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I’m not sure watching the game will make you feel better, unfortunately. Please remember that even the very worst team in the league has about a one in two chance of getting pick 5, and only a 14% chance of getting the first pick.

I never want any player to be injured but I don’t think having Hampton off the floor makes us worse.

That’ll happen when you give up 47. At that pace the other team scores 188 in the game.

If they stay ahead he might be done

Mosley isn’t there, I don’t believe

So much for this game. Looked good for awhile

No sooner do we write off Mo in this forum and then he does this

All reasonable points

Anthony is way too inconsistent right now to be considered any kind of star. For every game he helps us win, he helps us lose 3-4 others. Still early in his career, of course. We don’t need one guy to monopolize the ball in the second unit either, whether it’s Anthony or Ross. One of the reasons I enjoyed watching most of the Lakeland starters play as our second unit was that they played as a team. And we won proportionally substantially more games with them as our second unit than with our “normal” team. Two of our grand total of 8 wins in 43 games came with them as our second unit, and they were only in that role for 5-6 games at most.

I agree. What's the harm in giving Mo Wagner more time on the floor? He might be better than we think, and even if he isn't, obviously Lopez isn't the future. I had the same question about Gravett. Are the Magic afraid some of these guys will turn out to be as good as some of the players we're playing now and therefore they'll have difficult personnel decisions? Why are we giving Hampton time at PG instead of Gravett? BTW, Mo Wagner had the best +/- on the team last night at +12. All the starters and Bamba were in the negative double digits.

They would be a lot different.

Ball movement was better except for some hero ball in the last few minutes again.

Terrible. Sincere condolences to you and your family.

They’re not going to anyone. They give the ball to someone and then they play solo ball and take a difficult shot. Franz is just not as selfish as some of the others. Appears to be another close game tonight. Big question to me is whether we will play any kind of team ball in the last few minutes.

Not enough teamwork in general. I don’t want to see Wagner going 1 v 2 or 1 v 3 either.

Absolutely, could not agree more.

To me it’s more the lack of any teamwork than who you’re giving it to for them to go solo against the other team.

Next play: back to Anthony for a solo effort, puts up an air ball on a contested 3. No teamwork once again.

Detroit passing the ball and making plays at the end of the game with the score close. The Magic giving it to Anthony and having him try to make solo plays against the whole Piston team. Apparently we just don’t believe in team basketball at the end of games. Edit: we just gave it to Ross instead, his turn to go solo I guess, and he went 1v 2 and missed.

I can’t imagine anyone would trade for Isaac right now. For all we know, he’ll never play again.

You can be a fan and hope the team gets better without wanting to make the investment in time and driving to go in person. Especially if some of you are right and they’re purposely not putting their best players out in order to try to lose, something I still don’t believe. Management has some responsibility also. You can be a fan of musical plays, for example, and still not go to see a terrible production. Not fair to expect even fans to put up with an inferior team year after year after year.

Why would anyone want to make the effort go see this team? I wouldn’t go if someone gave me tickets for nothing. Can’t put out a product like this and still expect fans to fill the arena.

Calling any of our players stars right now is very premature

You could also argue we are letting them develop bad habits which makes things worse over time.

Basketball careers don’t last forever