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2025-2026 Regular Season Game 4: Orlando Magic (1-2) at Philadelphia 76ers (2-0) - 7pm ET

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Re: 2025-2026 Regular Season Game 4: Orlando Magic (1-2) at Philadelphia 76ers (2-0) - 7pm ET 

Post#101 » by Darth Magic » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:38 pm

Optimus_Steel wrote:Why does every team except us pull up from 3 with no conscience? We in turn are hesitating, thinking, holding up. Its frustrating and exhausting to watch. Everything looks like a grind for us, like pushing a bolder up hill.


Mosely's offensive scheme
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Post#102 » by ogmagicfan » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:38 pm

Happy that Penda is already getting PT. I personally am good on ever seeing Isaac play for us again
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Post#103 » by eyriq » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:38 pm

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eyriq wrote:Whelp I guess we still suck


We still suck offensively. Sucking defensively is new
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Re: 2025-2026 Regular Season Game 4: Orlando Magic (1-2) at Philadelphia 76ers (2-0) - 7pm ET 

Post#104 » by BlueBalls » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:39 pm

It’s just not possible to stop Quentin Grimes.
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Post#105 » by Knightro » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:40 pm

It goes without saying that if this team regresses even to like the 15th best defense this year that Mosley is going to have to get fired.
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Post#106 » by GameOver25 » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:40 pm

Paolo makes this team slow.
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Post#107 » by bigdogdylan5 » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:41 pm

Suggs is our best player and right now it’s not close.
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Post#108 » by VFX » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:42 pm

So Suggs is going to get Orlando back into this game and then he’s gonna sit due to self imposed minutes restriction and let them get another lead on us.
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Post#109 » by SOUL » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:42 pm

Defense is getting worked right now. Even the contested shots look easy for them.

I don't mind our offense right now, missing wide ass open shots again though.
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Post#110 » by thelead » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:42 pm

Knightro wrote:It goes without saying that if this team regresses even to like the 15th best defense this year that Mosley is going to have to get fired.

I mean... 15th defense plus an offense in the 20's is a lotto team. He'd have a hard time surviving the full season if that's where we're at throughout the season.
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Post#111 » by SOUL » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:43 pm

thelead wrote:
Knightro wrote:It goes without saying that if this team regresses even to like the 15th best defense this year that Mosley is going to have to get fired.

I mean... 15th defense plus an offense in the 20's is a lotto team. He'd have a hard time surviving the full season if that's where we're at throughout the season.


Aren't we like 8th or 6th or something even with people being unimpressed by our defense? Feel like if we deliberately slowed down it would be even higher.
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Post#112 » by VFX » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:43 pm

thelead wrote:
Knightro wrote:It goes without saying that if this team regresses even to like the 15th best defense this year that Mosley is going to have to get fired.

I mean... 15th defense plus an offense in the 20's is a lotto team. He'd have a hard time surviving the full season if that's where we're at throughout the season.


But we traded 4 picks for Bane.

I was told we were a deep playoff team now and it had nothing to do with the system.
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Post#113 » by basketballRob » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:43 pm

2 rebounds and an assist for Penda in 3 minutes. He can fill up a boxscore with minutes.

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Re: 2025-2026 Regular Season Game 4: Orlando Magic (1-2) at Philadelphia 76ers (2-0) - 7pm ET 

Post#114 » by Last Guardian » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:43 pm

rcklsscognition wrote:Philly announcers: We are happy with Paolo being in the perimeter so long as he doesn’t start playing in the post.

Obvious to everyone except our coaching staff.


Would be nice. Watching him initiate from the 3 point line is infuriating. Franz too. He had a great move on the block earlier just got blocked by Drummond helping. But his guy was in no man’s land. I thought that would be how we play and Bane would give more space. But that’s not what we are getting so far. More of the same instead
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Re: 2025-2026 Regular Season Game 4: Orlando Magic (1-2) at Philadelphia 76ers (2-0) - 7pm ET 

Post#115 » by djguevara114 » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:44 pm

Mosely is a motivational speaker not a head basketball coach…

Surely all of us have had that one boss that tried to be everyone’s friend and then when it’s time to hold people accountable or lay down the law he doesn’t know how and can’t—that is Mosely…

The only reason the defense was stellar was because of Dale Osbourne…
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Post#116 » by eyriq » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:44 pm

We need Paolo to be above league average in efficiency no other way around it
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Post#117 » by Idiosyncratic » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:45 pm

Really nice move by AB. He's been showing some crafty footwork inside the paint.
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Re: 2025-2026 Regular Season Game 4: Orlando Magic (1-2) at Philadelphia 76ers (2-0) - 7pm ET 

Post#118 » by thelead » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:46 pm

eyriq wrote:We need Paolo to be above league average in efficiency no other way around it

we need Paolo to be a PF, not a SG.
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Post#119 » by FFBlitzace » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:46 pm

We "only" committed 4 turnovers that quarter. 16 for the game wouldn't be particularly good, but I guess it counts as progress.
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Re: 2025-2026 Regular Season Game 4: Orlando Magic (1-2) at Philadelphia 76ers (2-0) - 7pm ET 

Post#120 » by Idiosyncratic » Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:46 pm

This lineup looks good on paper to me. Just seems like it should work.

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