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basketballRob wrote:Of course, we have tired legs. Look at our schedule compared to the other teams
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And more away games. We've played 14. Most teams have played single digits. If we win at Milwaukee, we'll play 18 road games and 10 home games.GameOver25 wrote:basketballRob wrote:Of course, we have tired legs. Look at our schedule compared to the other teams
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You keep saying this, but we're like 1-2 more games played than other teams. With the max being 4 more games played.
GameOver25 wrote:I don't care about our bad shooting/off nights. I think most of the critics get that, my problem with this team is they look rattled when it matters and you know early on they'll be unable to overcome it. The composure just isn't there and you're wishing for adjustments and there's none. It's part of being a frustrated fan in real time. I'm just hoping it's a youth/young team issue. I guess we'll find out as the expectations continue to grow.
CalOrl11 wrote:Redwood wrote:We have the second lowest 3pt percentage in the league at 31.3 percent, only .1 away from being tied for dead last. We rank 11th for most 3pt attempts per game with 38.1.
This is bad coaching, plain and simple. Suggs was 0-8 from three last night. Mosley, from my perspective, is more interested in being friends with our players than he is in being their coach. I don't believe the players fear him in any way because they know he is going to rarely, if ever, hold them accountable.
There is no reason of any kind that we should be anywhere near the top 10 in 3PA, when we shoot as poorly as we do from that range. If this doesn't stop I want Mosley gone. You can't be a competent head coach if you don't understand the limitations of your players.
I agree we shouldn't be taking quite as many 3PA but there is a reason we are near top 10. We are getting so many wide open 3PA and in this league we simply shouldn't be passing them up or it will just lead to highly contested twos. It's a tough thing to say especially with how poor we have been shooting but we have to trust guys to start making wide open threes. Approximately 58% of our 3PA have been wide open.
tooler wrote:GameOver25 wrote:I don't care about our bad shooting/off nights. I think most of the critics get that, my problem with this team is they look rattled when it matters and you know early on they'll be unable to overcome it. The composure just isn't there and you're wishing for adjustments and there's none. It's part of being a frustrated fan in real time. I'm just hoping it's a youth/young team issue. I guess we'll find out as the expectations continue to grow.
I think this is a really unfair generalization. How many times has this young team proven that they're tough, resilient, and don't give up? Struggling with one national TV game and a couple playoff games shouldn't have anyone throwing out "my problem with this team" as if they're fundamentally flawed.
Maybe you didn't intend that but the phrasing rubbed me the wrong way.
Think about your own composure as a fan. It's okay for the team to have a stinker and have them learn from it.
pepe1991 wrote:eyriq wrote:?t=pBidiJsqQawFQQfLEBD_qw&s=19
I don't blame him. I blame people who thought playing garbage G league is "NBA like experience".
He is rookie experience vise.
Even his "preparation" in G league was complete mess, they just dumped 26% usage on him and gave him green light to shoot himself into solid numbers and he wasn't prepared for SPECIFIC role he will have on main roster. 3 and D, off ball movement, catch and shoot, curls, cuts, handoffs.
In G league he was given "main dog" role. One he will never have on team with Franz and Banchero ( or any other nba team for that matter). It gave me that Gordon year 3 vibe where he was "developed " into role he never had talent to play in actually competitive setting, if goal is anything but tanking.
As for rest, we got whooped by very good team, no big deal. Hopefully they can keep heads up and fight back vs 76ers.
Game started with us giving Suggs green light to play like he is prime Steph Curry. Despite fact he didn't even start off hot.
Knicks probably played better than they are ? Maybe? Brunson / Towns duo is hard to cover. I said before season started that Towns on East is instant top 10 player, and his impact tonight, on offense felt. Moe clapping on a road is something i can live without for rest of my days
Skybox wrote:
Fair enough take...but add Schroeder for basically Cole and, oh yeah, our best player is back soon and this team is MUCH farther along than they looked last night. Franz has looked like an All-NBA guy - NY looked like a contending team with matchups defensively that favored them...especially with 250lb Paolo out. OG can physically bully Franz a bit...but shift him to Paolo and Franz to Mikal and, despite the fact that they're both great players, they are physically outmatched on both ends by the ORL forward duo.
Watching the KAT/Brunson PnR is really pretty intriguing in that the 7' rolls to the 3pt line (taking his defender with him) and little Brunson is a bull in the paint, when he gets just a shred of space. If Bridges regains a bit of the offensive creation he showed in BRK...this could be a really good team...not real deep but a really well-constructed lineup of complementary players. If Mitchell Robinson gets enough health back to give them 15-20 tough defensive minutes, that'll mean a lot.
Haha I hear you. We are tantalizingly close and so ahead of schedule that it's tempting to ratchet up expectations.ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:
Who is saying this? I don’t know any real Magic fans that has been serious about that. Most of the time they are just joking about it because we all know this team CANNOT shoot.
ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:
Who is saying this? I don’t know any real Magic fans that has been serious about that. Most of the time they are just joking about it because we all know this team CANNOT shoot.
sChOlaRlY_Magi wrote:I didn't read all the way through this, but did anyone notice OG pushing WCJ around like he was a child?...
I saw it in the first quarter, not even realizing it was OG doing it until I rewound it.
I don't follow him much, but him throwing around a 270 Carter was pretty foreboding to me when we had Goga and P5 out.
Is OG known for some kind of super human strength? Pushing around Franz was understandable, WCJ, not so much.
Last night's game had nothing to do with how we'll look at the end of the season. It's a horrible take, and it sounds like he puts too much importance on a game in December.
VFX wrote:sChOlaRlY_Magi wrote:I didn't read all the way through this, but did anyone notice OG pushing WCJ around like he was a child?...
I saw it in the first quarter, not even realizing it was OG doing it until I rewound it.
I don't follow him much, but him throwing around a 270 Carter was pretty foreboding to me when we had Goga and P5 out.
Is OG known for some kind of super human strength? Pushing around Franz was understandable, WCJ, not so much.
To be fair, KAT is also charmin soft and he was abusing Carter all game like he was nothing.
