The Official "Look Back and Laugh" Thread

jonskilly · Post #21 » by **jonskilly** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:14 pm

MagicMadness wrote:Rick Rolled, you wouldn't happen to have the link to the "Knicks will make the playoffs" thread from around the same time, do you?

I remember a bunch of Knicks fans posting about how the Knicks were definitely going to be better than the Magic this season.

Just ask Magic Johnson. Pretty sure he guaranteed the Knicks would make the playoffs. :rofl:

mhectorgato · Post #22 » by **mhectorgato** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:16 pm

From the "We haven't improved enough to make the playoffs" file:

http://www.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic. ... sc&start=1

Why people think we aren't going to make the playoffs is because of the other teams that have improved.

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The Magic hasn't drastically changed. Realize that we lost 2 other BIG pieces that the Magic had. Grand Hill and Darko Milicic. Which that combo in my people, some other people are better than Lewis himself. The provided Defense, Offense, and provided the clutch moments.

and I don't understand some of you saying the division is ours to lose. Seriously, we haven't won anything. Then there are 2 teams who are better than us. Then there is 2 teams as good or better than us. Unless they are unhealthy there isn't a possible way of saying it's our division to lose.

Their are 4 other teams who will make it before the Magic. Heat will definately make it if they are healthy. As long as they have Dwyane Wade and Shaq. They are garunteed a playoff spot. New Jersey, Jason Kidd hasn't missed the playoffs in 12 years. Plus they got Vince Carter and Jefferson on their team. I don't see how they cannot make the playoffs. Then you have Washington with Gilbert Arenas. Who will always take his team to the playoffs. Then you have Butler and Jamison. Toronto, who has Bosh, Ford, Bargani only improving. They played good and consistantly last year. Unlike the Magic wasn't consistant last year.

And its not every year we are being compared to the Atlanta and Charlotte. It's every year that we don't make the playoffs. And we have not even made the playoffs until last year. Where we barely got in because of the injuries and bad teams we played against. Then you have teams actually improving from last year. Knicks, Bucks, Hawks, Bobcats, Celtics. This year we have more competition. This isn't the conference that we played against last year.

Cammo101 · Post #23 » by **Cammo101** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:21 pm

Rick Rolled for poster of the year. This thread is classic.

NEM · Post #24 » by **NEM** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:28 pm

we are gonna get the 3rd seed...i want to see the toss lol

jonskilly · Post #25 » by **jonskilly** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:31 pm

I went with Washington on a whim. Here's why. If they really do trade Gilbert for Kobe, then Washington becomes the team to beat in the Southeast.

LOL... never heard that rumor before

Rick Rolled · Post #26 » by **Rick Rolled** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:37 am

Hopefully some of the recent playoff threads on the general board can find their way to this thread someday...

J-Mezzy · Post #27 » by **J-Mezzy** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:51 am

LOL the funny thing is...We are still getting no love. On that thread that asked "what do you think when you face the Magic" most people voted "sure win"...I guess we dissappointed fans over 44 times already

Rick Rolled · Post #28 » by **Rick Rolled** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:57 am

Hahahaha...

Oh well...

I know the team is taking notice of all this disrespect.....

and hopefully this encourages them to step their game up to a whole different level.

Max Power · Post #29 » by **Max Power** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:59 am

I love this thread, nobody gave this team a chance in hell to even make the post season (well, a couple press guys did.) and we end up being a division champion and third seed in the conference. This team is dangerous, and guaranteed any potential playoff opponant knows it.

It's funny, a lot of press and panicky posters are having to eat the **** they dropped back in the fall.

Typhoon20 · Post #30 » by **Typhoon20** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:18 am

This is fun. I'm going to do some research on my older posts, for better or for worse I'll have a laugh out of this.

Typhoon20 · Post #31 » by **Typhoon20** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:20 am

Ok, question.

How come I go to ''find all posts'' and get like 50 pages of results but somehow I can't go to page 2 or up, I get this error ''
No topics or posts met your search criteria''.

Last Guardian · Post #32 » by **Last Guardian** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:11 am

I looked back, and indeed laughed.

Post #33 » by **craig01** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:59 am

Great stuff.

mhectorgato · Post #34 » by **mhectorgato** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:13 am

Well in defense of various Magic fans in these threads - perhaps it was a result of let downs over the recent years that colored their outlook for this season. Perhaps it was the let down of the off-season.

As long as they are still Magic fans, that's what's key.

Honest question: Has flyingvee posted much? I don't remember seeing Dwight in a LAL uni recently.

BTW - bucs80 owned up to it in another thread.

Optimus_Steel · Post #35 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:34 am

I think alot people (specially media people) over inflated Grant Hill's impact. Remember all the people talking about his "veteran leadership", being a go to guy and so on. I was one of the people that kept saying before the season that his "leadership" was extremely overated and we wouldnt miss it. And he was one of the guys that stalled the ball movement with his numerous iso's. Also, a ton of people drank the Bobcats juice, i wasent one of them. And alot of people bought into the Nets even though they were pretty bad in the regular season and collapsed despite having a veteran team and almost missed the playoffs. Alot of outsiders view got skewed because of the Lewis signing. And some didnt realize the vast improvement of getting rid of Grumpy Hill and signing Stan.

Funny thing, iggyemu actually predicted top 3 seed. Who would have thunk it? lol.

drsd · Post #36 » by **drsd** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:23 am

After Battie went down, only homer fans such as ourselves could believe that the Magic could find a starting five. And even there, who was to start at SG was a big question.

Then Turkoglu proved he could start and was not redundant to Lewis. Lewis proved that noght-in-night out he could defend most starting PFs. And in the early season, Bogans was competent as a starter and was replaced in a timely manner by Evans.

Add all of these "ifs" going the Magic's way, alongside the largely avoided injury bug, and the Magic have clearly over achieved this season. But this is why Stan "T" Man ("T" is for "the") was hired. Good coaches get the Max out of their guys.

Coach Mr. T proved his weight. He put the fear of gosh into Nelson to ensure he was an adequate NBA starter. He found a SG rotation after great pains. He trusted Turkolgu and Lewis to tandem. He barked at Howard whenever he was anything less than 100% (a risky move, and often a big no-no, for the coach to discipline the star).

Coach Mr. T is THE reason the Magic are over achievers. And a reason he should get scores of votes for coach of the year. (Doc Rivers and Phil Jackson will get more votes, but that's a different argument to have; if I had a vote, I would tab Eddie Jordan).

Post #37 » by **SOUL** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:36 am

I remember I got **** on for saying Miami is gonna suck this year. Wade's injury was a big factor in my decision and they brought in a bunch of pure crap in the off-season and loss several good players.. I really don't know why it was so shocking for some people back then.

lovehoops01 · Post #38 » by **lovehoops01** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:53 am

I think I predicted that the Magic would do better than last season but predicted only a slight improvement because I was worried about Rashard holding up physically at the PF spot and I thought the Magic would miss Grant Hill more. I certainly did not expect the kind of season that Hedo has had, but that has been a pleasant surprise. I'm always happy when I get pleasant surprises. I have been happy with this season so far. Now I want to see them at least show some progress in the playoffs.

SFranklin · Post #39 » by **SFranklin** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:42 pm

Rick Rolled wrote:PS

There was one thread during the offseason where a guy on the general board swore on his life that if the Magic made the playoffs, he would send every Magic fan on REALGM $5.

I want to take him up on that.

I could use 5 dollars...