Betrayer

Why are you jumping? You gonna block that, Dunc?

Forget threes, just hit layups.

Leaving yourself without a challenge in a closeout game is just bad coaching.

Great. Lavert and Jenkins minutes. And now we’ve wasted our challenge in the 2nd quarter. So stupid.

Stew!!!

Green and Lavert on the fast break. We knew it would be a miss.

Please sit Jenkins.

Jenkins with another almost dunk.

Full court pressure always winds up in a layup when we try it.

Switching everything on defense with Daniss is a bad choice.

Refs just letting Carter clear people out on screens.

Cmon. Free throws.

Bane is built like a tank. Ref wasn’t buying that flop against Dunc.

Turnovers keeping the Magic in it, other than that it’s a good start.

Obvious to anybody with eyes. Let’s see if JB plays Stew more than 15 minutes this game or if his head is still too far up his rear to see it again.

I like it. What's the payout?

My brain keeps doing the same mental gymnastics as well. Then I remind myself that we've only won about 2 quarters in this series and I come back down to Earth.

As much as I'd love to see it, I can't buy it. Unlike 2003 we don't have a Tayshuan Prince waiting in the wings to overtake Michael Curry and shut down TMac. Unless you think that's Ron... That said, I'd actually love to see a lineup shakeup. What do we have to lose at this point? We aren't scoring in the half-court with any lineup JB puts out there, so let's take back the paint and try to win the possession battle again. Give me a bunch of double-big with Stew alongside Duren and Reed to match their size and put a better defender on Paulo. Play Ron and more Javonte for disruption. Lean into our identity even harder and just try to impose our will on Orlando for once. If we're gonna go out in the first round, let's go out embracing our identity.

Exactly. Cade and Ausar are the building blocks. First team All NBA PG and a First Team All Defensive wing. While a (real) second All-Star would be nice, you really just need basic 3-and-D players at SG and PF along with a cheap Center. A basic backup ballhandler off the bench who isn't a G-Leaguer would help as well. That's not asking much and luckily you have a 22 year old first time All-Star you can sign and trade this offseason to help get a significant portion of that accomplished.

Rumor was that Weaver wanted to take JD at pick #5 and he got overruled so he traded up to get him. I realize JD's value just dropped across the league, but maybe a sign and trade involving Trey Murphy could be worked out with our former GM.

I've never been so unhappy to be right about something. Before Game 1 I also said Orlando was going to be a really tough challenge for this team - probably our second worst matchup in the East besides Cleveland. I'm not happy about that prediction coming true either 😞

Why is Duren back in the game?

When you’re getting harassed and defended closely all night it makes you tired and sloppy. They look both. Orlando is the more physical team in this series and they look like they want it more on every play.

You see it’s not going well immediately, yet you don’t think about making a lineup change? Just let Duncan keep getting targeted and Duren play like crap.

10 point swing since Stew sat down and Duren came in. Just flip their minutes.