2024/25 NBA Regular Season Thread

[orlandoholic]

I wonder if we sign Chuma Okeke off the streets. From what i remember he wasn’t able to secure a contract in New York. 
 

Or if we offer second round picks to make a deal.. Marjan Beachamp seems available. 
If this was 2K and chemistry wouldn’t matter, i’d actually go for Kuzma. He can start and get buckets and once Paolo is back he can tear it up from the bench. But this is not a video game, so it doesn’t work like that
 

I‘d love us to be aggressive and go get Kuminga. It’s probably not realistic, as the Warriors are probably looking for a star player in return

[OnlyFranz]

TDS is starting looking forward to seeing how he does. 

[Forumreader]

JI and his threes should be done during practice or scrimmage not in games

[Forumreader]

Crazy how poor we are offensively 

[Jamesdin]

Hope our season is not lost in the first 6 weeks. 

[JJZFL]

Just now, JJZFL said:

All the talk about our great depth prior to the season is not aging well.  Granted injury was to the star player but so far without him we’re not even close to competing.  Two bad blowouts in a row.  

Moved from game thread.  

[Shine88]

Watched the BYU game last night, Egor Demin is the real deal. He's like Ben Simmons with a jumpshot. Wouldn't mind landing him if one of our picks land in the lottery. The kid's a stud.

[orlandoholic]

4 hours ago, Shine88 said:

Watched the BYU game last night, Egor Demin is the real deal. He's like Ben Simmons with a jumpshot. Wouldn't mind landing him if one of our picks land in the lottery. The kid's a stud.

best case imo is

Tre Johnson or Demin

and

Maluach or Zikarsky, Zisic

 

those are the players i feel are in our range of possibilities and should be targeted. 

 

If we get Tre Johnson and Maluach i’d be stoked!

[fan for too long 2]

5 hours ago, Shine88 said:

Watched the BYU game last night, Egor Demin is the real deal. He's like Ben Simmons with a jumpshot. Wouldn't mind landing him if one of our picks land in the lottery. The kid's a stud.

Already talking about the draft is depressing 

[Shine88]

5 minutes ago, fan for too long 2 said:

Already talking about the draft is depressing 

Watching this team the past 3 games, especially on the offensive end, has been depressing.

[Shine88]

The Orlando Magic have an offensive rating of 104.8 so far this year. That's the second-worst in the NBA.

The Orlando Magic have a defensive rating of 107.5 so far this year. That's third in the NBA.

https://x.com/ORLmuse/status/1854242478431346907

[Luke_FfS]

15 hours ago, Shine88 said:

The Orlando Magic have an offensive rating of 104.8 so far this year. That's the second-worst in the NBA.

The Orlando Magic have a defensive rating of 107.5 so far this year. That's third in the NBA.

https://x.com/ORLmuse/status/1854242478431346907

Advanced def stats doesn't usually lie, but the problem IMO is that we are giving up 40p a lot of times only in the first quarter. After that, we make up for the stat, maybe helped by the opponent slowing down, but it's hard to win games that way.