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    58 minutes ago, Jay Magic said:

    i want to finish 6th.. or 8th

    I am deeply confused by your desire to see our team destroyed by Giannis.

    Toronto games:

    1. Lose at the last second to a healthy- if still gelling- Raptors

    2. Win by blowout a healthy Raptors

    3. Win by 15 over a Kawhi-less Raptors

    4. Lose to Raptors

    Philly:

    1. Lose by one in a very close game- late Redick 3 pointer, then Gordon fouled and almost ties the game up.

    2. Beat Philly by 5 with their shiny new toy Butler.

    3. Lose by 8 to an Embiid-less 76er team.

    4. Win by 21 to a Ben Simmons-less team.

     

    This shows that with Philly and Toronto, we are at least able to keep it close when we play their full team, and we have the chance for a victory. We get destroyed by Milwaukee when they have Giannis.

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    1 hour ago, ML6 said:

    Went back and re-read Zach Harper's SE division preview.  Among other characteristic snarky comments, here's what he put in the 'ceiling/floor' section:  "Maybe the Magic can crack 30 victories.  If they approach 35 in the horrible East, they should throw a parade.  The floor for them is ending up with the worst record in the NBA."

    From what I can find, no one thought we would be around where we are.Kevin O'Conner might have been the most positive as he said we'd be fighting for a low playoff seed at best (which we are), but didn't give an exact prediction. Zach Lowe was another guy that was a little more positive, and by that I mean he said he could imagine the best version of the Magic being a 35 win team, but that he didn't see it.

    If we are more fair to all of these guys though, most of us were more pessimistic at the beginning of this year. 

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    Fivethirtyeight's algorithm can't decide who it likes more between Miami and us for making the playoffs. Every game it switches its prediction. Of course there is still the non-zero chance that we both make it and Brooklyn is knocked out.

    1 hour ago, ?4thewin said:

    Miami faces more difficult teams than we do

    I think it isn't that far off. We have 4 true playoff teams, one team on the edge, one team that always plays us tough, and two bottom feeders. The Heat play 4 true playoff teams, 2 teams on the edge (depending on how you feel about the Nets, that could be 5 payoff teams), 2 west lotto teams that aren't complete bottom feeders in the Timberwolves and the Mavericks, and the Knicks.

    I think it will come down to the wire and tonight's game might be the most important game of the year for us.

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    9 minutes ago, ?4thewin said:

    Nah. We tried giving briscoe the job in game 3 and he looked horrible. Worse than Grant. He was a different player in late January than he was in November. 

    Iwundu probably could have taken Simmons' minutes from game 1 but I'm not sure if that really results in more wins. 

    I also think Iwundu has been the better player this year- but would we have been able to get Fultz for Simmons + a low first if Simmons had been benched?

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    6 hours ago, Mauro Pedrosa said:

    We have disagreed somewhat in other topics, but I couldn't agree more. I'm DONE with this core, and have been for years. This season it looked like the tide might finally change, even I was fooled with a little hope, but once again we'll miss the playoffs.

    As I've said before, I don't mind taking a small step back if it means we start playing like a damn modern NBA team, with ball movement, length, defense, shooting, effort, physicality, etc.

    We have the players to do it

    Yeah, we are not playing in a style that best suits our supposed "future". Defensively, we have mostly been fine, but I think the last game just illustrated a lot of the offensive issues that this team has. How many desperation last second shots were there? Outright bad passes directly to the opposition? Sloppy, forced play?

    Also, Gordon needs to pick up his offense. He is shooting below 40% for the month so far. With his skill around the basket, this percentage should frankly be unacceptable. Honestly, it is frustrating to see him again having a below average efficiency shooting season.

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    1 hour ago, ?4thewin said:

    The NBA stats play type categories are back. 

    DJ is in the 98.5 percentile in spot up shooting

    Gordon is in the 97th percentile in defending isolations

    For Gordon, that is a total of like 45 possessions, which seems like a pretty small sample size. (The defensive numbers seem off though. No one, according to the NBA has defended more than 175 iso possessions. Yet 10 players have more than 200 offensive iso possessions, with Harden having over 1000 already.)

    Ross is in the 92nd percentile of pick and roll ball handlers, while seeing 3.3 per game. He is also in the 88th percentile for spot up shooting.

    Scary one: Vuch is in the 44th percentile for post up players, while posting up over 5 times a game.

    In fact, none of our players should post up as they are all terrible at it. Vuch's 44th percentile is actually the highest. Gordon: 32nd. Bamba: 14th. Isaac: 5th. Thankfully neither Isaac nor Bamba do it frequently at all. Gordon on the other hand has about 140 post ups on the year.

    Interesting super small sample size items: Vuch and Isaac are both in the 97th percentile for iso scoring. (neither has more than 30 possessions.)

     

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    1 hour ago, TrueBlueDrew said:

    So has anyone ever compared Vucevic and Cousins? 

    I was watching their matchup last night and thought that the skill-set was similar. Cousins is a little more of a power-big where Vooch plays with more finesse...but they have similar games. 

    They've been in the league about the same length. Demarcus averages more points but blocks, assists, and rebounds are all 1% or less between each other. Vooch has the better shooting percentages. 

    Just thought that was a really interesting matchup to watch. Both have the capability to be a liability on defense too. 

    The Comparison Link

    I prefer Vuch for all of the personality related issues that have plagued Cousins his entire career.

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