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  1. Luke_FfS

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    You said a lot of things... and some of them will NEVER happen! :P
  2. Luke_FfS

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Great win and great to see Franz making a couple 3's after a long draught.
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    2023-2024 Season Thread

    https://www.espn.in/nba/insider/insider/story/_/id/39732968/lowe-dangerous-pelicans-milwaukee-shrinking-margin-error
  4. Luke_FfS

    2023-2024 Season Thread

    I shared my doubts on him last seasons, but also my hopes. Still relatively unexperienced as a coach, my hope was that he was going to improve together with the young core. This season, I've liked a lot that he used more fantasy with lineups and in.game choices, while last season we were predictable as hell. There's still a way to go with X's and O's. But the improvement is happening right in front of our eyes, so the extension make sense. I still insist on the need to help him with top assistants (offensive coach, shooting coach?)
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    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Players also drive hard into the paint with better success when there's proper spacing around.
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    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    I'm actually more worried by the 28% from 3 by Franz. Initially could have been considered a slump, but now is dragging on a little too much. As for the game, not going to beat the same death horse, evident problem is always the same and we've to live with it.
  7. Luke_FfS

    2024 NBA Draft Thread

    Exactly, that was more disrespectful to Paul than Meer!
  8. Luke_FfS

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    We also commit a big big number of turnovers for a team with such a high IQ.... I agree that will be a really important learning curve. We still have to enter playoffs so it's possibly too early to discuss that, but our best quality has been defense, and will be hard to improve that a lot in playoffs. Other teams will tighten defense more, and like already commented by other members, our lack of spacing will be even more exposed. We'll need to control turnovers a lot more than we're doing now. Whatever will be the opponent, I predict a difficult time for us. We'll learn for sure, and hopefully management will learn too. I've still the sensation that in the future, we'll remember the deadline 2024 as a missed opportunity.
  9. Luke_FfS

    2023-2024 Season Thread

    And in the meantime, while we always suffer for guard production, Murray has 41 points, and Hawks with a good record since Trae is out...
  10. Luke_FfS

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    I don't like the way we're playing with fire week after week. But I do love the way this team believe that they can win any game at this point. It's not a given in such a young group.
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    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Well, we were at full health just 24h ago. A lot of time we're just managing players, it's our decision, not bad luck. And for the first time is also working, because we have the depth and the role players ready for the bigger task. We also played a lot of times against teams that were missing key players, so we can't really be mad about that.
  12. Luke_FfS

    2023-2024 Season Thread

    In his situation at the time, I would have asked too probably. And yes, that was the point, he embraced being the 4th option in a great team and has grown a lot into that role, wasn't probably as happy to be whatever option he was in a disfunctional team behind the Vuch&Evan show. That was my regret, being traded at the same deadline, he actually played all of his Magic career in that bad environment. We were unable to maximize his strenghts: when Isaac was still fully healthy, I remember we didn't even tried to use them together at 4&5... when the rest of the league was crazy for GS Death Lineup. He was the only one of the three players traded ready to shine and win. (I actually was really proud of him when Denver won the title) The other two weren't unable to even make better their average teams by any mean. Gordon has been a key piece, a missing link in a great team.
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    2023-2024 Season Thread

    I honestly don't even know how that DARKO system works, I only know Darko Milicic! :P I've just posted the same graph that was used for Vuch, and even if I agree that Aaron fits perfectly in Denver and that helps, I was sure he had another gear and he wasn't properly used in his time in Orlando. Would have liked to keep him a little more, when the rebuild button was pushed (too late). Was still young and potentially a fit in the new project too.
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    2023-2024 Season Thread

    I wanted the Vuch-Fournier out a lot before they were traded, but I'm still a little nostalgic about Aaron. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH6z375W0AAAles?format=jpg&name=medium
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    2023-2024 Season Thread

    Already posted in this same thread a page and a day ago! :P Lowe's words sounds like he was expecting a move too for our guard rotation. Hope we don't spend in FA for the classic guy that explode in playoofs. See Jordan Poole, that everyone was in love to a few season ago, and now is mentioned in the same Lowe article.... for other reasons!
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    2023-2024 Season Thread

    https://www.espn.com.au/nba/insider/insider/story/_/id/39623501/lowe-nikola-jokic-most-terrifying-sight-nba
  17. Luke_FfS

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Great news, when I heard him screaming I was so worried for him.... not again. And thanks to Soul Bro to trying to put back the discussion on track!
  18. Luke_FfS

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Great W, our bench mob has been outstanding in a lot of games, too bad it was terrible only in the national televised one!
  19. Luke_FfS

    2024 All-Star Weekend

    The downside for me is pretty simple. Even if we're able to get him for such a low price (and that's a big if, those kind of trades happen only in LA, and I don't see why Atlanta would do that if he's such a good player...) I would be against cause he seems to me the classic player that always show great stats and highlights, makes you win a few more games in regular season, and then became a liability in the playoffs, when opposite coaches will easily target him. There've been a lot of players like that in the past, RW and Harden are two that came to my mind (not because they're similar, just for the fact that they're great on paper with the stats, and bad on reality when the games actually matters) If we want to make a move to sell more tickets and being a mediocre playoff team for the time being, Trae is a perfect fit tough. But if we really want to win a ring, that's the kind of move I'll gladly avoid.
  20. Luke_FfS

    2024 All-Star Weekend

    After a lot of time waiting with no moves by the FO, if the final price is Trae, I'll be totally disappointed, to not say worst things... that's the move that would completely ruin all the good things we have in place. When the All star weekend will finally be changed? Paolo would have been better with some time off or some training with the team...
  21. Luke_FfS

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    Good to enter the break with a convincing W against a rival!
  22. Luke_FfS

    2023-2024 General Game Thread

    The blank injury report didn't last too long... :(
  23. Luke_FfS

    2024 NBA Trade Deadline Thread

    We'll pick another non-shooter in the first round and then trade the 2nd for cash as we usually do? those second rounders that are actually inserted in a lot of trades... and then sign a free agent to a high amount of money just because we have available cap space? that's the standard of our lovely summers! :P
  24. Luke_FfS

    2024 NBA Trade Deadline Thread

    I've been quite critical about how passive the FO has been in the last 2+ seasons actually, even when a lot of members here were really high on them. I have no reasons for moan now, I would have been disappointed if I was expecting something, and I was not. All I can do is hope that you and the management are right, and I've been terribly wrong for all this time.
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