MagicMatic wrote:Optimus_Steel wrote:
-We draft Isaac and Bamba in back to back years: more bigs taken with lottery picks, Vuc and AG still in the team....utter waste.
This is the worst part about the whole situation.
Elfrid Payton and Evan Fournier proved nothing at that point. Defensive forwards and bigs contribute very little to a teams success.
In here is a point that never gets addressed.
2016 - back court is Elfrid and Fournier drafted AG 2 years prior - trade draft pick for Ibaka.
2017- literally the next year they draft Jonathan Isaac. Starting back court is as pedestrian as ever while making this selection. Offense is absolutely terrible.
2018 - they draft Mo Bamba. You can’t make this up. They quadruple down on one of the worst guard rotations in the nba and draft another big.
2019 - they draft an injured Forward that won’t play for a year, while they are competing for playoffs with Isaac, Aaaron Gordon, and decide to sign Aminu for ridiculous money nobody else would offer.
This is a blueprint for squandering draft capital by making selections that make absolutely no sense either in roster-construction or minute distribution.
Still today there are people that want to spend lottery picks on players like Jerace Walker and GG Jackson while The Magic have one of the worst back courts in the league with a decade of bottom 5-10 ortg.
Magic have their star forwards that will each play 28-30+ mpg.
There are people on the forum right now who want us to double down on a player like Taylor Hendricks for pick 6th. Who, might be a decent player, but the odds of him becoming better then Franz and Paolo shows the delusion.
I worry management has the same idea.
Out of our entire guard roster. Doubling down on Cole / Suggs / Fultz screams disaster. Unless, mediocrity is the goal.....
I currently have more faith that Isaac will come back fully healthy then any one of our current guards becomes an all star.