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How calming is to have a real PG in the game Good game overall tonight! Really impressing how this guys are growing along the road. 4 in a row! I can't believe it!

I'm looking the middle of the court constantly to see if Fultz comes back for Cole

Cole is sucking once again. Really low IQ basketball. I'm ready to move on from him

Thanks for open the thread Is this the 3rd time we meet the Cavaliers this season? Please help me remember, it feels we played a lot against these guys recently Hope to see some more offense from the half-court tonight Go Magic!

Yes! I was longing for this since the beginning of the season. I don't know if it's going to last or if they're gonna play Kelle every 12 games, like TRoss says. I loved that TRoss video,and if we listen to what he says, and what JI said last week... Well, I don't think the players are super happy with the way FO manage things. Anyone alive still thinks we weren't tanking last month? I hope things change from here on out...

I'm watching this one, i lost the last couple. I wasn't expecting to see Markelle, but the starting lineup with Gary and Paolo makes it way better than ten days ago. It's been a fun first half. Brooklyn started with Kyrie, KD and Simmons: they want the game, but they're losing the ball a lot and we got some transition points. Bol is being the most beatiful freak of nature

We can call it the latest Vucevic's assist for the Magic

Jalen's heart giving us the second W this season. I liked the ball movement and the focus the first 30 min. Then we came back to usual, really frustrating at times. But happily faith smiled at us haha. Refs were terrible, I hope they go to jail or something like that. Nice dopamine shot, thanks Jalen

This is absurd. Who says for sure if we tank again (and again) suddenly one day we have the right amount of talent and health to compete and become a championship team? That's not how championship teams are built. This is not how sports work. There's no example of a team who tanked one year after another and then became a dinasty. In the real world you have to compete to grow and make progress as a team, and you have to build a winning culture step by step. I agree with that. How many years our best players are going to wait to this process to get in a winner spot? In the end, the teams that compete win the ring. Point to me serial tanking teams that became dinastys if you think I'm wrong.

Yeah, this is really hard to watch. But I'm trying not to be so hard on these guys: they're all we got avalaible. Blame the FO, they're not letting our actual starters play. I'm not really sure about watching the second half though

I think the FO just gave up on RJ and they're not gonna extended him, so they don't want to play him many minutes. And of course they don't want to win right now, and RJ is playing well. The only other explanation is Mosley hates the kid.

Paolo is listed out for tonight's game vs. Minnesota (4th game in a row) and Wendell is GTD. Obviously no one is coming back (because we are tanking), so we'll probably see a starting five like this: Suggs/Franz/Chuma/Bol/Bamba NOT the season I was waiting for. Kiiiiind of bored of it.

It would be a fxxking blow out

Thanks for open the thread. No Paolo tonight https://twitter.com/khobi_price/status/1592278892164808705?s=20&t=OQqqTMOuZr_8dzMJrtjFMg

Tanking is not really about what coaches and available players do. They want to win, they're trying to compete and show themselves. Tanking is more about what the FO does, for example taking away players from the coaching staff. We have at least two high profile players saying they can play (1 of them has been out for 2 years) but they don't. I mean, we can be excited about the team's and the player's growth but at the same time admit that our FO is tanking again. That's just how I see it

Probably the best team performance so far, IMO. Solid game, proud of these guys :')

Loving Vince Carter on Baley Sports. Good shooting and defense so far. We might have a chance if that goes on... RJ has been great the few minutes he played, again. He deserves more. So bad we are OBVIOUSLY tanking again avoiding our own players to play. If some of the guys there are out were playing tonight this would be a different game.

Great improvement from RJ, he has been very solid off the bench and actually is one of the best ball handlers in the team right now. This season he looks much more in control and he is passing more and better the ball. Great to see that percentages. Of course, he is playing for his next contract (GM didn't extend him).

It's kind of personal with OKC, isn't it? They're also young and our tanking old brothers (?) So bad Chet isn't playing

Also, Mosley just took two time-outs during the final run and let the same guys play the whole 4th quarter. They were tired. And Suggs really out of rhythm

7:26 Wendell Carter Jr. makes 26-foot three point jumper (Paolo Banchero assists) ORL 104 OKC 93 That was our last field goal, WCJ 7'26 to go in the 4th. Then a 23-4 run (i had to check because it was too hard to believe)

No field goals in the last 7 minutes. This.was.awful.

Harris/Suggs/RJ/Chuma/Bamba It's probably the dumbest line up ever. And they cost us a 2-14 run. Ouch.

Halftime. Good news is we are shooting well tonight. If we can stop giving away the ball every two possession would be just great. Go Magic

Another frustrating game to watch. Banchero was great again and Franz had some really good passages, but the team doesn't move the ball at all and everybody is taking bad shots all over the court. Cleveland is also really good at defense and Allen tonight was a force, I don't want to know how many offensive rebounds he had