2025/2026 General Game Thread

[flgatorsandmagic]

Mosley holds no players accountable for anything they do.  The players are running the ship while Mosley looks on.

[flgatorsandmagic]

Its still mind boggling to me that we could have have Walter Clayton Jr. and Will Richard while also having 4 extra 1st rounders that we just traded away for a player in Bane that isnt better than Clayton.  Not to mention the extra cap space we would have.  One of the all time blunders in Magic history.

[hootie249]

It's even worse. Cedric Coward scored 27 points last night in a win. He is the first player the Grizzlies got with our picks.

Anyway i didn't even watch the last few minutes. The whole team was so bad i knew there was no comeback in them last night.

Hopefully that was the worst game they play all season. Absolutely garbage play. 

On to the next game.

[MagicMan1979]

2 hours ago, flgatorsandmagic said:

Its still mind boggling to me that we could have have Walter Clayton Jr. and Will Richard while also having 4 extra 1st rounders that we just traded away for a player in Bane that isnt better than Clayton.  Not to mention the extra cap space we would have.  One of the all time blunders in Magic history.

You really think Clayton and Bane are on the same level?  You are obviously a Gator homer that is a wild take lol

 

It’s so early in the season. We started last season 6-1 and then were four games under .500 two months later.

 

Look around the league records.  Houston should break up their team.  Denver should trade Jokic I guess!

 

 

[Shine88]

4 hours ago, hootie249 said:

It's even worse. Cedric Coward scored 27 points last night in a win. He is the first player the Grizzlies got with our picks.

Anyway i didn't even watch the last few minutes. The whole team was so bad i knew there was no comeback in them last night.

Hopefully that was the worst game they play all season. Absolutely garbage play. 

On to the next game.

Yeah, that Coward kid is nice. He should be starting over KCP. 

[Shine88]

4 hours ago, MagicMan1979 said:

You really think Clayton and Bane are on the same level?  You are obviously a Gator homer that is a wild take lol

 

It’s so early in the season. We started last season 6-1 and then were four games under .500 two months later.

 

Look around the league records.  Houston should break up their team.  Denver should trade Jokic I guess!

 

 

I agree, but the offense is still the same. Stagnant. If Paolo isn't willing to change his way, nothing will change. He's been an inefficient ball stopper majority of his career, which just doesn't fit in today's game. 

[CTMagicUK]

The 09 finals team started 1-2... (This is cope)

[MagicMan1979]

29 minutes ago, Shine88 said:

I agree, but the offense is still the same. Stagnant. If Paolo isn't willing to change his way, nothing will change. He's been an inefficient ball stopper majority of his career, which just doesn't fit in today's game. 

I don’t agree with your assessment of Paolo at all.  He has been inefficient the last three games admittedly.  Do the 12 Play Off Games he has played in not count all of the sudden?  Franz and Bane no showed in the second half yesterday as well.

I would say that I have been unimpressed with Mosleys Offense so far.  He needs to use Bane differently. 

[Shine88]

21 minutes ago, MagicMan1979 said:

I don’t agree with your assessment of Paolo at all.  He has been inefficient the last three games admittedly.  Do the 12 Play Off Games he has played in not count all of the sudden?  Franz and Bane no showed in the second half yesterday as well.

I would say that I have been unimpressed with Mosleys Offense so far.  He needs to use Bane differently. 

His TS% in the playoffs is 51% vs Boston and 55% vs Cleveland. 51% is below average and 55% is average, so he was even considered inefficient in the playoffs. His shot selection has a lot to do with it, it's been really bad his whole career.

https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/paolo-banchero-playoff-true-shooting

[flgatorsandmagic]

6 hours ago, MagicMan1979 said:

You really think Clayton and Bane are on the same level?  You are obviously a Gator homer that is a wild take lol

 

It’s so early in the season. We started last season 6-1 and then were four games under .500 two months later.

 

Look around the league records.  Houston should break up their team.  Denver should trade Jokic I guess!

 

 

How is that a wild take?  What has Bane ever won?  Clayton is averaging more assists and rebounds a game while also having a much better fg%.  Clayton is also averaging only 19 min a game while Bane is getting more than 32. Just think if Clayton was getting 32 min a game.  I dont think Bane is a bad player but he's not better than Clayton who we could of just drafted and kept all our future 1sts.  Clayton is also a good 3pt shooter something that we were looking for.

[fan for too long 2]

16 minutes ago, flgatorsandmagic said:

How is that a wild take?  What has Bane ever won?  Clayton is averaging more assists and rebounds a game while also having a much better fg%.  Clayton is also averaging only 19 min a game while Bane is getting more than 32. Just think if Clayton was getting 32 min a game.  I dont think Bane is a bad player but he's not better than Clayton who we could of just drafted and kept all our future 1sts.  Clayton is also a good 3pt shooter something that we were looking for.

I agree. Clayton is a baller and we should of drafted. I called for it. But none the less the Magic be Magic and draft a guy who doesn’t play and another guy who has zero offense and doesn’t play but he’s foreign so that’s cool.  Lolololol

[MagicMan1979]

Well I’ll throw in the towel then. Clayton is a much better player than Bane lol