2024-2025 Regular Season Game 23 and NBA Cup Game 4: Orlando Magic (15-7) at New York Knicks (12-8) - 7:30pm

[SOUL]

While this is true, lets be honest, we haven't faired well against teams with winning records, and especially on the road. It's a bad trend, healthy or not.

Sure, and it's an extremely normal trend for a young team and a team with their best player hurt.

Pacers beat good teams and struggle against bad teams.. that's also a bad trend and they're in a terrible situation rn.

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ding ding ding

How are you going to provide rim pressure when the guy you're guarding is one of the best shooting bigs/players in the league and is parked at the 3 point line 70-80 percent of the game?

People don't watch the game, unfortunately.

We get it. You love Wendell Carter.

Congratulations

[Bensational]

Finish your layups Da Silva!!! He shorts those all the time.

[Last Guardian]

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How are you going to provide rim pressure when the guy you're guarding is one of the best shooting bigs/players in the league and is parked at the 3 point line 70-80 percent of the game?

People don't watch the game, unfortunately.

I wonder how Kessler did so well defending the rim in their game against the Knicks when he was guarding the same player, lmao. Such lame ass excuses

[Ducklett]

With how bad we look I think I am ready to Sagg for Flagg.

[KillMonger]

Might need to go get Dennis Schroder

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[GameOver25]

It's better if you watch this trainwreck on mute.

[Bensational]

KCP has been shook by Brunson too many times tonight. He’s on skates.

[JF5]

ding ding ding

How are you going to provide rim pressure when the guy you're guarding is one of the best shooting bigs/players in the league and is parked at the 3 point line 70-80 percent of the game?

People don't watch the game, unfortunately.

We get it. You love Wendell Carter.

Congratulations

So that drive from Brunson and the and-1? Why didn't Wendell go to the paint?

[eyriq]

We are getting DESTROYED

[Fortune Teller]

Definitely not the same team without Goga. Wendell just doesn't give us much.

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KCP cannot guard Brunson

[pepe1991]

This isn't even new problem, last year we also were amazing vs bad teams and pretty bad vs good ones.

??

It's not a new problem because we've been an ass team for 10 years brother - we're also the #2-3 youngest team in the league last year. Of course we will be deficient in one area.. or else we'd be the best team in the league while also being the youngest.

We've also never been able to beat the "bad teams" - which we do now.

We were 19-28 against .500 or better teams last year, Knicks and Cavs 21-28 and 21-27 with way more veteran players.

Not worried until we're back one of our best players and we start to become a veteran team (like the Knicks) and losing to similar/better teams.

I didn't say anything but pointed out that "hot take" from potential hot takes isn't that hot of a take


Btw Cavs last year almost never healthy starting 5.
It's nba. Most people nowdays complain about product for this specific reason, too many random injuries and teams that never play in full strength.

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Carter sucks

[thelead]

Let me check my notes here.... WCJ with zero blocks....

expected unfortunately.

[byeganyo]

So our minimal goal today was not to lose by more than 30 pts and we are about to fail it, amazing, really...

[Optimus_Steel]

This is so disappointing

[ORLMagicGirl15]

This is disheartening.

[GameOver25]

I'm sorry I don't want WCJr at center once we're healthy. That timeline has ran its course.

[SOUL]

Btw Cavs last year almost never healthy starting 5.
It's nba. Most people nowdays complain about product for this specific reason, too many random injuries and teams that never play in full strength.

Sure, but my point more is that if we beat really good teams often, and also bad teams.. we would be a top 3 team in the league

If we beat good teams and were "meh" against bad teams we should beat, people would have an issue with that as well.. so there's just always a thing to be a talking point, yanno?

Yes, I would like them to do better against better teams.. but I also know it's where we are in our timeline.