All Eyes On Me

KCP 3-17 in the series. 2-12 from 3. Averaging 3 points per game… Oof…

Anfernee Simons spotted at the game last night

Considering context of them being a super team and defending champion, I’ve never seen a softer team than this Celtics team. You’d think from all the whining that we’d be UFC fighting with them… what a dislikable group of crybabies.

I agree on AB being our X factor. He’s at the point of his development now where he needs to figure out how to impact games on the road. He’s a completely different player at home

This Boston team and fanbase are so insufferable. A bunch of crybabies. Now we have Jaylen Brown in the postgame threatening to fight.. bring it *****. Magic in 7! Let’s go!

What a gritty W! Shootout to Wendell. When he’s aggressive on the glass, we’re a different team.

What a gritty W! Shootout to Wendell. When he’s aggressive on the glass, we’re a different team.

The nba refs are so dog****. Make it more obvious yall

What an unlucky trade off that for JI to finally get and stay healthy he had to become an unplayable basketball player.

The uncomfortable part of the conversation is if Franz is going to be a career sub 30% 3 point shooter, he’s not the right Robin to Paolo’s Batman for us long term.

Agreed. If we get swept on Sunday, I want Weltman fired on Monday. I just don’t trust him to fix this, or even recognize the magnitude of the problem.

I think we take one game in Orlando, but I’m not positive. Feel like only way we get one is if Paolo goes for 50

KCP worst signing in Magic history?

This officiating is unacceptable. 23 free throws to 10. Guys are playing hard, it’d be great to steal this one.. Also, KCP is the ass of an ass. So bad

Same starting 5 for us. Mosley gonna wait until game 4 down 3-0 to make adjustments

Tatum officially ruled out for tonight

Yeah, it opened up as 12.5 and it’s lowering off the Tatum news

Jayson Tatum doubtful for tomorrow with a bone bruise on his wrist

We’ve also apparently found the only way to keep him healthy is to play him like 18 minutes a game or less. He’s not a part of our core at all, injuries derailed his career.

The lights were way too bright for AB. He needs to work through it and only way I can think of to do that is experience

Isaac has been dreadful at the 4 this year, he pretty much has to play backup 5 if he’s getting minutes, which comes at the detriment of Goga. I agree that I’d rather TDS in there over Caleb, but for whatever reason Mose has nailed TDS to the bench for the past couple of months. We’re either getting swept or losing in 5 regardless, there’s pretty much no way we pull an upset in this series, so I think it needs to be priority to get playoff experience for our young guys and the guys that we think will be here for awhile. So give me a mix of Franz, Paolo, AB, TDS for as many minutes as they can handle. It’s wild to think about, but those are the only 4 dudes on the team (currently available to play) that I’m somewhat confident will be back next year.

Thinking about game 1 a little more, I don’t think it’s feasible to play Cory Joseph in this series. Probably need to run AB in the starting lineup for size and defense and play Cole as the backup 1 and just live with the results. Joseph was getting switched onto Tatum and hunted the entire game. AB needs the experience more anyway.

I too have been a fan since the first tip. And I completely understand the fear because it’s what we know as a franchise, but the league has changed significantly since Shaq spurned us. And even if Dwight didn’t leave on good terms, he was around for almost a decade. If Paolo doesn’t sign his 4 year max extension off his rookie deal it would be completely unprecedented in this era. He’d be walking away from millions of extra dollars, and he’s so early in his career he hasn’t earned that much yet. I’m not worried about Paolo leaving in the short term, I’m much more concerned with a management and basketball ops that don’t seem to prioritize winning as their main goal.

Fun fact, Derrick White scored over 30 twice the entire season.

Back to the game at hand. Paolo was great, Franz was good in the first half and awful in the second half. Nobody else showed up at all. 59 of our 86 points, 51 of our 81 field goal attempts. We’re getting swept if we don’t get more from someone stepping up. I think we steal one in the O, probably game 3 where our young role players show up, and we lose in a gentleman’s sweep in 5. We’re way outmatched from a talent perspective.