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Desmond Bane over the last 3 games:

7.7 PPG
4.7 APG
2.3 RPG
34.8% FG
33.3% 3P
23.4 MPG

Bane currently this season: 13.9 ppg, 41% FG, 28% 3P, 9.9 PER, 51% TS

Dude, what happened to this guy? He went from this premiere 3 and D all star level talent to this garbage? Just as a reminder:

Magic traded: KCP, Cole Anthony, four unprotected first-round picks and one first-round pick swap.

Shooting slump. The guy has 47/41/88 career shooting splits. He will play better.

He will improve, but a huge problem is that he isn't a natural creator. Orlando has a funky roster composition for maximizing his strengths.

Memories wrote:Dude, what happened to this guy? He went from this premiere 3 and D all star level talent to this garbage?

He started playing under Jamahl Mosley lol

His D was always overrated but his offense should return to the mean, one would think

Where's that gif of his hard foul head spike lol

Edit

previous 5 seasons 3fga's

6.9 / 7.0 / 8.6 / 6.1

this year: 4.4

I remember how I was almost lynched when I commented that Ingram was better than him but on a worst situation.

I have ZERO doubts that Orlando would be a better team with Ingram instead of Bane.

This is a bit more evidence that the Magics offense needs a bit of tuning. Without a natural PG, the Paulo iso's aren't creating enough open looks for shooters. He's got black hole energy sometimes, and often times defenses will play him straight up. He's not drawing a ton of doubles to assist out of, and I always imagined that would be how Bane got his opportunities. He's also not a mid-post hub either, he's a slashing face up 4 most of the time.

Regardless, he'll turn it around as I don't see the Magic's coaching staff just letting this happen much longer, they've invested too much to see him only average 4 longball attempts per game.

Bane for Morant

Bane is used to getting the ball at optimal/premium spots, due to playing with an actual PG in Ja Morant. He is not getting this whatsoever in Orlando, because the GM running the show has a closed head injury.

Orlando absolutely, positively, has to get a PG if they want to move forward. Not some scrub, but an actual, factual floor general. The East has some big, highly skilled PG's, and Orlando has to be able to compete.

Its gonna cost them, but you gotta do, what you gotta do.

Partly a slump, partly their offense, partly the personnel.

It's clear as day to most outsiders that the team desperately needs a creator. They're dead set on keeping the ball in Paolo and Franz's hands, and while these guys are fine at getting their own shots, they're not great at getting others shots - especially Paolo. Bane can't create his own shot nor is he very active as a mover off ball so the quality shots are going to be hard to come by for him in this offense.

I haven't watched many Magic games this year though and I am curious if he's at least providing more spacing for them by being on the floor?

Team needs a point guard.

Orlando swore Anthony Black was going to be the ball handler they needed. What happened? Then Franz was going to be the point forward. What happened?

Returned more first round picks than Luka. This league is a joke

ForeverTFC wrote:I haven't watched many Magic games this year though and I am curious if he's at least providing more spacing for them by being on the floor?

I watched them 2 days ago.

The creator/facilitator everyone in this thread is saying the Magic desperately need, is what Mosley is trying to turn Bane into.

Almost every time Bane touched it, he's driving towards the rim, most times into traffic. Idk why Mose is trying to convert an off-ball catch and shoot guy into an on-ball creator and trying to pressure the rim.

The Magic were expecting Bane to be the primary ballhandler and a bit of a playmaker (he averaged 5.3 assists last season for Memphis), but the fact that he's not shooting that well when he's sharing the floor with Franz (below average shooter) and Paolo (also below average) is a bit troublesome. Unless either one starts getting better from outside the arc, teams will cover Bane and keep him from getting space from 3.

JujitsuFlip wrote:

ForeverTFC wrote:I haven't watched many Magic games this year though and I am curious if he's at least providing more spacing for them by being on the floor?

I watched them 2 days ago.

The creator/facilitator everyone in this thread is saying the Magic desperately need, is what Mosley is trying to turn Bane into.

Almost every time Bane touched it, he's driving towards the rim, most times into traffic. Idk why Mose is trying to convert an off-ball catch and shoot guy into an on-ball creator and trying to pressure the rim.

If this is any other coach, they would use Bane more like Garland in Cleveland, and make Suggs (once he's healthy enough) more of the aggressive attack the rim off the bounce, and do drive and kicks like crazy.

JXL wrote:

JujitsuFlip wrote:

ForeverTFC wrote:I haven't watched many Magic games this year though and I am curious if he's at least providing more spacing for them by being on the floor?

I watched them 2 days ago.

The creator/facilitator everyone in this thread is saying the Magic desperately need, is what Mosley is trying to turn Bane into.

Almost every time Bane touched it, he's driving towards the rim, most times into traffic. Idk why Mose is trying to convert an off-ball catch and shoot guy into an on-ball creator and trying to pressure the rim.

If this is any other coach, they would use Bane more like Garland in Cleveland, and make Suggs (once he's healthy enough) more of the aggressive attack the rim off the bounce, and do drive and kicks like crazy.

I think they should use Bane more like Sam Merrill. Have him be a movement shooter coming off several off ball screens. Then if he has to be a stationary shooter in certain sets, i read he's good from the right corner, so park him there.

Garland is an 8.6 APG guy, I don't think Bane could ever be that.

djsunyc wrote:previous 5 seasons 3fga's

6.9 / 7.0 / 8.6 / 6.1

this year: 4.4

Very bizarre considering the main thing ORL needed from him was 3pt shooting