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def. but then they took anthony black 6 overall who is another guard who can't shoot so it does raise the question of whether their front office views the team in its fully formed fashion the same way everyone else seems to

are people super high on the magic now i mean they have some nice players but seems like theres a ways to go

well i think you'd have to say they've shown real proof of concept on defense so far. you look at their top guys and cole anthony is the only one who really projects as an offense only player. so to see the defensive potential on paper lining up w/ what's happening on the court (no 1 D rating) seems significant to some degree

but they have a bottom 4 offense among teams who are trying this year slash aren't playing dennis rodman 2.0 at PG slash don't have their best player on a 25 game suspension for waving guns around & unless you have jimmy butler on your team it's prob pretty hard to accomplish much w/ an offense at that level

yeah you cant have a backcourt that shoots that poorly its just not gonna work, suggs not panning out is pretty rough for them

i’m still optimistic about him

career 39/28/76 shooter at 43/35/84 this year. he’s ultimately prob a 6th man bcuz im not sure his shooting will improve to true starting SG levels. but i think he can play a legit role on a good team

it’s perhaps only a compliment in my head when i say that he strikes me as the (eventually) actually good version of the avery bradley/evan turner kinda archetype

yeah i mean i think hell stick but he looked good in college i thought he was gonna be making all star games

its funny looking at that draft the one guy who was picked in the same range as suggs who turned out to be obviously much better is the other guy they took

*after obvs

feels like they're where the cavs were a year or two ago? cavs still haven't turned the corner tho

well the cavs traded most of their future assets to bring an all star in which the magic haven’t done but might do

was listening to the peloton section of the hoop collective thxgiving pod and he mentioned suggs as a potential all defense candidate, noted he leads the league in steal rate

pelton… pelton. my phone autocorrecting to the name of a stationary bicycle coroirafion feels evil

corporation…

Suggs got that dawg in him. Marcus smart like impact seems like a good comp

forgot this was an espn game and sat down 15 mins too early

I feel like Al Horford gets described as "prideful" more than most ppl

not great Bucks!

celtics doing globetrotters stuff vs the bucks defense

sterling "scoot" henderson is back tonight after two and a half weeks of everyone saying he is bad!

More like Draymond Jokic the last couple games

Can’t believe they didn’t review that little dust up w him and suggs

Aw shucks, our man Scoot is just encountering some of that famous adversity that so many athletes must wrestle with and vanquish before they can rise up to meet their destined greatness. It's in the rulebook I think.

W T A F

This is crazy pic.twitter.com/Gah321gdfS

— Fame (@youFamousEnough) November 23, 2023

I mean if anyone’s earned the right it’s pop but i have definitely never seen anything like that

One of the lamest things I’ve ever seen haha

shades of ian mackaye yelling at people for moshing

cannot fault pop for protecting his guys, even when they're no longer his guys. you gonna shit on him for hugging demar too?

also ian was correct

i don't support booing, it's stupid, but pretending to be everyone's dad is also stupid

booing is fine imo! but booing a guy because *your team* traded him elsewhere is stupid

That’s def the whole story

cannot fault pop for protecting his guys, even when they're no longer his guys. you gonna shit on him for hugging demar too?

I mean this was mid free throw routine!

idk, serious red-asses do not tolerate fraternization

lol thats some shit from pop hes not done innovating

pop is primarying biden i think this is pretty transparent

reaching across the aisle

funny thing was the spurs crowd just booed harder after that

and like the spurs played a lil better afterwards, too

but i def gave cranky principal yelling at kids in an assembly at the auditorium kinda vibe

*it

it was also the first time in my life that i thought maybe pop should hang it up bc how distracted are you from the game that you have time to yell at your hometown fans razzing on kawhi fuckin leonard

Scott foster game in phx

Cp foster feud adds another layer

CP3 to Scott Foster: “You’re a bitch”. pic.twitter.com/5zD9JXnaqg

— John Voita (@DarthVoita) November 23, 2023

Absolutely deranged for Steve Kerr to just keep rolling with this bench lineup in a game that might actually matter and on a night where Klay was hot. This ending is absurd

I don’t really blame him honestly. He tried them back when they got it to 10 and it immediately ballooned to 17.

What’s up with Scoot?

he's bad

I don’t really blame him honestly. He tried them back when they got it to 10 and it immediately ballooned to 17.

funny thing was the spurs crowd just booed harder after that

― oatly carmichael (m bison), Wednesday, November 22, 2023 10:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Just sayin there’s no way Pop didn’t know this was gonna happen