2024/2025 General Game Thread

[Soul Bro 1,505]

What a pleasure to watch this team. Franz is a superstar. He hasn’t even played in the 4th tonight. 

[Crazyhorse81 256]

Detroit with only 4 points in the 4th, is that our D or their bad O?  Can't see the game but can see the stats.

[Phil4Real 73]

Solid second half. The defense improved a lot and it didn't really take much more... Detroit sucks without Cade (not that with Cade they're very good either...). 

Several guys were up to the task today. Good for Jett, with a couple of very well-timed triples. Cole Anthony can't even keep his dribble anymore... 

Hopefully the Suggs injury is a minor thing because we need him. Franz was again a freaking star and he didn't even played in the 4th. Go Magic!

[Soul Bro 1,505]

Great win! (… and Cole is selfish and bad)

[harley 61]

What the hell has Franz Wagner and Cole Anthony turned into. Talk about opposite end of the spectrum. Cole is so far not his own head, doesn't even look playable sadly. A change of scenery might give him a second wind in the league. Its sad to watch 

[harley 61]

1 hour ago, Phil4Real said:

Solid second half. The defense improved a lot and it didn't really take much more... Detroit sucks without Cade (not that with Cade they're very good either...). 

Several guys were up to the task today. Good for Jett, with a couple of very well-timed triples. Cole Anthony can't even keep his dribble anymore... 

 Hopefully the Suggs injury is a minor thing because we need him. Franz was again a freaking star and he didn't even played in the 4th. Go Magic!

This was the last thing to go with him, he was always bad at defense and a streaky shooter but his dribble and ability to get to the rim was always great. He doesn't even have that anymore. 

[CTMagicUK 1,622]

I feel like we'd have lost that game a couple years ago. Pistons played hard and we just got back from the West Coast trip. But we never even really looked in danger, got a win, and Franz played less than 30 mins. 

The AB/Isaac play for the dunk was awesome. 

Hope Jalen is ok. 

[Luke_FfS 293]

4 hours ago, CTMagicUK said:

I feel like we'd have lost that game a couple years ago.

Same feeling, but that's part of the growing process of a young team.

Also, we have to remember that we're without Paolo, but a lot of the team we played against recently had even worst injuries situations. So, let's take every W that we can, december schedule will be tough and we'll need to stay afloat as much as we can.

[JJZFL 703]

16 hours ago, CTMagicUK said:

I feel like we'd have lost that game a couple years ago. Pistons played hard and we just got back from the West Coast trip. But we never even really looked in danger, got a win, and Franz played less than 30 mins. 

The AB/Isaac play for the dunk was awesome. 

Hope Jalen is ok. 

Agree. Good solid win against a team we were heavily favored to beat.  No backsliding, no excuses, just went out there and executed.  Team really seems to be jelling.  

[hootie249 318]

Yeah the current NBA is a whole new era. Lots of talent, very few complete teams. The Magic are a team and they are jelling. 

[CTMagicUK 1,622]

Jalen not in the injury report after leaving last game early. Good to see. Hopefully we can keep our winning ways going tonight. 

[All Eyes On Me 1,343]

6 hours ago, CTMagicUK said:

Jalen not in the injury report after leaving last game early. Good to see. Hopefully we can keep our winning ways going tonight. 

Spoke a bit too soon, darn. Jalen Suggs was just added to the injury list as questionable with a hamstring strain. We could really use him to clamp LaMelo tonight