Cole World: Orlando Magic Select Cole Anthony at #15

[RookieStar]

Cole isn’t a push over. He is going to pester those guys and give them everything he has. We have seen a lot of guys just lay over and play dead in tough situations or when down but I dont think we will ever see that from Cole

Yea... basically Harden 45 points game comfirmed

Beal just went 60 in a Wizards loss. I would be ok with a Harden 60-point game in a Magic win.


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I think itl.be bacon and ennis who will guard Harden while Cole will be abused by Wall

[KillMonger]

Yea... basically Harden 45 points game comfirmed

Beal just went 60 in a Wizards loss. I would be ok with a Harden 60-point game in a Magic win.


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I think itl.be bacon and ennis who will guard Harden while Cole will be abused by Wall

trial by fire....he's going to learn by force what it takes to be a guard in this league....sink or swim....i prefer this method to the magic's training wheel method....he's going to learn a lot

[basketballRob]

Cole isn’t a push over. He is going to pester those guys and give them everything he has. We have seen a lot of guys just lay over and play dead in tough situations or when down but I dont think we will ever see that from Cole

Yea... basically Harden 45 points game comfirmed

Beal just went 60 in a Wizards loss. I would be ok with a Harden 60-point game in a Magic win.


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Harden will only get 60 if Fournier plays.

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[pepe1991]

Yea... basically Harden 45 points game comfirmed

Beal just went 60 in a Wizards loss. I would be ok with a Harden 60-point game in a Magic win.


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Harden will only get 60 if Fournier plays.

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Funniest part aside of pure hate is fact that Harden scored 54 points against Magic in 2019, and he only scored 12 on Evan, 42 on MCW, Gordon and Isaac

But hey, keep being ignorant hater, not my problem

[MaKiaVeLi7]

Cole Anthony - The Good and The Bad Through 2 Weeks

The Good
-He's an excellent rebounding guard.
11.7 REB/100 is absolutely great for a guy his size. His desire to crash the offensive glass has burned the Magic in transition the other way a couple of times, but it brings a second chance element that Magic simply haven't had in Clifford's entire tenure.

-He's taking care of the basketball.
One of the knocks on Anthony coming out was that he wasn't a pure point guard and wasn't someone you could rely on to get your team into offensive sets while controlling the flow and tempo of the offense. While I think most of that is still true, he's done a really good job of not giving the ball away with just 7 turnovers in 140 minutes (1 TO every 20 minutes played) almost all on the basketball. Compare that to Fultz to has 18 turnovers in 211 minutes (1 TO every 8.5 minutes played)

-He's drawing enough fouls and converting enough FTs to keep himself from completely drowning offensively.
Anthony's FT rate (31.2%) and his FT percentage (95%) are both way above the league average. Hopefully that is something he can continue to maintain while he figures out how to take more shots he's capable of making.

The Bad
-He can't make a shot.
Anthony's shot profile is... in a word... brutal.

11% of his attempts are at the rim and he's converting 57.1%
36% of his attempts are floater/runner range and he's converting 22.7%
12.5% of his attempts are short midrange and he's converting 50.0%
14% of his attempts are long midrange and he's converting 22.2%
26.5% of his attempts are 3PT and he's converting 23.5%

30 of his 64 shots have come inside 10 feet and he's making an unspeakably poor 30% of those shots.

Unfortunately, he's not at all making up for it on jumpers either as he's currently sub 25% on both deep twos and threes. The fact that he's 19-20 from the free throw line suggests there's some natural shooting ability there (and nothing about his shot **looks** like it's wrong like it clearly does with Fultz, MCW and others).

By posting this you're at risk of tempting Pepe to storm in here and start carpet-bombarding the forum with random statistics.
Watch out, man! Pepe is always on duty!

[pepe1991]

Cole Anthony - The Good and The Bad Through 2 Weeks

The Good
-He's an excellent rebounding guard.
11.7 REB/100 is absolutely great for a guy his size. His desire to crash the offensive glass has burned the Magic in transition the other way a couple of times, but it brings a second chance element that Magic simply haven't had in Clifford's entire tenure.

-He's taking care of the basketball.
One of the knocks on Anthony coming out was that he wasn't a pure point guard and wasn't someone you could rely on to get your team into offensive sets while controlling the flow and tempo of the offense. While I think most of that is still true, he's done a really good job of not giving the ball away with just 7 turnovers in 140 minutes (1 TO every 20 minutes played) almost all on the basketball. Compare that to Fultz to has 18 turnovers in 211 minutes (1 TO every 8.5 minutes played)

-He's drawing enough fouls and converting enough FTs to keep himself from completely drowning offensively.
Anthony's FT rate (31.2%) and his FT percentage (95%) are both way above the league average. Hopefully that is something he can continue to maintain while he figures out how to take more shots he's capable of making.

The Bad
-He can't make a shot.
Anthony's shot profile is... in a word... brutal.

11% of his attempts are at the rim and he's converting 57.1%
36% of his attempts are floater/runner range and he's converting 22.7%
12.5% of his attempts are short midrange and he's converting 50.0%
14% of his attempts are long midrange and he's converting 22.2%
26.5% of his attempts are 3PT and he's converting 23.5%

30 of his 64 shots have come inside 10 feet and he's making an unspeakably poor 30% of those shots.

Unfortunately, he's not at all making up for it on jumpers either as he's currently sub 25% on both deep twos and threes. The fact that he's 19-20 from the free throw line suggests there's some natural shooting ability there (and nothing about his shot **looks** like it's wrong like it clearly does with Fultz, MCW and others).

By posting this you're at risk of tempting Pepe to storm in here and start carpet-bombarding the forum with random statistics.
Watch out, man! Pepe is always on duty!

Or..maybe you shouldn't have " i was right ,you were wrong "parade against other posters by using 2 games sample size and now, when reality kicked you in nuts, you are nowhere to be found?

[MaKiaVeLi7]

Cole Anthony - The Good and The Bad Through 2 Weeks

The Good
-He's an excellent rebounding guard.
11.7 REB/100 is absolutely great for a guy his size. His desire to crash the offensive glass has burned the Magic in transition the other way a couple of times, but it brings a second chance element that Magic simply haven't had in Clifford's entire tenure.

-He's taking care of the basketball.
One of the knocks on Anthony coming out was that he wasn't a pure point guard and wasn't someone you could rely on to get your team into offensive sets while controlling the flow and tempo of the offense. While I think most of that is still true, he's done a really good job of not giving the ball away with just 7 turnovers in 140 minutes (1 TO every 20 minutes played) almost all on the basketball. Compare that to Fultz to has 18 turnovers in 211 minutes (1 TO every 8.5 minutes played)

-He's drawing enough fouls and converting enough FTs to keep himself from completely drowning offensively.
Anthony's FT rate (31.2%) and his FT percentage (95%) are both way above the league average. Hopefully that is something he can continue to maintain while he figures out how to take more shots he's capable of making.

The Bad
-He can't make a shot.
Anthony's shot profile is... in a word... brutal.

11% of his attempts are at the rim and he's converting 57.1%
36% of his attempts are floater/runner range and he's converting 22.7%
12.5% of his attempts are short midrange and he's converting 50.0%
14% of his attempts are long midrange and he's converting 22.2%
26.5% of his attempts are 3PT and he's converting 23.5%

30 of his 64 shots have come inside 10 feet and he's making an unspeakably poor 30% of those shots.

Unfortunately, he's not at all making up for it on jumpers either as he's currently sub 25% on both deep twos and threes. The fact that he's 19-20 from the free throw line suggests there's some natural shooting ability there (and nothing about his shot **looks** like it's wrong like it clearly does with Fultz, MCW and others).

By posting this you're at risk of tempting Pepe to storm in here and start carpet-bombarding the forum with random statistics.
Watch out, man! Pepe is always on duty!

Or..maybe you shouldn't have " i was right ,you were wrong "parade against other posters by using 2 games sample size and now, when reality kicked you in nuts, you are nowhere to be found?

Sounds right, Pepe! "Kicking someone in the nuts" is something totally expected out of you. The macho thing to do, you're the man... or woman, or whatever...

[pepe1991]

By posting this you're at risk of tempting Pepe to storm in here and start carpet-bombarding the forum with random statistics.
Watch out, man! Pepe is always on duty!

Or..maybe you shouldn't have " i was right ,you were wrong "parade against other posters by using 2 games sample size and now, when reality kicked you in nuts, you are nowhere to be found?

Sounds right, Pepe! "Kicking someone in the nuts" is something totally expected out of you. The macho thing to do, you're the man... or woman, or whatever...

I didn't hit you, nothing but your loud mouth kicked you. Next time don't throw " superstar" parade after preseason and you'll be fine

[basketballRob]

Beal just went 60 in a Wizards loss. I would be ok with a Harden 60-point game in a Magic win.


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Harden will only get 60 if Fournier plays.

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Funniest part aside of pure hate is fact that Harden scored 54 points against Magic in 2019, and he only scored 12 on Evan, 42 on MCW, Gordon and Isaac

But hey, keep being ignorant hater, not my problem

I remember Harden scoring 40 and getting a triple double last year against Evan. The next game when Evan was out, we shut him down and won the game.

You can never admit the guy just isn't a good defender. The only game we won recently was the one Fournier didn't play.


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[Skin]

The reason why I support young players getting playing time is because you find out real fast if they are going to sink or swim. Then we can have confidence in resigning them or moving on quickly for an upgrade. All too often we are extending guys in order to keep them, while not having full confidence in them yet. It's a huge problem for this team year after year.

Sad that it takes injury for this ball-less franchise to do it, but I'm happy Cole will get a chance to show what he's got, work through his lumps and by the end of the year we'll have a good idea of what kind of role he'll have in the future.

[Knightro]

Anthony really needs to figure out his floater conundrum.

A. He's been really bad at them (7-24, 29.1%)
B. That is the shot he takes the most of all shot types.

He's been a great FT shooter and he's now up to 70% FG at the rim and 50% FG from 10-16 feet on short jump shots. He either has to make the adjustment that teams are conceding a shot he hasn't shown the ability to make and stop taking so many or quickly try and figure out a way to make more of them.

Last night he was 5-9 on non floaters and 5-6 on non floaters inside the arc.

I believe the 3PT shooting is going to come around eventually. Guys who are 90% from the line and don't have any noticeable flaws or hitches in their jumper aren't going to shoot 17% from three for the season. Just aren't.

[Magicfanatic82]

Anthony really needs to figure out his floater conundrum.

A. He's been really bad at them (7-24, 29.1%)
B. That is the shot he takes the most of all shot types.

He's been a great FT shooter and he's now up to 70% FG at the rim and 50% FG from 10-16 feet on short jump shots. He either has to make the adjustment that teams are conceding a shot he hasn't shown the ability to make and stop taking so many or quickly try and figure out a way to make more of them.

Last night he was 5-9 on non floaters and 5-6 on non floaters inside the arc.

I believe the 3PT shooting is going to come around eventually. Guys who are 90% from the line and don't have any noticeable flaws or hitches in their jumper aren't going to shoot 17% from three for the season. Just aren't.

Cole seems to be slightly rushing his shots. At some point things should slow down for him. On a positive note he competes on d and is always involved on the bench and huddles. Seems to be a great teammate.
Watching him and Mo get mins was the best part of last nights blow out.

[KillMonger]

Anthony really needs to figure out his floater conundrum.

A. He's been really bad at them (7-24, 29.1%)
B. That is the shot he takes the most of all shot types.

He's been a great FT shooter and he's now up to 70% FG at the rim and 50% FG from 10-16 feet on short jump shots. He either has to make the adjustment that teams are conceding a shot he hasn't shown the ability to make and stop taking so many or quickly try and figure out a way to make more of them.

Last night he was 5-9 on non floaters and 5-6 on non floaters inside the arc.

I believe the 3PT shooting is going to come around eventually. Guys who are 90% from the line and don't have any noticeable flaws or hitches in their jumper aren't going to shoot 17% from three for the season. Just aren't.

I feel the same, i notice the uncontested floaters go in fine though it's the ones he's forcing with a defender on his side that throws him off.....Right now he's in the middle of figuring out what works and what doesn't, i'm not really worried about the shooting...like you said he's like high 80's or 90% from the line on a good amount of attempts.....Too good for me to believe he just can't shoot, occam's razor it's more like he's just in a funk....His size out there does hurt him but his athleticism helps a lot with that imo, when his body fills out more i think he's going to be a fine finisher.....I just want him to be more of a floor general and help run the team and get others into a better rhythm...

Spacing is really important, it's not a surprise he did his best work with a floor spacer to work off of as i really liked the actions with him and bamba....Either way i think throwing cole into the fire is going to be good for him....I think you can grow just as much on the court playing against comp as you would working on your game in the off-season

[fendilim]

Anthony really needs to figure out his floater conundrum.

A. He's been really bad at them (7-24, 29.1%)
B. That is the shot he takes the most of all shot types.

He's been a great FT shooter and he's now up to 70% FG at the rim and 50% FG from 10-16 feet on short jump shots. He either has to make the adjustment that teams are conceding a shot he hasn't shown the ability to make and stop taking so many or quickly try and figure out a way to make more of them.

Last night he was 5-9 on non floaters and 5-6 on non floaters inside the arc.

I believe the 3PT shooting is going to come around eventually. Guys who are 90% from the line and don't have any noticeable flaws or hitches in their jumper aren't going to shoot 17% from three for the season. Just aren't.

He’ll be fine. I think he’ll developer his floater over time. Took DLo some time to get his, Trae also. He’ll be fine. Cole has to focus first on his shot selection and setting up his teammates.

[zaymon]

Anthony needs to spend some time with Dj Augustine tape. I would start with Toronto game 1

[pepe1991]

Main issue is that he can't shoot and looks very very small out there. Guy is 4-24 (16%) for 3.

If he can' t figure playmaking he won't last long in the league.

[Furinkazan]

meanwhile Maxey is ballin
WHy our young players cant show up like this when needed (like last night)

[RookieStar]

To be honest, I thought 3pt shooting was a strength of Cole.. as well as the crazy drives. My mistake.

[MartinsIzAfraud]

meanwhile Maxey is ballin
WHy our young players cant show up like this when needed (like last night)

Sheesh Maxey a dude

[pepe1991]

meanwhile Maxey is ballin
WHy our young players cant show up like this when needed (like last night)

Piss poor drafting 2018, 2019 and 2020