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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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 am so excited!

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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.

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.

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 !!!!!

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

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

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.

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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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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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!!!!