2024-2025 Regular Season Game 76: Los Angeles Clippers (42-32) at Orlando Magic (36-39) - 7pm

[Knightro]

Clippers are one of the hottest teams in the league right now

They literally lost yesterday

[CLosP]

Wendell gets paid way too much to be mid at literally everything.

[thelead]

Paolo picked a bad night to be inefficient

Clippers just play great/smart defense... it's hard to beat them when the offense is not that good

Clippers deserve a ton of credit... but Paolo is being given a ton of space from 3 because they were daring him to shoot... and he proved why that was the right defensive gameplan.

[FFBlitzace]

Absolutely crushed on the glass. Our bigs gave us no rebounding whatsoever. The closest thing to help our two best players got was a mediocre game from KCP and from 3rd string afterthought Cory Joseph, who unironically has been one of our most admirable players this season.

The combined production from our centers in this game is just pathetic. I had a feeling Zubac would dominate the glass, but I hoped they might prove me wrong. But no, bring a tough rebounder like Steven Adams or Zubac and our bigs just fold. Goga is what he is, but WCJ is supposed to be a quality player in this league and he just isn't. I'm done with him.

[Idiosyncratic]

Bulls losing to OKC by 34 lol. Sometimes you wonder what is the point of East play-in.

[pepe1991]

2/15 from 3 for Paolo and Franz. Gross.

And hardly any was contested.

[Optimus_Steel]

This team is so up and down offensively. It's really about gutting this one out, winning a play-in game and having a decent showing in the first round of the playoffs.

On to tomorrow night in San Antonio.

I didn’t realize the game is a back to back. Makes the loss even worse having to travel for tomorrow, yikes. And LA is an old team on a back to back. Another bad loss in a season full of many bad losses.

We needed someone else to really step up with Franz and Paolo not having great games and that didn’t happen. Also rebounds was not a thought tonight.

[Bensational]

Are the other players on this team told to just not bother getting off a shot? Just curious. It’s the same old song in these losses.

They’re not given the option. Paolo has to choose to give the ball up once it’s in his hands and he wasn’t doing that tonight. Forced a lot of bad shots and turned the ball over too much down the stretch.

[basketballRob]

Bulls losing to OKC by 34 lol. Sometimes you wonder what is the point of East play-in.

They have the 76ers, Wizards, Raptors, Hornets, and Trailblazers coming up.

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[thelead]

2/15 from 3 for Paolo and Franz. Gross.

And hardly any was contested.

A serious FO would fire Mosley and make sure to hire the best shooting coach money can buy.

The offense is stagnant and no one can shoot consistently on this team.

[pepe1991]

There is one crazy take- i would rather have near 40 y.o. Batum than whatever the f ... Is leftt from Isaac.
10 min, 0 FGA, 0 assists, 3 rebounds. Dude just exists.

[Knightro]

There's basically three players I'd be upset if they were traded and everyone else can just hit the bricks.

But beyond all that, Mosley definitely needs to be fired and they need to hire someone who can/will actually get Paolo and Franz to try and do stuff that isn't your turn, my turn spam isolations.

[Optimus_Steel]

Are the other players on this team told to just not bother getting off a shot? Just curious. It’s the same old song in these losses.

They’re not given the option. Paolo has to choose to give the ball up once it’s in his hands and he wasn’t doing that tonight. Forced a lot of bad shots and turned the ball over too much down the stretch.

Didn’t feel like trusted anyone tonight and to be honestly I cant blame him, no one else was worthy of trust.

[Knightro]

Magic went 29-12 last year at home.

They're 20-19 this year at home so far.

[Bensational]

Going to finally put some blame on Mose. These Constant Franz and Paolo isos were quite annoying considering neither one was playing well today.

Turnovers, rebounding, and shooting were also bad as always.

Yeah, in the 2nd Q drought the team switched it up, moved the ball and got a 17-7 run going. In the 4th the doubled down on Paolo isos. Only times we scored at the end was when they passed it to someone other than Paolo or Franz.

[BlueBalls]

At the end of the day Paolo's played 42 games this season and the Magic are just 17-25 in those 42 games.

To consider this season anything but a spectacular failure is absolutely insane.

Amen, and the bill lands with Weltman. If they do not fire him this off-season, I’m going to stop paying attention. Maybe find another team.

[CLosP]

2/15 from 3 for Paolo and Franz. Gross.

And hardly any was contested.

A serious FO would fire Mosley and make sure to hire the best shooting coach money can buy.

The offense is stagnant and no one can shoot consistently on this team.

A serious FO actually makes moves & knows how to build around their star players. This is not a serious FO.

[FFBlitzace]

I don't believe that either Paolo or Franz is remotely selfish. I think if we had NBA-level offensive talent around them and anything resembling an NBA-level offensive framework, it wouldn't even be a conversation.

[FFBlitzace]

Magic went 29-12 last year at home.

They're 20-19 this year at home so far.

And that's after starting, what, 9-0 at home? Just sad.

[Knightro]

I don't believe that either Paolo or Franz is remotely selfish. I think if we had NBA-level offensive talent around them and anything resembling an NBA-level offensive framework, it wouldn't even be a conversation.

I don't think selfish is the right way to describe it.

But it's clear they've both been afforded a huge amount of leeway to basically do whatever they want when they have the ball in their hands and they both have developed some pretty severe tunnel vision.

I'd also argue neither one of them are *great* passers either.