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I know people replied before to my "Magic should sign Konchar" with negativity when I first said it. But he's a perfect fit for this Magic team as an end of bench guy who can functionally give you good, wing sized, point of attack defense in a world where Suggs or Franz is hurt (the only time you regularly play a 14th-15th man anyway is when you have injuries). One of the biggest downgrades from KCP to Bane (in what was an overwhelmingly positive trade, this is not me re-legislating that deal) was the loss of KCP's POA defense. We compounded that by adding Tyus Jones. We later fixed the Jones aspect by swapping Jones for Carter but Carter can only guard 1s due to size. AB didn't really step up as much in the POA regard as we'd probably have hoped given his 24/25 season. His defense was still mostly good overall but took a little step back in my opinion as he took more offensive usage and I think he died on ball screens too much from (my probably hazy) memory. The Magic, the way they are built, need to be good at the POA because unlike the Spurs, Sweeney doesn't have Wemby to erase everything and there isn't an All time defensive eraser walking through that door either. The Magic are at their best when they are rugged at the POA, pressuring ball handlers and forcing turnovers so they can get out and run. Konchar can give you 10 mins of that in January when Suggs is hurt. Konchar is a bad shooter. Sure I get it. I think anyone who doesn't shoot great is going to be met with distain by this fan base now but I'd be all for signing him and I think it'd be a good move.

Suggs was a 4 star recruit in football as a QB before picking basketball I think. Paolo I think was also a HS QB but gave it up earlier to focus on football.

Had someone in here telling us how Bane was a mistake and we should have just drafted Walter Clayton Jr now he's getting cut after 1 year in the league lol. (For real though we should try and add him)

There'll be 59 I imagine yes. And I don't really care about 5 yet to be determined teenagers versus the integrity of the whole league.

Punishing the Clippers was the right move. The aim is to stamp this out and discourage teams from ever doing this in the future and id say 5 first round picks, 30mil and year long suspensions for key personnel will do that. Was the Kawhi/PG combo the single worst team decision of all time? Cost them 10 first round picks and SGA. The reputation of their franchise. 30mil in fines on top of the salaries of the two players. And they won 3 playoff series total in 7 years.

The Magic should sign John Konchar.

When this Ballmer investigation comes to an end and inevitably nothing happens I'm going to have a very hard time caring about the NBA.

There are pictures going around of Franz, Paolo, Bane, Jevon and Vuc at dinner too. Seems like everyone is connecting on the ramp up towards training camp.

Probably.

Schroeder is the the most classic example of "good enough to be valuable, bad enough where you would basically always be willing to trade him for a roster upgrade"

You wanted Suggs more. The thread still exists.

Not really sure why we want to go back over 2021 NBA draft discourse. The only player worth selecting over Suggs in that draft (who had a reasonable chance of being picked top 5 based on the pre-draft process) was Franz... Who we also drafted.

This is a pretty fair and thoughtful little blurb on Paolo.

Paolo to Golden State has to be the most bull**** rumour ever. For what? Steph? They've not got anything else id want.

Keith Smith I believe has alluded to a lot of apron adjacent teams with one roster spot available leaving those spots open for in season flexibility so I expect we're set at the 14 we've got.