Mauro Pedrosa wrote:Good luck, guys. You probably got the best player involved in the trade.
Orlando has unfortunately been a **** show since 2012, and Frank Vogel was a complete FRAUD. The collective basketball IQ of our front office and coaches throughout these past few years doesn't break double digits.
Biz can be a beast when he's played correctly — see his series vs Cleveland. We kept feeding him the ball in the post and letting him create or shoot awkward midrange jumpers when he should be a rim runner exclusively.
His intensity and shot blocking were still there for us and I hope he does well back in Charlotte. Biz is a great guy that was loved by most of his teammates.
Yeah I watched Orlando a bit because their rebuild was somewhat contemporaneous with Charlotte's, uh, re-treadmill-build, and it really struck me as a directionless organization. Vogel looked like a herder of ADHD cats and the FO seems to refuse to look at fit in regards to FAs and draft picks. It's too bad b/c there was a potentially interesting collection of young talent there at first.
Yeah, I think if all Biz does is set screens for Monk and go hog wild trying to clean up his misses that we could see a really productive Biz. He actually looked really good for Toronto playing with iso-guys in Lowry and DeRozen doing just that. I don't know about Orlando days but he was getting better at hitting wide open mid range jumpers as the absolute last resort on offense.