2024-2025 Regular Season Game 41: Philadelphia 76ers (15-21) at Orlando Magic (22-18) 6:00PM

Rainwater · Post #381 » by **Rainwater** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:51 am

tooler wrote:It's almost kind of funny that Paolo hadn't played since October and yet both the Bucks and 76ers immediately started loading up on him with the same game plan from last season.

With how this team shoots is it shocking? I always ask my self do they double Paolo because he is just that good? Or is it because the Magic can’t shoot and Paolo is the only real scoring option?

thelead · Post #382 » by **thelead** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:59 am

Paolo with a TS% of 77.9% tonight. Wow. Up to 61.7% for the season. Dude is really looking like an all-nba player. Not going to make it due to the injury but the progression looks to be ROY, All-Star, and All-NBA caliber in years 1, 2, and 3.

basketballRob · Post #383 » by **basketballRob** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:09 am

AB drew 3 fouls on PG13 in the second half.

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Post #384 » by **Knightro** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:12 am

thelead wrote:Paolo with a TS% of 77.9% tonight. Wow. Up to 61.7% for the season. Dude is really looking like an all-nba player. Not going to make it due to the injury but the progression looks to be ROY, All-Star, and All-NBA caliber in years 1, 2, and 3.

This is precisely why I've been so unconcerned about all the complaints about needing a point guard or the lack of ball movement or the offense in general being bad.

If you have a 30+ USG% player who can have a TS% of 60+ (not saying Paolo will stay at that level) - your offense will be good enough regardless of how it looks.

RichCollab · Post #385 » by **RichCollab** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:17 am

Knightro wrote:
thelead wrote:Paolo with a TS% of 77.9% tonight. Wow. Up to 61.7% for the season. Dude is really looking like an all-nba player. Not going to make it due to the injury but the progression looks to be ROY, All-Star, and All-NBA caliber in years 1, 2, and 3.

This is precisely why I've been so unconcerned about all the complaints about needing a point guard or the lack of ball movement or the offense in general being bad.

If you have a 30+ USG% player who can have a TS% of 60+ (not saying Paolo will stay at that level) - your offense will be good enough regardless of how it looks.

KCP is going to start to get the catch and shoot 3s he is best at.

basketballRob · Post #386 » by **basketballRob** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:19 am

Eights enough!

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SHAQ32 · Post #387 » by **SHAQ32** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:36 am

Knightro wrote:
thelead wrote:Paolo with a TS% of 77.9% tonight. Wow. Up to 61.7% for the season. Dude is really looking like an all-nba player. Not going to make it due to the injury but the progression looks to be ROY, All-Star, and All-NBA caliber in years 1, 2, and 3.

This is precisely why I've been so unconcerned about all the complaints about needing a point guard or the lack of ball movement or the offense in general being bad.

If you have a 30+ USG% player who can have a TS% of 60+ (not saying Paolo will stay at that level) - your offense will be good enough regardless of how it looks.

Sample size ftl

Post #388 » by **Knightro** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:44 am

SHAQ32 wrote:
Knightro wrote:
thelead wrote:Paolo with a TS% of 77.9% tonight. Wow. Up to 61.7% for the season. Dude is really looking like an all-nba player. Not going to make it due to the injury but the progression looks to be ROY, All-Star, and All-NBA caliber in years 1, 2, and 3.

This is precisely why I've been so unconcerned about all the complaints about needing a point guard or the lack of ball movement or the offense in general being bad.

If you have a 30+ USG% player who can have a TS% of 60+ (not saying Paolo will stay at that level) - your offense will be good enough regardless of how it looks.

Sample size ftl

I literally said "not saying Paolo will stay at that level" - but you do you.

SHAQ32 · Post #389 » by **SHAQ32** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:50 am

Knightro wrote:
SHAQ32 wrote:
Knightro wrote:
This is precisely why I've been so unconcerned about all the complaints about needing a point guard or the lack of ball movement or the offense in general being bad.

If you have a 30+ USG% player who can have a TS% of 60+ (not saying Paolo will stay at that level) - your offense will be good enough regardless of how it looks.

Sample size ftl

I literally said "not saying Paolo will stay at that level" - but you do you.

Even with your little disclaimer, it's still massively unrealistic based on 6 games and Paolo's first 2 seasons. But keep living in Homerland.

Post #390 » by **Knightro** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:55 am

SHAQ32 wrote:Even with your little disclaimer, it's still massively unrealistic based on 6 games and Paolo's first 2 seasons. But keep living in Homerland.

I just don't really get this mentality.

Young players don't improve?

SHAQ32 · Post #391 » by **SHAQ32** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:59 am

Knightro wrote:
SHAQ32 wrote:Even with your little disclaimer, it's still massively unrealistic based on 6 games and Paolo's first 2 seasons. But keep living in Homerland.

I just don't really get this mentality.

Young players don't improve?

Unrealistic benchmarks and reading comprehension ftl

basketballRob · Post #392 » by **basketballRob** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:03 am

Nurse's post-game.

https://youtu.be/br1Ad73xGXw?feature=shared

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RookieStar · Post #393 » by **RookieStar** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:07 am

SOUL wrote:

Is that.... Gary Payton??

RookieStar · Post #394 » by **RookieStar** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:08 am

NGL... PBs dribble pull up fills me with as much confidence as watching Tmac did it before.

Meaning i more than expect it to go down.

Rainwater · Post #395 » by **Rainwater** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:15 am

SHAQ32 wrote:
Knightro wrote:
SHAQ32 wrote:Even with your little disclaimer, it's still massively unrealistic based on 6 games and Paolo's first 2 seasons. But keep living in Homerland.

I just don't really get this mentality.

Young players don't improve?

Unrealistic benchmarks and reading comprehension ftl

Yeah, I don’t understand this post. Unless you don’t think he will improve, why is a TS% of .60 not attainable? Most of the best players in the league started their careers with TS% in the .50s just to get it to the .60s in a couple seasons. Why would that not be the case for Paolo as well? Guys like Paolo do improve.

Hell, Lebron had a TS% of .488 in this first year. By your logic he should have never touched .60. Most young guys are just inefficient when they start.

Anti Chalmers · Post #396 » by **Anti Chalmers** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:59 am

Next year guys like Harris needs to go. If he can stay healthy, then he’s a solid vet to have but dude gets random injuries and out for weeks.

RookieStar · Post #397 » by **RookieStar** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:09 am

Alright lets get serious... what happened to Goga and TDS and their expected return?

drsd · Post #398 » by **drsd** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:33 am

drsd · Post #399 » by **drsd** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:35 am

RookieStar wrote:Alright lets get serious... what happened to Goga and TDS and their expected return?

da SIlva is sick.

Bitadze left the game what seemed as a back injury, but what was diagnosed as a hip bruise. He might be out a game or two if it stiffens up, but should be just fine.

drsd · Post #400 » by **drsd** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:43 am

Box score thoughts:

Orlando win the FG% battle and won the game.
That's really qyite amazing given how many three pointers Orlando missed. THree was 23 misses and a 23.3% make rate. Yuck.
Orlando shot 64% from 2. WOW!

Given how poorly the Magic shot FTs (67.9%) and how wonderful the Sixers shot theirs (95.5%), the deciding stat in this game was FTAs. The Magic shot 8 more FGs (and had more FTAs, so there was actually about 10 extra possessions for Oralndo).

How? It wasn't TO-differential (a zero-push). It was rebounding.

The single stat that won this game is thus rebounding differential. Orlando was plus-12 rebounding. Plus-9 on offense and plus-3 on defense.

p.s. the Magic dominated on blocks differential and thus handily won the STOCKS race. Plus-5.

Orlando needed a home win. Isaac's five offensive rebounds and 20 points was the major reason this is a win.