All Eyes On Me

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.

I guarantee you he signs a 4 year max contract with us. Why the hell are you even posting here if you’re just pulling for our guys to leave?

You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. He’s gonna get maxed this off-season. Stop overreacting to a bad loss to the defending champions in game 1 of the playoffs on the road

Mosely is loved around the league by players, you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about, so I’m not gonna engage any further

It’s not 1995. We own Paolo‘s rights for the next 5 years. Paolo is here for the long term unless we hire Nico Harrison as GM

That note has to be to Weltman. I have plenty of qualms with Mose, but this team has zero consistent good offensive players other than P and Franz. As a coach you can only work with the guys your GM gets you

That’s a bull**** call on a flagrant. I’m sorry y’all, I know you guys are disagreeing, but these refs are horribly biased toward Boston the entire second half. Why can’t we get into any set? Cuz they’re shoving us around the court. We’re defending the same way and we’re getting called.

Franz has been the worst player on the court this second half

I hate Payton Pritchard

KCP was filling his lane perfectly. What a dumbass play. Franz has had like 4 live ball turnovers that have turned into 3s at this point. Killing us

If Derrick White is gonna be Steph Curry, this is gonna be a short series

Somebody is gonna have to tell me what we need to do to get a whistle. You know Adam Silver’s ***** ass called the refs at half time saying the Magic aren’t allowed to win. Don’t get me wrong, we’re not playing well enough, but only one team is allowed to play physical all of a sudden, after they swallowed the whistle most of the first half.

And after 2 minutes of Cole being back in, I get it. Yikes

Horrible basketball this 3rd quarter. Joseph in foul trouble. Surprised we’ve seen so little Cole with pretty much everyone being afraid to shoot except for P and Franz

This officiating in the 3rd has been horribly one-sided. Celtics are hacking away and getting away with it, Magic are hacking away and not

Yup, 3 free throws for us, 12 for Boston. We’ve been whistled for 11 fouls, Boston only 6

Franz live ball turnovers killing us in this one

Refs came out of the locker room wearing Celtics Green. Great

Love the physicality. Somebody gonna have to knock Pritchard on his ass, but can’t ask for much more out of this first half.

Thread to discuss the playoffs around the league. Couple surprising results yesterday, Lakers got spanked at home. Pacers destroyed Giannis and Co. The good guys play today and I’ll get us a thread made specifically to discuss the Magic. Matchups around the league: Eastern Conference 1) Cleveland vs 8) Miami 2) Boston vs 7) Orlando 3) New York vs 6) Detroit 4) Indiana vs 5) Milwaukee Western Conference 1) Oklahoma City vs 8) Memphis 2) Houston vs 7) Golden State 3) LA Lakers va 6) Minnesota 4) Denver vs 5) LA Clippers

Boston opening as -13.5 seems super disrespectful

Feel like that’s harsh, all things considered. If he had mentioned staying put at the deadline as one of the reasons for the grade, I’d understand a bit more. Injuries are uncontrollable and to finish .500 in spite of them and without making moves, I’d give us at least a C+/B-.

The NBA literally had to change the rules because Trae and Harden’s foul-baiting was so out of hand a couple seasons ago. They’ll probably need to revisit the rules again this off-season, or train their refs to be better at their jobs. SGA isn’t as egregious as Trae, but I will give you that he seeks contact first before trying to actually play offense. I agree that Porter and Bridges shouldn’t be in the league, but that’s irrelevant to our conversation here and I have no worries the Magic would bring either of those abusers onto our team. It’s comparing apples to oranges.

Right, because the only options at point guard in the entire league are Trae Young and Cory Joseph…. Look, it’s obvious we need a better distributor that can grow with our core and bring out the best in them, I’ve been banging that drum for as long as anyone else on this board, but I’d rather it not be Trae. The foul-baiting stuff is horrible basketball and I’d rather not be in a position where I have to cheer it on.