All Eyes On Me

I’m gonna go with 7-4 the rest of the way with 6-5 more likely than 8-3. Lose one of the next two, in Houston and in New Orleans, and one of the last 3. CT you bring up a great point about hoping Milwaukee has clinched the 2 before those games, would be nice!

3 full days off between games this time of year is brutal. Hope the Heat/Warriors game goes into triple OT tonight

Sixers and Heat win, Cavs lose. 4 games separating the 3 and 8 seed. Strap in, this season is gonna end crazy

Yeah I don’t know what to make of WCJ in the context of the future or this team. His low games are unplayable, like we saw last night.

I’m sorry y’all, but the refs gifted this game to Sacramento. #74 was making horrible biased calls and non-calls all night in the Kings favor and that “foul” on Jalen that gave Fox go ahead free throws with 20 seconds left in a tight game is just inexcusable to call in that situation. JI was incredible tonight, pretty much all the starters were bad. We owe the Kings a few close ones now. And Malik Monk did a hell of a job with whatever the opposite of an audition is tonight.

Cavs and Heat both lose. We’re one game out of the 3 seed! 4 game lead over the Heat in the division

He’s only 25 years old. I’d honestly rather see him get paid and contribute to a team that can utilize him more than we can than settle for a vet minimum deal to ride the pine behind Anthony Black. I love Kelle and at this point I just want to see him make the most of his career with the limitations his body has put on him. He can’t maximize that skillset here with the roster we’ve assembled. I think there’s decent evidence out there that AB is already better for the team than Kelle is

Markelle is great for the locker room, and chemistry. He’s also a great calming influence for such a young team. What it comes down to is his strengths are redundant with players that are better than him. He’s gonna sign with someone like San Antonio that can surround him in a lineup with 5 shooters and he’ll have a career as an oft injured backup. I fully expect him gone this off-season. He just doesn’t fit anymore, we need guards that can shoot.

Yeah, Jalen isn’t goin anywhere but he is gonna be more expensive than we thought a year ago, which is a good thing. That’s why this off-season is our last chance to be aggressive. Sign or trade for someone using existing cap and then extend Jalen and Franz using the different exceptions that let us go over the salary cap. Just need to keep an eye on being a luxury tax team, but I honestly don’t even know what that number is anymore.

What an amazing win. There’s something to be said about what confidence and getting hot at the right time can do for a young team. Jalen Suggs is modern day Darrell Armstrong, except he doesn’t have to play on a rebuilding team like DA did. Quickly becoming an all-time Magic favorite. Paolo and Franz… what can ya say.. just excited for the future of this team! Also, I left tonight extremely unimpressed with Zion. He has no bag, he’s just a big physical guy that can’t shoot and can’t control his body. Wound up with 5 fouls but probably should’ve had about 11. His flexing and smack talking on the finish when he clearly went up with an elbow through JI’s face that didn’t get called was a huge turnoff. I admittedly haven’t watched much Pelicans this year, but the talking heads have been hyping the Zion train lately and I certainly didn’t see it tonight.

Ugh. They scare me more than they should, and they’d abuse us physically for an entire series. So would New York. Not saying we couldn’t overcome it, but it has been the kind of thing we’ve struggled with this season. I’d love a first round matchup with the Pacers or the Cavs and if Embiid is still out, Philly would be my favorite of the potential matchups. Really we just need to avoid Boston, and probably Milwaukee too, I think we could beat anyone else in a series in the East.

Heat and Pacers won, which isn’t ideal, but also the Cavs and Bucks lost. So allow me to dream for a second. We’re only 2 games out of the 3 seed and 3 games back of the 2 seed. We play Milwaukee 2 more times

He’s been incredible. Easy to blame the recent losses to the Knicks and Pacers on Suggs not being able to go. Just hope he can stay healthy! He and JI together on the court is the dream

Would love to at least split the next 4, would be disappointed with less and quite pleased with more. We’re playing teams at home that the Knicks have beat on the road. With the Bulls and Rockets surging, we only really have 3 gimme games left on the schedule, Portland and Memphis at home and Charlotte on the road. Worth noting the Memphis game is on the 2nd night of a back to back and they already beat us once. We’ve done an excellent job winning the games we’re supposed to and putting ourselves in this position, now we just need to finish strong. We go 9-4 in our last 13 and that’s a 50 win season!

What a beat down. Win 41 in the books! Go Magic!

None of our direct competition playing tonight, so we just need to take care of business and gain a .5 game on everyone. We win tonight and we clinch at worst a play-in berth. Really happy with this season

Really really great read, thanks for sharing! It’s so hard not to root for that kid.

I really hope we get the Knicks in the playoffs. Thibs, as usual, is running his core rotation into the ground. No way they can sustain it.

Pacers and Heat both lose, we have a 2.5 game lead over the 7 spot with 14 games left! And let’s go Dubs! Beat the Knicks and let us get our 4 seed back

My kids these days comment was strictly referring to the rookies, if anyone took offense and it led to that downvote, I apologize. Any other reason for the downvote please feel free to DM me and we can chat about why I had to hide the post. Thanks!

I’ve hidden the posts from the rookie jersey swap the last night to maintain a PG rating on the board. Kids these days lol… Big night for us and we don’t even play! I’m torn on the Cavs/Pacers. Think I’m pulling for the Cavs cause we can go get that 3 seed.

Way to take care of business. Paolo is a dawg! After tonight’s W our magic number is 1 to clinch at least a play-in berth. 1 win or 1 Nets loss. Postseason ball returning to the O-Town

I swear we miss every technical free throw

Yeah, 3-14 from deep and just keep chucking. They’re not good 3s either. Lot of iso

So many turnovers from guys afraid to shoot. Passing up layups for open 3s except the guys open at the 3 point line won’t freakin shoot either.