2021-2022 Regular Season Game 73: Golden State Warriors (47-24) at Orlando Magic (19-53) - 3/22/22 - 7pm ET

[drsd]

Forum going to implode in 3,2,1...

Home win against GSW only has 30 posts???

[drsd]

What a win! What a win!

Second unit gives up a lead in the bottom of the 3rd; Coach Mosley sticks with tthem and they claw back a lead. There was a lot of growth for Fultz, Okeke, and M-Wagner in those 4th quarter minutes.

I am so happy!

..

[drsd]

At the 8:44 mark of the 4th, the refs called a Carry on GSW. When has any ref in the NBA ever made that call????

In a league where ever Iverson cross over looked like this:

[LDNMagic90]

Forum going to implode in 3,2,1...

Home win against GSW only has 30 posts???

To be fair The Amway looked lively, when Bamba hit that big shot in the 4th it got quite loud. It might be due to GSW coming to play so games like this would be perfect for Magic fans/NBA fans to grab tickets.

[jezzerinho]

I'm not tanking proponent, especially when there is no clear future star, but if you are already flirting with worst record, might as well get one.

I watched game to see Wiggins, and ofc, it was same old awful T wolves WIggins. Guy was named allstar starter ( complete joke) and since that, he plays like poop again. Long twos, awful shooting , awful FT shooting, lazy on both ends.
Pretty much comfirmation of everything i talk when i talk about "player development". Players don't wake up one day and decide to be completly different people. They might try to play different, but over time they return to old habbits. That's why guys like Bamba will never sustain energy over course of a season to play hard. Might try on start, but over time will fizzle out.

I dunno, but this could be the most "Pepe" post ever.

Argue both sides of an argument as if they were consistent - CHECK

I was right about Wiggins reference - CHECK

Players don't change - CHECK

I was right about Bamba's motor reference - CHECK

That's like the royal flush of Pepeisms, right there.

I think you can quit now, Pepe. You'll never improve on this post ever.

[pepe1991]

I'm not tanking proponent, especially when there is no clear future star, but if you are already flirting with worst record, might as well get one.

I watched game to see Wiggins, and ofc, it was same old awful T wolves WIggins. Guy was named allstar starter ( complete joke) and since that, he plays like poop again. Long twos, awful shooting , awful FT shooting, lazy on both ends.
Pretty much comfirmation of everything i talk when i talk about "player development". Players don't wake up one day and decide to be completly different people. They might try to play different, but over time they return to old habbits. That's why guys like Bamba will never sustain energy over course of a season to play hard. Might try on start, but over time will fizzle out.

I dunno, but this could be the most "Pepe" post ever.

Argue both sides of an argument as if they were consistent - CHECK

I was right about Wiggins reference - CHECK

Players don't change - CHECK

I was right about Bamba's motor reference - CHECK

That's like the royal flush of Pepeisms, right there.

I think you can quit now, Pepe. You'll never improve on this post ever.

Wiggins still sucks despite fact he turned into one of worst starting allstars in recent history , mostly by Warriors PR team hiring asian boy bands to promote voting for him and other Warriors players- fact
Bamba still looks same after 4 years- fact
Okeke, Cole, Hampton showed zero improvment from year 1 to year 2- fact
Most players turn into improved rookie versions of themselfs- fact ( exibits above)







Just some qoutes from Warriors fans from sb nation page

Wiggins has turned into a pumpkin and I am not sure there is a magic to have keep him a 40% 3-pt shooter for longer than a couple months. He is a bad shooter who was on a good steak and Wiggins with more than 10 shots a game is a recipe for a disaster. His defence is still good though.

Looks like Wiggins doesn't know what to do when Poole is handling the ball.

Right now the entire team is in a mental funk. I’ve never liked Wiggins’ shot. He shoots a very low arc which if it’s the least bit awry, will clang off the rim. Tonight he was so far off that he was missing shots way to the right and left. And he even missed 5 foot shots. Certainly the horrible free throw shooting is unacceptable for a NBA player, much less an All-Star.

Wiggins is back to being Wiggins. He's been having a bad stretch since February, but his efficiency has already dropped below what he posted last season. Work on your free throws!!! His defense is still good for the most part, but right now he's on-par with his old self. Sigh.

Most liked comment

I'm glad Wiggins is making it painfully clear he's not worth re-signing.

Wiggins to me will always be poster boy of blind hype, turned into blind hope of improvment with spectacular backfire. But on Warriors, more so than on any other team, he was able to hide behind Curry for some time, even turned into allstar starter ( bad joke), but now is back at being same old Brickinns.
Warriors fans refer to him as pumpking

[Ralof]

"good win",i mean we won cause warriors played like sxxx 3 of 4 quarters;anyway we try hard and have some good defence sequences.

anthony played better than normally does,but the way he handled that decisive possession was so awful,k.thompson simply gifted us the win with that foul.

really hope they take some sort of decision next summer,anthony+suggs+fultz+hampton+(eventually)ross,all claiming for minutes,is gonna be an absurd situation if they let things stay this way,no sense at all.

[Ducklett]

I'm not tanking proponent, especially when there is no clear future star, but if you are already flirting with worst record, might as well get one.

I watched game to see Wiggins, and ofc, it was same old awful T wolves WIggins. Guy was named allstar starter ( complete joke) and since that, he plays like poop again. Long twos, awful shooting , awful FT shooting, lazy on both ends.
Pretty much comfirmation of everything i talk when i talk about "player development". Players don't wake up one day and decide to be completly different people. They might try to play different, but over time they return to old habbits. That's why guys like Bamba will never sustain energy over course of a season to play hard. Might try on start, but over time will fizzle out.

I dunno, but this could be the most "Pepe" post ever.

Argue both sides of an argument as if they were consistent - CHECK

I was right about Wiggins reference - CHECK

Players don't change - CHECK

I was right about Bamba's motor reference - CHECK

That's like the royal flush of Pepeisms, right there.

I think you can quit now, Pepe. You'll never improve on this post ever.

Wiggins still sucks despite fact he turned into one of worst starting allstars in recent history , mostly by Warriors PR team hiring asian boy bands to promote voting for him and other Warriors players- fact
Bamba still looks same after 4 years- fact
Okeke, Cole, Hampton showed zero improvment from year 1 to year 2- fact
Most players turn into improved rookie versions of themselfs- fact ( exibits above)







Just some qoutes from Warriors fans from sb nation page

Wiggins has turned into a pumpkin and I am not sure there is a magic to have keep him a 40% 3-pt shooter for longer than a couple months. He is a bad shooter who was on a good steak and Wiggins with more than 10 shots a game is a recipe for a disaster. His defence is still good though.

Looks like Wiggins doesn't know what to do when Poole is handling the ball.

Right now the entire team is in a mental funk. I’ve never liked Wiggins’ shot. He shoots a very low arc which if it’s the least bit awry, will clang off the rim. Tonight he was so far off that he was missing shots way to the right and left. And he even missed 5 foot shots. Certainly the horrible free throw shooting is unacceptable for a NBA player, much less an All-Star.

Wiggins is back to being Wiggins. He's been having a bad stretch since February, but his efficiency has already dropped below what he posted last season. Work on your free throws!!! His defense is still good for the most part, but right now he's on-par with his old self. Sigh.

Most liked comment

I'm glad Wiggins is making it painfully clear he's not worth re-signing.

Wiggins to me will always be poster boy of blind hype, turned into blind hope of improvment with spectacular backfire. But on Warriors, more so than on any other team, he was able to hide behind Curry for some time, even turned into allstar starter ( bad joke), but now is back at being same old Brickinns.
Warriors fans refer to him as pumpking

Come on dude. RJ's shooting stroke is infinitely better than it was last year. Okeke is also better on defense this year. Just because they are small improvements doesn't mean they didn't get better. Stop being so hyperbolic.

[pepe1991]

I dunno, but this could be the most "Pepe" post ever.

Argue both sides of an argument as if they were consistent - CHECK

I was right about Wiggins reference - CHECK

Players don't change - CHECK

I was right about Bamba's motor reference - CHECK

That's like the royal flush of Pepeisms, right there.

I think you can quit now, Pepe. You'll never improve on this post ever.

Wiggins still sucks despite fact he turned into one of worst starting allstars in recent history , mostly by Warriors PR team hiring asian boy bands to promote voting for him and other Warriors players- fact
Bamba still looks same after 4 years- fact
Okeke, Cole, Hampton showed zero improvment from year 1 to year 2- fact
Most players turn into improved rookie versions of themselfs- fact ( exibits above)







Just some qoutes from Warriors fans from sb nation page

Wiggins has turned into a pumpkin and I am not sure there is a magic to have keep him a 40% 3-pt shooter for longer than a couple months. He is a bad shooter who was on a good steak and Wiggins with more than 10 shots a game is a recipe for a disaster. His defence is still good though.

Looks like Wiggins doesn't know what to do when Poole is handling the ball.

Right now the entire team is in a mental funk. I’ve never liked Wiggins’ shot. He shoots a very low arc which if it’s the least bit awry, will clang off the rim. Tonight he was so far off that he was missing shots way to the right and left. And he even missed 5 foot shots. Certainly the horrible free throw shooting is unacceptable for a NBA player, much less an All-Star.

Wiggins is back to being Wiggins. He's been having a bad stretch since February, but his efficiency has already dropped below what he posted last season. Work on your free throws!!! His defense is still good for the most part, but right now he's on-par with his old self. Sigh.

Most liked comment

I'm glad Wiggins is making it painfully clear he's not worth re-signing.

Wiggins to me will always be poster boy of blind hype, turned into blind hope of improvment with spectacular backfire. But on Warriors, more so than on any other team, he was able to hide behind Curry for some time, even turned into allstar starter ( bad joke), but now is back at being same old Brickinns.
Warriors fans refer to him as pumpking

Come on dude. RJ's shooting stroke is infinitely better than it was last year. Okeke is also better on defense this year. Just because they are small improvements doesn't mean they didn't get better. Stop being so hyperbolic.

Hyperbolic ? You litearlly took 2 single things they got marginally better and ignored Okeke actually shoots worst, has much worst efficiency, has worst assist total and APG while his steals, blocks and turnovers are identical. ON top of that his 3 ball is much worst.

RJ Hampton literally got worst at everything but 3%, he is now somehow 61% FT shooter as a guard. His advanced numbers are among worst in nba, there is ongoing thread about him not being nba player ( Where i don't push that notion, but others).

So if player improved in exhibit A and got worst in B,C, kept being same in D,E,F did he really improve or outside factors played into A,B,C and D,E,F is his platoe?

Why you complain about COle so much ? He is young, give him 8 more years just to be sure he is bad? Why does same criteria does not aplly to all players, but only ones who people like ? Where are Fultz improvment at? 5 years into nba. We better resign him again just to make sure . Bamba? Slap 5 years on that boy, maybe some poster can dig up somebody from 1954 to point out how that guy , between real job, family and basketball improved by age of 26 so will Bamba.

Only reason i brought Wiggins because start of a season there was fapfets of "i told you we should trade him when his value vas low " about wiggins. And now, 5 months later, he is same old, low value for dollar player and still one of worst nba contracts.

[jonbob17]

None of these wins are good wins. We got rid of Clifford because he wouldn't buy in to the rebuild and now the FO has gotten cold feet? We are 5-5 in last 10 while OKC is 0-10. I am glad the players are leaving it on the court. They should be, it's what they do. But the fact we don't have 4 Lakelanders in the rotation is squarely on Weltman. Better yet, where is Terrence Ross, give him 35 minutes a game. He's been the worst player in the league this year.

We may still end up with the #1 pick, but if we end up 8th and miss out on this draft, the only guys to blame are the guys at the top. Who knows, maybe they know something i don't and have this as a 8 man draft, and are perfectly happy picking there.

[drsd]

[Bergmaniac]

I am not all that committed to the tank at all costs, but why half ass it at the end every year? Other teams tank hard after ASB, yet we always improve just enough to get some wins. Other tanking teams are shamelessly resting their top players pretty much every time it seems they have a shot to win while we play Wagner and WCJ every time they are healthy.

And for some reason we have decided to sit Ross in half the games even though he's been great tank commander. It's not like Garry Harris who plays instead is someone who needs development minutes. He'll most likely walk in the summer anyway. Ross has missed 4 games since ASB and we have had 3 wins and a narrow loss against a top team like Philly in them. Coincidence? The defensive gap between Ross and Harris is vast and Harris has actually shot much better too in the last two months. Harris has a +10.8 net rating since ASB. Ross has a -14.1. If you want to tank, playing Ross instead of Harris is a complete no-brainer.

[Last Guardian]

Magic give up 150 to brooklyn and lose to Detroit: "Oh my god this team is such trash I've lost all hope in every player"

Magic beat GSW who played Draymond, KT, Wiggins and Poole significant minutes "Oh my god why aren't they losing enough!"

It is no mystery why posting is so far down.

[Ducklett]

Magic give up 150 to brooklyn and lose to Detroit: "Oh my god this team is such trash I've lost all hope in every player"

Magic beat GSW who played Draymond, KT, Wiggins and Poole significant minutes "Oh my god why aren't they losing enough!"

It is no mystery why posting is so far down.

There is a post 4 above yours that is "Oh my god this team is such trash I've lost all hope in every player" in a thread where we won, so your point is moot.

[YosemiteSam]

Was at the game (also apologies to the tankers, we are 3-2 in games I attended this year). I know we don't talk about the game in game threads other than why didn't we lose, but I just want to say that the design and execution of that final inbound that led to Franz's dunk was fantastic - that was against a veteran team trying to win, and it was beautiful to see. Best drawn up play for the Magic since SVG IMO.

[thelead]

Was at the game (also apologies to the tankers, we are 3-2 in games I attended this year). I know we don't talk about the game in game threads other than why didn't we lose, but I just want to say that the design and execution of that final inbound that led to Franz's dunk was fantastic - that was against a veteran team trying to win, and it was beautiful to see. Best drawn up play for the Magic since SVG IMO.

I'm not ever mad when Franz scores... even if it breaks the tank

[Last Guardian]

Magic give up 150 to brooklyn and lose to Detroit: "Oh my god this team is such trash I've lost all hope in every player"

Magic beat GSW who played Draymond, KT, Wiggins and Poole significant minutes "Oh my god why aren't they losing enough!"

It is no mystery why posting is so far down.

There is a post 4 above yours that is "Oh my god this team is such trash I've lost all hope in every player" in a thread where we won, so your point is moot.