Official 2025 Offseason Thread 2.0

[HighPack]

There are 3 players who are missing the 2025-26 season and all wear number 0.

[eyriq]

We are going to learn if Mosley is a gateway coach this season.

Keys to the finals:
- Maintain health
- Seamless offensive integration
- Paolo superstar leap
- Mosley tactical evolution

[jezzerinho]

There are 3 players who are missing the 2025-26 season and all wear number 0.

Aaron Gordon better beef up his life insurance then.

[GelbeWand09]

Franz has to level up for us to win a championship.

I disagree. Franz is criminally underrated by this board. He's already wildly impactful on both ends of the floor.

I think the Magic could win a championship with Franz playing like the elite two-way player than he already is.

Banchero is the one who has to level up.

Because your comment is probably directed at me too. I write for 3 years Franz is our best player and that he is a elite 2way player but I still question if current Franz without a 3 is enough and that he doesn't look as good in the playoffs because his offense outside the drive is super vulnerable in his career so far.
In our current version we need Franz to hit the 3.
People forget that we are still one of the worst 3 point shooting teams of the decade adding Bane. We still have with Suggs shooting like last year (which I doubt but he has to prove it first) 4 mediocre to bad 3 point shooters in the starting lineup. You can even make a case for Franz being one if not the worst mid to high volume 3 point shooter of the last 2 seasons.

But i hasn't wrote this got more to do with Paolo than Franz. If Franz plays next to a real top 10 player sure this version could be absolute enough. He is that good. I just have a hard time imagine Paolo as a top 10 player as a 1way player with efficiency problems. JWill struggled in a ton of playoff games so far in his career on offense despite people thinking he is the better player than Franz but it doesn't matter because of SGA and Chet.

[KillMonger]

Magic basketball getting closer..... P5 doing his part, his work ethic is high

Read on Twitter

[tiderulz]

Franz has to level up for us to win a championship.

I disagree. Franz is criminally underrated by this board. He's already wildly impactful on both ends of the floor.

I think the Magic could win a championship with Franz playing like the elite two-way player than he already is.

Banchero is the one who has to level up.

Playoff Banchero is the best player on this team by far. He needs to be better in the regular season, but he is still young and hopefully figuring it out. and use more post moves than falling away jump shots.

[pepe1991]

There are 3 players who are missing the 2025-26 season and all wear number 0.

Aaron Gordon better beef up his life insurance then.

Literally 1 min after reading this i saw on IG Gordon doing backflips off moving ship

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[drsd]

[cedric76]

Sucks that suggs won't be ready by opener:-(

Let's see how AB does

[Skybox]

Sucks that suggs won't be ready by opener:-(

Let's see how AB does

What did you see about Suggs?

[ORLMagicGirl15]

Sucks that suggs won't be ready by opener:-(

Let's see how AB does

Yeah, I was sad when he beat around the bush with that answer. I was confused because I thought he was ready to go. Now, I realized that we haven’t seen him cleared to play 5-on-5. I just figured the news didn’t come because it was the off season.

[eyriq]

Puts doubt on him even being ready for the start of the season.

[JoshuaPotter]

Puts doubt on him even being ready for the start of the season.

Is this considered a setback to his timeline? Or the typical "no rush" by the front office?

On paper we have acquired the assets that make him duplicative if we wanted to keep Black over Suggs for example.

[rcklsscognition]

No Suggs to start? I’m heartbroken already.

[Knightro]

Sucks that suggs won't be ready by opener:-(

Let's see how AB does

What did you see about Suggs?

Read on Twitter

Nothing official, but a very-long winded way of saying he doesn't think he's ready to go.

[Fortune Teller]

I'm really concerned that Suggs is never going to be a player who regularly lasts more than half a season. And if that's the case, his contract is going to look pretty bad. 3 out of his first 4 years he only played about half the season. He had one anomaly season and got his big contract. Now he's starting this season injured and said in the interview this has been the most serious injury of his career and one that has led to a difficult and lengthy rehab that he's still grinding through. It sounded way more serious than we were ever led to believe.

[JF5]

Sounds like he won't be back until November

[Knightro]

Let's say Suggs won't be available or will have limited availability the first month or two.

Do you...

A. Start Anthony Black at PG, keep Tyus Jones at backup PG and elevate Jett Howard to backup SG
B. Start Anthony Black at PG, keep Tyus Jones at backup PG and elevate Jase Richardson to backup SG
C. Start Tyus Jones at PG, move Anthony Black from backup SG to backup PG and elevate Jett Howard to backup SG
D. Start Tyus Jones at PG, move Anthony Black from backup SG to backup PG and elevate Jase Richardson to backup SG
E. Start Tyus Jones at PG, keep Anthony Black at backup SG and elevate Jase Richardson to backup PG
F. Start Jase Richardson at PG, keep Tyus Jones at backup PG and Anthony Black at backup SG

[drsd]

Sucks that suggs won't be ready by opener:-(

Let's see how AB does

What did you see about Suggs?

Read on Twitter

Nothing official, but a very-long winded way of saying he doesn't think he's ready to go.