The Magic’s Dominant Defense and Blazers’ Youth Movement | The Mismatch

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1. RIP Jalen & Jacoby

2. Franz 🏀🔥🙌

3. Dunno, have to be really careful about evaluating any East teams. Magic are 1-3 vs the West and the 1 win was against the Pelicans.

4. Folks, it’s called….”the weave”…it’s the weave, and not many can do it, but you’ve got to weave.

5. This is why Anfernee Simons needs to be traded to the magic.. it just makes too much sense.

6. Is this the time for the trade of the untradeables? Ayton for Brandon Ingram and hope to sign and trade BI over the summer?

7. Ayton is literally the most frustrating basketball player I’ve ever watched. At least having him playing might give Portland better draft odds and make the team better in the end when he’s not on the roster anymore 😂

8. Scoot Sharpe Tou Clingan is the core right now. The Blazer’s have a Cooper Flagg/Ace Bailey sized hole in the core.

9. What happened to KOC?

10. Go blazers 🎉

11. As a Blazer fan, I’ve never felt more disdain towards a player as I do towards Deandre Ayton.

12. Don’t sleep on the Rockets. They don’t have as many unquestionable superstars, but they might have the most young guys with serious superstar potential, a fantastic mixture of world class athleticism and BBIQ. And great veteran role players and one of the league’s best coaches.

    If enough click, they will get frighteningly good frighteningly quickly.

13. A trade for Dame kinda makes sense. KCP, Harris, Anthony, Houston and 2 1sts plus a bunch of 2nds(Magic have plenty of picks to spare). Kinda helps both teams. Milwaukee gets some wing defense, shooting, and picks. Magic get a PG who can shoot and playmake. Dame comes off the books when Paulo’s extension kicks in. You transition from Dame to AB in two years. Milwaukee gets defense today and guys who fit better next to Giannis. Plus they start to clean up the books.

14. i would not put isaac in a trade for lavine

15. As a Portland fan, I appreciate your thoughts!

    Many of us here also love the potential of Rupert as well. Murray has been doing better and Banton has been good too. As of late, some fans are in favor of keeping William III, even if he is injury-prone.

    The trio of elephants in the room are in order, Simons, Ayton, and Grant. Simons and Ayton need to go yesterday, while Grant is more negotiable in terms of timeline.
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16. thank you for actually talking about the blazers😭🙏

17. Portland is going all the way

18. Time Lord is legit

19. Ya shaedon was jus sooo good that game. Career high. As a crazy local Portland blazer fan, we love what's goin on and want Ayton gone because of it ha

20. No way! An NBA YouTuber talking about the Blazers???

21. Scoot isn’t a piece,Camara is a piece

22. Stupid ass trade Jacoby you are smarter then that

23. Replace Isaac with KCP and no FRPs.

24. please dont trade timelord

25. What would an Ayton trade look like?

26. can confirm was miserable 🤣👍🏽 (portland fan)

27. Time Lord wasn’t available for the second game of that back-to-back.

28. We’re still calling him Time Lord?

29. In my opinion the magic would not ever trade Jonathan Isaac simply because he's probably the best defender in the NBA and that's a huge part of Orlando's identity.

30. Blazers are finding there identity, finally. Clingon and Williams are a great tandem at center.
    No reason to trade anyone, just get benched if they arent doing it right. Ayton may wake up, but he is the fiest on the chopping lust at the moment. Simons next. But they cant bring in several contracts that need would go in front of the young guys. Bit of a dilemma in the money.

31. Yes, the Magic need a 2way PG that can defend the point of attack, drive to basket and can shoot. Anthony can defend the point of attack and that’s it

32. Camara is going to be a Bruce Brown/PHX Suns Bridges level 3 and D wing soon enough.

33. Whatever problems you might have with Lavine, his mindset right now is not one of them. He looks great. There's other problems with him, but not that one.

34. That mock trade for lavinenis horrid. Dude on the left. Jacoby is smoking some oregon greeeen, brother thats a horribel trade

35. No way am I making that trade for Lavine. They should pay the magic to take him off their hands.

36. Zach Lavine contract and defense is not something Magic need.

37. Scoot has miles to go before proving he is part of the future of the Blazers. Hell, the same is true for Sharpe. Sharpe has obviously done more to make a case for building around him, but he still has to prove he can stay healthy and improve in various areas. Hope is the key word. While it was fun to see those two wins, I'm all in on losing so that we can get another high draft pick and increase our chances of getting HIM.

38. Appreciate the Blazers love. We in the desert, fam.

39. Think sexton would be better than Lavine atleast sexton defends and he’s a dawg. Lavine is a pouter and I hate his body language during games

40. I can tell yall dont watch Orlando play lol

41. Camara is the real deal. He is a player every winning team needs.

42. Blazers are trash and outside of Clingan, and maybe Sharpe, their youth movement ain't moving shit. Hell, the grizzlies have better young talent than the blazers.

43. No thank you to Zach Lavine.

44. We aren’t letting go Issac….

45. Zach Lavine is NOT worth AB, JI, TDS and a pick. Insane.

46. I’m not trading Isaac an Silva both for lavine. Idc idc idc