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    1 hour ago, Fultz4thewin said:

    He's coming off his worst two games. Just like we can't judge Fournier off the last few games we have to judge Bamba on the entirety of his season. 

    That being said he's not improving and I don't know why. 

    Watching his rookie debut highlights against the Heat he looks like a totally different player. I have no clue how his game is worse today than in his first game.

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    14 hours ago, Bebop Meat Mop said:

    Definitely understand the plan and am on board with it, but there have been some opportunities to add more offensively-skilled players over the past couple years around the margins, NAW being the most recent example.  If the choice of Okeke was driven by being hard-capped then that's fine, but this seemingly slavish devotion to stockpiling long defenders with developmental or limited offense is starting to seem a little self-defeating.  

    When does it stop being an overreaction when a known problem from the previous year looks to be continuing?  15 games?  20?  And has everyone forgotten that much of the Magic's success in the second half of last year was driven by a very soft schedule?

    Okeke isn't a creator but he's a polished offensive player who can shoot from outside and score in the interior.

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    What the hell happened to Gordon the last 3 pre-season games? Just fell off completely. I agree that MCW and Fultz shouldn't be on the court together since the floor gets really tiny. Iwundu at the 3 is a much better fit since he'll at least let it fly from deep. Fultz right now is more or less a taller Briscoe with better passing which is fine for the short-term but he's got a long way to go. 

     

    Kind of worried about Bamba achieving anything past being a solid bench big. Great jumper so he'll always be valuable but his motor on defense and rebounding is unacceptable.

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    MCW's feel on offense is so bad so of course you'd cut him despite his good defense. Fultz is dangerous in space since he's good at getting into the paint and making plays so this minimizes his low gravity from the lack of shooting. That said, he does need to get his mid-range pull-up game going.

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    6 hours ago, ?4thewin said:

    Why? He's a young, efficient, two-way player who can defend 3 positions and space the floor. If given a starting role it seems like he's at least a 15ppg guy. We have a 27 game playoff sample (excluding his rookie year) where he's a 17/5 guy on 48/38/69 shooting. And we have a few second round and ecf games where he's shown some ability to carry an offense. 

    So even if he hits his low end projection and is just shooting guard version of Harrison Barnes, that still seems pretty valuable given a positional group that doesn't have very many two way guys with upside. 

     

    Though if you're basing most of your opinion on how he defended Middleton I get it. He hasn't been able to figure him out. 

    His feel for the game is poor (makes bad decisions a lot) and he can barely dribble. His efficiency isn't that great (middling 3PT% on low attempts, below average foul shooter). I'd rather just hope Fournier gets his %s back up in the short term than hitch our wagon to an expensive role player.

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    I'm just going to be blunt and say anyone advocating a Westbrook trade at this point just doesn't know anything about basketball.

     

    I get that people are unhappy with Vucevic--I guarantee you'll be even more unhappy when Westbrook is on our team and needs to be paid 46 million dollars at age 35. 

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