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    Magic playing another tanking team tonight with half their players out per the injury report.  I expect another easy win.  I just hope the Magic don’t get used to this level of (non) competition.  
     

    NBA really should do something about this.  People pay good money to go to these games.  The game last Saturday, which I attended, fortunately as a guest, was so ridiculous that most people in my suite stopped paying attention midway through the second quarter.  I left before the end of the third.  Again I didn’t pay anything to go, but would have been upset if I did.   Imagine paying big $$ for a Broadway show and having a high school acting group show up to give the performance.  

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    1 hour ago, All Eyes On Me said:

    Cavs and Knicks lose, Heat and Sixers win. It’s getting spicy…

    3. Cleveland 45-30

    4. New York 44-30

    5. Orlando 43-31

    6. Indiana 42-33

    7. Miami 41-33

    8. Philadelphia 40-35

    We’re 2 games ahead of Miami for the division, reminder they have the tiebreaker with us. If we somehow wind up in a 3 way tie for 3rd with Cleveland and NY, we’d be the 3 seed thanks to winning the Southeast division. Gonna be a fun last 2 weeks

    Thank you for putting that all together.  

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    11 hours ago, Jamesdin said:

    This is just an exhibition game tbh. Memphis are full of players that is auditioning and not going to be part of their team next season. Just win but don’t take anything away from it. No false hope that “were back on track”. 
    as I said before, they should still practice their FT shooting focussing on the word “FREE”. 
    Also loosen up a little their muscle under pressure, when in crunch time, they suddenly forget how to play winning basketball which they are really capable. 

    Very good post. 

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    3 hours ago, All Eyes On Me said:

    Any theories on what’s going on with Franz? His game has fallen off a cliff. I know I’ve been banging the fatigue drum, but curious if anybody is seeing anything else.

    Well, I think one obvious answer is that other teams are giving both Franz and Paulo a lot more attention than they were earlier in the season. They figured out that if you double team either of them when they have the ball, sometimes they’ll continue to attack anyway and turn the ball over. Or they may wind up forcing a bad shot. 
     

    I think that’s at least part of it.  Doesn’t explain everything, such as the drop in his three point shooting.  
     

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    I expect us to win tonight against the grizzlies, and we’re favored by 13 1/2 points. At this point, I expect the grizzlies are probably in tanking mode. From the injury report, it looks like they’re sitting about 10 players tonight. We should not take undo confidence from whatever collection of G league players we beat up on in this game.

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    8 hours ago, CTMagicUK said:

    ……And you need a bucket end game you just throw it in to him and let him go one on one with one of the greatest perimeter defensive players of all time? No screen? No action? Just your 2nd year guy against a DPOY caliber player? Bizarre…. 

    This seems to be our methodology in the last couple of minutes in close games, no matter who we’re playing against. Dribble it slowly up the court, give the ball to either Paulo or Franz at the top of the key, clear out the area and let them go one versus the other team.  That method has cost us the last three games, and others during the season.  

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    1 hour ago, CTMagicUK said:

    Complaining about Cole after that game specifically is WILD. 

    I was more scared that anyone other than Cole was going to shoot. 

    It worked until the last couple of minutes when everyone, including Cole, started to play hero ball. I don’t fault Cole anymore than the rest of them.  His turnaround fadeaway near air ball with under a minute left kind of sealed the loss for us, though.  

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    7 hours ago, All Eyes On Me said:

    We deserved to lose this one. That first quarter was some of the worst professional basketball I’ve ever seen from an offense. Free throw shooting is a major problem and it’s somehow getting worse. Draymond getting tossed probably hurt us more than it hurt Golden State. The starters were all bad. Again. Franz needs to stop disappearing against good teams. Cole was excellent. We missed an opportunity here… Steph was bad and GSW was on the 2nd night of a back to back while we were on extended rest. Just inexcusable to come out that flat. Im more annoyed by this game than anything… oh well, on to the next one

    Even with all of that, it was a two point game with about two minutes left.  At that point all the guys who want to win the game by themselves started to go one on however many and take bad shots.   It’s at the end of close games when passing is most important that we just stop.  No one trusts their teammates apparently. It’s happened repeatedly.  It’s very aggravating.  

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    14 minutes ago, Shine88 said:

    This team is poorly constructed. We get exposed everytime we go up against a playoff caliber team. You can't win in 2024 when majority of your team is non-shooters. 

    We’re actually shooting the three ball better than Golden State, although that’s not saying much.  Golden State 3-18 from three, we’re 4-17.  Its shots closer to the basket that we’re inexplicably missing tonight.  Might be partly due to the layoff.  Whole team looks sluggish.  

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