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thelead wrote:Caleb Houstan is going to be buried on the bench. He had his shot last year and it didn’t work out for him. Going to be tough for him moving forward.
pepe1991 wrote:People need to calm down
It's preseason. There is viral video of Jokic last night refusing to play defense because, why bother, it's preseason?!
As i post this, Lakers are down by near 50, Jazz lost to Blazers by 38. Warriors are 5-0 in preseason, Nuggets 1-4, Kings 0-5. Non of it matters. They all start at 0-0 within few days.
Some teams used presason to really just throw s*** at wall expecting to get new Salvador Dali picture out of it, some use it to build chemistry, some treat it as waste of time with high injury risk.
Embiid isn't hurt, they just elected to not play him in preseason games this year .
Victor only played 37 min of preseason in 2 out of 5 games because Pop probably doesn't want his 7'2 athlete to be exposed to rackless talentless fools that will go with 100% force because they are fighting for contracts.
As for Black and "role". He simply wasn't playmaker as a rookie. Hence, 1,3 apg. Would his role change this year? I belive not by much, because on most nights Black still won't be playing more than 15-18 mpg and during that period lot of times he will share floor with Cole but also with Franz, who was last year bench connector.
Especially now, with Ingles gone, Franz will have even bigger role in keeping bench offense going.
Black looks better than last year, and we all expected that, over past 3 games he showed playmaking flashes but again, context of it matters, majority of min he collected was against fringe nba players and kind a non existing defense. It's good he can take adventage of it, but we won't learn ANYTHING about ANYBODY watching preseason game, especially in situation where 3 best opposing players are out. And for damn sure next time we meet 76ers they won't be led by Ricky Council 4th and Jeff Dowtin junior. ( literally had to google who those bums are, turns out one of them even played 4 games for Magic) .
We are just 5 days away from real thing!
DiplomaticMagic wrote:Cole: weakest link, needs to either be traded or become cheerleader
TDS - Looks good shooting but he looks small out there right now. Every time he defends and reaches out, his wingspan looks short and often fouls.
pepe1991 wrote:We are just 5 days away from real thing!
SOUL wrote:pepe1991 wrote:We are just 5 days away from real thing!
I agree to an extent, I think Black will be way better this year but I already see how the whole "push out every veteran/all the people on the outs are vets" sort of thing going on and I guarantee that there will be a lot of games where Jett/Black/TDS will not be "the answers" that night. I think there should be an important distinction between opportunity and minutes being available versus "we need to trade every single guy in order to develop all of our young guys because they're the answers."
drsd wrote:Box score thoughts:
Orlando won all four quarters (coach will love the 3rd quarter)
The Magic was dominant defensively
Orlando's three ball was poor
Eleven Magicians missed at least one three-ball
The team had too many TOs
Suggs played like a PG
fendilim wrote:ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:I need Caleb to talk to Arnie.
Why waste Arnie’s time?
drsd wrote:DiplomaticMagic wrote:Cole: weakest link, needs to either be traded or become cheerleader
TDS - Looks good shooting but he looks small out there right now. Every time he defends and reaches out, his wingspan looks short and often fouls.
If Orlando traded Anthony for a quality backup SF, this team would be set.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bLr422lyAyY
basketballRob wrote:I was hoping TDS would come in and look like Cam Johnson, but so far, he hasn't. We could always trade for Cam, who is very available. A forward group of Paolo, Franz, Cam, and Isaac is pretty good. Cam has been an analytics darling, like Franz, prior to last season. Cam was #3 in 6MOY voting one season, so he'd thrive in that role. AB, Harris, Cam, Isaac, and Moe in the second unit.
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If we could include Cole and not much draft compensation. Cole, TDS, and 3 seconds would be a good deal or Cole, TDS, and Caleb.tiderulz wrote:basketballRob wrote:I was hoping TDS would come in and look like Cam Johnson, but so far, he hasn't. We could always trade for Cam, who is very available. A forward group of Paolo, Franz, Cam, and Isaac is pretty good. Cam has been an analytics darling, like Franz, prior to last season. Cam was #3 in 6MOY voting one season, so he'd thrive in that role. AB, Harris, Cam, Isaac, and Moe in the second unit.
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ready to trade away a rookie who has only played 3 pre-season games?