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Re: Official Speculation Thread '20-'21 VII: Where do we go from here? 

Post#361 » by basketballRob » Mon Feb 1, 2021 8:49 pm

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basketballRob wrote:Bamba averaging 28.6 ppg and 16.4 rebs per 36 mpg. I know he wouldn't average that, but it's not like he hasn't capitalized on the little bit of minutes he's got.

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You left out the 9 Personal Fouls he'd average..I'm sure that was just an oversite.
Yeah he'd foul out with 20 pts and 13 rebs in 25 minutes.

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Re: Official Speculation Thread '20-'21 VII: Where do we go from here? 

Post#362 » by JBSouthpaw » Mon Feb 1, 2021 9:00 pm

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basketballRob wrote:Bamba averaging 28.6 ppg and 16.4 rebs per 36 mpg. I know he wouldn't average that, but it's not like he hasn't capitalized on the little bit of minutes he's got.

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You left out the 9 Personal Fouls he'd average..I'm sure that was just an oversite.
Yeah he'd foul out with 20 pts and 13 rebs in 25 minutes.

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I could live with that! if only..
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Re: Official Speculation Thread '20-'21 VII: Where do we go from here? 

Post#363 » by Skybox » Mon Feb 1, 2021 9:01 pm

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cedric76 wrote:I m against TANKING, i want our players to play to win but with so many injuries it s clear that we wont be able to make the playoff

Trade AG and Evan for Assets


Give minutes to Chuma and MO

Im now completely off the "trade AG" wagon, i want him in a orlando jersey for the rest of his career
Also, if hes hurt and out an extended period of time, it would be hard to trade him anyways, let alone trade him for any kind of value
But either way, #KeepAG!


Do you see him playing next to Isaac successfully? would you move Isaac instead? Do you think AG will want to re-sign after next year and how much will he want?

We simply can't have our top 5 players ALL making 15-25 apiece...Unless we were to move Evan and AG (and ...) for a star like Beal or whoever, the more realistic model is to bust up AG's and/or Evan's 18m over a couple of role players that provide the parts of Evan's or AG's games that we need (floor-spreader, strictly D...). It seems we cannot just re-sign all of these good but not great players to high but not real high deals. One by one, they're not unfair deals, but across the roster it doesn't work out. Every decent team needs a couple of young guys that are outperforming their salaries and, likely, a couple of guys that didn't quite earn their salaries. Even if we wanted to just run it back, everybody can't just keep getting raises...doesn't work anymore in corporate setting or in NBA.
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Re: Official Speculation Thread '20-'21 VII: Where do we go from here? 

Post#364 » by The Effect » Mon Feb 1, 2021 9:14 pm

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The Effect wrote:
cedric76 wrote:I m against TANKING, i want our players to play to win but with so many injuries it s clear that we wont be able to make the playoff

Trade AG and Evan for Assets


Give minutes to Chuma and MO

Im now completely off the "trade AG" wagon, i want him in a orlando jersey for the rest of his career
Also, if hes hurt and out an extended period of time, it would be hard to trade him anyways, let alone trade him for any kind of value
But either way, #KeepAG!


Do you see him playing next to Isaac successfully? would you move Isaac instead? Do you think AG will want to re-sign after next year and how much will he want?

We simply can't have our top 5 players ALL making 15-25 apiece...Unless we were to move Evan and AG (and ...) for a star like Beal or whoever, the more realistic model is to bust up AG's and/or Evan's 18m over a couple of role players that provide the parts of Evan's or AG's games that we need (floor-spreader, strictly D...). It seems we cannot just re-sign all of these good but not great players to high but not real high deals. One by one, they're not unfair deals, but across the roster it doesn't work out. Even if we wanted to just run it back, everybody can't just keep getting raises...doesn't work anymore in corporate setting or in NBA.

Im probably the only person on this site that would want to trade isaac
I think hes too injury prone and too much of a liablity on offense to be a franchise cornerstone.
I really hate the idea of build a team around a 3&D guy who is going to miss 60% of your games and really cant create any offense outside of kickout 3s

I get hes an all-nba level defender and that hes everyones hope for a franchise player, but that does nothing for us when hes in a suit and tie every game, and really he only makes an impact at one side of the court. I get why everyone lose him, but im not in that group

Too me, my order of trading guys from out "core" would be

1 - Evan - please trade him already!
2 - Ross - cant deal with the black hole when hes in the game. the ball literally stops moving and gets forced to him to take every shot. When hes hot, sure thats alright i guess (still takes too many bad shots), but when hes off, its an automatic loss
3 - Isaac - I would say id rather trade vuc than him, but i would list him above vuc because id ASSUME he would have higher trade value.
4 - Vuc - If we can trade him for a valuable return, do it, but im not holding my breath

Gordon\Fultz\Cole - im not trading
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Re: Official Speculation Thread '20-'21 VII: Where do we go from here? 

Post#365 » by zaymon » Mon Feb 1, 2021 9:30 pm

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Skybox wrote:
The Effect wrote:Im now completely off the "trade AG" wagon, i want him in a orlando jersey for the rest of his career
Also, if hes hurt and out an extended period of time, it would be hard to trade him anyways, let alone trade him for any kind of value
But either way, #KeepAG!


Do you see him playing next to Isaac successfully? would you move Isaac instead? Do you think AG will want to re-sign after next year and how much will he want?

We simply can't have our top 5 players ALL making 15-25 apiece...Unless we were to move Evan and AG (and ...) for a star like Beal or whoever, the more realistic model is to bust up AG's and/or Evan's 18m over a couple of role players that provide the parts of Evan's or AG's games that we need (floor-spreader, strictly D...). It seems we cannot just re-sign all of these good but not great players to high but not real high deals. One by one, they're not unfair deals, but across the roster it doesn't work out. Even if we wanted to just run it back, everybody can't just keep getting raises...doesn't work anymore in corporate setting or in NBA.

Im probably the only person on this site that would want to trade isaac
I think hes too injury prone and too much of a liablity on offense to be a franchise cornerstone.
I really hate the idea of build a team around a 3&D guy who is going to miss 60% of your games and really cant create any offense outside of kickout 3s

I get hes an all-nba level defender and that hes everyones hope for a franchise player, but that does nothing for us when hes in a suit and tie every game, and really he only makes an impact at one side of the court. I get why everyone lose him, but im not in that group

Too me, my order of trading guys from out "core" would be

1 - Evan - please trade him already!
2 - Ross - cant deal with the black hole when hes in the game. the ball literally stops moving and gets forced to him to take every shot. When hes hot, sure thats alright i guess (still takes too many bad shots), but when hes off, its an automatic loss
3 - Isaac - I would say id rather trade vuc than him, but i would list him above vuc because id ASSUME he would have higher trade value.
4 - Vuc - If we can trade him for a valuable return, do it, but im not holding my breath

Gordon\Fultz\Cole - im not trading


So you literally want to trade our best players and build around worst ? Thats bold. I like Cole but he has a long way to go.
My money is on Banchero going number 1 !
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Re: Official Speculation Thread '20-'21 VII: Where do we go from here? 

Post#366 » by VFX » Mon Feb 1, 2021 9:34 pm

Keep Isaac, Fultz, Bamba, Cole and Okeke. Get rid of everyone else.

Fultz and Isaac are injured and won’t be traded.
The rest are on rookie scale deals or aren’t worth much unless added in filler.

Any other combination of players and picks would make more sense and be higher valued for where Orlando is right now.
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Post#367 » by j-ragg » Mon Feb 1, 2021 9:54 pm

Fire these morons if they don’t sell on one/both of Fournier and Vucevic before one/both inevitably get injured.

Still can’t believe how disappointing these two GMs have been. All we heard was how we needed their experience, for what?

Pepe was right about the Hammond hire from day 1. Guy jerks off to treadmill teams, we should’ve expected this but I don’t think any of us thought it possible to win 35 games :lol:
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Re: Official Speculation Thread '20-'21 VII: Where do we go from here? 

Post#368 » by Knightro » Mon Feb 1, 2021 9:55 pm

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Post#369 » by RookieStar » Mon Feb 1, 2021 10:16 pm

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That's tank-tastic news. Does this mean we get to see more of Bamba with Birch being the PF?
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Post#370 » by The Effect » Mon Feb 1, 2021 10:23 pm

zaymon wrote:
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Do you see him playing next to Isaac successfully? would you move Isaac instead? Do you think AG will want to re-sign after next year and how much will he want?

We simply can't have our top 5 players ALL making 15-25 apiece...Unless we were to move Evan and AG (and ...) for a star like Beal or whoever, the more realistic model is to bust up AG's and/or Evan's 18m over a couple of role players that provide the parts of Evan's or AG's games that we need (floor-spreader, strictly D...). It seems we cannot just re-sign all of these good but not great players to high but not real high deals. One by one, they're not unfair deals, but across the roster it doesn't work out. Even if we wanted to just run it back, everybody can't just keep getting raises...doesn't work anymore in corporate setting or in NBA.

Im probably the only person on this site that would want to trade isaac
I think hes too injury prone and too much of a liablity on offense to be a franchise cornerstone.
I really hate the idea of build a team around a 3&D guy who is going to miss 60% of your games and really cant create any offense outside of kickout 3s

I get hes an all-nba level defender and that hes everyones hope for a franchise player, but that does nothing for us when hes in a suit and tie every game, and really he only makes an impact at one side of the court. I get why everyone lose him, but im not in that group

Too me, my order of trading guys from out "core" would be

1 - Evan - please trade him already!
2 - Ross - cant deal with the black hole when hes in the game. the ball literally stops moving and gets forced to him to take every shot. When hes hot, sure thats alright i guess (still takes too many bad shots), but when hes off, its an automatic loss
3 - Isaac - I would say id rather trade vuc than him, but i would list him above vuc because id ASSUME he would have higher trade value.
4 - Vuc - If we can trade him for a valuable return, do it, but im not holding my breath

Gordon\Fultz\Cole - im not trading


So you literally want to trade our best players and build around worst ? Thats bold. I like Cole but he has a long way to go.



We are a perennial .500 team whos BEST hope is a 7 seed.....we our best arent exactly great
Ive explained WAY too many times why i would trade Isaac and why i dont consider him a cornerstone\franchise player so im not going to rehash all that, but to me thats the only one thats debatable. None of Evan\ross\vuc are top 3 options on a contender.

Fultz and cole are still super young and shown enough potential to be guys to build around, and gordon to me is the only guy on the team who plays with a chip on his shoulder and actually cares about wins and loses. Is he our most talented? no but he is talented. Does he have the most potential? no not anymore, but hes still young enough to devlop a bit more (no im not saying hes going to be kawhi or anything). Is he our most athletic...ok yeah this one he is, sure... but all in all he would be a guy i would build around

Who knows, maybe he just needs to be surrounded by a different type of cast. Like whos to say he couldnt be a more athletic Draymond green if surrounded by some stars instead of medicore Buddy Ball EVuc? Not trying to make excuses for him, he is what is, but to me its hard to just completely write him off considering hes played in the same offense scheme his whole career, surrounded by the same cast
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Post#371 » by The Effect » Mon Feb 1, 2021 10:24 pm

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That's tank-tastic news. Does this mean we get to see more of Bamba with Birch being the PF?

With cliff as coach, no, expect to see alot more Clark at PF and birch at C
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Post#372 » by Husky1 » Mon Feb 1, 2021 10:27 pm

I would trade Ross, Fournier, Birch first. We can keep Vooch and rest him on B2B for rest of year. We keep Vooch takes pressure off having to draft Mobley on top 3. Thing is Vooch will never get a higher return than now so if we get a bite we prob should trade him.
Ross to Boston or Philly for a young piece or 1st rounder. Would be an upgrade over Reddick for then if Nets got him.
Evan to Dallas for Johnson and Green or terry.
Birch would be ideal to Nets. Try get Claxton/Perry off them for him.
Build around AG, Bamba, Fultz, Isaac, Okeke and Anthony and a top 3 pick, that’s a hell of a young core. Add savvy vets along the way as we go. Keep Aminu for this reason.
If we can land Green, Kuminga or Cade then I truly believe, lookout!
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Re: Official Speculation Thread '20-'21 VII: Where do we go from here? 

Post#373 » by Knightro » Mon Feb 1, 2021 10:27 pm

The Effect wrote:With cliff as coach, no, expect to see alot more Clark at PF and birch at C


Clark is going to start at PF.

Until Okeke is back, which seems like it may be relatively soon, it seems like it will be Birch at backup PF and Bamba at backup C.

Jordan Bone almost assuredly is going to be back in the rotation since Clifford can't use Gordon as his defacto backup PG anymore either.
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Post#374 » by yoyojw17 » Mon Feb 1, 2021 10:35 pm

Husky1 wrote:I would love Ross, Fournier, Birch. We can keep Vooch and rest him on B2B for rest of year. We keep Vooch takes pressure off having to draft Mobley on top 3.
Ross to Boston or Philly for a young piece or 1st rounder.
Evan to Dallas for Johnson and Green or terry.
Birch would be ideal to Nets. Try get Claxton/Perry off them for him.
Build around Vooch, Bamba, Fultz, Isaac, Okeke and Anthony and a top 3 pick, that’s a hell of a young core. Add savvy vets along the way as we go. Keep Aminu for this reason.
If we can land Green, Kuminga or Cade then I truly believe, lookout!

Wow... I was literally coming to suggest similar situations. At least to say.... ross and evan for a mix of young talent and/or 1sts would be a great way to set the tank in motion. Funny thing was during the draft... i was suggesting we trade Fournier for a mid first and pick up green.

And as long as Vuc gets the plan and is happy... yup.... hope we can end the season with a top 3 pick. and come back next season swinging!!! Saves on cap while giving us additions for the future... and a shot at top 10 pick while steve milks the crap out of whatever we have.
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Post#375 » by Magicfanatic82 » Mon Feb 1, 2021 10:48 pm

AG and Evan should get moved first. Birch could maybe get paired with a 2nd to get someone like Shamet or another young wing.
There us value to Vuc and Ross being on the roster. If we get a high pick, they take scoring pressure off of the young players and provide spacing for Isaac and Fultz. They also by all accounts are solid in the locker room. Same with Aminu, his value is so low he is fine as depth and a vet for us.
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Post#377 » by Magicfanatic82 » Mon Feb 1, 2021 11:25 pm

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Awesome news, we should give him all the playing time he can handle.
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Post#378 » by yoyojw17 » Mon Feb 1, 2021 11:30 pm

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Awesome news, we should give him all the playing time he can handle.

Hope that cole and okeke maximize their opportunities!
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Post#379 » by pepe1991 » Mon Feb 1, 2021 11:33 pm

If you are going into full blown rebuild, there is no logical reason why not include Isaac and especially Fultz in trades.
Team won't be build in next 3 years at least, witch means Isaac and Fultz will be already gone in unrestricted free agency.

Timeline of future team shouldn't be depended on players that missed 3 of 4 years of rookie contracts and were awarded exstension based on blind faith.
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Post#380 » by JBSouthpaw » Mon Feb 1, 2021 11:54 pm

pepe1991 wrote:If you are going into full blown rebuild, there is no logical reason why not include Isaac and especially Fultz in trades.
Team won't be build in next 3 years at least, witch means Isaac and Fultz will be already gone in unrestricted free agency.

Timeline of future team shouldn't be depended on players that missed 3 of 4 years of rookie contracts and were awarded exstension based on blind faith.


I understand that thought process. It would be crazy for any GM to receive an ACL injured player this early (up to the trade deadline) in the rehab time.

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