They are afraid of shooting 3s & when they do its ugly

That Magic offense is a crime against humanity. It’s so fitting that the last shot of the game was Paolo Banchero absolutely bricking a 3, which sorta sums up the whole 4th quarter tbh

Magic got a great future ahead of them. As long as their front office surrounds Banchero nicely. Definitely see them turning into the Bucks in 2021.

If theres anything Florida fans love doing, regardless of the team, its leaving early.

That’s usually how it goes when half your state is in a retirement home and the other half is doing blow in a bathroom

Trash talk aside, Orlando is among the top cities people are relocating to in the past 10 years or so. Lots of transplants in a small market will do that.

shoutout all the transplants in Florida and shoutout the DeVos family for not finding a way to actually fill the arena with your fans

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The large majority of New England roots for Boston across all sports since NH, VT, ME, RI, and CT don’t have any pro teams (at least not the big 4 pro teams). And since the winters can be rough there’s a large amount of them who live in FL for the winters. Since Florida is/used to be moderately cheap and not terribly far.

I always hear them called “snowbirds” and there’s quite a lot of them.

Held them to 98, which for the Magic is a 2017 Warriors esque performance but still…

i think maybe we underestimate how important Jrue still is to this team. like the scoring hasn’t been as good this year but he’s still the keystone of our defense

and, like, especially in this series, we really need our starters to be on 100%. Orlando’s a really bad matchup for Pritchard and Hauser because of their size and how they defend the three, I’m not that surprised we haven’t been getting much bench production

Celtics without Jrue feels like Wu-Tang without RZA

Tatum got MVP chants at the end lmao

Father of five and NBA champion Al Horford*

The camera shot of the Magic crowd with like 60% Celtics jerseys was hilarious

lots of transplants in florida lol

even if we area-restricted tix, all the boston fans who live in orlando would just buy them especially considering how awful the resale market is

Magic fans have to get up early tomorrow to put their costumes on and head to disneyworld

Jayson Tatum was going toe to toe with LeBron in game 7 of the ECF when Cole Anthony was in high school and he had the gall to act like he knows what playoff Basketball was like more than our team lmao

Get ready to be touched

More like here to poop amirite?

But I thought this is the guy who knows what physical, playoff basketball is?

if you don’t like that, you don’t like Orlando Magic basketball

he’s unplayable in the post season, just too small and gets hunted every possession

Zeros are hoop shaped

Wouldn’t even make the celtics bench talking like that

Honestly I was hoping he’d play more. Dude makes some of the worst PnR passes I’ve ever seen

6 turnovers, 6 fouls in the last two games. Lasted all of 16 mins total.

1 review for a hostile act, no flagrants. Gotta love the progress.

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Yeah, defense allows you to punch above your weight in regular season, but come playoffs you need shooting and a good halfcourt offense. Both Magic and Rockets showcasing this perfectly

Of course, you still need realistically like a top 10 defense to win a ring, but I think a lot of coaches/GMs trick themselves to think grit and hustle can overcome a bad halfcourt offense or having negative spacing.

They needed it last offseason. The GM totally failed them.

This is not Atlanta Horford, this is Boston, there are rules!

Am I the only one around here that gives a SHIT ABOUT THE OUT OF BOUND VIOLATION RULES!

He was way over at least. Like entire shoe

They hit him with the NBA Handbook Page 84 Section C

They never make any cool plays and just stop you from making cool plays too, the whole thing is such a grind

Same here. Some of our guys have bought terrible energy that hurt both teams, in some cases literally. I want Boston as healthy as possible for NYand I want us to put actual pieces around our two stars. Boston gave the blueprint. Build a roster that takes pressure off of you’re two to guys. People complain about Paolo and Franz taking so many shots, but what other option is there right now?

Been him

Sadly I agree

Watching the game it felt like Tatum was not playing very well. Checked the box score and he’s got like 30+.

Banchero is not if he keeps up that awful shot selection

Tired and frustrated. He’s young and he’ll learn but you can see the frustration on those decisions.

Tbf KCP is supposed to be the team vet and he had a horrible late foul too.

Tatum has been fouled shooting 4th quarter 3’s 3 times the last 2 games and they have not adjusted anything

Idk he played well. Hit a couple big 3s, played solid, impactful defense. Magic are in need of points across the board

Matching Cole Anthony’s series totals

It should tell you how many people aren’t from there. As much hate as Florida gets on Reddit Orlando continues to have about 1,500 new people a day week move here from all over.

the Marcus Smart for KCP salary dump I’ve been dreaming of is getting closer to happening every day

That slow burn lmao

That’s literally every midrange shot diet star though. It’s inefficient as fuck if you’re not on fire.

He has no choice…? A couple of times he tried to drive and kick to open shots and they were missed horrendously

Have you seen his teammates? He has no choice.

Who else on that team do you want taking the shots?

he does a lot of forcing tough shots when he watches Caleb Houston and Gary Harris brick three consecutive wide open threes

and to his credit, he hits those middy’s at a higher rate than anyone on the team hits 3s lol

Normally I’d agree, but Magic offense is so bad that I’m like just like Banchero and Wagner cook lol

He’s probably going to retire while still being spry enough to guard Luka on the perimeter at an above average level lol

There are dozens of them

I believe Drew C said that Pritch’/ plus-minus was +17 even though he had 0 pts. I only watched the second half but his defense was pretty aggressive imo.

Magic are built to stop our 3 pt attack which is like the bench’s only job. I think bench will play much better in future series

They did a great job deciding to piss off both teams and destroy the flow of the game

Just like vs Dallas. We got em right where we want em

I unironically think this is what happened in game 4 of the finals last year.

I will say, that defense is legit. I really didn’t want you guys in the first round because I had a feeling it’d be a grind. Magic add some reliable shooting and it’ll for sure take em to the next level

we’re so close man

Because those 2 minutes included 2 fouls, a turnover, and 0 other stats

He was hooping bro didn’t you hear? That’s all he wants to do

because he is a BUM

Hard to kill someone if you only play 2 mins

All the credit to the big Al