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  1. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 General Game Thread

    Yeah, I think this is a learning year. Hopefully Fultz and Isaac are going to spend a lot of their rehab working on their shot. I like Gordon getting experience running the offense, and think he’d be a really cool option for running the second unit when the team is at full strength. Anthony could play more off-ball that way. Too bad Okeke is hurt, I think he could have benefited a lot from the game experience since we’re so short handed.
  2. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 Official Magic Season Thread

    At least three of those guys aren’t supposed to be rotation players.
  3. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 General Game Thread

    Markelle and/or Evan absolutely would have been the difference in this game, and I think it’s important to remember that before letting the panic set in.
  4. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 Official Magic Season Thread

    He can’t shoot or run an offense. I’d rather try to get Lin.
  5. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 General Game Thread

    I just wanna say I like the OKC announcers a lot more than the Washington announcers haha
  6. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 General Game Thread

    The 18-footer he hit about halfway through the fourth felt so crucial to us winning this game.
  7. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 General Game Thread

    Man, can’t believe that comeback. What a fight for the bench. They are all heart and hustle Magic. I hope the ball movement comes back, because that’s what really killed the starters I think. Too much iso and forced shots. So glad Ross is such a powerhouse scorer.
  8. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 General Game Thread

    I don’t see Cole running the offense as well. He’s a fireplug a la Monta Ellis. Probably better suited for the bench while running some middle quarter time with the starters. Would love to see him with other shooters surrounding him though. That could change things for sure.
  9. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 General Game Thread

    As a joke?
  10. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 Official Magic Season Thread

    LETS GOOOOO http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=y7n7hv3w
  11. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 General Game Thread

    If Bamba can hit his 3s and not be negative on defense he would open up a lot of possibilities for Cole and Ross.
  12. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 General Game Thread

    He needs to build confidence. He looks like a deer out there with the ball in his hands, overthinking everything and just freezing up.
  13. Optimist Prime

    2020-2021 Official Magic Season Thread

    Hopefully seeing that the magic turned down so many offers lights a fire in Gordon to prove them right.
  14. Optimist Prime

    2019-2020 Official Regular Season Thread

    Could also be a development thing. Scouting gives you the raw material, but it still needs to be refined.
  15. Optimist Prime

    2019-2020 Official Regular Season Thread

    Re: the JI stuff. Oladipo is sitting out too because of his injury. I think we need to consider going from zero to game action and the strain that puts on players’ bodies regardless of injury. the reason teams have training camp and preseason is in large part in order to slowly work the players into form for the long grind of games and then the extra gear of playoffs. JI coming back for an immediate jump to game action and only eight games before going to the playoffs is risky. Him having an injury just compounds it. However serious the injury was at first, it makes sense to hold out due to the shock on the body of going from the regular home workouts to the intensity of actual NBA basketball.
  16. Optimist Prime

    2019-2020 Official Regular Season Thread

    You just click the share tweet via and copy the link’s url address.
  17. Optimist Prime

    2019-2020 Official Regular Season Thread

    With the development of Gordon as a playmaker and rise of Fultz as a ball dominant lead guard, something’s gotta give.
  18. Optimist Prime

    Magic @ Timberwolves - Friday, March 6th at 8:00 P.M.

    Fournier our and Iwundu in might be an accidental fortune. I wonder how it affects things.
  19. Optimist Prime

    2019-2020 Official Regular Season Thread

    Was just looking at Kobe's stats on Basketball Reference, and realized that we might have come up against the best statistical postseason of his career in the 2009 Finals.
  20. Optimist Prime

    2019-2020 Official Regular Season Thread

    We have a JI.
  21. Optimist Prime

    2019-2020 Official Trade Ideas Thread

    Is it sad I would overpay first JJ just to keep his playoff streak alive?
  22. Optimist Prime

    2019 Offseason Thread

    Not if they’re asking for Meer.
  23. Optimist Prime

    2019 NBA Draft Thread

    It’s also a bad look to the young guys if we dump a committed player after one down season.
  24. Optimist Prime

    2019 Offseason Thread

    He’s probably right, but not for the reason he thinks.
  25. Optimist Prime

    2019 Offseason Thread

    is this a thing?
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