Paolo's ready for the Celtics series, are you? (Pre-game Playoff Thread 2024-2025 R1)

[eyriq]

My guess is even if the Magic lose, it’ll be like the Spartans losing to Xerxes in a way that shows the god Xerxes can bleed. And to quote the great work of Predator - “if it bleeds, we can kill it”.

Let’s go Magic!

I think we unleash JI big minutes in an attempt to throw them off

[KillMonger]

Dwight knows ball

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Even though he’s probably fronting for us, I appreciate the sentiments.

Better than what we can expect from shaq

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[RichCollab]

Dwight knows ball

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Even though he’s probably fronting for us, I appreciate the sentiments.

Better than what we can expect from shaq

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I heard Shaq’s team is out.

[JF5]

They're going to lose in 6... buy I'm hoping they get it to 7... The role players really need to be on their A-Game for this to happen.

[eyriq]

They're going to lose in 6... buy I'm hoping they get it to 7... The role players really need to be on their A-Game for this to happen.

Losing in 6 will be such a massive moral victory. We need as many as we can get.

[RookieStar]

Dwight knows ball

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6'10 275? Our boi is fatlol

[TheChaser]

I’m hoping that 24 hours from now I’m sitting in bed, reading this little board of ours smiling because we won. Go Magic.

[basketballRob]

We have key players out, and Boston is completely healthy.

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[eyriq]

Do we beat the spread tomorrow?

[CalOrl11]

I have us snatching game 3 or 4 but I see a lot of games ending up like Pacers v Bucks game 1. We will get blown out by 25+ at least twice in this series

[AdamTheGreek]

I do think we’ll take Game 1 or 2. If we do, I expect a long series.

I think people forget we should’ve won Game 1 in Cleveland had we shown any semblance of offense and composure.
We shouldn’t have that composure problem this year. It’s just a matter of can we hustle stat and free throw make our way to limiting Boston’s immense 3-point advantage? If we can, we’ll be in games.
Boston is so good from 3 that even if it looks like we’re playing fine, we could still be down 20-30 points because they’ll be burying 3s.
I’m excited for our star duo against their star duo.

[Skybox]

I really do feel like a handful of our guys are absolutely fearless and have tremendous self-belief. I don't see any duo in the league that's a sure thing to beat Paolo & Franz on a given night. I'm certainly not putting money on this series, but given our unbelievable defensive intensity (on some nights at least)...no team is immune from an ORL beatdown if the shots are falling...I just wish Suggs were here because, like Paolo and Cole - he's wired for this moment specifically.

No knock on the rest, but those are BIG moment, bright lights specialists. They are heartless, cold-blooded killers when the chips are down.

Most nights, Cole is barely an NBA talent, but bet against him in a big moment at your own risk.

[Def Swami]

I don’t know how we win the math game against the Celtics. But if we can get a game in Boston, I could see it going 6 or 7.

[CZ Eddie]

Dwight knows ball

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Even though he’s probably fronting for us, I appreciate the sentiments.

Better than what we can expect from shaq

He already predicted earlier this week that the Magic would lose.
He was nice about it though.

[anothermagicfan]

Only 3 losses away from the off-season. I'd love to have some optimism for this team but they aren't mentally strong enough to win a playoff series yet. They held a really good record until almost halfway through the season and then they just quit. I know the injuries affected them but they were horrendous for a while and did ok for the ending stretch of the season to scrape back to .500. they don't deserve to win a single game in the playoffs. Hopefully next year will be better

[basketballRob]

Only 3 losses away from the off-season. I'd love to have some optimism for this team but they aren't mentally strong enough to win a playoff series yet. They held a really good record until almost halfway through the season and then they just quit. I know the injuries affected them but they were horrendous for a while and did ok for the ending stretch of the season to scrape back to .500. they don't deserve to win a single game in the playoffs. Hopefully next year will be better

That's why I don't like playing the vets over the young players. The vets are ready for a vacation.

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[Skybox]

There’s a poll in the Trades & Transactions board…

Paolo or Sengun? Might want to make your preference known

[KillMonger]

There’s a poll in the Trades & Transactions board…

Paolo or Sengun? Might want to make your preference known

Why is Paolo always the comparison? Getting tired of seeing that shii

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[Skybox]

There’s a poll in the Trades & Transactions board…

Paolo or Sengun? Might want to make your preference known

Why is Paolo always the comparison? Getting tired of seeing that shii

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Just came up in hypothetical competing packages for Giannis…I suggested Sengun is really good, but gives me “Vuc-chills”.

Someone said Giannis for Paolo, Suggs and a frp wouldn’t be enough