Emory889
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I'm honestly pretty over the Lebron hatred at this point. And I'm completely good with a long suffering fan base finally having something to celebrate. People in Cleveland have been miserable for a long time. I'm kind of pulling for them.
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I think most realistic fans of the Magic just want a fun Magic team to watch with the understanding that they are still going to lose more games than they are going to win. The preseason is hinting that this might be the case.
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No talk about us on NBA TV. Come at them with a surprise!
If you were the producer of NBA TV, would you talk about us? I bet not if you answered honestly.
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We have a lot of guards on the roster that have the potential to be pretty good this year. It will be interesting to see how playing time is divided.
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Makes sense. The defense has a chance to be really good quickly. The offense is probably going to be ugly for a little while.
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Maybe if they were black......I'm really not a fan of the gray.
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The move just does nothing to give the team any sense of (positive) direction or identity. On paper, strictly speaking, you're correct.
Until we actually see how the signing translates to the court, the only arguments that can be made are "on paper". How can we know if the signing will be positive or good for the team identity until we see the team on the court?
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It really is a different situation with Vaughn and this Magic team than it was with Doc and that Magic team. When you look at Doc's team now, the talent surrounding McGrady was absolutely atrocious but it was a playoff team. There were higher expectations placed on that team than there should have been. That's not the case with this team. I don't expect anything but gradual improvement this year and I actually expect they will stumble out of the gate with the tough opening schedule and with several rookies trying to adjust to the NBA game. Anyone looking to reconsider the coach or GMs job status based on the first 10 to 20 games of the season should probably lower their expectations drastically.
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It's tough when the Magic really haven't been consistently good enough to develop those rivalries. I'd say the closest we have had were Detroit and Boston but both of those were rather one-sided. If the fans of your "rivals" don't absolutely despise your team, then you aren't rivals. I don't think anyone in Boston or Detroit give a crap about the Magic.
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The conversations will pick up in a month.
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I'll be disappointed if the record is about the same as last season. I'm expecting to see between 30 and 35 wins.
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Wow, that was a good article.
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Now that the NBA has managed to give Cleveland all the picks and payback for Lebron leaving maybe we might get some NBA love from Silver.
Stop being stupid.
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do we really have to go through each player and what package each fetched? Nobody is judging the GM so why you even bring that up...you're defending something that hasn't even been said.
It's worth being brought up for the sake of conversation. There's been like 10 posts on this forum in the past two weeks.
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It's hard to say how Wiggins and Bennett will turn out for the Wolves but its hard to imagine them getting better value for Love then what they did. If the only argument is, "they didn't get the superstar in the trade" then that is stupid. Honestly, I think Love is a very good player, and will be a good fit next to Lebron, but he is vastly overrated. Superstar players don't play on teams that consistently don't make the playoffs. They just don't.
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Maybe WARP has its place in a discussion but it doesn't seem to be a very reliable way to rank players at certain positions.
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What branch were you in? I was in the Navy from 2000-2004
Air Force. 98 to present.
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Born in Detroit, Michigan... lasted in the cold weather a whole 6 months and relocated to Orlando Florida. Iived and grew up all over Orlando, 3 Elementary Schools, 6 Middle Schools and 2 High Schools (University and Boone). I was once a Orlando Police Explorer in 93 and work for the ATF as a underage operative in 94.
Became a Magic fan by the love of basketball (I played everywhere, all day long), watched when they were our first NBA team in 89.And I also collected basketball cards throughout the years, I have so many rookie cards (Kobe, Tim, Iverson, Wade, Melo, Shaq, Webber, etc). I will have to say that is odd to see basketball cards of players that are now coaches.
Left for the Marines in 98 but took my Magic (and Detroit Lion) pride with me every where I went. I finished my duty in 2004, where I picked up as a Cyber Security guy. Now im 34, just hit it this month. I started my own company called securetelligence, where im creating a home security technology.
That's interesting. We joined the military in the same year.
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So does anyone think the rumor of AA and our two firsts for the #1 may have been near to complete when Cleveland got wind of the Lebron/Love possibility and backed out. You never know.
I think its pretty far fetched for a multitude of reasons.
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Only if the lakers don't end up with a bottom 5 pick this year, which there is a strong chance they will. If that happens then it is 2 second rounders for us.
That is a possibility but I think there's a good chance that they will be just good enough to avoid the bottom 5. I'm being optimistic.
What protections are on the pick if it does turn out to be a first round pick that they give us?
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Yeah we had some terrible picks as well. Jeryl Sasser, Reece Gaines, Justin Harper, Daniel Orton, Fran Vasquez
And so has just about every team in the league. You just don't think about them as much because you don't follow those teams.
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I don't see us making playoffs, but it would not stun me to be an 8th seed.
We are going to have to see these guys play to have a real idea of what this team will do. There were a ton of changes made so we are just staring at paper until training camp and preseason starts up.
I think the Magic had some insight on the lottery changing and realize they can potentially still get a top 5 pick even if they finish 9th or 10th.
And the Magic have the Lakers pick in two years which could be a pretty good one.
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Is Frye the only player we signed that didn't have a relationship with Perry? Or is he somehow connected to him too?
I don't think Ridnour did.
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And being right every time when we do draft in the top 5 absolutely counts for something. Shaq was a complete no brainer but Howard and Penny were not. Dennis Scott wasn't a bad pick in the top 5 either.
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Everything you said about the Cavs being mismanaged has absolutely nothing to do with the point I was making about long suffering Cleveland fans. You're coming off as just a tad hostile. But to your point, one of those picks was Kyrie Irving and the other two picks ended up netting them Kevin Love. That's obviously not "nothing".