Played alongside TDS and one of them had to defend Sengun. That was at the end of the first. During the break, i thought to myself “no way in hell can he go back to that”. But to my surprise, at the beginning of the second they still roll out Houstan and TDS. that’s batsh*t crazy. Well he than noticed it ain’t working, so Isaac got to play. Isaac basically locked Sengun down. This just shows he has no concept. Houston played zone defense and we had no clue what to do. No accountability whatsoever. Paolo taking like 5 step back threes, for no reason. Franz going crazy with the awkward shots. Cole doing Cole things. We again, have no concept…

I think we can win this game y'all. Mr. Big Shot, Bobby Portis is out. I think Goga can handle Brook Lopez.

I've shared a few times (a lot of kittens have died in the meantime) the reasons why I think that starting Cole at PG is a complete franchise failure, and not only for the inability of the FO to improve on that role. - Playing with two high usage guys is not a good fit for him (or for anyone else needing the ball in his hands) - He's at his best coming off the bench with less offensive talent in the lineup (and worst defenders in the other team). - His defense isn't helping a lot in the start of games and third quarters, were we have huge negative numbers on +/- - He's simply not a PG and will never be. I would understand sticking with that decision if we were producing great numbers with that starting lineup and winning a lot of games... we're not. We're playing awfully, we're completely out of control and losing positions in the standings, we've been plain horrible in a favorable stretch that was meant to be a huge asset to finish the season on a high note. Just make something, try to revert this mess, and starting AB while slotting back Cole in his usual role is the easiest fix in the world, and we seem unable to even do that. Use the added def to up the tempo and have more fastbreaks. I don't care if he's raw, and if he'll have up and downs for sure. At worst, AB will gain reps for the future playing with our two best guys. Or maybe will work and we'll become watchable again. Maybe he'll flourish, I don't know. But please, just do something, anything. I cannot really understand the pleasure in self damaging ourselves that way.

*****ing horrible loss. Coby White going for 44 in our house after we passed on him at the deadline. Fire Weltman tonight

Wow… we’re broken and have forgotten how to win.

Yeah, he’s 2nd in points per game since the all-star break. He’s been great, Franz has been great, turning this thing around shouldn’t be too difficult.

Mose should be in trouble

This is just a bad basketball team as currently constructed. And right now, they are a broken basketball team. I think they won't even make the play-in. Two games in a row you had a team blatantly trying to lose and you still can't win. Like I said, the focus is on the draft right now. Watch, after the game we will hear the same old cliches and rah rah statements.

If I turn on the Magic, the wife leaves the room. I get it. Changes need to happen.

Cole out, Cory Joseph starting at the 1. Why did we spend 2 lotto picks on guards that we don’t feel comfortable playing over Cory Joseph?

I refuse to get excited about the lottery anymore. That time is over. If we are back in the lottery even this year it's a failure. Besides, look at the last two lottery picks. We get the Anthony Black pick, just missing out on a Thompson twin which who i'm sure they really wanted. The Magic finally draft a point guard! But really Black is just another Long Boi. Then we need a shooter and of course it's another Michigan guy. Who else was drafting Jett in the lottery? Answer, nobody! Point guards take a long time to adjust to this league We really needed to hit on one these last 5 or 6 years. Now, if we try to draft one we will be wasting parts of Paolo and Franz prime. We need to make a trade. Funny thing i remembered after thinking all year how hard is it for a franchise to get a point guard. I was thinking about the draft we got Bamba. Another head scratching draft from Hammond and Weltman. I remember this forum hoping Trea Young would fall to our pick. Of course we just miss that pick thanks to Frank freaking Vogel winning the last game of the season the previous year before getting fired. So we draft Mo Bamba, but why? The last idiot Gm did the same thing by trading for Ibaka and signing Biyombo even though our best player was a center! VOOCH! So that year we desperately need a point guard we draft a center. The next two point guards taken are Sexton and SGA. One is going to win MVP this year and Sexton's second year in Cleveland was statistically better then any season a Magic guard has had in the last 10 years! Heck i remember people on this forum wanting us to get a point guard with our second round pick or move up to get one. Four point guards were picked before we got Melvin Frazier including Jalen Brunson. You guys even said he would be a steal if he fell to the second round! And your wondering where i'm going with this, so here it is. You can look at this with every draft except the Paolo,Suggs and Franz drafts. These guys can't draft. I really think they picked Paolo because he was obviously the best college NBA ready big man. Suggs was also a no brainer since he slipped to pick 5. Franz was the only true genius pick and maybe that was just because of the Michigan ties. Rant over.

Mac Mcclung in G-League action last night scored 33 points and drilled the game winner at the buzzer to win the game for the Osceola Magic. It was a 3-pointer. I think he made 4 of them in the game. He did all of this with a broken right thumb. The dude was hitting from outside, inside, all over the place. When he hit the game winner, he screamed with a ton of emotion in the direction of the opponent's bench. Things got pretty chippy after that. I think the teams were exchanging words on their way back to their locker rooms. He just seems like a gritty gutty type of player, in addition to being able to leap over tall people and automobiles. It's a wonder why he has yet to sniff an NBA floor this season. I mean, is he really that bad? The first thing NBA critics will probably point to is him not being a great defender. My reply to that would be "WE NEED PLAYERS WHO CAN PUT THE BALL IN THE BASKET RIGHT NOW!" My apologies for the yelling. It is just mind boggling as to why this dude doesn't get any playing time. I mean at this point, what do we have to lose?