Official Speculation Thread (Pt.LXI Countdown To Preseason)

dsg2021 · Post #921 » by **dsg2021** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 6:25 am

OrlandO, I was invited free by friends and family into a box, so I didn't get a hold of pricing info but with how large and diverse the crowd was, maybe it wasn't too bad of a price. Tbh, the HD TVs' were simply better for viewing, it was mainly a social event for everyone first, and at the main ticket match some went inside the box to watch it in HD instead of live. It's a very fun environment though, you want to look down and be part of the crowd also.

MagicMan89 · Post #922 » by **MagicMan89** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 10:15 am

I'm not sure if it is posted yet. NBATV will air 2 Magic Pre-Season games. Oct 11 vs Cavs and Oct 16 at Rockets.

orlando1214 · Post #923 » by **orlando1214** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 11:24 am

MagicMan89 wrote:I'm not sure if it is posted yet. NBATV will air 2 Magic Pre-Season games. Oct 11 vs Cavs and Oct 16 at Rockets.

I haven't seen that yet but that's awesome news! I was just thinking earlier how it sucks that the game Wednesday won't be televised, so it's good to know we wont have to wait too much longer to see a game.

AddiFB · Post #924 » by **AddiFB** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 11:28 am

MagicMan89 wrote:I'm not sure if it is posted yet. NBATV will air 2 Magic Pre-Season games. Oct 11 vs Cavs and Oct 16 at Rockets.

Dwight going dooooown! Dipo gon' prove him wrong!

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AdamTheGreek · Post #925 » by **AdamTheGreek** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 3:02 pm

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magicman123 · Post #926 » by **magicman123** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 3:30 pm

dsg2021 wrote:OrlandO, I was invited free by friends and family into a box, so I didn't get a hold of pricing info but with how large and diverse the crowd was, maybe it wasn't too bad of a price. Tbh, the HD TVs' were simply better for viewing, it was mainly a social event for everyone first, and at the main ticket match some went inside the box to watch it in HD instead of live. It's a very fun environment though, you want to look down and be part of the crowd also.

damn i would love to see a fight, i bet tickets were not $$8,566 just to watch from the bathroom too...hope they bring another one back to orlando soon

InFlames · Post #927 » by **InFlames** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 4:16 pm

INDIANAPOLIS – Pushing past defenders and doubts and delivering the Chicago Bulls flashes of a genius gone too long, Derrick Rose demonstrated the truest antidote for the franchise's dysfunction. Ball in his hands, blur on the floor, Rose tethers enemies to the common cause of the championship chase.

With so much distrust and downright disdain between the Bulls' front office and coach, the ripples of Rose's resounding return on Saturday night ought to remind general manager Gar Forman and coach Tom Thibodeau of the stakes of surviving the organization's power struggle.

Between Forman and Thibodeau the disconnect is deep, but Rose's reconstructed knee could be a powerful agent of reconciliation. With transcendent talents, there come redemptive powers. No one wants to be ousted with Rose on the roster, because he is one of those once-in-a-lifetime players for executives and coaches.

"The speed, the quickness, the power … there's no one like him," Thibodeau marveled.

Still. Seventeen months later, Rose had finally recovered from the excruciating rehabilitation of a torn anterior cruciate ligament. For 20 minutes of a preseason victory over the Indiana Pacers, Rose was long on speed and strength, and understandably short on precision. Most of all, his body is back. Rose played at a fever pitch, delivering the ball end-to-end on layups, hurdling one Pacer to a loose ball at midcourt and punctuating the play with a dunk.

"I'm not slowing down," Rose said. "I don't care who is [at] the hole. If they're going to foul me, I'm going to get up and keep going hard at them."

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Derrick Rose scored 13 points in the Bulls' exhibition victory over the Pacers. (AP)
As Rose returns to the Bulls after missing a full season, his most important teammate – Luol Deng – is privately disappointed over the franchise's unwillingness to engage him in serious contract discussions. Deng could leave as a free agent this summer, could be traded before the February deadline – everything is so unsettled over his future.
An assistant coach that Rose deeply valued, Ron Adams, was let go over Thibodeau's wishes this summer because Forman didn't like Adams' defiant disposition. Eventually, Rose could be trapped in the middle of the Forman-Thibodeau cold war.

As the months passed without Thibodeau signing his name to a four-year contract extension last season, the coach privately feared the consequences of fully committing himself to that inevitable signature, league sources said.

If Thibodeau had been convinced that his GM was usurping the coach's influence without a signed deal, he knew the finalizing of his contract would move him further to the mercy of the GM. The Bulls had a news conference for that four-year, $18 million contract on the eve of training camp in 2012, but it was months and months until Thibodeau signed his name.

"It is a toxic relationship that I believe will ultimately derail them," one NBA coaching source with close ties to Thibodeau and Forman warned.

As Thibodeau delivered one of the best coaching performances the NBA had witnessed in years, pushing past the loss of Rose and core rotation players to beat the Brooklyn Nets and take the Miami Heat to five games in the conference semifinals, management kept pushing to exert controls on him.

What had been a strained, fractured partnership descended into permanent disrepair with Forman's firing of Adams, the Bulls' top assistant coach and decades-long confidant of Thibodeau's. If Bulls management had to take Thibodeau's criticisms and pushback, they refused to take it from Adams.

As one league source told Yahoo Sports, "Ron didn't drink the Kool-Aid there, and this was a message from Gar to Thibs that he's running the show, especially on picking the players."

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Rose thinks he is a better player than he was before having knee surgery. (AP)
Now, Rose is back and insists he's better than ever. His vertical leap has improved through months and months of work with his trainer, Rob McClanaghan. His 3-point shot is surer. Rose believes he's better than ever.
Rose changes everything in the Eastern Conference, but most of all he needs his transcendent talent to impact the fabric of this franchise. As the Chicago Bulls threaten to come undone at the organization's highest levels, Rose remains the reminder for everyone to find a way to make this franchise functional and free of discord. Gulfs are deep, but so is the talent of Rose.

Derrick Rose is back, and make no mistake: His burden has never been bigger.

in-limbo · Post #928 » by **in-limbo** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 4:36 pm

dsg2021 wrote:OrlandO, I was invited free by friends and family into a box, so I didn't get a hold of pricing info but with how large and diverse the crowd was, maybe it wasn't too bad of a price. Tbh, the HD TVs' were simply better for viewing, it was mainly a social event for everyone first, and at the main ticket match some went inside the box to watch it in HD instead of live. It's a very fun environment though, you want to look down and be part of the crowd also.

I sat in maybe the worst seat in the house and it was under 40 bucks. It was a pretty cool deal to see an event like that in Orlando. The quality of events in our new building is so much better than the old one. All the shows we were missing are now coming to town. Buddy and Rich, ya did good, build em all and build a soccer stadium too. As a fan of concerts, sports and themeparks, I feel pretty spoiled to be here.

Very good news about NBA Tv.

BadMofoPimp · Post #929 » by **BadMofoPimp** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 4:43 pm

magicman112 wrote:
BadMofoPimp wrote:Dwight ain't no Stupids! He gotz brains!

And the Rockets lost to the Pelicans tonight in his debut!

Well, I doubt the starters were playing much in the 4th, but it sounds good.

OrlandO · Post #930 » by **OrlandO** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 5:19 pm

MagicMan89 wrote:I'm not sure if it is posted yet. NBATV will air 2 Magic Pre-Season games. Oct 11 vs Cavs and Oct 16 at Rockets.

Awesome. Before it was only announced that one preseason game would be televised locally (oct. 25), so good to hear there will be two more to watch.

OrlandO · Post #931 » by **OrlandO** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 5:42 pm

harris wearing a magic jacket when he was a kid

(sorry if it's a repost)

drsd · Post #932 » by **drsd** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 5:42 pm

Kev_bundlesss wrote:Finally join this bored after lurking for 3 years,big Orlando magic fan

Always a sign that things are better when the clouds move to sunny skies. Welcome.

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BadMofoPimp · Post #933 » by **BadMofoPimp** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 5:57 pm

AddiFB wrote:
MagicMan89 wrote:I'm not sure if it is posted yet. NBATV will air 2 Magic Pre-Season games. Oct 11 vs Cavs and Oct 16 at Rockets.

Dwight going dooooown! Dipo gon' prove him wrong!

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I would love for Vucevic to show up Dwight a second time and Dipo slow down Harden. That would be just freaking epic. I wouldn't doubt this happens. I mean, Harris is better than their PF and Harkless can guard Chandler on the perimeter. If Meer can hold his own against Lin, this could be an Epic game!

Versubio · Post #934 » by **Versubio** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 5:59 pm

OrlandO wrote:harris wearing a magic jacket when he was a kid

(sorry if it's a repost)

Very cool! It was fate.

rcklsscognition · Post #935 » by **rcklsscognition** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 6:06 pm

Great news we're going to get two televised preseason games, even better one is against the rockets.

When I first read the post about Oladipo on Harden, I was like, damn he's too short to guard him. But they're only an inch different. The Anthony Johnson effect is getting to me.

OrlandO · Post #936 » by **OrlandO** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 6:14 pm

uh oh nelson better watch out... we got another avery bradley comin for him

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZNuAbQ6PJ4[/youtube]

RYgoBOOM · Post #937 » by **RYgoBOOM** » Sun Oct 6, 2013 8:23 pm

OrlandO wrote:uh oh nelson better watch out... we got another avery bradley comin for him

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZNuAbQ6PJ4[/youtube]

He keeps playing like this and he could rob Lin from that starting spot

AdamTheGreek · Post #938 » by **AdamTheGreek** » Mon Oct 7, 2013 1:36 am

Beverley is better than Lin, but Jeremy's got the much bigger contract.

Patrick learned that suffocating defense playing for Olympiakos.

Dunstown magic · Post #939 » by **Dunstown magic** » Mon Oct 7, 2013 9:58 am

I think beverley is almost a better compliment starting alongside Harden too as Lin and harden both need the ball to operate. I suppose hes not a good shooter from 3 to spread the floor but if they roll out beverley, harden, parson, motiejunas, howard thats plenty of shooting. On top of that i can't imagine many bench lineups could have a pnr as good as lin and asik. Assuming they can convince asik not to demand a trade. Pretty solid team and all so young!

cedric76 · Post #940 » by **cedric76** » Mon Oct 7, 2013 10:07 am

Dunstown magic wrote:I think beverley is almost a better compliment starting alongside Harden too as Lin and harden both need the ball to operate. I suppose hes not a good shooter from 3 to spread the floor but if they roll out beverley, harden, parson, motiejunas, howard thats plenty of shooting. On top of that i can't imagine many bench lineups could have a pnr as good as lin and asik. Assuming they can convince asik not to demand a trade. Pretty solid team and all so young!

Yeap, really strong team

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