Haha yeah. To give the front office credit, I think our 15th man is better than most team's 15th man. Okeke is the one I have in mind here. We've done a good job of stacking depth.RookieStar wrote:
I miss the days when our board had a dedicated thread to a player recently cut and we demand FO to sign him...
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eyriq wrote:Haha yeah. To give the front office credit, I think our 15th man is better than most team's 15th man. Okeke is the one I have in mind here. We've done a good job of stacking depth.RookieStar wrote:
I miss the days when our board had a dedicated thread to a player recently cut and we demand FO to sign him...
Strange, I thought our 15th man is the 6'6 Admiral.
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He's on a two wayRookieStar wrote:eyriq wrote:Haha yeah. To give the front office credit, I think our 15th man is better than most team's 15th man. Okeke is the one I have in mind here. We've done a good job of stacking depth.RookieStar wrote:
I miss the days when our board had a dedicated thread to a player recently cut and we demand FO to sign him...
Strange, I thought our 15th man is the 6'6 Admiral.
Edit: For clarity, we have 15 signed players and 3 two-way players, Kevon, Trevelin, and Admiral.
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Alright guys, time to root for Cavs and Pelicans!!!
Them beating the Sixers and Heat will help us in the standings.
Who should we root for in the Raps vs Hawks though?
Them beating the Sixers and Heat will help us in the standings.
Who should we root for in the Raps vs Hawks though?
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Never understood the hype for him; every time I saw him play, except for one decent game against us, he didn’t look like an NBA caliber player.
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Never understood the hype for him; every time I saw him play, except for one decent game against us, he didn’t look like an NBA caliber player.
Skilled. For a size. But if you are built like a straw you have no funcional benefits of being near 7 foot tall nor can play "big", you are just tall, slow wing.
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pepe1991 wrote:Optimus_Steel wrote:
Never understood the hype for him; every time I saw him play, except for one decent game against us, he didn’t look like an NBA caliber player.
Skilled. For a size. But if you are built like a straw you have no funcional benefits of being near 7 foot tall nor can play "big", you are just tall, slow wing.
Problem is I haven’t seen much skill from him. Is he once of those guys that’s has skills in an empty gym but useless on a 5 on 5?
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Man, that Miami win in New Orleans was pretty clutch for them.
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eyriq wrote:Man, that Miami win in New Orleans was pretty clutch for them.
Yeah.. even considering NO wasl already down BI and I think CJ got hurt also.
Pretty bad day for Magic standings last set of games.
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RookieStar wrote:eyriq wrote:Man, that Miami win in New Orleans was pretty clutch for them.
Yeah.. even considering NO wasl already down BI and I think CJ got hurt also.
Pretty bad day for Magic standings last set of games.
I think NO was also on a back to back
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Optimus_Steel wrote:RookieStar wrote:eyriq wrote:Man, that Miami win in New Orleans was pretty clutch for them.
Yeah.. even considering NO wasl already down BI and I think CJ got hurt also.
Pretty bad day for Magic standings last set of games.
I think NO was also on a back to back
Yup... it was all very setup nicely for a MIA win.
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Philly and New York with 23 losses
Orlando, Indiana, Miami with 25 losses
Gonna be a race
Orlando, Indiana, Miami with 25 losses
Gonna be a race
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eyriq wrote:He's on a two wayRookieStar wrote:eyriq wrote:Haha yeah. To give the front office credit, I think our 15th man is better than most team's 15th man. Okeke is the one I have in mind here. We've done a good job of stacking depth.
Strange, I thought our 15th man is the 6'6 Admiral.
Edit: For clarity, we have 15 signed players and 3 two-way players, Kevon, Trevelin, and Admiral.
I think he would be better on the end of our bench than Okeke. Someone will pick him up because he is the new archetype (on paper) and has shown flashes. Before he got buried on a deep OKC team. He’s better than Bol Bol and Bol is on a decent Suns team and plays sometimes. I would be surprised if makes it through waivers because he’s also cheap?
He “should” be decent and he’s young and cheap. That’s enough for him to be in the NBA.
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Bol is on fire.
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Alright boys, all of us better be Raps fans right now to beat IND.
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RookieStar wrote:Alright boys, all of us better be Raps fans right now to beat IND.
I hate rooting for them because they almost always let us down.

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thelead wrote:RookieStar wrote:Alright boys, all of us better be Raps fans right now to beat IND.
I hate rooting for them because they almost always let us down.
Yeah... well its pick your poison for the game then.lol
We just pray that they can squeak it out against IND. Im justw qtching boxscores and they limited Hali to 4pts only???
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RookieStar wrote:thelead wrote:RookieStar wrote:Alright boys, all of us better be Raps fans right now to beat IND.
I hate rooting for them because they almost always let us down.
Yeah... well its pick your poison for the game then.lol
We just pray that they can squeak it out against IND. Im justw qtching boxscores and they limited Hali to 4pts only???
It's Mathurin's night. And Gradey Dick is showing why we should be playing Jett.

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Raptors did us a solid.
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Scottie Barnes is the best!!
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