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Re: 2024-2025 Regular Season Game 60: Cleveland Cavaliers (47-10) at Orlando Magic (29-30) - 7:30pm 

Post#341 » by Optimus_Steel » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:42 am

Cle bench hollering in our home court. Guess that grease blocked Martins ears.
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Post#342 » by Ducklett » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:42 am

What do you guys think we can get for Paolo?
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Post#343 » by Fortune Teller » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:42 am

If you’re Jeff, How can you watch these games and look at these stat sheets night after night and defend your utter lack of effort to improve this roster over the past few years.
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Post#344 » by Rainwater » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:43 am

thelead wrote:
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thelead wrote:Goga with only 8 minutes... why?

Paolo and Franz played okay tonight. Everyone else just showed up for some cardio.


Goga hasn't been good for a while now, although has last game was pretty decent.

Disagree. He has been pretty good lately. He did have a rough stretch recently though.


It could be the injury, but he has been struggling for the last two months or so. There is a reason he lost his starting spot.
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Re: 2024-2025 Regular Season Game 60: Cleveland Cavaliers (47-10) at Orlando Magic (29-30) - 7:30pm 

Post#345 » by MasterGMer » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:43 am

MartinsIzAfraud wrote:
MasterGMer wrote:This Magic team may need some serious moves this summer. I am content with our core. But the players surrounding it is not it, period. These games exposed us like crazy. I know Jeff Weltman values continuity. But just compare us to a team like Cleveland. It is not Donovan Mitchell killed us, period. It is guys like Strus and Jerome plus Hunter that nailed the game against us.

May need?

Dude this team has needed serious moves for 2.5 years. This is the last summer we won’t be locked into our tax’d roster.

I don’t trust the FO to even know what is needed which is sad at this point.


Their bench outscored us 53 to 9 in the 4th Q. Remember that number. 53 to 9! Many people argues our core of Paolo and Franz are not efficient enough or star powered enough. But the problem I think that is more critical for us to contention is our role players surrounding. We do not have shooting and we do not have enough scoring, and those attributes are actually the key component for those guys, (3 and D) But this Magic team does not have it. Cleveland was in a Game 7 with the Magic last season. But this season? Cleveland is a Championship contender while this Magic team is more likely in the play in. We regressed. This is not a good trajectory
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Post#346 » by Husky1 » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:43 am

Ducklett wrote:What do you guys think we can get for Paolo?

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Post#347 » by SloNick Russia » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:43 am

Paolo should be at the presser today

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Post#348 » by OrlChamps2030 » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:43 am

Fortune Teller wrote:If you’re Jeff, How can you watch these games and look at these stat sheets night after night and defend your utter lack of effort to improve this roster over the past few years.


He has a part time job. Easiest job in the league
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Post#349 » by Optimus_Steel » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:44 am

Lmao joke of a performance. **** this teams front office.
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Post#350 » by Driguez » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:44 am

Of course we gonna get blown out by 40 on a televised game lol. Orlando Tragic baby. :nonono:
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Post#351 » by Rainwater » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:45 am

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MartinsIzAfraud wrote:
MasterGMer wrote:This Magic team may need some serious moves this summer. I am content with our core. But the players surrounding it is not it, period. These games exposed us like crazy. I know Jeff Weltman values continuity. But just compare us to a team like Cleveland. It is not Donovan Mitchell killed us, period. It is guys like Strus and Jerome plus Hunter that nailed the game against us.

May need?

Dude this team has needed serious moves for 2.5 years. This is the last summer we won’t be locked into our tax’d roster.

I don’t trust the FO to even know what is needed which is sad at this point.


Their bench outscored us 53 to 9 in the 4th Q. Remember that number. 53 to 9! Many people argues our core of Paolo and Franz are not efficient enough or star powered enough. But the problem I think that is more critical for us to contention is our role players surrounding. We do not have shooting and we do not have enough scoring, and those attributes are actually the key component for those guys, (3 and D) But this Magic team does not have it. Cleveland was in a Game 7 with the Magic last season. But this season? Cleveland is a Championship contender while this Magic team is more likely in the play in. We regressed. This is not a good trajectory


The role players are definitely the problem.
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Re: 2024-2025 Regular Season Game 60: Cleveland Cavaliers (47-10) at Orlando Magic (29-30) - 7:30pm 

Post#352 » by FFBlitzace » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:45 am

Nobody is beating an insane shooting performance like that, so simply losing this game isn't necessarily the issue. That's the nature of the NBA, sometimes a team goes off and you just auto-lose even if you play a good game. It's our own futility in comparison, on national tv no less, that's the salt in the wound.
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Post#353 » by Bensational » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:45 am

40 point blow out on national tv….
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Post#354 » by thelead » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:45 am

All this Paolo talk... he was actually decent tonight minus the 3-ball
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Re: 2024-2025 Regular Season Game 60: Cleveland Cavaliers (47-10) at Orlando Magic (29-30) - 7:30pm 

Post#355 » by msmoore66 » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:45 am

Ducklett wrote:What do you guys think we can get for Paolo?


It's as if you are new here :D . Answer is nothing, he is trash.
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Post#356 » by Knightro » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:46 am

Fortune Teller wrote:If you’re Jeff, How can you watch these games and look at these stat sheets night after night and defend your utter lack of effort to improve this roster over the past few years.


These dudes just don't think about this stuff like y'all think they should :lol:
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Post#357 » by thelead » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:46 am

Bensational wrote:40 point blow out on national tv….

expected honestly. they beat the Knicks by nearly 40 the other day.
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Post#358 » by Optimus_Steel » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:46 am

Driguez wrote:Of course we gonna get blown out by 40 on a televised game lol. Orlando Tragic baby. :nonono:





When will the NBA learn to not put this team on national tv?
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Post#359 » by SloNick Russia » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:46 am

FFBlitzace wrote:Nobody is beating an insane shooting performance like that, so simply losing this game isn't necessarily the issue. That's the nature of the NBA, sometimes a team goes off and you just auto-lose even if you play a good game. It's our own futility in comparison, on national tv no less, that's the salt in the wound.
We scored 82 points, dude

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Re: 2024-2025 Regular Season Game 60: Cleveland Cavaliers (47-10) at Orlando Magic (29-30) - 7:30pm 

Post#360 » by MasterGMer » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:46 am

Donovan Mitchell only scored 11 points tonight and Cleveland blows us out by 40!

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