Game 1: Cleveland Cavaliers @ Orlando Magic, 7:00 PM EST

Post #1 » by **SOUL** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:17 am

The Orlando Magic are embarking on their 31st season in the NBA, hoping to provide the best season to date since Dwight and company were romping around a decade ago.

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Will we be disgusted?

Excited?

Lucky?

Unlucky?

Knowing the Magic, we will be all of these things and more. And if nothing else, the Magic provide tons of riveting discussion for the board, and this season will be no different. But before we tear each other apart here on the forums for the sake of being right about a basketball team full of young adults playing a game on a rock spinning in the sky, hopefully we'll be tearing the Cleveland Cavaliers a new one as they enter the Magic Kingdom on opening night.

Orlando Magic Projected Starting Lineup:

DJ Augustin
Evan Fournier
Jonathan Isaac
Aaron Gordon
Nikola Vucevic

Cleveland Cavaliers Projected Starting Lineup:

Darius Garland
Collin Sexton (Or Brandon Knight)
Cedi Osman
Kevin Love
Tristan Thompson

TV: FSFL
Time: 7:00 PM EST
Where: Amway Center, Orlando, Florida

Post #2 » by **SOUL** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:19 am

I'll be at the game since I'm in Orlando until the 1st, so I won't be able to mod you fine gentlemen and ladies, but I'm sure we'll have a few active mods during game day. May we cruise to a win for the sake of all of our sanity and well being of the board. Go Magic.

pepe1991 · Post #3 » by **pepe1991** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:47 am

GelbeWand09 · Post #4 » by **GelbeWand09** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 10:28 am

I'm ready & hyped. I have holidays & happy for a great sports day, with Dortmund in championsleaque, than i watch our Raptors win again & than finally the new season. :nod:

Cavs probably have the worst defense next year. Expect us scoring over 110 points in this one.

RookieStar · Post #5 » by **RookieStar** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:11 am

Let me clear my throat * ahem ahem cough cough*

Fournier sucks!!
Fultz still can't shoot?
Does AG think he is Steph with that 3 ball?
Isaac is too scared with the ball!!
Coin Toss Ross turning up tails today!
Vuc overpaid... Vuc overpaid.. Vuc overpaid

ok... looks like im in game shapenfor this one.

MagicStarwipe · Post #6 » by **MagicStarwipe** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:16 am

Actually wouldn't be surprised if Love and Thompson out hustled us and ate us alive in the paint, but hopefully our intensity is where it needs to be. Go Magic!

GelbeWand09 · Post #7 » by **GelbeWand09** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:26 am

MagicStarwipe wrote:Actually wouldn't be surprised if Love and Thompson out hustled us and ate us alive in the paint, but hopefully our intensity is where it needs to be. Go Magic!

Maybe, but doesnt really expect it. Thompson lost most of his hustle with LeBron & Love is a bit like Jokic. He was a much better player being kinda ''fat''. He isnt the rebounder or post scorer anymore, like he was with much more weight.

MagicFrenchie · Post #8 » by **MagicFrenchie** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:58 am

This is it
I except a hard fought win, this is the start of the season, everybody's healty and ready to show their improvements (NBA global speaking), the Cavs have quite good players to put us in trouble but if we outmuscle them with our size we should be good.

Catledge · Post #9 » by **Catledge** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 12:22 pm

I can't wait to see how Cliff sets his rotations now that we are into real games. He ran ten-men rotations for the first three or so quarters in preseason, but he has also repeatedly said that he expects to play a nine-men rotation.

It seems very likely that those nine will be DJ, Fournier, AG, Isaac, Vooch + Ross, Aminu, Fultz, Bamba.

I would like for coach to keep AG and Isaac together and try to have that pair on the floor anytime Bamba is in the game. If it were up to me, we would play the last several minutes of the first and third quarters with Fultz, Ross, AG, Isaac, and Bamba. And then we would start the first several minutes of the second and fourth quarters (against mostly second units) with DJ, Fournier, Ross, Aminu, and Vooch.

drsd · Post #10 » by **drsd** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 12:30 pm

I am so excited!

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MagicStarwipe · Post #11 » by **MagicStarwipe** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:08 pm

Catledge wrote:I can't wait to see how Cliff sets his rotations now that we are into real games. He ran ten-men rotations for the first three or so quarters in preseason, but he has also repeatedly said that he expects to play a nine-men rotation.

It seems very likely that those nine will be DJ, Fournier, AG, Isaac, Vooch + Ross, Aminu, Fultz, Bamba.

I would like for coach to keep AG and Isaac together and try to have that pair on the floor anytime Bamba is in the game. If it were up to me, we would play the last several minutes of the first and third quarters with Fultz, Ross, AG, Isaac, and Bamba. And then we would start the first several minutes of the second and fourth quarters (against mostly second units) with DJ, Fournier, Ross, Aminu, and Vooch.

I wont be shocked if he extends it to 10 just so he can find minutes for MCW. Fultz/MCW backcourt looked pretty trash in the pre-season though so maybe he'll ditch that idea.

OrlandO · Post #12 » by **OrlandO** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:16 pm

Preseason 2.0 for the next 15 or so games... lots of weird things will happen like it does every season until teams settle down.

3ddman23 · Post #13 » by **3ddman23** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:18 pm

I'll be there super early!!!! Pumped. Thos game should be a W. No questions asked just go out and beat a team your suppose to beat. Hoping to see a little more assertiveness from the starters and more punch from fultz. I just hope it's a good game( in our favor of course).

GO MAGIC !!!!!

Post #14 » by **Knightro** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:26 pm

Magic are 8 point favorites tonight if you're into that sort of thing.

MagicFrenchie · Post #15 » by **MagicFrenchie** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:40 pm

Knightro wrote:Magic are 8 point favorites tonight if you're into that sort of thing.

too much IMO

I see a 105-101 win

Catledge · Post #16 » by **Catledge** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:51 pm

drsd wrote:I am so excited!

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This season has a chance to be really fun. Any kind of improvement on last season would make me very happy.

Also, as I've said before, this season will determine my stance on this front office. If we get a little better and seem likely to get a little better again next year, then I would start to really believe in WeHam. If we either get worse or barely tread water, then that would make me pretty pessimistic about our top decision makers.

drsd · Post #17 » by **drsd** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:53 pm

Knightro wrote:Magic are 8 point favorites tonight if you're into that sort of thing.

Orlando's continuity could help the Magic over the first 10 games, and Cleveland has this:

The Cavaliers made major changes after tying for the second-worst record in the NBA last season at 19-63. Gone are coach Larry Drew and almost half of his roster, including one key link to the team's four straight trips to the NBA Finals -- J.R. Smith.

ESPN game preview LINK

Augustin > Garland
Fournier = Sexton
Isaac > Osman
Gordon = Love
Vučević >Thompson

So the Magic starters is better than the Cavs starters.

Fultz/Ross/Aminu/Bamba >>>>> Dellavedova/Clarkson/Nance, Jr./Žižić

This is were the game gets out of hand.

I like the Magic to cover their 8-point spread.

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drsd · Post #18 » by **drsd** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 2:03 pm

Catledge wrote:Also, as I've said before, this season will determine my stance on this front office. If we get a little better and seem likely to get a little better again next year, then I would start to really believe in WeHam.

1) a little better this year should be doable with Fultz an uypgrade over Grant and Aminu an upgrade over Martin. Add to that probable over last season for Bamba and Isaac. If Founrier and Gordon are also better than last year, this team will be a lot better than "a little better."

2) When Augustin and Fournier's contracts free up for the 2020 off-season, we will really learn what the management goal for this team was meant to be. Let's say the Magic become something like Fultz/Beal/Isaac/Gordon/Bamba by 2022, well, I guess we see the point of it all.

3) And now for Game-1 of the 2019/20 season !!!!!

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Post #19 » by **Knightro** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 2:11 pm

Read on Twitter

OrlandoSaban · Post #20 » by **OrlandoSaban** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 2:33 pm

RookieStar wrote:Let me clear my throat * ahem ahem cough cough*

Fournier sucks!!
Fultz still can't shoot?
Does AG think he is Steph with that 3 ball?
Isaac is too scared with the ball!!
Coin Toss Ross turning up tails today!
Vuc overpaid... Vuc overpaid.. Vuc overpaid

ok... looks like im in game shapenfor this one.

What the hell? Be positive!!!!