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    2 hours ago, All Eyes On Me said:

    The guards have killed us tonight. Combined 3-29. Harris, Fultz, Cole combined 0-16. We can’t win like that.

    Only 11 turnovers, Paolo has freakin 8 of em lol

    As others have said repeatedly, guard play was the difference today.  We need a quick point guard to help break down the defense, and some better more consistent three point shooting.  With either one I think we have a solid chance.  With neither it’s tough.  
     

    This was evident to most of us at the trading deadline.  

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    Phenomenal game yesterday, especially after the slow start which could have demoralized them but didn’t.  Lots of credit to Mosley for getting them to play with the necessary energy and focus after the first quarter.  Definitely one of the top five high points in my long suffering fan relationship with the Magic. Felt great after watching that game.  

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    Yes I agree with what everyone is saying about our exceeding expectations this season.  That being said, a potential playoff run is a terrible thing to waste.  There’s never any guarantee you get back there next year.  It’s why, if we meekly lose in the first round or don’t even make the playoffs, I’ll consider this an opportunity that was missed.  
     

    We had a good idea what we needed at the trade deadline, and didn’t do anything to improve.  

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    36 minutes ago, All Eyes On Me said:

    I guess we can’t have a 100% track record lol but I do appreciate the conversation. I guess my point isn’t that everyone sucks, but more so that nobody can really pass on this team and it makes us easy to collapse on. Gary is only going to shoot if he’s wide open and he’s not going to create his own shot or set somebody up for a shot. Same with Suggs, obviously same with Wendell. It’s extremely possible that we’re letting Paolo be the main distributor in the half court as a developmental thing, kind of like hiding Jett from real competition all year. It’s not a winning strategy at all, but I think it’s what we’re stuck with for the rest of this year until roster improvements are made, so maybe I’m just trying to mentally prepare myself haha.

    JJ Redick wasn’t a great one on one player either but he got more that 3 shots per game.  My point is that we need team offense to make everyone better, not give it to Franz/Paulo and have everyone else standing around  watching. Adding more shooters to the roster won’t help if we can’t figure out ways to get them decent looks.

    I appreciate the conversation also.  We agree about 99% of the time but it probably makes for more interesting discussion when we don’t.  

    We are 7-8 point underdogs for tonight.  It’s hard to see how we win this game the way we’ve been playing lately, but stranger things have certainly happened.  

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    On 4/11/2024 at 10:37 AM, All Eyes On Me said:

    Serious question tho Albert… with the current talent disparity on this team and Franz out injured, what’s the alternative if we’re hoping to compete. I agree with you that we’re more effective when we can run, but teams aren’t letting us, we’re not doing a great job forcing turnovers and we’re doing a horrible job on the defensive glass. Our half court offense has to be “let Paolo cook” because we simply don’t have guys that can create in the half court other than Paolo and Franz. Our struggles over the last couple weeks we saw coming a mile away and it’s why the vast majority of us were so upset when we didn’t do anything at the trade deadline. I’m trying not to bury us this season, but if we somehow wind up fully collapsing and missing the play-in, this season went from being an overwhelming success to a meh…

    I’m a silver linings guy most of the time, so if we wind up in the play-in and win, that’s more games! Woo! Also, recent struggles make me more confident that Weltman and Parker will actually make a move this off-season.

    This is one of your rare posts that I disagree with.  I pointed out recently how Harris, during one of our losses, despite starting and playing 30 minutes, only got 3 shots the whole game (and hit two of them, both three pointers).  Giving the ball to Paulo at the top of the key and hoping he can ISO against all five of the other team is not a winning strategy.  Great players make the other players on their teams better, not worse.  Our only chance is to play better team basketball and run plays to open players up for shots.  The idea that everyone else besides Paulo sucks and therefore he has to have the ball in his hands all the time doesn’t fly from my standpoint.  I see it as an excuse to explain bad offensive execution.  
     

    Add:  by the way, when you look at our last three losses, Paulo had the worst +\- of anyone on our team for two of the three (-19, -20).  So it’s not exactly like he’s making us way better when he’s out there.  

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    34 minutes ago, All Eyes On Me said:

    4 straight turnovers on 4 straight possessions is just so laughably inexcusable in a game like this… I’m on edge tonight y’all, I apologize 

    And even worse they were mostly unforced.  Passing to someone’s back.  Passing to where you thought there was a chance someone might be.  Dribbling into traffic.  It’s almost like we were trying to turn the ball over.  

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    28 minutes ago, All Eyes On Me said:

    Franz being out is brutal. We need Jalen to clamp Dame and hopefully the excitement of fan appreciation night and the last home game of the season doesn’t fuel Milwaukee’s role players with too much momentum. It shouldn’t be the same as Houston last night because Milwaukee will have playoff games 

    Truly have no idea at all what to expect tonight.  We could win by 20 or get blown out. Or maybe it will be close.  Absolutely no idea at all.  

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    5 hours ago, CTMagicUK said:

    Paolo Banchero frustrates the ***** out of me. Defense fluctuates from ok to just outright terrible and he gives up so many offensive rebounds by ball watching. Then his offense is hindered by his incessant need to catch and survey every single time he touches the ball. Whenever he's quick and decisive he makes stuff happen and yet it's consistently catch, hold, dribble dribble dribble. In this game I watched him take a pull up jumper over Fred Vanvleet. A 5'11 man. Versus a 6'10 one. And he took a pull up jumper. It's just baffling. And also, please, can he stop the "aaayyy" whenever he drives the lane. It is so *****ing annoying hearing that scream and knowing he's going to be jogging back on defense looking at the refs while his teammates play defense. And honestly I think he plays incredibly selfish basketball in spurts. Even when he's assisting it sometimes feels very deliberately like he's trying to get an assist versus always making the best basketball read.

    Wendell I'm so baffled by, he's been so bad this season. Couldn't make an impact as the only "big" on the floor. Barely even challenges shots at the rim. His teammates no longer seem to trust him to score offensively because nobody ever passes to him in the post even with deep position (which is not necessarily just a him issue). He doesn't really give you spacing because teams still give that jumper up to him every time. 

    Has this team just decided we're not bringing Goga back? Because how does he not warrant any minutes with Wendell doing nothing and Mo Wagner playing consistently trash defense (but still giving considerably more energy and threat on offense than Wendell gave us) 

    Cole did nothing. 

    Markelle I find it hard to accurately judge his impact, he was good in a vacuum and he kind of has this way about him where he makes the fact that the defender sags off him into an advantage by being halfway to the rim before he sees a body. But I still think that hurts his teammates spacing as much as it doesn't necessarily hurt him as a driver. Defense and effort was good out of him though as usual. 

    I am still actually very scared that this front office will run this exact team back (sans Chuma for a rookie or something). 

     

    24 minutes ago, Soul Bro said:

    Agree about Paulo. If he’s going to lead this team, he still needs to grow as a two-way player, ball mover, and in shot selection.

    Agree with both of you, and would have given +1's but it won't let me for some reason (I haven't used any recently so it must be a glitch).  I would add my above points about Harris  to CT's post, I think it all fits together.

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    8 hours ago, fan for too long 2 said:

    Harris is a bad version of t Ross. One good game every two weeks ain’t cutting it. Cole is exactly who he has always been. Talented but a very low ball iq, plays hero ball, and feel for the game is just bad. Surprising since his dad was a very smart player. 

    In fairness to Harris, he only took 3 shots last night and made 2 of them, and they were both 3 point shots.  It goes back to a number of posts I made during the game. We are not moving the ball sufficiently.  Why is arguably our best 3 point shooter, who is starting, only getting 3 shots the whole game (he played over 30 minutes)??  Do we not have any schemes designed to get him some shots?

    Way too many Iso's and overdribbling.  It's kind of the same story over and over again, at least against teams that can play defense.

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    Just forced three or four possessions in a row.  Anthony, Isaac, and Ingles all took difficult shots instead of moving the ball.  When we stop sharing it, we aren’t very good.  
     

    Actually misstated the above.  Isaac was trying to go one on one, over dribbled, and lost it without getting a shot.  

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    2 hours ago, fan for too long 2 said:

    Yes they should pick the best players regardless of how much money they make. But are they really going to sit a million dollar player when they think the undrafted guy is better. It takes balls of steel to go against the gm’s commitment to a guy and it’s very easy to just play the paid guy. And this scenario doesn’t even factor bad player evaluations. 

    Why do you think the higher paid players make more money?

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    1 hour ago, fan for too long 2 said:

    Playing time is based on who’s opinion? And that opinion is biased by contract size and the judgement of 20-30% of coaches who get fired every year. To say they don’t get playing time because their play is not worthy, is naive. If coaches and gm’ were infallible, then I would agree, but that is clearly not the case. 

    That’s kind of a silly argument.  Since they’re not infallible, they shouldn’t try to figure out who gives them the best chance to win?  Should they just pick the players at random, maybe have a lottery or something?

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