SOUL wrote:Def Swami wrote:On the Magic side, I like our team. Bane and Jones are upgrades. Our defense should be good again. The defense will always make us competitive.
I also question whether these moves are enough to improve our team shooting from worst in the league to average. We're going to need Franz to find his shot again. We're going to need Carter Jr and Isaac to try to play up to their contracts. We need Black, Da Silva, Howard to come along. A lot of questions in my eyes still on that end.
In an ideal world, we could upgrade 1-2 more of those role player minutes. But that salary cap math is tough unless we find some takers via trade for these players. And I'm not sure the market is there.
It was always going to depend on Franz/Paolo/Suggs replicating or finding their shot. You can only add so much shooting to mask for deficiencies of your stars who will have a lot of usage. The role players can't be like worst in the league sort of bad, but our stars need to step up on that end.
Yeah but the role players
were worst in the league sort of bad. Does swapping Bane for KCP and Jones for Anthony help? I believe and hope so!
I don’t disagree with your point. That’s why I mentioned Wagner because his shooting woes puzzle me the most between the trio of Suggs and Banchero. It’s moot if the trio doesn’t get better.
At the same time, Black, Carter Jr, and Isaac are presumptively in the rotation and they’re going to be open and ignored by defenses a lot. How we manage that rotation with our best players at their best going downhill and at the rim is going to be Mosely’s biggest challenge again.
