2024/2025 General Game Thread

[TrueMagicFan07 689]

Why is WCJ starting at center now instead of Goga?

[hootie249 317]

Because before the season they signed him for 5 freaking years at almost 20 million the last 3 years. Sorry guys for better of worse he is the starting center for the Magic.

[hootie249 317]

That 3 on 2 by Cole Anthony just now was pathetic.

[hootie249 317]

Yes i am watching the game and noticing nobody is posting. I work weird hours so not going to watch many games before he playoffs. 

Let's go Magic! Show me some home court advantage today!

[All Eyes On Me 1,330]

Oh no, we suck again

[All Eyes On Me 1,330]

Raptors give up over 116 pts a game on average, so naturally we score 19 in the first quarter and shoot 5/20. This team is broken. Hope if anyone is at this one they brought their helmet

[Jamesdin 66]

12 minutes ago, All Eyes On Me said:

Oh no, we suck again

At the start of the season, games like this is a sure win. Now, all games even with bottom feeders are like life and death situation. Lol

[hootie249 317]

Even knowing we overreact to each game i simply cannot be a real fan until they fire our gm's and executives. Team is showing poor leadership all down the line.

[MagicOne 138]

Like I said before folks, we will finish the season with a 4-17 record at best to finish with a final record of 33-49. After losing these final 3 games at home to the Raptors and Bulls and finishing the homestand with a 1-6 record that will pretty much wrap things up. And I think Philly is going to sneak up and take that number 10 spot from us. They beat the Warriors last night and looked very impressive in doing so. They looked energized and fired up after losing Embiid for the rest of the season. Quite the opposite of the way we look after finding out that Suggs was done for the season a couple of weeks ago. They almost looked better without Embiid. Quentin Grimes scored 40 plus last night. Him, along with George and Maxey will get them to that 10 spot. Therefore, there will be no play-in for us unfortunately. It's as if we are in a semi tank mode right now. 

[MagicOne 138]

But cheer up everyone. Now we will secure a decent draft pick and select someone with "a lot of upside and defensive tenacity, who has tremendous length". Translation: another dude that can't shoot the basketball. You can almost bet the house and the farm that this is the type of pick they will make. And once again, we as fans will be left scratching our heads in disbelief. Also, I believe that they will stick to the gameplan of using Paolo and Franz as the primary ballhandlers while pretty much sticking to the same group of players. Injuries will be used as the primary excuse for this season's failures. Bianchi wrote an article in the Sentinel today about injuries being the main cause for this total disaster. True, injuries did factor into a good portion of it. But even without the injuries we were not a very good shooting team and lacked a good solid PG to help with spacing and quality shots. And did injuries cause us to lose 5 combined games to the Jazz, Blazers, and Raptors? And all of them were blowout losses.

[hootie249 317]

I get you Magic one. It's true....the team and fanbase know this. It shows. It shows in the crowd at the game. it shows in the message boards. We can see it and if we can it's true. 

What they did in the last two months has sucked the life out of this team.

[MagicOne 138]

17 minutes ago, hootie249 said:

I get you Magic one. It's true....the team and fanbase know this. It shows. It shows in the crowd at the game. it shows in the message boards. We can see it and if we can it's true. 

What they did in the last two months has sucked the life out of this team.

The players for the most part look as if they are playing in preseason games. Very little energy and emotion. Just going through the motions. It doesn't pass the sniff test. And quite frankly it has the stench of a tanking team. Such a terrible shame for the many devoted fans.