2023-2024 Regular Season Game 54: Oklahoma City Thunder (36-17) at Orlando Magic (29-24) - 7:30pm

Post #561 » by **Knightro** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:44 am

Optimus_Steel wrote:Indeed. Glad he is pointing it out so the media puts some pressure on the lazy front office

What media? :lol:

The Magic have one beat writer!

Audi · Post #562 » by **Audi** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:44 am

Might as well throw Houstan or Jett in there and see if they can light a quick torch.

ogmagicfan · Post #563 » by **ogmagicfan** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:44 am

helluva move by Paolo on that drive

Post #564 » by **eyriq** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:44 am

We turned it over and couldn't defend to save our lives.

Rainwater · Post #565 » by **Rainwater** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:44 am

Once they surround Paolo and Franz with some real talent the magic will be fine

thelead · Post #566 » by **thelead** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:44 am

KillMonger wrote:
thelead wrote:
ogmagicfan wrote:Jalen Williams is killing us unreal

what's unreal? Dude averages 19ppg on 54/45/81 splits. HE is unreal
OK man I think we understand, the glazing is getting to be a bit much lol

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good

Hope some of ya'll watch the rest of the league before dismissing future stars :lol:

Post #567 » by **Knightro** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:45 am

Audi wrote:Might as well throw Houstan or Jett in there and see if they can light a quick torch.

You'll get Gary and like it!

Skybox · Post #568 » by **Skybox** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:45 am

the difference is a REAL superstar in SGA...not just a "rising star".

Suggs came out firing but he's just not that guy...SGA does it every night (no knock on Suggs). Suggs scoring 20 on a given night is like SGA scoring 40. They're a step ahead of us, but we're in good shape.

Took SVG about ten seconds to point out the obvious, glaring, gaping hole in our offense...terrible 3pt shooting, collapsing on Paolo, just the most obvious thing in the world. I don't know who we'll meet in the playoffs or play-in, but it will be uglier than tonight when a good team is locked in and completely prepared for a series vs ORL.

*now just picture Simons (or someone of his caliber) next to Suggs, launching 3's every time Paolo and/or Franz get doubled. now picture an ORL Magic guard taking a 3 and you expecting it to go in every time :cry:

Why the f*** did this not get addressed?

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #569 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:45 am

Def Swami wrote:My favorite part of this game is Stan Van Gundy constantly pointing out how the Magic do not have shooting. As an architect of the last Magic team built on shooting, it must be astounding to watch this team over a decade later suck at the thing that his team led the league transformation on.

Maybe Weltman will hear that and actually do something about it.

bigdogdylan5 · Post #570 » by **bigdogdylan5** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:45 am

Way too **** late to start playing… now Mosley is going to chase because he has to playing everyone too many minutes and putting us behind 8 ball tomorrow

OrlandoNed · Post #571 » by **OrlandoNed** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:45 am

Def Swami wrote:My favorite part of this game is Stan Van Gundy constantly pointing out how the Magic do not have shooting. As an architect of the last Magic team built on shooting, it must be astounding to watch this team over a decade later suck at the thing that his team led the league transformation on.

Our roster construction was more modern 15 years ago.

Optimus_Steel · Post #572 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:46 am

eyriq wrote:We turned it over and couldn't defend to save our lives.

That first quarter when we allowed their 3pt shooters loose because we have no idea how to rotate was the big killer and the stupid turnovers and mistakes

Rainwater · Post #573 » by **Rainwater** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:46 am

Knightro wrote:Paolo gonna end up with a monster stat line mostly in garbage time.

I don’t think it’s garbage mins yet

Post #574 » by **Knightro** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:46 am

The Magic might make this game look respectable, but all they're really doing is hurting their chances tomorrow.

ogmagicfan · Post #575 » by **ogmagicfan** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:46 am

Knightro wrote:
Optimus_Steel wrote:Indeed. Glad he is pointing it out so the media puts some pressure on the lazy front office

What media?

The Magic have one beat writer!

Not having any kinda media presence really lets the front office get away with alot

Khobi Price is missed. He put them on the spot to communicate in his 1st yr than any beat writer in a while

RookieStar · Post #576 » by **RookieStar** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:47 am

Yeah.. it was nice to hope for a Magical night... but against the #1 ( or is it #2 now??) Team in the West means this was the likely outcome

Post #577 » by **Knightro** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:47 am

Rainwater wrote:
Knightro wrote:Paolo gonna end up with a monster stat line mostly in garbage time.

I don’t think it’s garbage mins yet

For all intents and purposes, it's been garbage time since the moment he checked in this quarter.

Post #578 » by **SOUL** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:47 am

ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:I don't know how many timeouts that OKC has, but they really know how to use it.

You always say this when other teams are blowing us out - we're the same way lol. Team cuts a 20 point lead to 15 and coaches call a timeout. Much harder to use one when you're down 14 and they go to 18 or something.

Optimus_Steel · Post #579 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:48 am

That was deflating

RookieStar · Post #580 » by **RookieStar** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:48 am

Yeah... thats what a real MVP contender (SGA) does for a team.