2023-2024 Regular Season Game 51: Orlando Magic (27-23) at Miami Heat (26-24) - 7:30pm

Post #501 » by **Howard Mass** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:52 am

SOUL wrote:It feels like some of them know they are goners.

Hopefully.

It's possible.

now, we wait for The Trading Deadline.

Post #502 » by **eyriq** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:53 am

FFBlitzace wrote:Brandon Jennings and Ersan Ilyasova can turn this thing around. I'll pay any price.

Nightmare, though at the time I talked myself into that trade

MartinsIzAfraud · Post #503 » by **MartinsIzAfraud** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:53 am

Idk how you can continue to watch games like tonight’s and think yeah we don’t need shooters or a capable PG.

We brought it back sooo many times only to go cold and watch Miami hit 3’s and run a competent 1/2 court offense.

Post #504 » by **Knightro** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:53 am

SOUL wrote:It feels like some of them know they are goners.

Hopefully.

Maybe.

It could have just been a dead team at the end of a very long road trip too unfortunately.

We'll find out in about 40 hours.

KillMonger · Post #505 » by **KillMonger** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:53 am

We've been accumulating assets and becoming flexible for a reason.... At some point you have to take action..... Nobody is asking for homeruns but I'll take a single or a double right now

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Optimus_Steel · Post #506 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:53 am

Howard Mass wrote:Magic didn't come to play. Very sad.

Because of the standings and the team we played against it’s certainly a bad loss but probably not one to linger on. Team didn’t seem very interested in playing tonight so hard to take anything away.

Post #507 » by **ChosenSavior** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:53 am

SOUL wrote:It feels like some of them know they are goners.

Hopefully.

Definitely would explain the weird body language with the team tonight. We'll see what happens.

thelead · Post #508 » by **thelead** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:54 am

FFBlitzace wrote:Brandon Jennings and Ersan Ilyasova can turn this thing around. I'll pay any price.

Not making a trade makes me sad... thinking about waking up to find out we made a Brandon Jennings type of trade stresses me out.

thelead · Post #509 » by **thelead** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:54 am

Cole honestly may just need a change of scenery

BlueBalls · Post #510 » by **BlueBalls** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:55 am

Well, this is possibly the last game this particular group will play. Next 36 hrs will be interesting.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #511 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:55 am

I wonder who would fit our team and not miss up the chemistry?

KillMonger · Post #512 » by **KillMonger** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:56 am

thelead wrote:Cole honestly may just need a change of scenery

With that poison pill, near impossible to trade

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Optimus_Steel · Post #513 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:56 am

Knightro wrote:
SOUL wrote:It feels like some of them know they are goners.

Hopefully.

Maybe.

It could have just been a dead team at the end of a very long road trip too unfortunately.

We'll find out in about 40 hours.

I feel like the schedule has been odd to say the least. Hopefully it gets better for here on out. Odd back to backs, odd trips from one region to the country to the other.

thelead · Post #514 » by **thelead** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:57 am

KillMonger wrote:
thelead wrote:Cole honestly may just need a change of scenery
With that poison pill, near impossible to trade

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Nah

"For salary-matching purposes, if a player is traded between the time his rookie contract is extended and the following July 1 (when that extension takes effect), the player’s incoming value for the receiving team is the average of his current-year salary and the annual salary in each year of his extension. His current team, on the other hand, simply treats his current-year salary as the outgoing figure for matching purposes."

Post #515 » by **Knightro** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:58 am

The Magic don't play their next road game until Thursday, Feb 22.

16 days from now.

Post #516 » by **SOUL** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:58 am

Lol reddit is such a cesspool.. had someone call me a "snowflake millennial" because he went into the whole "team is terrible, fire the coach, fire the FO" after losing after a 3 game winning streak.

Because nothing screams "snowflake millennial" like crying and blaming everyone when your sports team loses. So many fans are unhinged it's crazy. Doesn't mean they shouldn't make moves, but my god..

BCS · Post #517 » by **BCS** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:59 am

KillMonger wrote:
thelead wrote:Cole honestly may just need a change of scenery
With that poison pill, near impossible to trade

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His poison pill contract is actually very manageable to trade.

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basketballRob · Post #518 » by **basketballRob** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:59 am

We'll have to check later and see what the net rating is for the starting lineup

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Post #519 » by **FFBlitzace** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:59 am

Before the season, Weltman said (in regards to the team standing pat over the offseason) that the players were smart enough to know what that means in this league. That they believed in them and had expectations for them. Well, despite our relative success as a team, how many individual players can we say are actually having good seasons? I would say Paolo, Franz, Suggs, and Moe. And JI and Goga have been good when they've played. The rest of the guys have kinda sucked. If this was a test, I'd give them a failing grade.

MartinsIzAfraud · Post #520 » by **MartinsIzAfraud** » Wed Feb 7, 2024 2:59 am

SOUL wrote:Lol reddit is such a cesspool.. had someone call me a "snowflake millennial" because he went into the whole "team is terrible, fire the coach, fire the FO" after losing after a 3 game winning streak.

Because nothing screams "snowflake millennial" like crying and blaming everyone when your sports team loses. So many fans are unhinged it's crazy. Doesn't mean they shouldn't make moves, but my god..

Magic Reddit is an echo chamber with quite possibly the worst basketball takes.