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    58 minutes ago, JJZFL said:

    We can’t create a game plan for the second unit based on hoping that one guy is hot every night.  We’ll lose a lot of games that way.  There needs to be good ball movement in the second unit also, not just throw it to one guy, have him shoot it, hope it goes in, rinse and repeat.  Otherwise, not only do we have trouble when he misses, but also the other four guys get stagnant on offense, and the whole team struggles. 

    But we do need to get easy shots to our best shot makers.

     

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    14 minutes ago, Fultz4thewin said:

    Read stuff about him from Chicago writers. 

    It's all "he has no offensive iq. He can make tough shots but he struggles making the right play so you can't run an effective offense through him"

    he does struggle with turnovers and I understand your thoughts, but like gordon and our players he is only 24 years old and still developing each year. He is a nice young player. I would not mind having a player like him. He is better than a lot of our scorers. We have players that need to improve in areas as well.

    Zach will be nice in his prime. 

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    4 hours ago, Babir_9 said:

    We should try to get Bogdan Bogdanovich from the Kings. Sacramento can’t pay him and if he plays good we can extend him. Maybe they take Mo Bamba plus Wes...Bogdanovich is a great shooter, above the average passer and he got confidence to make shots. He will improve the offence significantly.

    we may not be able to pay him either... 

    I really dont want to make any trades. I think we would be fine, if we were healthy. Too early to give up on our young players still on rookie deals. Having vets plus rookies deals, helps balance the budget. If Fournier opt-in we will be stuck. Later we will need to sign fultz and Isaac. (big money) Plus, okeke and our 1st round pick next year will both kicking in. I think we need to remain patience, or we will get fleeced like the victor and sabonis trade or the Harris trade. Those were moves made from lack of patience. We need to learn from those mistakes and develop our young talent. 

    As much as I have spoke negatively about mo. I still want to be patience, because he is young and you have to give them time to develop. We have spent to many years losing to give up on those selected players. If healthy, we are a playoff team in the east. Until the nba relines the playoff structure... lol

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    2 minutes ago, JJZFL said:

    Birch didn’t “look lost”.  He had a positive +/- and history tells us he’ll look better with more playing time.  

    As far as Ross is concerned, our ball movement absolutely stops when he comes in.  The scheme becomes pass it to Ross, who then shoots about 75% of the time, regardless of whether the shot is a good look.  If he misses a few in a row, which has mostly been happening, the other team goes on a run, and our offense grinds to a halt.  That dynamic needs to change quickly.  

    we need to run that ft curl play more that he likes. He needs easier shots. He is gunning toy much from 3. The hard part to judge on ross is he shoots so high that it does not matter when a play is in front of him. He is coming back from injury and getting his rhythm, but he and isaac are players that can shot with players in front of them. They have very high releases. It is one of the reason that ross gets fouled on shots so much. 

    He is a love or hate player though, because when he is missing - it looks bad, but when he is hitting - he looks unstoppable. We must hope the flame is on. 

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    33 minutes ago, Just a regular Magic fan said:

    I am curious. Considering physical size is slightly smaller for offensive oriented players, and slightly taller and longer for defensive oriented players, which are easier to develop in regards to the other skill? In other words, did we heavily invest in the wrong skill? Should we be looking for scorers and hope we can turn them into defenders?

    Svg liked finding a way to defend with your best offensive players. Turk, JJ, Nelson, and etc. Otis rarely picked non-shooters. It is a coaching and GM thing.

    I don't know which way is better. I do know our gm has a preference with length. He also found the Greek freak this way. So far, he rarely looks for skilled offensive players, but the players he has brought in are still young and developing. We will need to see overtime. 

    Half of the team and most of the starters, the gm inherited. You need to watch isaac, fultz, mo, khem, wes, okeke, mcw, and chief. Those are the players brought in by the gm. We will see how these players develop and impact the team.

    So far, Fultz and isaac look like studs and mcw is a nice impact player. 

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    10 hours ago, MagicJED said:

    We have no players who can score and defend. It's Isaac's team period.

    Even if you disagree, when Vuc is out a couple weeks and AG is out for a week minimum, Isaac is the guy.  

    Fultz can do both.

    I think your right; isaac will be the best player on the team with fultz also being great, but they are not there yet. They're developing players not in their prime. Hopefully isaac can score 25 a night. I am just not expecting it to happen this year or next game. It will be nice when it happens. 

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    45 minutes ago, Fultz4thewin said:

    I didn't know Isaac has this in him. I have a really long point I want to make about how what he's doing is good but I'll wait until after the game

    We just keep him in the corner to shoot. He flashes to the paint and he gets waived off or ignored by the other starters. I have seen him seal players after running the floor or mismatches, but then aaron, Fournier, and vuch never seem to find him. 

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    2 minutes ago, MagicJED said:

    We need to make it clear that this is Isaac's team. The vets are here to score when open and make the young guys look good. They need to be leaders off the court. Salary doesn't correspond to priority order for scoring, minutes, or taking shots.   

    When our guys become stars, Cliff won't be the coach if he doesn't hold people accountable, especially vets.

    dont get me wrong. I love Isaac, but he is not a great offensive player yet. He is a great defender. I would love to see Fultz over and over on offense though. It is time. 

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    9 hours ago, Fultz4thewin said:

    I still don't think it's really fair to point to Birch as the sole reason we started winning. 

    It was Ross upping his scoring, Gordon going on a good shooting streak, Isaac going from a 28% three point shooter to a 38% three point shooter, switching Grant for briscoe and MCW changing up the pace and getting facilitators in the second unit, and switching a higher usage horrible player in Simmons to a low usage high energy player in iwundu. 

    We played 17 games against non-playoff teams and caught Brooklyn missing most of their starters, Milwaukee without giannis, Toronto without Kawhi, golden State without Durant, and Philly without Simmons.

     

    So yeah, going from an unreliable rookie to a very reliable Birch helped but Birch wasn't "the reason" anymore than any of the other pieces were the reason. 

     

    The signs of us going on a run started with Bamba still in the lineup. We lost 5 games due to bad luck. 

    I agree.

     

    MCW was a big reason. It was a combination of Ross, Khem, and MCW.

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    1 hour ago, Fultz4thewin said:

    Yeah I wonder if he's playing through injury. He's getting no lift in his jumps compared to last year. 

    It doesn't explain or excuse the dribbling off his foot type stuff or screen setting issues but man he just looks so much more stiff out there. 

    I was also wondering if it is the additional weight to some degree... or purely rust because they barely played him in the summer. 

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    4 minutes ago, All Eyes On Me said:

    Why can’t we do both? Regardless of Vucevic’ health, our bench is killing us and the main reason we’ve been losing games. Give us one guy on it that can create his own shot and open things up for others.

    Some of the issue is the cap. I dont think we want to bring in anyone for money reasons. that is one reason, we red shirted okeke. I think, once MCW comes back, we will be fine. I also think wes can help some as well... 

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    16 minutes ago, Fultz4thewin said:

    https://stats.nba.com/events/?flag=3&CFID=33&CFPARAMS=2018-19&PlayerID=1628964&TeamID=0&GameID=&ContextMeasure=FGA&Season=2018-19&SeasonType=Regular Season&LeagueID=00&PerMode=PerGame&Split=general&PlusMinus=N&PaceAdjust=N&Rank=N&Outcome=&Location=&Month=4&SeasonSegment=&OpponentTeamID=0&VsConference=&VsDivision=&GameSegment=&Period=0&LastNGames=0&DateFrom=&DateTo=&PORound=0&ShotClockRange=&MeasureType=Base&section=player&sct=hex

     

    It's weird watching Bamba from January compared to now. 

    it is simple, to me, he regressed.  He played better last year. IMO...

    He played with more freedom and with more energy. 

    He did more than pick and pop. He set picks and rolled more. He try to pin people in the post and use hook shots. 

    All of this was last year. 

    I have barley seen this at all this year. 

    I dont know if there has been one hook shot all season. He could have easy used that last game, when he was not finishing at the rim. 

     

    thoracic outlet syndrome? just kidding...

     

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    Random thought of the day:

    The more I watch Fultz. The more a say to myself, "I see him being a star one day". He has it. The tools, the vision, and the work ethic is there for him. Once he is given the mins and continue to be more comfortable, it will come.

    The 3 areas that I think will allow him to move the needle toward stardom are: minutes, consistent shooting, and offensive aggression. 

    Minutes

    I think him getting more mins is key. I get it. I know they are trying to protect him, because he has been hurt for 2 years. So, I know why, but once this restriction lifts, it will open up his next step of development and allow the coach to do more with him. The more rep fultz gets, the quicker he will develop. You can literately see the rust falling off of him.   The mins are really holding him back. I wonder what the doctors are saying. Going forward, we need fultz more than ever.

     

    Consistent Shooting

    The more mins Fultz gets, I think his shot will turn around. He was a shooter in college, so once his body getting use to being healthy again, we will see a change. He just needs to rebuild his timing, mussel memory, and rhythm back.  Once he gets this down again, watch out.  He will be in the paint all day long, because teams will need to go over the picks instead of way under. Therefore, he can better utilize picks and the offensive sets. He assist numbers will also go up, because he will draw players and kick out better to the open players.

    Fultz, just keep shooting your open shots. It is not about forcing shots or taking contested shots from three, but it is about taking good looks. Shooting wise, everyone on the team looked bad early, but the good shooter kept shooting, because they knew it will turn around. Keep shooting and it will continue to turn around for you. 

     

    Offensive Aggression

    I think this area is 50/50 coach and player. I think some of the issue is on fultz not pushing the pace on every opportunity, but it is hard to know when it is him or the coach asking him to slow it down. I would like to see the coach tell fultz to try to get in the paint on nearly every play. I really do hate the plays that fultz dibble hands off to fournier or someone else, because I feel that fultz has the ablity to make other players better.

    Fournier is good at times but he is a sg, so mentally he is a shoot first type player. That is not a dig at fournier. He is just suppose to have a shoot first mind set. I think people get mad at Fournier because the team is asking him to do something that is better suited for fultz or point gaurds - which is playmaking and facilitating. We just have been without a real pg guard since Jameer nelson, because we love our length. (We just draft a certain type of player.)

     I would love to see Fultz try to destroy players every chance he gets. One example that stands out to me was in the Detroit game. He was much bigger and Isiah Thomas. On every play he was guarding him, I felt it as an easy bucket. I really think this was a big miss on the coach or fultz just not taking it to Thomas. We won, so it was water under the bridge, but there will be times that not attacking the match-up will cost us a win. If i was in fultz shoes, I would have told the coach, Thomas can not guard me. (Aaron Gordon did this when he was mic'd up.) 

    In conclusion, I dont know what has been said or not. I dont know what the coach is asking from fultz. I just feel Fultz can be better used and should be better used with Gordon and Vuch now sidelined. Tonight should be the beginning of a new aggressive Fultz. Fultz, you said you want to kill everybody on the court. Load your guns. We need you now. Fults, remember the doubter, remember the laughs, remember the talking heads, remember the pain and the fight, remember how badly you wanted to play and do great things, remember how good you are and kill everyone on the the court...  Revenge is best served cold... be that cold blood killer you are...

    We watching.... 

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    10 minutes ago, Fultz4thewin said:

    I'm not sure Vuc is better at posting than Turner. Vucevic's post play looks pretty but it's completely ineffective on a per-possession basis. Turner rarely posts at all. 

    Its simple. Turner does not post, because he is not a post player. He is pick and pop. Vuch kills small players in the post. This is important in this new switching league.  Vuch also commands a double team there... It is why we can run the offense through him and where a lot of his assist are generated.

     

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