2023-2024 Regular Season Game 2: Orlando Magic (1-0) at Portland Trail Blazers (0-1) - 10pm

thelead · Post #681 » by **thelead** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:36 am

Credit to Mo for his play tonight

orlando_joe · Post #682 » by **orlando_joe** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:36 am

magic win! go magic! suggs !

JF5 · Post #683 » by **JF5** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:37 am

BlueBalls wrote:
zaymon wrote:We didnt win, Portland gave us this. Vest for MWagner or Suggs.

Ummmm….what?

Blazers aren't a good team... beating teams like this should eventually be blips going forward. Now the real test are coming up.

bigdogdylan5 · Post #684 » by **bigdogdylan5** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:37 am

SOUL wrote:Some of y'all showing your asses when we don't win with certain players going off lol

But you gotta admit this thing was not pretty. Now a win is a win but that will be a bottom 5 team in the league. There is alot from this game that scares the crap out of me.

Rainwater · Post #685 » by **Rainwater** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:37 am

A win is a win.

ibraheim718 · Post #686 » by **ibraheim718** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:38 am

That was a great game. Portland played better than I thought they would. Jalen shut the door on the comeback though. Winning ugly is always a good thing.

Post #687 » by **eyriq** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:38 am

Moe for the vest? Moe for the vest

basketballRob · Post #688 » by **basketballRob** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:39 am

If Fultz is injured, then Black could see time in LA.

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meatwad4343 · Post #689 » by **meatwad4343** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:39 am

Is it time to hit the panic button on Paulo? jump shoot this year looks worse and he can't hit a free throw to save his life

zaymon · Post #690 » by **zaymon** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:39 am

Knightro wrote:
zaymon wrote:We didnt win, Portland gave us this. Vest for MWagner or Suggs.

This is the wrong attitude.

I think we should be happy but not satisfied. Missed rebounds, turnovers, bad body language, standing on offense. You think we can ignore it ? We wont win against good teams playing like that. This will be another sub 40 season if we are satisfied by our performance this game.

JF5 · Post #691 » by **JF5** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:40 am

ibraheim718 wrote:That was a great game. Portland played better than I thought they would. Jalen shut the door on the comeback though. Winning ugly is always a good thing.

Exactly... Last year they most likely would've lost. I'm happy that they took care of business. Now it's time to see how they fair against the better teams in the league.

Last Guardian · Post #692 » by **Last Guardian** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:40 am

Without defense we lost this game. This is what I was talking about and why we'll win 10 more games this season than last.

People just need to relax. WCJ probably didn't get any blocks but his rim protection tonight was elite but nobody cares about stuff that actually matters I guess. And Paolo...yes his offense isn't completely polished yet but you have to acknowledge his vision. This is what separates him from Melo and Randle.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #693 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:40 am

I will say that the Orlando defense really shined through in the 4th.

3ddman23 · Post #694 » by **3ddman23** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:41 am

bigdogdylan5 wrote:
SOUL wrote:Some of y'all showing your asses when we don't win with certain players going off lol

But you gotta admit this thing was not pretty. Now a win is a win but that will be a bottom 5 team in the league. There is alot from this game that scares the crap out of me.

Very tru but they had games like this last year and came out the next game after and looked like a really good team. You just never know. We just need more consistency.

ibraheim718 · Post #695 » by **ibraheim718** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:41 am

meatwad4343 wrote:Is it time to hit the panic button on Paulo, jump shoot this year looks worse and he can't hit a free throw to save his life

That's premature. The team is better.. he's PPG will probably go down a little because of that. He's playing hard which is a good sign. He'll start hitting J's when he gets used to shooting them gassed a bit from giving effort on D.

JRoy · Post #696 » by **JRoy** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:41 am

Message Boar wrote:Won one that we absolutely didn't deserve to win. But hey, put it in the win column.

Still, this game leaves me with more questions than answers. Guess we got away with it against a young team missing Simons, but this won't fly against the good teams in the league. And there's not that many bad teams this year, it looks like to me.

I wouldn’t say that.

POR defense is trash, driving to the rim is a great idea.

SloNick Russia · Post #697 » by **SloNick Russia** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:41 am

meatwad4343 wrote:Is it time to hit the panic button on Paulo? jump shoot this year looks worse and he can't hit a free throw to save his life

Dude, he made 6-7 free throws vs Houston. He had those bad FT games last year as well.

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KillMonger · Post #698 » by **KillMonger** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:42 am

Markelle +11
Suggs +3
Franz +11
Paolo +2
Dell +6
Moe - 2
Cole - 9
JI - 3
Joe +3
Gary +2

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Post #699 » by **SOUL** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:43 am

bigdogdylan5 wrote:
SOUL wrote:Some of y'all showing your asses when we don't win with certain players going off lol

But you gotta admit this thing was not pretty. Now a win is a win but that will be a bottom 5 team in the league. There is alot from this game that scares the crap out of me.

Of course not. But nothing about this roster offensively has made me think of winning pretty :lol:

- our calling card will be defense

Optimus_Steel · Post #700 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:43 am

zaymon wrote:We didnt win, Portland gave us this. Vest for MWagner or Suggs.

Can't agree with that, we deserved the win. Could have closed it out better for the W, team still young.

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