2024/2025 General Game Thread

[Albert Lergier 113]

12 hours ago, CTMagicUK said:

Yea this team is past morale victories but hard to be too mad about that one. Down our two best players and our best guy to guard Giannis, on the road, against a team with that amount of talent. We played hard and fell just short, it happens. 

On national TV, on TNT last night and the way "we" played.....we opened a lot of eyes last night. Magic could be on national TV more often......we'll see.

[JJZFL 679]

On 12/10/2024 at 8:23 PM, TrueMagicFan07 said:

If they would just continue the ball movement which was successful in the first quarter that gave the Magic the lead and kept the Bucks on their heals..

Yes, and unfortunately the ball movement in the second half was not nearly as good as it was in the first half.

[JJZFL 679]

On 12/10/2024 at 8:50 PM, All Eyes On Me said:

Cole can literally shoot you in or shoot you out of games. And he can’t shoot anymore for whatever reason, so most of the time he’s shooting you out of games

In the first half Cole was looking to set up his teammates and it was actually great.  At some point though he reverted to mostly looking for his own shot and ignoring everyone else, and then he was bad.  It was almost like flipping a switch.

[JJZFL 679]

On 12/10/2024 at 9:49 PM, Jay Magic said:

When we are fully healthy the league is in trouble for years to come 

We also have to be able to stay healthy.  

[JJZFL 679]

On 12/10/2024 at 10:11 PM, MagicOne said:

The schedule will be determined as these Cup games continue. With that said I think we will play before December 19th. 

True

[JJZFL 679]

On 12/11/2024 at 7:04 AM, CTMagicUK said:

Also I think this was a lot of the good and bad of Wendell.

He played some terrific defense, battled on the glass, had 5 assists, but it feels like at some point when Paolo arrived he was like "alright I guess I don't need to score now" and he's just never been as aggressive on that end again. I actually thought he might have a big game the way he started but the 3 point jumper seems to have abandoned him now (possibly due to the bad hand injury last year) and it also feels like he's less explosive around the rim than he used to be. Feel like when he first got here he used to get those OREBs and explode back up to finish, now it's a lot of pump fakes and hoping his shot doesn't get blocked or he just throws the ball out to the wing. 

Agreed.  However I do think some of the problem, aside from Wendell's injuries, has been that his touches on offense go way down when Franz/Paulo (either or both) are in the game.  It's hard to keep in rhythm offensively when you only touch the ball once in awhile.  My biggest hope is that the kind of ball movement we've shown ourselves capable of at times doesn't go away when Franz and Paulo get back.

[JJZFL 679]

On 12/11/2024 at 4:06 AM, CTMagicUK said:

Yea this team is past morale victories but hard to be too mad about that one. Down our two best players and our best guy to guard Giannis, on the road, against a team with that amount of talent. We played hard and fell just short, it happens. 

I think that's a good overall summary of how I felt as well.

[Luke_FfS 276]

I know I'm late, but I wanted to share the good feelings about the growth of the group. When Paolo went initially down, we had a 4/5 game stretch that was really worrysome. After that we were good again, and Franz injury was a big blow. Reaction this time has been really different, and I hope that this experience will help them to grow to more responsabilities, and be even more ready when Paolo/Franz will be back. We'll need more from everyone, and hopefully also more passing and ball movement.

[All Eyes On Me 1,281]

With the Hawks win last night, we play the Knicks on Sunday at home. We have a 7 game home stand through the end of the year, our next road game is on New Year’s Day. I’m on Paolo watch now with the amount of time we have at home to rest and get some practices in. I don’t expect him Sunday, but the next game on Thursday against OKC feels like a possibility.

[CTMagicUK 1,584]

One thing's for sure is I can't imagine we have our unbeaten home streak after this run. If we do I'll officially start "this is a championship team when healthy" talk. 

[Jay Magic 1,302]

2 hours ago, JJZFL said:

We also have to be able to stay healthy.  

I'm not concerned about that. Paolo n Franz are sturdy. Strong.. Oblique is 1 off

[Jay Magic 1,302]

40 minutes ago, CTMagicUK said:

One thing's for sure is I can't imagine we have our unbeaten home streak after this run. If we do I'll officially start "this is a championship team when healthy" talk. 

Undefeated all season at home be good haha