The official PANIC!!!!!!!!! SUPER TEAM IN THE DIVISION!!!! Thread

[Captain Hi-Top]

I guess I need better curtains.

[Do da john wall]

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Originally posted by AQUARIUM61:

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Originally posted by deadman54:

i did have a gut feeling during last season that this was more than likely our last chance to win a championship and now it seams unless we do somthing in the trade market this could just be true.

 

I thought so too. Our chances are over. I am preparing myself for the disappointment. Just because Smith was a basketball players, does not make him a great gm or business man. The bad deals he made are going to haunt the Magic for years.

 

Our best chance is this year beacause each of the upcoming years they get the mid level exception so unless we get chris paul two years from now our best chance is this year

[The Magics KG]

[Waiting For That Day]

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Originally posted by The Magics KG:

Flippin hilarious thanks for the good laugh...

[ThisIsTheYear]

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Originally posted by MrWise:

It looks like Orlando, is feeling the Heat

 

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[Mat]

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Originally posted by echo4papa:

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Originally posted by AQUARIUM61:

Bottom line is that Magic cannot compete with the Heat now. Look at last season, we struggled with the heat with only wade playing. Look at our rooster- the only great player we have is Howard, and he gets no help down low. Nelson is good, but not great; peaches is too streaky; Lewis imo is too inconsistent; Barnes who gave the Magic toughness is gone, and Carter is just awful and untradable. If we loss JJ, it will hurt the team for several years.

 

Smith's bad contracts have crippled the Magic. We were unable to sign a great player such as Joe Johnson, boozer or Staudmaire. We will not be able to trade for Gerald Wallace or Stephen Jackson, because we do not have too many tradeable pieces.

 

How about we let the whole free agency period play out before we decide who can and can not compete with other teams? Miami has 5 guys (Chalmers, Miller, Wade, Bosh, and Bron) and you're already set to throw in the towel, denounce Otis, and jump into the icey waters of the North Atlantic.

 

Smith's bad contracts have not crippled this team, they got this team into the finals once, and the ECF's twice in a row so far. Stop acting like this team hasn't made it out of the first round in a decade or something.

 

Barnes is just as much gone now as he was going to be from day one. He was always going to opt out and test the waters. That has nothing to do with Otis. Carter was Otis taking a shot at something. Sure, maybe it didn't pan out the way we all hoped it would, but he IS an expiring contract and that is VERY trade-able. Report is that we will match for JJ, but if we didn't, it would not hurt this team "for several years". JJ is a great back up SG. He isn't athletic enough to play solid defense on the better SG's in this league night in and night out. I don't want to see JJ leave this team, but he is NOT worth 7 mill a year.

 

As far as not being able to sign or trade for certain players, your complaint here was two fold, so lets look at both pieces.

 

First, we weren't able to sign players like Johnson, Amare, Boozer, or other top free agents this summer. Well, guess what? The teams that were in a good position to sign the top free agents were either their own teams (our guys were locked up and not available), or were not top tier teams. Miami has been running Wade into the ground to keep their ability to sign 3 guys this summer. NY and NJ have been horrible waiting for this summer. Atlanta already had Johnson. Chicago is a young team, and had the room to sign Boozer in order to try to push themselves into being one of the top teams. We ARE one of those top teams, that's why we don't have the room to sign one of those guys. Top teams aren't generally big players in free agency. Would you feel better if we had sucked for the past four years, but were able to sign Johnson and Boozer this summer? We made it to the ECF's the past two years, and the NBA Finals last season. We shouldn't be big players in free agency, we should be looking for that one piece or so to push us over the top, and role players to fill a couple holes like Barnes leaving.

 

Second, your assertion that we can't trade for guys like Wallace and Jackson. Well, those guys aren't available. So yeah, we would have a hard time forcing the Bobcats to trade with us. We are in a good position even if we make no major moves this summer. Carter is a huge expiring contract, Gortat is a great trade piece, so is Anderson and Pietrus, and even Nelson for the right guy in return.

 

And lastly, stop looking at my "rooster".

 

Marvelous, Echo.