2020-2021 Regular Season Game 20: Los Angeles Clippers (14-5) at Orlando Magic (8-11)

magicman112 · Post #81 » by **magicman112** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:33 am

https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=401267449

Three of the key starters Gordon, Vuc, and Evan -27 -27 -29 respectively. Clippers starters? All 5 +23 or higher.

Max Headrom · Post #82 » by **Max Headrom** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:41 am

Honestly, I've always liked Bamba as a prospect. He has all the tools to be a really good player. Everyone in the front office and coaching staff needs to be fired immediately on that alone. Let alone just being a terribly run organization in a market like Florida

Post #83 » by **ChosenSavior** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:43 am

Watching the Spurs playing the Nuggets right now and it just frustrates me more how well both of these teams draft and develop their talent compared to the Magic.

thelead · Post #84 » by **thelead** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:08 am

Max Headrom wrote:Honestly, I've always liked Bamba as a prospect. He has all the tools to be a really good player. Everyone in the front office and coaching staff needs to be fired immediately on that alone. Let alone just being a terribly run organization in a market like Florida

All while we're top 10 in salaries (I believe we were top 5 last year or the year before). It is an absolute joke that nobody is fired. Our media is pretty much paid off to run positive pieces and the 'fans' only care about going to the games to get drunk. This whole organization is trash from top to bottom including the ponzi scheme owners that buy political offices. Man do I wish we had an owner as passionate as Steve Ballmer.

Post #85 » by **Bensational** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:11 am

MagicFan101 wrote:
Knightro wrote:

Read on Twitter
?s=21

Maybe he’ll quit!

Correction: “Sometimes you just need to win the lottery, that’s where we’re at.”

Lol, savage. Bet you won’t tweet it to him...

thelead · Post #86 » by **thelead** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:16 am

Bensational wrote:
MagicFan101 wrote:
Knightro wrote:

Read on Twitter
?s=21

Maybe he’ll quit!

Correction: “Sometimes you just need to win the lottery, that’s where we’re at.”

Lol, savage. Bet you won’t tweet it to him...

do it! do it! do it!

Max Headrom · Post #87 » by **Max Headrom** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:17 am

thelead wrote:
Max Headrom wrote:Honestly, I've always liked Bamba as a prospect. He has all the tools to be a really good player. Everyone in the front office and coaching staff needs to be fired immediately on that alone. Let alone just being a terribly run organization in a market like Florida

All while we're top 10 in salaries (I believe we were top 5 last year or the year before). It is an absolute joke that nobody is fired. Our media is pretty much paid off to run positive pieces and the 'fans' only care about going to the games to get drunk. This whole organization is trash from top to bottom including the ponzi scheme owners that buy political offices. Man do I wish we had an owner as passionate as Steve Ballmer.

Man, that's really unfortunate. The Magic were one of the other few teams I really loved outside of my own in the league when you guys had Shaq and Penny.

But just remember this, we endured one of the worst if not the worst owners in ALL OF SPORTS history and now we finally have an amazing owner after dealing with that cheap, racist clown Sterling for so many years.

Hopefully you guys have something similar happen much sooner than the Clippers did. Good luck man

KillMonger · Post #88 » by **KillMonger** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:04 am

OrlandoNed wrote:
thelead wrote:8pts (4/6), 4rbs (could have stolen many from teammates), and a deflection on defense in 6 minutes... but sure, he's an absolutely unplayable srub. Don't talk to me about Bamba.

He may not be a future starter (although he easily has the potential) but he sure as he deserves minutes as a lotto pick.

It's mind-blowing how people inside and outside the organization do not understand the importance of not marginalizing a draft asset when you aren't a major free agent destination.

stop making sense man, people don't like it

pepe1991 · Post #89 » by **pepe1991** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 7:54 am

Bamba's strong performance with 0 starters left, 1 rotation player left ( Kennard), team down by 28 and incredible performance against such an elite level of talent like:

Daniel Otru ( rookie, second round pick)
Amir Coffey - undrafted 2019 player
Terance Mann (48th pick)
Mfiondu Kabengele

can we get one MVP chant?
Dude is gone, get over it, they probably already have gentelment's agreement with his agent to trade him at some point.
Hezonja,who was collosal bust, in year 3 started out of nowhere scoring 20 game. Did nothing for rest of his career.

This is nba, 2 rookies scored 20+ points today, non of them was lottery pick ( Quickley and Maledon). Once you get over a fact every bum can have ok night and it's not open layups against third stringers that will get players in games, easier it will be accept reality.

They should cherrypick apsolute worst teams to play him more to boost trade value. And i do agree he should play bit more, but expecting anything of him but 9th player in rotation at this point is silly.

MagicStarwipe · Post #90 » by **MagicStarwipe** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:28 am

What a box score. Other than Ross it's delightfully tanktastic.

pepe1991 · Post #91 » by **pepe1991** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:54 am

Man Kawhi Gordon matchups are always some of worst to watch, that guy owns him like a landlord. Even served him sweet facial dunk.

KillMonger · Post #92 » by **KillMonger** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 9:05 am

let out a chuckle when our announcers at the end of the game after a Mo bamba putback........

Jeff Turner: Mo bamba uhh....
David Steele: He needs to be playing
Jeff Turner: Yeah....

Me personally if it's a physical issue, i don't see why he's not playing in the little time he played he didn't look limited in his movement at all....didn't look winded....didn't miss an assignment....didn't look lost on defense.....knew where to be....people have to see it, if even our own announcers can see it lol

drsd · Post #93 » by **drsd** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 11:07 am

magicman112 wrote:https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=401267449

Three of the key starters Gordon, Vuc, and Evan -27 -27 -29 respectively. Clippers starters? All 5 +23 or higher.

That was arguably the best defensive effort ever put on a Magic roster. If Vučević had scored only 1 point less, no Magic starter would have been in double figures.

If the Clippers can be this focussed defensively come playoff time, assuming a healthy roster, I like them for the NBA title.

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zaymon · Post #94 » by **zaymon** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 11:30 am

drsd wrote:
magicman112 wrote:https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=401267449

Three of the key starters Gordon, Vuc, and Evan -27 -27 -29 respectively. Clippers starters? All 5 +23 or higher.

That was arguably the best defensive effort ever put on a Magic roster. If Vučević had scored only 1 point less, no Magic starter would have been in double figures.

If the Clippers can be this focussed defensively come playoff time, assuming a healthy roster, I like them for the NBA title.

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Its not that hard to shut us down. You cover Vucevic and Fournier, thats all. You just watch Vucevic selfdestruct and Gordon destroying our offense.

Skybox · Post #95 » by **Skybox** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 12:20 pm

thelead wrote:
Max Headrom wrote:Honestly, I've always liked Bamba as a prospect. He has all the tools to be a really good player. Everyone in the front office and coaching staff needs to be fired immediately on that alone. Let alone just being a terribly run organization in a market like Florida

All while we're top 10 in salaries (I believe we were top 5 last year or the year before). It is an absolute joke that nobody is fired. Our media is pretty much paid off to run positive pieces and the 'fans' only care about going to the games to get drunk. This whole organization is trash from top to bottom including the ponzi scheme owners that buy political offices. Man do I wish we had an owner as passionate as Steve Ballmer.

They’ve never seemed like “fans”...even when we had the best young dynasty in the NBA brewing, Devos always was like the indulgent grandpa, not a guy who screamed and cried over wins and losses. This org has always been way too patient and deliberate, trusting in long-term plans in a short term world. So much uncertainty and dynamic change in sports, you have to be bold and passionate, IMO. Players come and go.

drsd · Post #96 » by **drsd** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 1:13 pm

MagicFan101 wrote:— With Toronto and Miami worse than us for now. Jimmy Butler returns soon but will Toronto figure things out?

It boggles the mind that an 8-12 Magic is the best of the there "Florida" teams.

That Atlanta, Cleveland and New York are i conventional playoff slots (6-8 seeds) also boggles the mind.

Anyhow: as of today, Orlando is not a play-in team with this drubbing loss.

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jonbob17 · Post #97 » by **jonbob17** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:18 pm

KillMonger wrote:let out a chuckle when our announcers at the end of the game after a Mo bamba putback........

Jeff Turner: Mo bamba uhh....
David Steele: He needs to be playing
Jeff Turner: Yeah....

Me personally if it's a physical issue, i don't see why he's not playing in the little time he played he didn't look limited in his movement at all....didn't look winded....didn't miss an assignment....didn't look lost on defense.....knew where to be....people have to see it, if even our own announcers can see it lol

I would like to hear them elaborate on how Bamba is going to get more time given how far up Khem's butt Steele and Turner are.

jonbob17 · Post #98 » by **jonbob17** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:21 pm

drsd wrote:
MagicFan101 wrote:— With Toronto and Miami worse than us for now. Jimmy Butler returns soon but will Toronto figure things out?

It boggles the mind that an 8-12 Magic is the best of the there "Florida" teams.

That Atlanta, Cleveland and New York are i conventional playoff slots (6-8 seeds) also boggles the mind.

Anyhow: as of today, Orlando is not a play-in team with this drubbing loss.

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Should remind us that even though we, as the 11th seed, are just a game out of the 8th seed, we still have two teams behind us that will almost certainly make the playoffs, in Miami and the Tampa Raptors.

MagicFan101 · Post #99 » by **MagicFan101** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:04 pm

jonbob17 wrote:
drsd wrote:
MagicFan101 wrote:— With Toronto and Miami worse than us for now. Jimmy Butler returns soon but will Toronto figure things out?

It boggles the mind that an 8-12 Magic is the best of the there "Florida" teams.

That Atlanta, Cleveland and New York are i conventional playoff slots (6-8 seeds) also boggles the mind.

Anyhow: as of today, Orlando is not a play-in team with this drubbing loss.

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Should remind us that even though we, as the 11th seed, are just a game out of the 8th seed, we still have two teams behind us that will almost certainly make the playoffs, in Miami and the Tampa Raptors.

Our next two games are both against Toronto. Can we lose BOTH of these? That would do a lot for our tank efforts.

drsd · Post #100 » by **drsd** » Sun Jan 31, 2021 5:47 pm

MagicFan101 wrote:Our next two games are both against Toronto. Can we lose BOTH of these? That would do a lot for our tank efforts.

The I-4 series !

Interesting that it is a road and then home set, and is not a BtB.

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