2022-2023 Regular Season Game 63: Orlando Magic (26-36) at Milwaukee Bucks (44-17) - 8pm

Optimus_Steel · Post #142 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:21 am

7 to 26....

Magicman125 · Post #143 » by **Magicman125** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:22 am

Howard Mass wrote:The Bucks were just too much tonight.

Giannis in a lot of ways reminds me of some of the impacts Shaq had back in the day.

If The Bucks keep playing like this, they will be tough to beat in The East with only Cleveland having much of a chance.

Honestly the top 5 in the east are all looking really good.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #144 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:24 am

Is this the highest total we’ve allowed this season?

Skin · Post #145 » by **Skin** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:25 am

Hopefully Okeke, Anthony, Suggs, Franz, and Paolo are the last 1st round picks we draft who can't shoot... wait, those are ALL of our 1st rounders.

thelead · Post #146 » by **thelead** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:25 am

Terrible game. I'm ready for next season already.

thelead · Post #147 » by **thelead** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:27 am

Skin wrote:Hopefully Okeke, Anthony, Suggs, Franz, and Paolo are the last 1st round picks we draft who can't shoot... wait, those are ALL of our 1st rounders.

On the bright side, we could have drafted 'shooter' Jabari who is shooting 38/29/79

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #148 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:28 am

Yeah, these games man… I am really tired of teams having historical shooting nights against us.

Optimus_Steel · Post #149 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:29 am

ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:Yeah, these games man… I am really tired of teams having historical shooting nights against us.

Seems to me they get demoralized.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #150 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:30 am

Optimus_Steel wrote:
ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:Yeah, these games man… I am really tired of teams having historical shooting nights against us.
Seems to me they get demoralized.

This game felt more final for me.

BlueBalls · Post #151 » by **BlueBalls** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:33 am

It’s a painful path to a rewarding end. Give us one more lotto pick and a good FA or two and it’s on.

Post #152 » by **SOUL** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:34 am

Things will be okay, guys :lol:

you'd think we lost to the Pistons again

Post #153 » by **Knightro** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:36 am

Optimus_Steel wrote:7 vs 23 on 3pts, you can't overcome that. If WeHam don't add at least two 3pt shooters over the summer it's a failure.

It's not just adding more shooters. It's deeper than that from an organizational standpoint.

Quite frankly, the front office is going to have to make some hard and likely unpopular decisions on the construction of this roster if this team wants to take the next step beyond nice story into actual contender.

If the plan is move forward with Paolo and Franz as the two cornerstone players, which I think most people on this board want them to do, then they simply can't also move forward with low volume and low accuracy 3PT shooters in the backcourt.

Suggs has the volume, but not the accuracy
Harris has the accuracy, but not the volume
Fultz and Anthony don't have the volume or the accuracy

Like if the Magic run it back next year, they could win 40 maybe even 45 games with great depth and strong defense, but their ceiling is still so limited offensively as presently constructed.

Optimus_Steel · Post #154 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:41 am

SOUL wrote:Things will be okay, guys you'd think we lost to the Pistons again

It wasn't the Pistons but at one point the other team had 19 more 3pters than we did, it gets absurd at that point.

Post #155 » by **Knightro** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:42 am

And yes, the Bucks were abnormally hot tonight, but even if they had shot their season average which is 36% from 3PT, they still would have made 20 threes and scored 121 points, enough to win.

3PT volume matters. If your opponent is ATTEMPTING 23 more threes than you are, you're almost always going to lose the game.

thelead · Post #156 » by **thelead** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:45 am

This season is over. It's time to move Suggs into the starting lineup and get him more reps.

As for next season, the key is winning the lotto :lol:

Getting Wemby and trading WCJ for a shooter like Simons would be the quickest was to retool and upgrade the roster.

Wemby/Edey/Mo
Paolo/JI
Franz/Houstan
Simons/Cole/Harris
FVV/Suggs

+ Chicago's pick which could land a player like Keyonte, Dick, or Jett :nod:

Optimus_Steel · Post #157 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:47 am

Knightro wrote:And yes, the Bucks were abnormally hot tonight, but even if they had shot their season average which is 36% from 3PT, they still would have made 20 threes and scored 121 points, enough to win.

3PT volume matters. If your opponent is ATTEMPTING 23 more threes than you are, you're almost always going to lose the game.

To put it in perspective, before the garbage 3s by OKK and Admiral, the 3pt score was 78 to 21....there is no way that is survivable....the gap is so large, it's insane.

Post #158 » by **Knightro** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:54 am

thelead wrote:This season is over. It's time to move Suggs into the starting lineup and get him more reps.

As for next season, the key is winning the lotto

Getting Wemby and trading WCJ for a shooter like Simons would be the quickest was to retool and upgrade the roster.

Wemby/Edey/Mo
Paolo/JI
Franz/Houstan
Simons/Cole/Harris
FVV/Suggs

+ Chicago's pick which could land a player like Keyonte, Dick, or Jett

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ogmagicfan · Post #159 » by **ogmagicfan** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 3:56 am

Bucks are on a 16 game win streak, the Magic will be fine lol

On a side note, they can break the Lakers record 33 game win streak this season. They have 20 games left.

Post #160 » by **eyriq** » Thu Mar 2, 2023 4:43 am

What a buzz kill