Let's Talk About Mario

[Von Bismarck]

How many people here are only Magic fans for Mario? Lmao.

Croatian caravan arrived

It can't be worse than the Carlos Arroyo Greyhound... (Is that racist?)

It cannot I believe. Croatians gave many great sport personalities to the major sports. Drazen Petrovic, Toni Kukoc, Rudy Tomjanovich, George Mikan, Bill Belichick, Nick Saban, Joe Sakic and many more NFL, NHL, MLB and NBA players and coaches. Also Kevin McHale and Gregg Popovich are Croats on their mothers side. Andrew Bogut's both parents are Croatian. So I think they know how to behave, except some

For example, Lin's hype is ridiculous, his fanboys are probably the most irritating people I've ever met. But that's because they had little or no successful athletes in the past.

[Anti Chalmers]

Mario deserved more than 14 minutes tonight..

[Von Bismarck]

He did. I can't understand why Skiles keeps being stubborn. Whenever we closed the game with Mario on the court, we won. Put AG in there too.

Mario makes great decisions and is a hell of a shooter and there's no excuse why he wasn't on the court more and in clutch time.

[Gomagic44]

I understand you are Mario fan, probably Croatian, but this is all getting out of hand. Almost all of your posts have something to do with Mario. This is Orlando Magic forum, not Mario Hezonja fan club. I love Mario, but this needs to stop please.

Totally agree with you. There are many of us in Croatia that watch every Orlando game even if it starts in the middle of the night on our time, many of us also read this forum and reactions on Mario games by Orlando fans and we all agree that this guy is really boring.

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[tooler]

I've only averaged watching a few quarters out of the last 4 or 5 games. Am I imagining things, or are teams attacking Hezonja a lot less? I haven't seen any embarrassing moments on defense, at least no more than any of our players. Maybe I missed them?

[Skin]

Mario deserved more than 14 minutes tonight..

I'd really just be happy with him getting 30 min EVERY night.... Will take the good AND the bad.

[OrlDave]

Mario deserved more than 14 minutes tonight..

12 points in 14 minutes.

[Anti Chalmers]

Mario deserved more than 14 minutes tonight..

12 points in 14 minutes.

its sad really

[pepe1991]

Skiles overplayed starters. Dipo cooled off in second half. But oh well. I hope he will fire it up in rising starts game

[KillMonger]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWYIvhibgs[/youtube]

[zelenooq]

http://hardwoodparoxysm.com/2016/02/10/after-waiting-mario-hezonjas-time-is-now/

[MrTwister]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-magic/os-elfrid-payton-mario-hezonja-friendship-0212-20160211-story.html

i dont know about you but i found this read interesting and funny at the moments.Rap part especially.

[Nyce_1]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-magic/os-elfrid-payton-mario-hezonja-friendship-0212-20160211-story.html

i dont know about you but i found this read interesting and funny at the moments.Rap part especially.

Loved this read and extremely glad to see/know that he and EP are building a strong friendship. I think they'll both be in Orlando for a long time together.

[IllMagic04]

I was a Mario skeptic but he is clearly getting better. We gotta find more minutes for him. I understand why we stick with Dipo in clutch situations because of his defense but theres gotta be room to get him in there in crunch time.

[SaberT]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-magic/os-elfrid-payton-mario-hezonja-friendship-0212-20160211-story.html

i dont know about you but i found this read interesting and funny at the moments.Rap part especially.

One day in October, Payton was driving Hezonja when Payton seemed down.

When Hezonja asked Payton what the problem was, Payton responded that he had a hamstring injury that would prevent him from playing in some preseason games.

After a pause, Hezonja said, "Ninety-nine problems but a hamstring ain't one."

[Hrco]

Well...
One good thing after this trade is that Mario will play at least 25 mpg at sg and sf (his natural positions).
If Evan or Dipo have a bad game he could play up to 30, 35 min, and we will be able to see his improvement.

I'm very intererested to see him play against opponents starters.

[seeingstars]

Mario is a must. I believe in him and cant wait to see what he becomes under master coach

[zelenooq]

Fournier about mario
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://www.sport.es/es/noticias/nba/fournier-hezonja-tiene-futuro-brillante-nba-4905464&usg=ALkJrhhHKrnRja7zc-qScIMdoYjaQ22jMQ

[SaberT]

Mario is part of most effective 2 man and 3 man lineups that were ran post January 1st. I'm copying this here as well so we can discuss it in appropriate thread.

Sorted by Net Rating (Offensive - Defensive). Cutoff 100 minutes (it's 100 minutes as Hezonja has no lineups where he played over 200 minutes after January 1st).

http://stats.nba.com/team/#!/1610612753/lineups/advanced/?CF=MIN*G*100&Season=2015-16&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&GroupQuantity=2&DateFrom=01%2F01%2F2016&sort=NET_RATING&dir=1

Cutoff 50 minutes (same reason for cutoff as above).

http://stats.nba.com/team/#!/1610612753/lineups/advanced/?CF=MIN*G*50&Season=2015-16&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&GroupQuantity=3&DateFrom=01%2F01%2F2016&sort=NET_RATING&dir=1

[MemeandonlymeSS]

Bald midget will roll his magic on this Magic team and after he realize he f....d up, all the blame will be on the players cuz he can't see more and he can't do any better then this. Mario will adapt. It is how it is, not a big deal cuz one player is treated wrongly, much worse is that bald midget is ruining the season and hes almost done and he is right every time and he will be... like he said. Just lie and throw the blame to the players, it can't be easier to handle the bad games by bad offensive coaching and bad bad rotations. Bald midget ! Ain't that a magical !?