2024-2025 Regular Season Game 68: Orlando Magic (31-36) at Minnesota Timberwolves (38-29) - 8pm

OrlandoNed · Post #161 » by **OrlandoNed** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:26 am

Game 7 Franz tonight. Don't forget who our #1 is.

KillMonger · Post #162 » by **KillMonger** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:26 am

GameOver25 wrote:
Idiosyncratic wrote:Not a huge fan of how Paolo is playing down the stretch here.

Yep back to ISO Paolo, he can't help himself.

yeah.....who else is stepping up? nobody? ok then....who else is going to get a bucket?

Post #163 » by **eyriq** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:27 am

Franz with a stinker tonight. Can't win without Franchero fusion

basketballRob · Post #164 » by **basketballRob** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:27 am

GameOver25 wrote:
Bensational wrote:Good thing Black wasn’t on the court - he escapes blame for this collapse.

Nah he was on the court during the Wolves run and Magic drought. Couldn't dribble, missed layups, lack of assertiveness, not controlling the offense.

He was dribbling fine. DDV was doing a lot of grabbing and he mostly got away with it.

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zaymon · Post #165 » by **zaymon** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:28 am

thelead wrote:
zaymon wrote:offense with Paolonis bad offense. defense with Paolo is bad defense. clearly a max guy

not a good 4th quarter for him but he kept us in the game up until the 4th. Can we talk about Franz' efficiency too?

Sure, but in the end its McDaniels defending Franz and Randle defending Paolo.

OrlandoNed · Post #166 » by **OrlandoNed** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:28 am

Too much dead weight on this team.

Post #167 » by **Bensational** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:29 am

GameOver25 wrote:
Bensational wrote:Good thing Black wasn’t on the court - he escapes blame for this collapse.

Nah he was on the court during the Wolves run and Magic drought. Couldn't dribble, missed layups, lack of assertiveness, not controlling the offense.

Team is *checks boxscore* +4 in +/- during his 20 minutes on the court. Magic scored 4 more than the Wolves, despite the drought. All Magic starters are negative and 3 are double digits negative.

Just sayin. Can’t blame Black.

basketballRob · Post #168 » by **basketballRob** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:29 am

Franz has been in a funk lately.

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ogmagicfan · Post #169 » by **ogmagicfan** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:29 am

40 ball for Paolo

Sucks its in a losing effort

thelead · Post #170 » by **thelead** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:29 am

zaymon wrote:
thelead wrote:
zaymon wrote:offense with Paolonis bad offense. defense with Paolo is bad defense. clearly a max guy

not a good 4th quarter for him but he kept us in the game up until the 4th. Can we talk about Franz' efficiency too?

Sure, but in the end its McDaniels defending Franz and Randle defending Paolo.

Sure... but Franz IS a max guy. We need to expect more out of both but Paolo was MUCH better tonight and he's the one that gets blamed. Not fair to be honest.

Post #171 » by **eyriq** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:29 am

Bensational wrote:
GameOver25 wrote:
Bensational wrote:Good thing Black wasn’t on the court - he escapes blame for this collapse.

Nah he was on the court during the Wolves run and Magic drought. Couldn't dribble, missed layups, lack of assertiveness, not controlling the offense.

Team is *checks boxscore* +4 in +/- during his 20 minutes on the court. Magic scored 4 more than the Wolves, despite the drought. All Magic starters are negative and 3 are double digits negative.

Just sayin. Can’t blame Black.

*shouldn't blame Black. They do what they damn well please lol

Rainwater · Post #172 » by **Rainwater** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:30 am

thelead wrote:
zaymon wrote:offense with Paolonis bad offense. defense with Paolo is bad defense. clearly a max guy

not a good 4th quarter for him but he kept us in the game up until the 4th. Can we talk about Franz' efficiency too?

Paolo gets blamed for everything, it kinda ridiculous at this point. He pretty much kept them in game the whole time. Min went on a run when he went out. Mose should have put him in much earlier.

Post #173 » by **Bensational** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:30 am

KillMonger wrote:
GameOver25 wrote:
Idiosyncratic wrote:Not a huge fan of how Paolo is playing down the stretch here.

Yep back to ISO Paolo, he can't help himself.

yeah.....who else is stepping up? nobody? ok then....who else is going to get a bucket?

Not about Paolo, but I’m wondering why Houstan only has 8 shots from 3 when he’s made 6 of them. Blinder definitely went on if you’re not looking to find that guy and get him a shot.

Idiosyncratic · Post #174 » by **Idiosyncratic** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:31 am

7 points 4 boards in 46 minutes from our bigs. For as much as we need a guard, the bigs do very little now that Goga is unplayable.

Franz was really bad.

Paolo was basically a point per possession until the three free layups at the end, with bad defense. Don't think this is the game to make Paolo's case. Wasn't bad, but not as good as the points say.

Team was in the game because of hot role player shooting.

GameOver25 · Post #175 » by **GameOver25** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:32 am

KillMonger wrote:
GameOver25 wrote:
Idiosyncratic wrote:Not a huge fan of how Paolo is playing down the stretch here.

Yep back to ISO Paolo, he can't help himself.

yeah.....who else is stepping up? nobody? ok then....who else is going to get a bucket?

I mean you're not wrong, but still I felt like in the 1st half he was making reads based on what the defense was giving him. The 2nd half he was in his ISO let me show you my bag style of play. Whatever.

JF5 · Post #176 » by **JF5** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:32 am

ogmagicfan wrote:
thelead wrote:
KillMonger wrote:wish Mose installed an actual SYSTEM so in these moments we can actually create better looks and have some motion....this read and react....space, pace and pass BS is probably the WORST fit for these players

Having WCJ pop when he's shooting 21% is absolutely coaching malpractice

kinda cant help it because him popping gives more space in the paint for Paolo & Franz, and hope the defense somewhat respects it

WCJr has been a threat up until this season where he's been abysmal. That's why I've always said he makes sense next to Paolo rather than Goga...

That's why you're barely seeing Goga on the court now because of his lack of offensive pedigree and he doesn't have the perimeter defense of a Suggs and KCP to cover for his lack of perimeter defending too.

KillMonger · Post #177 » by **KillMonger** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:33 am

Idiosyncratic wrote:7 points 4 boards in 46 minutes from our bigs. For as much as we need a guard, the bigs do very little now that Goga is unplayable.

Franz was really bad.

Paolo was basically a point per possession until the three free layups at the end, with bad defense. Don't think this is the game to make Paolo's case. Wasn't bad, but not as good as the points say.

Team was in the game because of hot role player shooting.

was with you until you said this

Post #178 » by **Bensational** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:34 am

32 shots is a lot of shots.

*edit- With 11ftas

43 points is a great effort. That’s good efficiency. Just couldn’t get everyone to make one final run.

RookieStar · Post #179 » by **RookieStar** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:35 am

I checked before the 4th quarter and we were up. Thought it was a good luck with me not wtlatching so decided to watch NCAA games.

Wow we lost. Ah well...

ogmagicfan · Post #180 » by **ogmagicfan** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:36 am

RookieStar wrote:I checked before the 4th quarter and we were up. Thought it was a good luck with me not wtlatching so decided to watch NCAA games.

Wow we lost. Ah well...

appreciate the effort tho. wheels fell off on the back end of the b2b