11/28/25 7:30PM Magic @ 7:30PM NBA Cup Group Stage

[Tigeraholic1]

Little Caesars Arena - Detroit, MI

 

Edited November 28 by Tigeraholic1

[Deleterious]

Only way to advance is a win tonight.

 

[Deleterious]

Their last 3 games have been 3 of their 4 worst defensive games for the season.

[Hongbit]

Has adding Ivey thrown the rotations out of whack.  Any thoughts on what’s going on?
 

Crazy they can go from conference leader to eliminated from th Khashoggi Cup all in the course of 3 days.  

[Sports_Freak]

"Count that baby AND a foul."

[Deleterious]

I would be pretty upset if I was an Orlando fan. Apron team that has a 2-3 year window before they become too expensive and I think their first round playoff series will start on the road. They also traded away all is their future draft capital for Bane. 

[Deleterious]

Black is abusing Ivey.

[Deleterious]

Actually, Orlando is abusing our bench. 

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

I haven't looked up his numbers. But Cade seems to be shooting the three better the past couple of weeks.

[Deleterious]

On that break Black simply ran past Cade and Green.  Horrible defense by those two.

[Deleterious]

The bench in the 1st and 3rd quarter has been problematic.

[Sports_Freak]

What were the fans chanting near the end of the 3rd?

[Deleterious]

Terrible rebounding by Detroit.

[Deleterious]

Terrible execution all around by Detroit in the last minute.  

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

A lot wrong in that game.  But the bench might be the biggest issue.

Stew was fine minus his foul trouble.  But everyone else was bad.  Box score doesn't show the bad defense they played.

 

[Adullin]

Last minute was brutal Orlando kept throwing up 3's that were so far off they would bounce right to someone on their team. 

Also the replay from my understanding you can call fouls off a replay but ignored the swipe that caused Cade to lose the ball. 

[Deleterious]

It was a great miss by Cade, though.  You can't draw it up any better than this.

 

[Deleterious]

If you didn't watch the game, this was one possession for Orlando.

Pistons were down 1 here.

 

Edited November 29 by Deleterious

[buddha]

what does ron holland do well?  try hard?

[casimir]

10 hours ago, buddha said:

what does ron holland do well?  try hard?

Regress in his 2nd season.

[NYLion]

13 hours ago, Deleterious said:

A lot wrong in that game.  But the bench might be the biggest issue.

Stew was fine minus his foul trouble.  But everyone else was bad.  Box score doesn't show the bad defense they played.

 

The bench is a problem because JB's rotations stink, so much LeVert, and he gives very little playing time to guys that were previously playing with lots of confidence. He's essentially coaching like Thibs, the starters are going to be burnt out by the time the playoffs come around. Cade 40 minutes, Duncan Robinson 35? It's too much. If he's only playing a lot of the bench guys a few token minutes they're never going to get in a rhythm and it's going to be a mess.