Knightro wrote:BlueBalls wrote:You don’t seem to understand that we, as Magic fans, have little external efficacy towards our FO making smart basketball moves. The ONLY reason this team is where it is now is because of lotto picks. And even then we’ve either blown those (Elfried, Mario) or traded them for a pile of magic beans (Dipo, Sabonis). So no, many of is don’t think this WeHam Portmanteau is going to be any different. But a higher draft pick statistically leads to better players, regardless of who is calling the shots.
So essentially you’re admitting that you’re working off a “the guys who were here before sucked so the guys here now obviously will also suck!” rationale?
Sorry man, but that doesn’t work for me.
This team just improved by 17 wins from one season to the next. No matter what anyone wants to say about it, that’s real tangible progress.
Getting beat in 5 games (which mind you almost every single poster on this board picked the Magic to lose in 4 or 5) to a really good Toronto team doesn’t make me any less excited and interested to see how the front office and coaching staff will look to build off the clear progress that was made this season.
Yes. It is progress. One might argue that this team overachieved. I certainly would. But there was no way around this group improving upon the prior year, so you may not want to get yourself flagged for excessive celebration regarding this tangible improvement, and other than Clifford, they had little to do with it.
What happens next is what matters. This is a crossroads and I don’t have any faith that these guys are going to do better than their predecessors simply because they helped make MIL what it currently is. I’d feel a lot better about things if we had a top 8 pick. I’m scared they’re going to re-up Ross to an Evanesque deal and do even more for Playoff Vuc. I’m afraid they’re going to be overly buoyed by a playoff trip and merely tune up the engine rather than overhaul the car.
Superstars win championships. Hell, these days you need 2 or even 3. We don’t have a superstar on this roster. We have solid players who still should improve in Gordon, Isaac, Bamba and hopefully Fultz. All 4 guys could be All Stars. But we need the horse. The Leonard. A Giannis. Steph. Durant. Russ. You get the idea. Picking 16th and re-upping these schleppers isn’t going to cause this team to improve. It’ll take a pair of brass balls to do what needs to be done. I don’t think these guys have them.
Guess we’ll see.
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