Redwood wrote:8 of 35 from three.
This is a stupid team, simple as that. This keeps happening, over and over and over and over again. Our players are stupid, and our coaching staff is stupid. I've never, in my entire life observing any professional team or sport, seen a team play to their weakness more than this Magic team does. It's beyond words how ridiculous this has become.
This is a pitcher with a terrible change up, throwing mostly change ups. An MMA fighter with horrible ground skills taking all of their opponents to the ground.
The only reason people aren't making a bigger deal out of this than they should, is because this is the awful modern day NBA. People are used to seeing endless 3pt shooting, so even when a team is dreadful at it, as we are, it still looks completely fine when we continue to do it to our own detriment. This is how basketball is supposed to look, many people clearly think. The problem is that it's not, and it's killing this team. We don't have the personnel to play the way that we do, it's really that simple. Our coaching staff has no idea this is true.
This coaching staff you keep crapping on has us 4th in the East with 80 points regularly missing for a month. Yeah, I'm sure they're the stupid ones!
Also, btw, 22 teams average MORE than 35 threes a game. You can't survive on being the one team that doesn't shoot threes simply because your guys don't do it well. You quite literally will be an awful team if you want to try to play like a 90s team in terms of offense (as well as defense) and buck the trend by shooting 15 threes a game.
Redwood wrote:This is a pitcher with a terrible change up, throwing mostly change ups. An MMA fighter with horrible ground skills taking all of their opponents to the ground.
This analogy literally only works if your pitcher has an elite pitch otherwise, or an MMA fighter with elite knockout power deciding to do the opposite. If we had Moe, Franz, and Paolo (literally 70 points missing) and they were just launching threes, sure, it can be applied a bit more, but literally look who's out there that you want to play inside (without a true point guard) and not shoot threes:
Suggs (perimeter player, shaky handle, can get inside)
Black (balanced shot, shaky handle, can get inside)
Cole (perimeter player, decent handle, finishes inside but 6'0)
Houstan (perimeter player)
KCP (perimeter player)
Harris (perimeter player)
TDS (perimeter player and weak finisher currently)
Goga (inside big, play finisher)
Isaac (perimeter big)
WCJ (perimeter big)
You basically have Cole, Suggs sometimes, Black sometimes, TDS sometimes, Goga as a finisher... I mean.. that is the worst options in the league to have play inside as far as a top-down healthy roster right now.
(BTW, do you ever post when they're winning? Which they have mostly done this season? I only see you pop in after they lose to be miserable. Your prerogative, but just something I notice...)
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