If there was a time for Franz, Paolo or someone else to breakout, now is a great time.

[The-Stallion70]

Suggs is Orlando's third best player OP's question begrudgingly be damned.

Nice to see you're holding onto your cyber armchair gm grudge.

It's funny that you should call us "chuds in a chat room" when literally no one fits the description better than you.

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Suggs is Orlando's third best player OP's question begrudgingly be damned.

Nice to see you're holding onto your cyber armchair gm grudge.

It's funny that you should call us "chuds in a chat room" when literally no one fits the description better than you.

You didn’t like the answer to your dumb question. Did you?

Said nothing about you personally in my reply. But ok sure if you want it to be that way… don’t remember posting anything about “chat rooms”.

There is a huge thread about whether Suggs is the third best player on this roster with an overwhelming vote of “yes”. He’s obviously “broken out” this year despite everyone making proclamations 1-2 years into his career that he was a bust.

Did you need more confirmation because you can’t eat crow to your hot takes when you first started posting here?

[JoshuaPotter]

It's been mentioned several times over.

If any more players "broke out" this year, we would be a finals team this year.

[JoshuaPotter]

Not to jinx anything because this thread as a jinx has been mentioned several times over.

We are about to find out if the league is truly on notice with another back to back Boston games....in Boston.

[The-Stallion70]

Suggs is Orlando's third best player OP's question begrudgingly be damned.

Nice to see you're holding onto your cyber armchair gm grudge.

It's funny that you should call us "chuds in a chat room" when literally no one fits the description better than you.

You didn’t like the answer to your dumb question. Did you?

Said nothing about you personally in my reply. But ok sure if you want it to be that way… don’t remember posting anything about “chat rooms”.

There is a huge thread about whether Suggs is the third best player on this roster with an overwhelming vote of “yes”. He’s obviously “broken out” this year despite everyone making proclamations 1-2 years into his career that he was a bust.

Did you need more confirmation because you can’t eat crow to your hot takes when you first started posting here?

Whoa slow down there sailor, you are like an expert at bringing up Suggs when there was no mention of him. If you want to play this game again, sure I'll give it a go.

For the record I think Suggs has developed into possibly the 3rd best player if he keeps playing elite defense and keeps his mistakes down but if you can't see that Markelle would have value to the team if there's an injury to Cole or Ingles then I dont how to help you.

No fan should be convinced that the team has truly taken the leap after 23 games and we honestly won't know until after the entire season is over but we should have a much better idea after this stretch against elite teams.

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Nice to see you're holding onto your cyber armchair gm grudge.

It's funny that you should call us "chuds in a chat room" when literally no one fits the description better than you.

You didn’t like the answer to your dumb question. Did you?

Said nothing about you personally in my reply. But ok sure if you want it to be that way… don’t remember posting anything about “chat rooms”.

There is a huge thread about whether Suggs is the third best player on this roster with an overwhelming vote of “yes”. He’s obviously “broken out” this year despite everyone making proclamations 1-2 years into his career that he was a bust.

Did you need more confirmation because you can’t eat crow to your hot takes when you first started posting here?

Whoa slow down there sailor, you are like an expert at bringing up Suggs when there was no mention of him. If you want to play this game again, sure I'll give it a go.

For the record I think Suggs has developed into possibly the 3rd best player if he keeps playing elite defense and keeps his mistakes down but if you can't see that Markelle would have value to the team if there's an injury to Cole or Ingles then I dont how to help you.

No fan should be convinced that the team has truly taken the leap after 23 games and we honestly won't know until after the entire season is over but we should have a much better idea after this stretch against elite teams.

That’s fair.

The only thing I’ll say about Markelle is that other guys have stepped up, in the last few months, contributing to these wins in what seems to be more of a trend than an anomaly. Black’s leash is still very short for what progress he’s been making IMO.

I believe there is definitely an “addition by subtraction” theory that a lot of nba fans just can’t see past when everyone is busy looking at rosters on paper. We see this with guys like LaVine, and in my personal estimation: Fultz. At some point the evidence will have to be overwhelming for a few people to see it. If he comes back and Orlando is still winning these games, then fine.

To answer your original question… I think we have already seen guys step up and take bigger roles this season when Franz and Paolo aren’t having the best games. Last game was an example of that with Ingles, Goga, and Suggs especially. I believe Paolo when he says Suggs is the reason the defense is where it is. Cole is hit or miss. He has huge games in certain matchups and looks terrible in others dependent upon decisions making for whatever reason.

[JBSouthpaw]

The difference would be breaking out against elite teams, my friend

I had to double check the date of your thread. It's 2 weeks late.
1. both Franz and Paolo (defending player of the month) have broken out, plus some others.
2. JI is back starting tonight.
3. you don't count wins against: Lakers, BOS and MIL as elite teams??

Congrats you named three teams and the other poster added two but in this coming stretch we are playing literally over 10 games against the best teams in the league. That's what you call an opportunity to put the league on notice.

We've put teams on notice by winning 70% of our games.
but yeah, whatever...great thread!

[The-Stallion70]

As far as I'm concerned, breaking out is what they've been doing so far this season. We are in midst of a very tough December stretch which probably will endup few games below .500. Nothing to be concerned about.

Wait a minute, why is Realgm losing their sht right now after getting waxed four games in a row against the East Contenders?

I thought you said it would be of no concern if we went below .500 during this stretch? Bipolar mfs

[pepe1991]

As far as I'm concerned, breaking out is what they've been doing so far this season. We are in midst of a very tough December stretch which probably will endup few games below .500. Nothing to be concerned about.

Wait a minute, why is Realgm losing their sht right now after getting waxed four games in a row against the East Contenders?

I thought you said it would be of no concern if we went below .500 during this stretch? Bipolar mfs

Expetations change when you sit at 9 games winning streak and hold 2# in conference?

But that's why it's so important to not overreach on Ws but also not lose minds during streach of Ls.

We defalted ourselfs mentally and phyiscally during that streach playing on defense like it's 4th quater of game 7 in nba finals- every game. And after that , we suffer because boys got tired and injuried while doing so. Even bodylanguage changed.

NBA regular season marathon, not a sprint. They will eventually bounce back and hopefully learn why playing balls to a wall in 14th game of nba season isn't very smart nor beneficial for them nor team.

[p0peye]

As far as I'm concerned, breaking out is what they've been doing so far this season. We are in midst of a very tough December stretch which probably will endup few games below .500. Nothing to be concerned about.

Wait a minute, why is Realgm losing their sht right now after getting waxed four games in a row against the East Contenders?

I thought you said it would be of no concern if we went below .500 during this stretch? Bipolar mfs

Why are you asking me? I'm dude that voted we will win less than 4 games in December.



EDIT: Besides that, I don't really see anyone 'losing their sht'. But again, there are only a handful of posters on this boards who's post I really do read, rest I simply skip. Well, unless they quote me.

[The-Stallion70]

As far as I'm concerned, breaking out is what they've been doing so far this season. We are in midst of a very tough December stretch which probably will endup few games below .500. Nothing to be concerned about.

Wait a minute, why is Realgm losing their sht right now after getting waxed four games in a row against the East Contenders?

I thought you said it would be of no concern if we went below .500 during this stretch? Bipolar mfs

Why are you asking me? I'm dude that voted we will win less than 4 games in December.

I'm using your post as an example for my general counter point since it got up voted 8 times lol

[rusoopE]

It's funny how the expectations at the begging was mostly hitting .500 and then after that hot streak changed em quickly.

Opposing teams facing the magic at the begging thought and prepared similar like our expectations, saw us at best a play-in easy win game. With low motivation and preparation. Suddenly we made noise (our expectations went sooo high at the same time) they started respecting us, adjusting to our game and now gonna be harder and harder to win games. Every year we see a hot start coming from nowhere team, like the jazz last year which plumbed and the OKC which kept it going, you can check the standings and understand why that happened.

Being respected and competitive this early will test and haunt us for the rest of the season and will show where we stand for real. Hated those henni's years where we shown improvement after all star break when nothing matter at that point, which made us hoping for a good next season and realize later it was just a mirage (despite falling in the draft ).

Im still happy for a play-in run at this point this season. Let's see what is this team capable of!