2024-2025 Regular Season Game 17: Orlando Magic (9-7) at Los Angeles Lakers (10-4) - 10:30pm

Medford · Post #381 » by **Medford** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 2:54 pm

I'm really proud of these guys!

A Lakers win would have been business as usual for them, while a win like this has the potential to change the whole mindset for the Magic going on.

I still think WCJ is the better overall player, but Goga has grown to me a lot during these last two games.
He got dominated by Zubac, torched by AD and played through foul trouble almost the whole game, but holy **** this guy cares about winning! At least this is what his on-court demeanor tells me.
The way he gets angry about his own mistakes, the way he yells at his teammates when they fail, the way he complains to the refs and still keeps focus, the way he jumps up after a fall instead of acting it out...
If you factor in availability I can pretty much understand why people prefer Goga over WCJ.

Was happy for TDS to earn some fourth quarter reps and the opportunity to be on the court in final seconds of a close game. Guy earned it.

Don't get the criticism about the rotations at all. Imo coaches got it right pretty quickly after Paolo went down. Then switched focus from staggering Franz and Suggs to Franz and AB and that's it.
Yeah, you can argue if it makes sense to play Cole at all, but I hardly can blame them for trying.

JIs defense on the last play was elite, timed the switch perfectly. Though sometimes the discrepancy between his defensive and offensive awareness is mind boggling.

Refs were fine, or at least better than used to when playing the Lakers at Staples.

Lakers broadcast crew was much better than the Clippers feed the day before.

Audi · Post #382 » by **Audi** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 2:58 pm

rcklsscognition · Post #383 » by **rcklsscognition** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:01 pm

Like them or not we won that game without three starters.

ibraheim718 · Post #384 » by **ibraheim718** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:09 pm

Always take the 3 down 2 on the road.

Post #385 » by **eyriq** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:15 pm

Read on Twitter

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GameOver25 · Post #386 » by **GameOver25** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:19 pm

Still excited this morning about last night's game.

basketballRob · Post #387 » by **basketballRob** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:23 pm

richi_v25 wrote:I'm only gonna get 5 hours of sleep but it was so worth it!

5 hours the last 2 nights for me

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richi_v25 · Post #388 » by **richi_v25** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:55 pm

basketballRob wrote:
richi_v25 wrote:I'm only gonna get 5 hours of sleep but it was so worth it!
5 hours the last 2 nights for me

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Same but the game against the Clips wasn't worth it... well I say that but even when we lose I'm a sucker for Magic basketball and it's still better than no Magic basketball.

drsd · Post #389 » by **drsd** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 4:37 pm

Box core thoughts:

Orlando LOST the FG% battle but won the game. How?

Well it wasn't better 3PT%; the Lakers won that.

There were two reasons. i) Orlando dominate the FT% battle (and those two Lakers misses late accent that point), and ii) Orlando had more FGAs, becasue the Magic won the rebounding- differential battle by more than the Lakers won the TO-differential battle.

FGAs and FTMs led to a win. Odd path to win. But all road wins are good wins. (and this was a Great win).

ogmagicfan · Post #390 » by **ogmagicfan** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 6:00 pm

This game needed the stars to align and they did

Our effort on the boards and overall energy was so drastically different than the game against the Clippers the night before (in a good way)

Suggs finally broke out his slump

Role players stepped up (TDS, Gary Harris, Moe, Goga)

Franz had the big game needed to lift our offense

I expected AD to have a big game and he didnt disappoint, Lebron was unconscious from 3. Even with all that pulling out a win in LA on the back end of a B2B is really impressive

Last Guardian · Post #391 » by **Last Guardian** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 6:37 pm

Fell asleep at 10 lol. Had every intention to watch this. What a game to miss.

ibraheim718 · Post #392 » by **ibraheim718** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 6:51 pm

Watch on YouTube

cedric76 · Post #393 » by **cedric76** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 7:04 pm

Yesterday was a reason why I don't want to trade any of our bigs, big bodies like Paolo and wcj would have been useful on ledouche.

We need players to go against any match ups and with Paolo, wcj, goga, JI and Moe we have everything covered

Skybox · Post #394 » by **Skybox** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 7:58 pm

Anyone know why KCP was out and when he's expected back?

basketballRob · Post #395 » by **basketballRob** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 8:27 pm

Skybox wrote:Anyone know why KCP was out and when he's expected back?

Him and Jokic had a baby.

Not together. They had them with their wives. Just ironic that they were both out at the same time

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RookieStar · Post #396 » by **RookieStar** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 10:07 pm

basketballRob wrote:
Skybox wrote:Anyone know why KCP was out and when he's expected back?
Him and Jokic had a baby.

Not together. They had them with their wives. Just ironic that they were both out at the same time

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So they were both made in Denver huh

Ducklett · Post #397 » by **Ducklett** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 10:10 pm

pepe1991 wrote:
GelbeWand09 wrote:
Ducklett wrote::P Pepe raging that Franz took that shot almost certainly.

Someone said he is the youngest player in Magic history to have 35+ pts and 10+ ast... is that real?

He is the youngest forward since LeBron 2007.

Read on Twitter

I didn't rage, literally 5 min before that shot i was thinking that nobody made game winner for us long time ( or in that moment i couldn't remember who made last, probably Paolo last year ? ).

That "forward" thing is bit wild, he is Magic PG. He is no less of a PG for us since Paolo got hurt than Dončić is for Dallas. I guess they don't feel comfortable calling 6'10 guy PG

There is a poster on the NBA reddit and he loves numbers and analytics but is always a bit negative when it comes to the Magic (finding the bad in a win). He reminds me a lot of you pepe that he looks for the forest through the trees and he was going off on the last shot from a shot selection standpoint, so I guessed you might too.

You know I love you buddy.

pepe1991 · Post #398 » by **pepe1991** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 10:46 pm

Ducklett wrote:
pepe1991 wrote:
GelbeWand09 wrote:
He is the youngest forward since LeBron 2007.

Read on Twitter

I didn't rage, literally 5 min before that shot i was thinking that nobody made game winner for us long time ( or in that moment i couldn't remember who made last, probably Paolo last year ? ).

That "forward" thing is bit wild, he is Magic PG. He is no less of a PG for us since Paolo got hurt than Dončić is for Dallas. I guess they don't feel comfortable calling 6'10 guy PG

There is a poster on the NBA reddit and he loves numbers and analytics but is always a bit negative when it comes to the Magic (finding the bad in a win). He reminds me a lot of you pepe that he looks for the forest through the trees and he was going off on the last shot from a shot selection standpoint, so I guessed you might too.

You know I love you buddy.

My reddit name is Drkamon and i hardly and i mean haaardly ever post anything on reddit. I probably have more comments on reddit about real crime than basketball :lol:

Post #399 » by **SOUL** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 11:18 pm

pepe isn't in the top 15 negative posters for the last two years :lol:

Ducklett · Post #400 » by **Ducklett** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 11:42 pm

SOUL wrote:pepe isn't in the top 15 negative posters for the last two years

Woah, I didn't say he was negative! There are people in here that are negative to a point that they are delusional.