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Shout out to Andy Larsson of the Salt Lake Tribune and Kevin Pelton ESPN's resident stat guy who stopped Paolo being unanimous Rookie of the Year by voting Walker Kessler. Some takes are wrong immediately, some take a few years before it becomes apparent they were wrong. And then there are takes that were both wrong at the time and continue to look increasingly more wrong the more that time goes on.

Suggs made The NBA All Defensive Second Team. Go Magic!!!

To all my fellow Magic Fans CONGRATULATIONS! We deserve this for staying fans all these years even when we were awful.

I’m not sure we didn’t offer PG that deal, there was probably a reason he had us set up 3rd in the meeting order and we bounced quickly. There is an argument to be made that Philly’s window is a bit more open than ours the next year or two. I think we also forget just how hard it is to get the perfect pieces for a shot at it all. A lot has to come together to even get one title: - Took Boston 7 years to get it right for Tatum and they had stints with Hayward and Kyrie that failed miserably. -Took Denver 8 years with Jokic. -Golden State needed 6 years to build around Curry.

The reason why people are disappointed with not trading for Murray is he didn’t make a lot and we wouldn't have given up major assets for him. We could easily have him Franz, Suggs, and Banchero without worrying about the luxury tax and keeping most of our picks. Murray makes half of what Paul George makes for example. When are we going to make a move for a ball handler like Paolo wants? We also need way more shooting. These our grown men I don’t care if they aren’t choir boys as far as your locker room point. The off-season isn’t over so I’m not glass half empty yet but so far this has been disappointing. A lot of teams are passing us in The East in my opinion.

Can’t believe the price is takes to get like a tier 3 star in this league, and even that might be generous for Mikal. I’m hoping our fun starts tonight. I’m very much on the side of we have to use our assets and cap freedom while we can this off-season. Standing pat tonight and adding another rookie that won’t crack the rotation is the wrong move. We saw a Pacers team that were better than be aggressive with trades and FA and make the conference finals. We can’t just sit and wait to grow this thing in house, it’s time for our Horace Grant signing. Go get PG or trade for Sexton, Garland, Dejounte or Trae.

https://www.spotrac.com/news/_/id/2234/2024-nba-offseason-financial-previews

Even without money involved, I prefer Garland over Young. Garland has better advanced stats over the past 3 years, and he’s literally 30 pounds heavier, which matters in the postseason. Meanwhile, Young is owed an average of 46MM over 3 years, while Garland is owed an average of 40MM over 4 years. Let me also say I’d love Murray as an option as well. I forgot him on my list.

This is the summer to spend. Franz and Suggs extensions won’t kick in until next summer. Paolo’s Max will kick in the following summer. This is the last time we will have cap space to spend the next few years. They will be able to spend on the core three with no problem at all. That’s pretty much a given those guys get paid. I’d be very disappointed if we didn’t use our cap space this year. We need to sign at least two decent free agents like Monk and Murray. We need some shooting at the very least. I wouldn't trade for 30 million dollar CP3. If we want to trade for someone with that kind of salary I’d hope it would be a real difference maker. If we just run it back it would be a big mistake. The cap is going up also with the new tv deal. Let’s build a contender this summer. Go Magic!!!

I’ve never understood the idea that people don’t believe Paolo is a 1A scorer. “We need another scorer” suggests you want someone who is going to take the ball OUT of Paolo’s hands. When building a TEAM, you can’t just put a bunch of greater scorers together who need the ball. Give me 1 or 2 guys that need the ball in their hands then add 3 guys who play a combination of good defense, make smart passes, and hit open jump shots. THATS IT! Look at the make-up of Denver, Golden State, or Boston as a great template. trading for superstars /big scorers in my mind is overrated. The cost today with the Mitchell, Gobert, and Durant trades are just wild and (IMO) not worth it in the long run. Look at Brooklyn, Phoenix, Chicago, and either LA team. All of them mortgaged their futures to bring in the star scorers on individual teams and IT HASNT WORKED! Why? Because there are little things on the stat sheet that don’t show up that are NEEDED to win - more than just scoring points.

Coach needs to do some soul searching too. His timeout usage, lineups, subs, situational basketball as a whole...all needs improvement.

Just please don't put out an Orlando Sentinel poll asking if fans think Paolo Bachero is worth $200M.

Yup! Counter with Moe and Goga LOL

Shoot better... hit free throws.. come up with the 50 50 balls... and we can win

GO MAGIC!

General, totally baseless, conjecture: The Osceola Magic had the best offense in the G league and are the number 1 seed. Dylan Murphy, the HC of the Osceola Magic, was on our staff last year. Last year the Magic had 6 guys listed as assistant coaches, this year with Nate Tibbets leaving late in preseason and Murphy going down to be the G league HC we only had 4 (according to what I could find publicly, it's highly probable some guys with slight variant job titles were assistant coaches in all but name) What if we deliberately sent Murphy to HC the G league team to get reps designing an offense etc so that we could bring him back as the Offensive coordinator this coming year? (And if this happens, it could bode well for Jett Howard given he's spent all year playing down there) Once again this is one hundred percent baseless conjecture and I drank quite a lot last night lol

it would probably get them banned, but i wish one of the reporters would say hey mose you say the same thing every night. How are You gonna get them to keep moving the ball in the clutch?

I wasn't rude at all, I was sincere. You already know what I think I believe, so the answer is pretty obvious. But if you really want a recap: - better team in the ovest last season already, almost reached the finals even if they're still so young, actually younger than us as we discussed in the past. While we were beated in the first round by a terrible team in a weak est playoffs (except Boston) - Everyone says that they're better than us due to SGA being older than our core and it's true, but forgot how they got him: with a mastermind move our FO doesn't even made in their better dreams. - made two moves in the offseason, and both are perfect to improve even more and correct their defects (you could argue that Harstein has been overpaid, but a lot of players are in FA, and he fits a need) without losing important assets. - When they had cap space, they used it actively to add even more assets than the ones they already have, instead of sleeping on those opportunities and handling overapays to players on short contracts just to fill the cap space as we've done in the last 3/4 years. - everytime they feel they need to improve, they pull the trigger without waiting, waiting, and waiting more. Our FO seem to rely on hopes, they rely in constant activity. They're basically one of the best teams on the NBA while being so young. And they've the most assets of any other team at the same time, arare combination. When the next super-super star is going to be available, they can beat everyone else with their package. As I repeated multuple times in the last months/years, if you want to win a title, being just good is not enough. You need to be great, not only with the roster, with training staff and FO decisions too. They're, we're not. Seems to me enough reasons to be envious.

I don’t care how great our defense is. Great offense beats great defense. That is why this team needs another guy who can put the ball in the basket off the dribble.

KCP is a huge improvement at the starting 2 offensively, defensively and most importantly from an availability standpoint. I understand you’re disappointed in the off-season so far, but I fully believe we’re better now than we were 2 days ago and I’d love to hear an argument how we’re not.

We’ve had a ton of games to evaluate Suggs as PG and it was a disaster. Not sure why this is even up for discussion at this point.

If that’s the course, i’d rather sign Tyus Jones.. At least he can stroke it for real…

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Amen. No question we exceeded expectations for this year. But it doesn't change what many of us were saying at the trading deadline. It was obvious that we had deficiencies at guard. It's even more obvious now, as at least 5-6 people have already posted in one way or another. While this was a great season, I also consider it a missed opportunity, because with one move at the trade deadline I think we win this series and even possibly give Boston trouble. Playoff trips are not guaranteed, and while I hope we do better next year, I'm not taking anything for granted. A key injury or two, for example, could completely derail things for us. Will be an interesting summer. For the first time in a long time, I don't think any of us are too concerned about the draft.

It's far from over. A 9-point deficit can be erased very quickly. They had their fun in the first half. After various adjustments and us protecting the basketball, we come out and dominate in the second half. The series will head back to Cleveland tied up at 2.