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That was ridiculous wasn’t it

Fultz just made a jumper but it still had a hitch and overall almost all his scoring is right next to the basket. Even the short range jumper doesn’t look good.

For all the hyperbole, we’ve corrected our defense after the first quarter and we’re right in it.

We gave up 38 in the first quarter. If we don’t correct that immediately we don’t have a chance

In fairness they blew us out when we were missing half our team, with Houstan and Okeke and Goga in the starting lineup. Having said that I have no idea how to assess this game either. We could stay competitive and maybe steal a win, or we could get blown out again.

I never bet against the Magic, because why would I bet against the team I’m rooting for? Having said that, there are some Magic games I just don’t bet on at all, and this will be one of them.

Don’t know about hilarious but will certainly be a chance to see how it turns out. If we don’t improve our record significantly compared to the past month or six weeks going forward, we aren’t making anything. Again win tonight was over a ten win team and it got to within three points in the fourth.

You mean on the bench and mostly not playing?

Hopefully they make the post season. Let’s not overdo the ups and downs after each game. Tonight we beat a ten win team but not without some tense moments late in the 4th. Lack of a good all around point guard who can shoot is an obvious shortcoming for this team. We ought to try to improve in that area if we can.

I noticed the same thing.

Our defense much better this quarter. Guys seem to have woken up.

Yep. Because the starters were hard to watch. Having Markelle start instead of Isaac hasn’t done us any favors so far.

They have 28 points with 2:45 left first quarter. Apparently San Antonio is an offensive juggernaut.

Carter playing hard, everyone else seems sluggish.

Lousy start

Isaac not starting tonight with Markelle back in the lineup

Well put. I guess we’ll put Isaac on Wemby to hopefully slow him down. Looking forward to a good Magic game and not a lot of nailbiting at the end :)

Only Gary Harris out (Jett and other Harris assigned to G league) per today’s injury report. Magic favored by 4.5 currently.

I was going to post this but you beat me to it. Not counting the final free throw which Paulo did a good job of intentionally missing, he was 6/10 for the night on free throws. That’s a problem, given how many free throws he takes, as CT pointed out above.

I think that’s the rule, or maybe it’s the whole episode rather than the particular foul.

They owed him two free throws for the regular foul and two more for the flagrant aspect but I don’t believe you can get more than 3 points from free throws for any particular foul.

Don’t forget that until now, he hasn’t played in any back to backs at all. Not surprising they wanted to see how that went the first time with very limited minutes. I think the strategy was to get us into good shape for the second half, which did happen. The team should not have collapsed like they did in the third quarter. I’ve rarely seen anything like it in pro basketball. Outscored 35-12?

I agree. Yes we’re better than our previous teams that collectively had the very worst cumulative W-L record in the NBA over the past 10 years, but that’s an extremely low bar. I too want to see this team live up to their potential.

It’s not relevant to what I said.

Wasn’t Trevelin Queen the G League MVP recently? Unfortunately you just can’t reliably extrapolate performances in that league to the NBA.