Game 21: Groundhog's Day (Orlando @ Indiana, 7:00 PM EST)

[SOUL]

Lol, that’s all I’m saying. Fit was a factor in the equation.

Then I agree. And all I'm saying is fit needs to be decided with more delicate decision making and foresight when making trades, it wasn't like Oladipo showed no offensive potential while here or the ability to get hot from three. It was just that his percentages weren't great.

And I also think that Mario was a very large part of it that isn't getting talked about. We needed to open up space for him to operate as well.

We made moves partly based on giving Mario more minutes....think about that as Mario racks up DNP's because of lack of ability....

How is that a crazy notion? There was nothing too alarming about Mario's rookie year when the moves were made. The fact that it turned out that Mario wasn't good enough to actually get those minutes has no bearing on decisions before that point.

[OrlandO]

Good to see Ross on the bench, but it is clear that it will take some games to get Simmons into the defensive strategy.

I think it'll take a bit for Simms to realize he doesn't need to carry to offensive load like he does off the bench and can instead focus on lock down d.

He turned down playing alongside lebron and said he wants to be in his shoes in a couple years, so probably going to take failure for him to stop forcing offense.