BlueBalls wrote:magik9113 wrote:BlueBalls wrote:
Who wouldn’t want a lotto pick? Can you not see how flawed this team still is?
But that notwithstanding, I do want to make the playoffs. I was excited when it looked like we had at least the 4 seed locked up. If I wanted them to lose so we can get a lottery pick, I would have been thrilled with the outcome - not exasperated.
so we can add another AB to the bench or another Jett to the G League
I'd rather have our young lads get a taste of the defeat in the playoffs. It would be far more beneficial.
Therein lies the real problem. A lazy, incompetent FO.
Everyone in the cosmos knew the Magic’s roster had a glaring defect coming into the season - perimeter shooting. So they signed Joe Ingles, drafted a raw PG whose offensive game is worse than Elfried Payton’s was and a shooting guard they exiled to Osceola. They bypassed better players to take 2 guys who were projects in a season in which we planned to be competitive.These picks made the Chuma pick seem shrewd.
They even decided to sit on their hands at the trade deadline.
And here we are. It makes no sense to me that this FO is not a target for much more criticism.
We planned to be competetive and we were. Front office never said we plan to contend this year. To be honest they said the opposite, that we dont want to rush things, that its propably too early to use assets, that we want to grow organically, that we value team chemistry.
You dont have to like what they did but they for sure did just what they planned to do.