2024-2025 Regular Season Game 58: Memphis Grizzlies (36-19) at Orlando Magic (28-29) - 7pm

Post #381 » by **Knightro** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:44 am

Just an unacceptable level of miscommunication at the end.

Memphis misses the FT. Paolo gets the rebound. Franz, Wendell and Goga all IMMEDIATELY signal for a timeout... and Paolo decides to dribble.

So once he did that, there's no timeout because you can't advance the ball.

But situational awareness just totally lacking across the board. If you DO want a timeout there, then Paolo's gotta dribble up as fast as possible into the front court and then call that timeout.

JF5 · Post #382 » by **JF5** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:44 am

AdamTheGreek wrote:This loss is on:
Missed Magic free throws.
Mosley not putting Goga in for Wendell.
Mosley not putting Tristan in for KCP.
Mosley not calling timeout.
That’s a brutal loss.

Wendell was fine... both Goga and him played well. The offensive execution down the stretch was just god awful.

KillMonger · Post #383 » by **KillMonger** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:44 am

you know what...whatever....on to the play-in.....who cares....i'm about done with this weak ahh team

BlueBalls · Post #384 » by **BlueBalls** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:45 am

GameOver25 wrote:How can we sit here and have hope for this roster, coaches, GM, franchise. You just can't lose a game like that.

Rational people know this isn’t a good team and that Mosely is a lousy coach. Needs to be blown up. But Weltman is the GM, so we’re stuck.

byeganyo · Post #385 » by **byeganyo** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:45 am

ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:This one is on Paolo. From his incredible inept shooting in the 4th to that last possession.

Franz had 2 TOS in the last 2 minutes.

Also the team went without field goals in the last 4:40 minutes.

The loss was collective effort.
The truth is that this is not a good team right now.

ogmagicfan · Post #386 » by **ogmagicfan** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:45 am

this team builds my hope to just crush it

just when i thought we were turning a new leaf

honestly all of this would be avoided if we had a PG. theres a reason why they came back and our offense started struggling more once their defensive intensity kicked up a notch and there were less transition opportunities

BlueBalls · Post #387 » by **BlueBalls** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:46 am

OrlandoNed wrote:
ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:This one is on Paolo. From his incredible inept shooting in the 4th to that last possession.

BS. He’s 1 of the only 2 on this entire team that can create a good look for himself. Who the hell else you want taking those shots in crunch time? KCP? WCJ? AB?

You don’t understand what you’re watching. Find a new hobby. Please.

Post #388 » by **SOUL** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:47 am

BlueBalls wrote:
GameOver25 wrote:How can we sit here and have hope for this roster, coaches, GM, franchise. You just can't lose a game like that.

Rational people know this isn’t a good team and that Mosely is a lousy coach. Needs to be blown up. But Weltman is the GM, so we’re stuck.

You were just praising him last month lol

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #389 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:47 am

OrlandoNed wrote:
ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:This one is on Paolo. From his incredible inept shooting in the 4th to that last possession.

BS. He’s 1 of the only 2 on this entire team that can create a good look for himself. Who the hell else you want taking those shots in crunch time? KCP? WCJ? AB?

???

MasterGMer · Post #390 » by **MasterGMer** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:47 am

Why do we even attempt a 3 point after the timeout? We were only down by 1. And no Time Out after the miss FT? Oh my goodness. This is easily a Win if we do the right things at the end.

Optimus_Steel · Post #391 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:48 am

ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:This one is on Paolo. From his incredible inept shooting in the 4th to that last possession.

Franz also had a terrible last 5 mins.

The execution and attention to detail stuff is our downfall most games. Would be nice to have a guard that can penetrate and not have to rely on Paolo and Franz every time.

thelead · Post #392 » by **thelead** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:48 am

VFX wrote:Orlando’s offense:

Paolo iso
Franz iso
That’s it.

Cole was running an effective offense for once and we just went away from it to go to something that did not work in the first half. Just brain dead basketball.

basketballRob · Post #393 » by **basketballRob** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:49 am

Let's go Toronto

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KillMonger · Post #394 » by **KillMonger** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:49 am

usually a coach is right next to or near a ref in that situation to call a TO....or just walk on the court like spolstra does

Post #395 » by **Bensational** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:49 am

Shouldn’t have had Cole out there when he was being hunted on defense and had the ball taken out of his hands on offense. Or at least keep Goga in as some rim protection behind him. Shouldn’t have let Paolo keep chucking. KCP shouldn’t be on the court full stop, he’s just terrible for someone who’s meant to be a steady hand veteran presence.

Optimus_Steel · Post #396 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:50 am

OrlandoNed wrote:Zero spacing, zero room to operate for Franz and Paolo.

Screw worrying about defense, fix the goddamn offense.

The offense is the biggest problem easily, the guard play is such a giant deficiency.

thelead · Post #397 » by **thelead** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:50 am

KillMonger wrote:usually a coach is right next to or near a ref in that situation to call a TO....or just walk on the court like spolstra does

He just isn’t that guy. Great ‘ra ra’ coach but he needs experienced guys on the bench with him. This is amateur hour stuff.

BlueBalls · Post #398 » by **BlueBalls** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:51 am

SOUL wrote:
BlueBalls wrote:
GameOver25 wrote:How can we sit here and have hope for this roster, coaches, GM, franchise. You just can't lose a game like that.

Rational people know this isn’t a good team and that Mosely is a lousy coach. Needs to be blown up. But Weltman is the GM, so we’re stuck.

You were just praising him last month lol

No. lol.

Optimus_Steel · Post #399 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:51 am

Idiosyncratic wrote:Two techs by coaches ended up making a huge difference. Paolo was terrible. Defense was great. IDK, it's a play-in team.

That too. Turns put that was the difference. This team is fantastic at finding creative ways to give games away.

MMFla · Post #400 » by **MMFla** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:51 am

Such a terrible ending, missing free throws, not rebounding, kept allowing Cole to be hunted and switch onto Ja only for him to score every time, no challenging anything, terrible iso offense, and worse of all the no timeout.

This team just isn't good, and coaching is a huge problem. Finally having a promising future, seeing the flaws and them not being fixed by the people in charge is so demoralizing.