KillMonger wrote:eyriq wrote:The thing is, Mosley defined his role to be a spot-up shooter on offense, point of attack defender on defense. Playmaking duties ran through Paolo and Franz. You know this, I know this, everyone knows this, but you make it out to be an indication that AB can't make plays. It literally wasn't his job to do so.pepe1991 wrote:Problem is, Black simply never, for Magic played PG or any other semantic of point guard / Playmaker / basketball maestro / insert any new title here. Period.
He holds ball at average for 1,5 sec per possession. Vast majority of wings, forwards, even Cs keep it longer, and all playmakers for sure keep it longer because it takes more than 1,5 sec to set play.
We all want to Magic at least TRY to play him as playmaker, HOWEVER, every time when he gets ball ( like last night) he just elects to not play as playmaker, rather gives ball away and goes off ball. Maybe it's just him not being comfortable playing on ball against nba opponents? Or him not being able to actually beat people off the dribble? Or his dribbling , like it's often case with tall college point guards, doesn't work in nba and they get exposed ?
I don't know.
Thing is, Anthony Black is wing. He played nothing but wing in rookie year. In preseason he still is - wing.
I'm way more worried about Magic and fact that we are entering season where almost no guard can handle the ball without looking like it's accident waiting to happen.
i tend to agree with this train of thought....Let's say we got a point guard, the thing is though the way mosely has us playing doesn't work well with a ball dominant point guard....we can already see the effect it's having on franz
Franz and Banchero simply aren't as good at playmaking as you think. Their "playmaking" just makes them look better than they are as they round up their APG total, but they do at expense of offense. Offense that, btw sucks.
Magic runned offense that was as bad as Brooklyn Nets offense ( you know, Cam Thomas yolo shooting ).
Magic were THE WORST offense to get to playoffs. If defense was as bad as offense was, we would probably win around 28 games.
You know why we lost Cavs series? Because in second half of game 7 Banchero, Franz, Fultz, Suggs, Harris and Cole COMBINED for 6 assists on 11-36 / 30% FG because that's what happeneds when you don't have playmakers capable of stabilization of a team.
Game 5? Same story. Second half -6 assist total on 8 turnovers.
Game 6 ( one we won) , second half 8 assists -7 turnovers.
Things got so bad that we actually needed Fultz to play. And that boy is out of a league now because nobody wants that trash around. But for us he was " must play".
This simply isn't sustainable way to win games. Our offense last year was tanking level bad.
There simply isn't no step up for this team without PG. Doubling down on SGs (who can't dribble, aren't combo guards and are alergic to pick&roll) tells you a lot where Weltman stuck when it comes to basetball construction. 2004 or so.
