2024/2025 General Game Thread

[fan for too long 2 567]

He can kick rocks with Dell. If he thinks Wendell f ing Carter is a winning basketball player then he is either very naive or delusional. His choice. 

[hootie249 316]

On 3/11/2025 at 12:58 PM, orlandoholic said:

Fans don’t know either..

Cole

Wendell

Isaac

KCP

Harris

Howard

AB

need to be attached to deals.. 

In trade maschine, the money works that could bring us Trae Young and Sbonis with those players attached and you’d need a butload of picks. It’s not realistic. 

But we do have contracts to facilitate trades. 

 

Cole,Harris,AB, and yes even KCP can be traded as salary filler in a deal with picks easily. They are no different then the other players you have seen switch teams these last few years.

WCJ and Isaac can be traded, but like you said they might eventually have to be traded to bad teams with picks for these reasons.

1. They both were just extended, already it looks bad in the first year. Imagine if they get hurt again!

2. Because of the risk of either one getting hurt, a smart gm would get rid of at least one of them this summer, but the deals are 4 years after this one! 4 Years!

3. Jonathan's current contract has different clauses then the last one. The last contract was the one that could be voided. The current one only protects half the money if he doesn't reach play escalators, there is no voiding this contract.

4. There was no reason to extend WCJ, he was already signed for the coming year! This i cannot stress enough. I guess Hartenstein getting 29 million per year scared Weltman.

5. Both Goga and Mo are signed for one more year. Moving forward WCJ and Isaac will take up about 35 million in cap space if we don't get rid of one.(next season only 26 million).

6. Some of us already believe Goga and Mo are better, although part of that is they are cheaper.

7. If they do not figure out these 4 guys over the summer we know they don't care. Once they resign Paolo our front court rotation will be over 100 million NOT counting Franz or TDS.

Yes you heard me this is counting Franz and TDS as guards since technically they play like guards but are for sure forwards.

[Albert Lergier 110]

On 3/10/2025 at 9:54 AM, Albert Lergier said:

They don't want this to be over yet.....that was big win versus the Bucks on Saturday. Able to have a good start and able to sustain the effort throughout the whole game. Something they haven't been doing for awhile.

A big win versus a solid team and on the road AND without Suggs, is a big deal !!! A confidence boost for sure.

Win was a collective effort, you can tell by the +/- stat. Paolo, Franz and KCP all negative.

 

All coaches and players have to realize after this loss to the Rockets that the Magic offensive game / skims are in their infancy. Ugly, ugly, ugly.

They look like pinballs in a pinball machine.....running (if you can call that running) to anywhere and nowhere. Unbelievable.

Also can't believe that Paolo and Franz do not look to play for each other, to complement themselves. What is going on?

Nonetheless, it's still not over yet. We play tonight the Pelicans for another night tomorrow versus the T-Wolves.

Can't wait to see the match between 24 years old Zion (24.4 Pts, 7.3 Rebs,  5.3 Asst, 1.3 Stls, 56% FG) and 22 years old Paolo Banchero (24.3 Pts,  6.9 Rebs,  4.8 Asst,  .8 Stls,  44% FG 

 

By the way, two #1 overall picks and both from Duke University.

[Jay Magic 1,318]

Last game at Houston, @OrlandoMagic forward @franzboogie became one of only 7 players 23-or-younger in @NBAHistory to tally 5,000+ PTS, 1,300+ REBS and 1,000+ ASTS during their first four pro seasons.

Wagner joins James, Doncic, Edwards, Westbrook, Paul and Jokic.

Via Twitter 

[MagicOne 138]

What is this latest talk about a potential trade for Kevin Durant? Would anybody here be on board for this? First of all, who would you trade to acquire him? And secondly, what position would he play? 

[hootie249 316]

Why? There is absolutely no reason unless we were all 110% positive we could win a title next year. Who believes that? 

[Jay Magic 1,318]

INJURY UPDATE:
@OrlandoMagic guard Cole Anthony will not play tonight due to a left big toe strain.

Cory Joseph will start in his place.

 

[Luke_FfS 288]

Please...

[Jay Magic 1,318]

Good start we looked focused fully 

[JJZFL 696]

13 minutes ago, Jay Magic said:

Good start we looked focused fully 

Was a very good quarter until the last 3 minutes when we didn’t score at all and turned it over a few times.  Still ahead by 9.  
 

Howard with 3 good looks at three point shots and none of them were really close.  

[Jay Magic 1,318]

5 minutes ago, JJZFL said:

Was a very good quarter until the last 3 minutes when we didn’t score at all and turned it over a few times.  Still ahead by 9.  
 

Howard with 3 good looks at three point shots and none of them were really close.  

Strange with Jett coz his stroke is beautiful 

[JJZFL 696]

4 minutes ago, Jay Magic said:

Strange with Jett coz his stroke is beautiful 

You are up late tonight :)