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Game Thread: Magic @ Grizzlies 26/10/2024

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Also need to mention, even though it’s only game 3, this game was as much of a schedule loss as you’ll get. Home-road back to back against a good team. Hard to overcome and certainly a factor in why we started so slow

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From the start we made the big mistake, not to play our game, but try to match the high pace early offense style the Grizzlies like to play.. That’s absolutely not our game and it showed

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I cant remember  a worse player for us than Cole. Maybe Dwayne Bacon? Weltman gave him 13 million a year? wtf. Now were gone have to attach a first round pick to get off that money. He is a disaster and like Fultz as much as we both love them as people, are addition by subtraction. 

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5 hours ago, All Eyes On Me said:

Also need to mention, even though it’s only game 3, this game was as much of a schedule loss as you’ll get. Home-road back to back against a good team. Hard to overcome and certainly a factor in why we started so slow

This plus their home opener. 

It sucks to lose but we weren't going 82-0 anyway and I'm pretty happy that we made that a game worth watching in the third quarter after a horrendous first half.

General thoughts on the game:

Memphis played FAST in the first half and we really struggled with that. 

Memphis also went at Paolo defensively a lot and he didn't hold up particularly well. Just generally not a very good Paolo game honestly.

Too many turnovers.

I'm sorry, I like Cole Anthony the person but Cole Anthony the basketball player drives me insane and he's the one guy in the rotation I'm never happy to see.

Anthony Black has been the most consistent bench guard so far this season. Feels like his self creation has taken a step up which helps open up his passing too. 

 

 

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32 minutes ago, harley said:

I cant remember  a worse player for us than Cole. Maybe Dwayne Bacon? Weltman gave him 13 million a year? wtf. Now were gone have to attach a first round pick to get off that money. He is a disaster and like Fultz as much as we both love them as people, are addition by subtraction. 

We're not attaching anything to Cole to get off his contract. 13 mil a season was a fine gamble for a young guard who'd flashed some good stuff and was a key guy in the locker room. Probably hasn't paid off but it's not a lot of money and he'll be expiring next season because we have a team option for the third year. 

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I agree with everyone who mentioned the home-away back to back issue.  I didn’t really expect much in this game and we didn’t get much.  
 

The only mitigating factor regarding the scheduling was Memphis was also on the second night of a back to back which does make the poor showing a little more disappointing.  

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10 hours ago, CTMagicUK said:

We're not attaching anything to Cole to get off his contract. 13 mil a season was a fine gamble for a young guard who'd flashed some good stuff and was a key guy in the locker room. Probably hasn't paid off but it's not a lot of money and he'll be expiring next season because we have a team option for the third year. 

Didn't know about the team option, thanks. Makes it a lot better

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Another game today! Cole still has a chance to be a decent role player but time is running out. Energy wise he is great but he needs to take and make good shots because what else is he gonna do. It's tough for the son of an NBA player because he is always going to want to be better then he is ever gonna be probably.

 

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