If Vegas ever gets a team I wonder where they’ll start holding the finals games, maybe it’ll just be rotational around the league and a few select non-nba markets

It takes nothing away from the actual season and only adds stakes and some funky courts. I’m here for it

IIRC they already announced that the semis will be regular home-site games after this year.

I wonder if they pump in fake fan noise thru the speakers because I noticed the crowd was really loud in one game but I was looking at the crowd and no one was cheering or yelling as it was a rather slow part of the game

Trae rolling the dice on the Knicks was one of my favorite moments from last year

And come back from a 0-15 start to the game.

Would love to see a deep playoff run from the Magic this year

Did Paolo get injured

It really is that simple sometimes. 24 vs 47% from 3 on several open attempts.

For a smaller guy with T-Rex arms he has nights where he’s unstoppable inside which is wild

Knew he could shoot. Knew he could play-make a little. Did not know he was this good at finishing. Completely unlocked our offense.

💪🏻 wtg Des

Franz is Knicks kryptonite. Gonna be tough without him if it happens.

We want NY.

Fuck them picks and fuck them knicks

A MRI confirmed that he also has that dog in him.

SGA and 31 points a couple seasons ago.

Draymond kicking people in their nuts

Big Brother always gotta give little brother a little leeway.

Feel like we should have spotted them a bit more.

Bane just needed to go full shithouse to be unlocked. Glad he found his stride! Hope he does great for yall.

Desmond Dodgeball Banes

Herro started great. Then Spo rode the 2nd unit wayyy too long as the lead evaporated and guys were cold after.

Herro can at least say he was guarded like a first option. Powell had like 5 or 6 wide ass open threes he bricked

They sounded a bit awkward in the first half, Dell was talking too much for his usual self. Def improved throughout the game though. They’re best as a hometown announcer duo, could tell Eric missed his awful Hornets

Yall can keep them, they were ass

Dell is fine, but the other guy is awful tbh. Y’all can keep them

TBF the heat did an amazing job containing bane the game last Friday. The problem tonight was that Paolo was on the floor more and they have to double him otherwise it’s an easy 2 for Paolo. That left a lot of broken coverage on other guys which is why Bane and TDS were getting good looks.

It’s the vision of the whole thing. Just the first time Bane was really feeling it with Paolo out there

not all on Herro but any lineups featuring both him and Norm will be rough defensively – especially with Mitchell in and out with these random injuries

When you play fast it has feedback loops

GOOD, THEY SHOULD STAY HOME AND SAVE THEIR MONEY (I really hate Heat, Knicks, Celtics games here)

Wide open some of them too

It’s his 3rd game back from a groin injury and he’s still not able to play his full rotation. Like what do people want. He has big games and he’s called selfish. He defers and he’s call trash. The dude can’t win.

Banchero getting shit on even after a win. There’s no stopping yall

He’s very obviously slowly coming back from the injury, give him a chance to find his role

Nah, I’m usually really hard on Paolo, but he played great tonight. Moved the ball well and was able to have good vision for a majority of the game.

He is getting doubled on touch which is creating so many open looks. Once Paolo finds his bounce again hopefully and can get to the rim at will like usual with the way he is passing right now, he is going to average an easy 40 points generated every night (from his scoring and his assists). He was on point this game with his passing, guys were open, just really many unfortunate misses or Paolo was probably a double double and the story looks a bit better.

I also am starting to get into the notion that this team is a 1a/1b/1c/1d team. While technically Paolo, Franz and Bane are clearly the 3 top option scorers and are responsible for alot of the pressure but they all have roles including Suggs as 1d and they can all easily be the best player any night and the rest all dont mind letting any of the other 4 takeover. When Franz and Paolo and Moe went down, Suggs was averaging like 25 and took the full strength Bucks with Giannis and Dame to a Dame time clutch shot, and Suggs nearly matched him for a game winner but it was a clutch off between Suggs vs Giannis and Dame and Suggs was up to the challenge. Giannis was caught on mic telling his team that that Magic team is a great team (again even without Franz and Paolo) and they wont go down easy essentially saying Suggs is a worthy match.

Its essentially the KD/Russ/Harden Thunder and there are matching stats to show it, just not the accomplishments as of yet, but the 3 of them are all worthy and to me Bane is a key acquisition.

Nobody’s rating them too highly. They’re ok, not bad, with some decent players

They are rated

Stay in your lane bucko

Our over/under on the season was 38 wins. We were never rated highly.

Clippers fans are all too familiar with the “Playoff Powell” shooting drop

No they remind me of the Tobias Harris Clippers

Spo’s system is great. IDK if he has the roster. Herro aint that guy but Miami are sure praying he is. I like Bam a lot but as your starting center and primary big… well he’s just not that. He’s a PF or even a SF who probably needs another big to play off.

They’re trash

very, they are beating up on an all time weak east.

The fire rises brother

Crashing this cup with no survivors

Its still miles better than whatever they were doing before and i dont know exactly how you look at their roster and say they could pull out a better offense.

Herro for lamelo and 2 firsts

Only works in the off season, Paolo and whatever else for Giannis once his contract kicks in. We’re not trading Franz.

New York already lost the season series to Orlando. Magic did well without only paolo and no franz last year after he got back into a groove. I think the magic have a better chance of beating New York than the other way around