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Always nice to win the ugly ones, but that was gross! 9-1 stretch without Paolo is incredible and unexpected. We’re 12-7 and 3rd in the East!! We’ve got 7 more games left until that “bye week” where we’re off from Dec 9 - 18. Most of those games are on the road, but there aren’t any world beaters in there, so if we go 4-3 or 5-2 in that stretch, we’re looking at 17-9 or 16-10 through 26 games and maybe getting Paolo back and a nice home stand through the end of the year starting on Dec 19. Sky’s the limit, Go Magic

Magic last 5 opponents: 86 PTS 90 PTS 89 PTS 94 PTS 88 PTS They are absolutely suffocating teams right now

I guess I'm not in the half then because I certainly wouldn't have benched one of the best defensive players in the NBA for Tyus Jones.

Actually we only have that week off if we don't clinch a spot in the Cup's Quarter Finals. And we are in a good position to do it!

That was one of the worst games of basketball I've ever seen. We were terrible on offense and Charlotte were somehow worse. A win is a win though. Tough night for Tristan. They dared him to beat them and when he missed a few in a row he got hesitant and then they could sag all the way off him. Similar thing happened with Black. And they were selective with it too, they ran KCP and Jett off the line all night. It bit them a little bit because Jonathan Isaac just kept shooting them and eventually got a couple to go. Smart defense from the Hornets though really, they seem well coached on that end, if they weren't so incredibly loose with the ball they'd have likely won that game but they had like 500 turnovers. Against these not great teams our defense is often enough but still you'd like to not be totally inept on offense.

The only thing I agree with you is that we have two great young stars. But that doesn't imply that we won't make any transfers to improve the team, just for fear of messing with the dynamics. No team in our situation thinks like that. If there are players that don't fit the long-term project, or if there are players you think you can trade for others who are better, you do it. It's a long-term construction. Because no, we are not a contending team this year. We have one of the strongest young core in the league, we have a lot of potential, but if you look at 2 minutes of what usually happens in history, you will see that there are no teams that come out champions with their stars at 22 and 23 years old. It ALWAYS takes longer. Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited about this team and I think that in many ways this year means a big step forward for the team. But to say that makes us a contender is simply a lie or a very silly analysis. I also don't understand the WCJ extension, it wasn't necessary and now we can't transfer him, when we probably would want to. What I see from Cole Anthony makes me think that a transfer would be better not only for the team, but also for him. Gary Harris should be out before the market closes, I've seen enough and would rather see his minutes get TDS, Jett or any player who can shoot and make threes. That being said, there probably won't be any trades in the end, at least not major ones this season, because that's not the FO's style.

What an unbelievable God damn win. Franz Wagner is a god damn super star. League better look out because we've got two of em.

https://x.com/OM_AudioNetwork/status/1859849075350438263?t=c0IXPzrXXtgz7QQRJpFFMw&s=19 This is the best commentary on Franz winner... GOOSEBUMPS

Franz Wagner has *****ing arrived!!! What a dub!

OH MY *****ING WORD!!!!!!! IM IN TEARS!!! MY DOGS ARE BARKING COZ I SMASHED MY CUP OF TEA HAHAHA FRANZ I *****ING LOVE YOU!!!

That's cool. But your anecdotal story of one person, yourself a non-pro player, isn't going to convince me that a guy who's been in the NBA for 7 seasons and has never been a good defender will suddenly become one. Chauncey Billlups, whatever you think of him as a coach or a man, was a part of some of the best defenses of all time. I find it hard to believe he doesn't expect his players to play good defense.

Boston last year..

I don’t exactly know what happened, but I reached out to Dan Savage and he had it fixed. We are back in the game! Let’s go!

I am here at Kia Center!! Welcome back TBN!!

Why so disrespectful? It is reported that he is available. Probably so they can tank for Flagg, Bailey or Harper and also want to avoid overpaying him on an extension. Cam Johnson and DFS and Schroeder are also reported to be available via trade..

If Jalen and KCP can hit open threes when Paulo returns, and if AB can do the same, we are true contenders. A lot also depends on health, too. Love cheering on this team!

Leading to the playoffs, Fultz revealed that he still had small fractures in his left knee. Fultz previously tore the ACL in his left knee. “I was told today that he’s dealing with injury stuff and that’s what has prevented him from being signed,” reported Jake Fischer during his Tuesday evening chat alongside Marc Stein. – via RealGM praying for Kelle. I wonder if injury stuff can be translated to TOS. I debated this before on here. IMO he was dealing with TOS again and that’s why we saw the hitch and all that avoiding shots.

Charlotte is trying their best to lose this one. But we kind of don't want it either xD

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2024/11/22/24303246/franz-wagner-orlando-magic-los-angeles-lakers-game-winner You should read this. It's great.

We sure are brother. Die hard we are

I was curious and did some number crunching. We’re currently shooting a league worst 30.5% from behind the arc on the season. On 38 attempts a game!! But what got me curious was the fact that we have a guy who’s been out for 2/3 of the season who might play a pretty important role for us. So… In the 4 games Paolo was healthy pre injury, we shot 63/168 from deep. 37.5%. This would put us in 11th place in the league, just ahead of the Lakers. I didn’t include the Chicago game Paolo got hurt in because he got hurt early and it affected the entire team. That game was dreadful from deep, 11-46… * yikes… This means in the 12 games Paolo has been out or hurt, we’ve gone an ice cold 123/442 from beyond the arc. 27.8%… no kapaya’s to be found. To me this is due to a bunch of reasons, Paolo takes a lot of burden off a lot of guys and they play more free, making things like open shots less stressful. Also, obviously the defensive attention he attracts makes for more open looks. What we’ve been able to do without him, especially defensively has been amazing and I love that we’re keeping our heads above water with him out, but to unlock our full potential we need our young King back! Go Magic!

Just FYI on this. I don't think there's anything anybody can do. I've got the same issue and in fact a lot of the functionality of the forum doesn't really work for me. And I'm a mod and I can't see any special buttons to press to fix this kind of thing. Admittedly I almost exclusively access the forum by phone, not sure if that'd change on a desktop browser. If there was a fix it would likely require an admin and don't think any of them are active anymore. But honestly it's probably that this is an old forum not well equipped to deal with modern browsers.

Anthony Black has been holding opponents to 39.1% FG and 25.8% 3PT this season. Both rank first among all guards Via Twitter

He sure is looking that way

Wow! Good to see the website back :) I was starting to think that it was all gone