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I’ve been a long time advocate for a point guard also. In fact, it was the biggest concern that I expressed about the trade for Bane, is that he’s not a point guard. But I was told that Bane is a great playmaker, that you don’t need point guards nowadays anyway, that Frantz and Paulo can be the playmakers who set up our offense, that we’re in a new era of positionless basketball, and 100 other things. And then you see today what a fine PG can do, and all those statements above seem a lot less convincing.

I know we’ve said 1 million times that we don’t need a point guard, but every time I watch a good point guard carve up our team, it makes me wonder again. They just make everyone else on their team better, and we badly need that.

On the bright side, at least we broke the win one, lose one, pattern.

Amen to that. And All Eyes and me win our bets!!

Yes. No question about it.

Ok. I added my five bucks on the Magic to win. May as well have some company for our delusions.

Looks like our every other game streak is going to be continuing, unless we suddenly decide to start playing defense.

LOL

That’s an understatement. Different continent, same kind of start. 39 point 1st quarter for Memphis. On the bright side, maybe this means we won’t have an awful fourth quarter, since we’re getting it out of our system now?

Even if that’s the right approach, and it very well might be, I haven’t really seen the kind of flexible mindset that might lead them to try something like that. Maybe that will change, though.

Your post catalyzed me to look it up. Bane for his career until this year is around 41% from three over 5 seasons. This season with the magic, he’s at 33.8%.

We win. Ugly but very much needed. Finally found some defense in 4th quarter

Pelicans scored 33 points in the second quarter and already have 33 points in the third quarter with an about 2 1/2 minutes to go. Really worrisome. Pelicans came into this game being the worst three-point shooting team in the NBA.

Our defense is just non existent in the third quarter

26-26 at the end of 1. We were ahead by around 11 but went on one of our patented scoring droughts.