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2024-2025 Regular Season Game 45: Orlando Magic (23-21) vs Toronto Raptors (10-32) 7:30PM

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Re: 2024-2025 Regular Season Game 45: Orlando Magic (23-21) vs Toronto Raptors (10-32) 7:30PM 

Post#241 » by Optimus_Steel » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:35 am

Absolutely pathetic. They were up 21 pts now getting doors blown off.
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Post#242 » by OnlyFranz22 » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:37 am

Paolo gonna say get me the hell out of here
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Post#243 » by Skybox » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:38 am

OnlyFranz22 wrote:Paolo gonna say get me the hell out of here


Or “get someone else in here” :D
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Post#244 » by GameOver25 » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:38 am

No Franz, no Suggs. There's no one to rally the team on the floor. They've been looking defeated for awhile now.
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Post#245 » by rcklsscognition » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:38 am

Paolo looks absolutely dead. The team is in shambles. No offense. No defense. No direction. It’ll all be fine but the timing of all this is brutal. It’s so easy to blame this on injuries and go through the trade deadline with no moves.
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Post#246 » by Optimus_Steel » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:39 am

This team has given up. So sad after fighting so hard for weeks.
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Post#247 » by SOUL » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:39 am

Optimus_Steel wrote:This team has given up. So sad after fighting so hard for weeks.


You call it giving up I call it losing 8 players
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Post#248 » by RookieStar » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:40 am

You guys still watching?
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Post#249 » by JF5 » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:40 am

GameOver25 wrote:No Franz, no Suggs. There's no one to rally the team on the floor. They've been looking defeated for awhile now.


They're down to 3rd stringers and are thin on depth. It's hard to compete when you're down 7-8 players and your Star player is on minutes restriction
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Post#250 » by SOUL » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:40 am

OnlyFranz22 wrote:Paolo gonna say get me the hell out of here


Y'all were saying this after the draft.. why do our fans have a boner for our draft picks leaving?
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Post#251 » by Optimus_Steel » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:40 am

SOUL wrote:
Optimus_Steel wrote:This team has given up. So sad after fighting so hard for weeks.


You call it giving up I call it losing 8 players




They gave up.
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Post#252 » by eyriq » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:41 am

FFBlitzace wrote:Guys like Queen and Houstan are one thing, but WCJ is supposed to be a solid NBA player. He has been worse than any number of unskilled-but-athletic hustle big men you can pull from the g league at any given time in any given year.

The regression of WCJ and Cole Anthony into 3rd string level players is as much a story this season as anything. Yes, injuries are the primary thing that have derailed our season. But these are two guys we have had available that have not delivered. Well, Cole at least had his moments, but has been awful overall. WCJ hasn't given us anything all season.

No hot takes from this disastrous game aside from officially disowning Wendell Carter Jr. Goga isn't an all-stsr but he has always stepped up and produced for us when his number was called. Wendell can't even give us NBA-level minutes when we desperately need him.
It's insane. At least Cole has a team option in 2026. Our team option for WCJ isn't until 2028. Just gross. That's three more seasons of guaranteed money.
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Post#253 » by Skybox » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:41 am

Bensational wrote:Black… stuffed twice by Olynyk now. Go into his body and draw contact!


Sorry I missed that…I’ve been pushing for noted shot-blocker Olynyk for months
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Post#254 » by BadMofoPimp » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:42 am

Too many injuries and the Raptors been playing solid lately as they beat a Healthy Celtics squad two games ago.
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Post#255 » by KillMonger » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:42 am

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Post#256 » by Optimus_Steel » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:42 am

No one on this goddam team can score. **** pathetic.
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Post#257 » by SOUL » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:42 am

Optimus_Steel wrote:They gave up.


Sure, nothing to do with talent or being tired.
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Post#258 » by cedric76 » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:43 am

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Post#259 » by Message Boar » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:43 am

Just pull Paolo and rest him before he injures himself at this point.
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Re: 2024-2025 Regular Season Game 45: Orlando Magic (23-21) vs Toronto Raptors (10-32) 7:30PM 

Post#260 » by FFBlitzace » Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:43 am

At some point it catches up to you. Let's not underestimate how amazing it is that we even have the record we do. The injuries we have had would have buried anybody. We're struggling mightily right now but we've done an amazing job staying afloat amidst massive adversity.

Truly, my only takeaway from this is: WCJ is not a guy I'm interested in having be a part of this team.
11/18/2017 - I have officially disowned Nikola Vucevic and branded him a loser.

- Skal Labissiere was my guy in 2016 pre-trade. Whoops, but I still believe.
- Malik Monk was my guy in 2017. Whoops(?)
- Mo Bamba was my guy in 2018. TBD.

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