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2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm

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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#321 » by KillMonger » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:19 am

Last Guardian wrote:Our stars are the ones who are supposed to take over these games. We blame the little people far too often and don't point the finger at the guys who are supposed to lead the team.

It doesn't matter though, we all know this team isn't ready.
It's tough, the essence of what you're sayin is true but not many 21 and 22 year Olds can do that consistently imo

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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#322 » by thelead » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:20 am

JI needing to be on Hali is a damn shame
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#323 » by ChosenSavior » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:20 am

We have a mentally weak team. We're young though so hopefully they grow from it.
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#324 » by basketballRob » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:21 am

Our 3 non-shooters, Cole and the Wagners 1-11 from 3.

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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#325 » by Knightro » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:21 am

Bensational wrote:
Knightro wrote:Imagine being so stupid you don’t think a point guard would help this basketball team offensively.

Imagine that.


Tell us again how Fultz is guaranteed to be entrenched as our starting PG…

Tell us again how good FVV is while he leads Houston back into the lottery.

Tell us again how much we need Tyus Jones or Anfernee Simons while they also lead teams to the lottery.

Tell us again how your perpetual claims about how dire our PG position is when the team is fighting for home court advantage.

Please, enlighten all of us stupid people with more of your wisdom from on high.

Or keep doubling down on your opinion in the face of results that contradict it.


I said repeatedly that if Fultz stayed healthy and mostly replicated what he did last season that he'd be resigned even though what he did last year wasn't good enough. I absolutely stand by that opinion. Obviously he's been hurt most of this season and particularly awful when he has played, so things have changed.

Beyond that...

Do you ever stop and think how goofy is it to say that FVV, Tyus Jones and Anfernee Simons are "leading teams to the lottery" when we're talking about how they would be on THIS team, which is not a lottery team.

If any of the three of them were on this team, the talent around them would be playoff team talent and not lottery talent.

Honestly, this whole thing is one of the silliest things you've ever said and that's saying a lot.
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#326 » by byeganyo » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:21 am

BlueBalls wrote:Caleb Houstan: 22 minutes, 3 fouls, 2 rebounds, 1 assist, no points on 0-2 shooting.


You could get more from a local high school player.

But he’s better than Jett Howard.


He is right now and he is good enough shooter, but he cant create his own shot, its up to the coach and the team to find him.
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#328 » by FrightCoward » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:22 am

Banchero picked a bad game to shoot poorly. Against the Pacers no less.
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#329 » by Last Guardian » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:23 am

I don't hate WCJ nearly as much as some people, but you have to think about starting JI in the playoffs IF we make it.
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#330 » by SOUL » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:25 am

Miami just lost to the Wizards at home
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#331 » by Audi » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:26 am

If we actually hit wide open shots off our defense we’d be back in this thing by now.
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#332 » by ChosenSavior » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:26 am

What a block by Carter!
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#333 » by ChosenSavior » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:27 am

Still a chance
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#334 » by Optimus_Steel » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:27 am

Turns out we need 3pt shooting.
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#335 » by Last Guardian » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:27 am

Or just start the death lineup of Suggs, Franz, Paolo, Wendell and JI in the playoffs
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#336 » by ChosenSavior » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:28 am

ChosenSavior wrote:Still a chance


Nevermind
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#337 » by thelead » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:28 am

This lineup with Suggs instead of Cole would be nice to see get extended minutes
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Post#338 » by thelead » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:29 am

Last Guardian wrote:Or just start the death lineup of Suggs, Franz, Paolo, Wendell and JI in the playoffs

This is the answer
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#339 » by GameOver25 » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:29 am

ChosenSavior wrote:
ChosenSavior wrote:Still a chance


Nevermind

Yeah I wasn't really hopeful. Not with subpar games from Paolo and Franz.
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Re: 2023-2024 Regular Season Game 65: Indiana Pacers (35-29) at Orlando Magic (37-27) - 6pm 

Post#340 » by Knightro » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:30 am

Sengun getting wheelchaired off the court. Looks like a horrendous injury.

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