fendilim wrote:NBAchamps2017 wrote:tough to swallow but, seeing Myles Turner put up stats like 30pts 16reb, not mention how solid is Winslow and how smooth is Devin Booker; I want to
Seriously? We hardly even ran a good iso play for the so-called next Paul George. What more for hezonja?
Do you really belive that Turner would have freedom to play like that in Orlando? Last Magic player with that much freedom was who? T mac? Turner is C, as long as they are in love with Vučević they would never remove leash from Turner, or any other young center, or any other young player for that matter.
Watched Suns to see my guy Bender. Now you something you should know about worst runned organisation in NBA -orginal plan was to DNP 4# pick and give Chriss 7-8 min . Do you know who plays before them? Dudley and PJ Tucker. 6'7 fat guy who can't jump over phonebook and 6'6 dude . That's Suns PFs right !
Now when you know that, you should know that stats don't always tell you all. Booker did score 6 points in second quater but got frustated and pushed DMC and was benched. His defense is something else. It's hard to explain how each and every guard not named Eric Bledose on that team is awful on defense . They menaged to make Gay look like Lebron. ( 22 points, 4 blocks, 3 rebounds, efficient offense? Whaaat? ).
Now back to Miami- Magic and Winslow, and all Magic players.
WInslow played well. Do you know why? Because he has purpose on the floor defined by his coach. How many Magic players have purpose? Hezonja is there to stand in corner. That's not purpose. Gordon is there because it would look bad to not play highest draft pick from 2 years ago. That's only reason why he starts.
Somehow everything that Mario or Gordon do is viewed through a microscope and analyzed to little details. So why other Magic player don't have same treatment?
I saw Nikola Vučević through preseason and last night that got killed by each and every pick&roll, that can't box out when he should, that takes some questionable shots and that scores 18 and allows opponent to score 30 on him last night ( pretty much all Whitesdies and Dragić points were on him and Payton ).
I saw Ibaka, that team traded half of team away for- that has no offensive game whatsoever but who thinks he should be offensive option. He has most robotic, unnatural body movment i have ever seen. He can pick&pop once every few possessions. yeey, We could keep Jason Smith for that too and pay him around $15M less next year. How da F you play 36 min with zero assists? Is he really that blind?
Green ? LOOL JEFF FREAKING GREEN. To actually rebound you should actually box out dude ! 30 years old ,not knowing fundametals of basketball. And this shooting is "real" Jeff. Really low FG% 3 point percentage and efficiency in general.
What to say about Evan? When his shooting is off he shoots more. He got big money and now he will act like Harden outthere? His defense was really bad, Tyler Johnson was beating living life out of him (even Waiters... ) . 4 assists, 4 rebounds in 39 min.
Payton Is there even a point to talk about him at this point? "Pass first" PG who can't pass or shoot.
Not a single starter played less than 35 min. But heeeeeeeeeeeeey let's focus on Mario who played 14 and blame him for this fiasco ! Dude had 2 assists in 14 min, that's 2 more than ibaka in 36 min.
Biggest problem with this team is that you have 2 guys that pass to each other only (Vuc and Evan ) , that ball movment in general is bad and that nobody can hide black hole on defense named NIkola Vučević and black hole on offense named Elfrid Payton.
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. -John Lennon
