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Hey all!

Southeast Division Offseason Recap is posted for RealGM. I know it says Magic, but it includes all 5 teams. We're getting it updated!

http://basketball.realgm.com/analysis/243388/2016-NBA-Offseason-Review-Orlando-Magic

All feedback is always welcome!

Smitty

I'd say you got the Wiz section done pretty spot on. Only disagreement is with ORL, simply since I don't really buy their roster construction.

I'd say most of the SE actually is unremarkable, unless Howard has a total revitalization I don't see a team that could push past TOR or BOS for the 2nd/3rd spot.

I disagree strongly with Orlando. You don't go all in by trading your best player. And Oladipo had become their best player by a good margin last year. Then you add in Sabonis who I really liked in the draft and trade them for an impending free agent who's been in a 3 year decline... at a position where your highest ceiling prospect plays in Gordon? It just makes no sense. And trading Tobias Harris in what amounts as a salary dump to sign Jeff Green for $15 million? WTF is that? Your telling me in choosing b/w Payton, Fournier & Hezonja, you choose Oladipo as the one that you decide not to build around? That team is a mess.

Oladipo is better than Beal.

OKC got a steal.

Dat2U wrote:I disagree strongly with Orlando. You don't go all in by trading your best player. And Oladipo had become their best player by a good margin last year.

Not that I think the Magic made great moves, but I'll split hairs here and suggest that Evan Fournier wasn't/isn't significantly worse than Oladipo. They're very different players at the same position, but overall, they come out somewhat comparably and Fournier does shooting guard things much better than Oladipo does, while Oladipo covers his ground in a more unorthodox manner. I don't fault the Magic for choosing to trade one of them, and ultimately deciding to trade Oladipo. I do think they got very little in return for Oladipo, though. They really needed to get more than a chance to try to reinflate Ibaka's sails.

Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:Oladipo is better than Beal.

OKC got a steal.

Weird thing is Oladipo is about a year older than Beal even though Beal has an extra year of NBA experience. It will be interesting to see what kind of contract Oladipo gets this offseason.