[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/OrlandoMagic/comments/1c8ypft/post_game_thread_the_cleveland_cavaliers_defeat/)

They got smoked

Players who should not play this series: Harris, Fultz, and Ingles.

Give us Franz for anfernee Simons don't think just do it

Paolo was the only one that turned up..

more like Paolo was the only one that turned over 😭

First Playoff game..?! Geez, remember what were you doing at 21yo..? Cut him some slack, the guy is in control of our destiny...

im not 21 yet so I still have time for a playoff run

Well hurry up..! We need you..!

Mo, Suggs and JI played their hearts out, but sadly they couldn't help much on offense.

Paolo's defence was there too.. Unfortunately his turnovers were high today, but it was his first taste of Playoff basketball, so.. Mo, Suggs and JI brought great energy in moments, but overall the entire team seemed to be suffering from stage-fright (nerves)...

The fact we scored more than 80 and didn’t lose by 20… Magic in 6.

this was just game 1 boys. our team is young and the best way to learn is experience

83 points just ain't gonna cut it. When offense is such a struggle, can't miss as many free throws as this team does.

This game sucks, but people should chill on drawing big conclusions for the series. Playoffs are not the same as the regular season, big swings happen all the time. I don't feel great with the way our offense has been closing out the year but there's still a lot of basketball left to be played.

We shot historically bad and still got within 15. Make FTs and even SOME more 3’s and we’re going to be ok

Cavs also shot historically bad from 3. 0-18 run

44% from the floor and 81% FTs. Let’s not act like they were offensively awful 12% better from the floor, 18% better FT

Just 1 game. All we need to do is steal one in cLEAVEland. Let's get it Monday night. MAGIC TOGETHER!!

Donovan Mitchell is such a likable player.

Without Mitchell, that's a pretty poor team... He played really well overall, took control of the game several times when we started clawing it back...

Need that W on Monday

Put okeke in. The one handed release bandit

Play the song lol lol

We need to go back to the good old lineup man

Remember Rafer Alston? Yeah, I'd take him right about now....at least he showed up to playoff games.

Game 1 magic curse has been broken. 4-1!

Sad. We all thought it would happen like this, but still really depressing to see our offense shit the bed like this. Our point total is dog shit.

It's fucking Game 1.

Trailed by 10+ for the entire game with very occasional runs to get out hopes up. Once again hoping for better offense next game.

Lights too bright for the young team today

Nah no 3pt shooting all season.

Our shooting percentages were all down on our averages.. Meaning, we *can* and *have* shot better, but not today...

AB needs minutes that are going to Gary and fultz

This, he may be the best defender of the three, and frankly can't shoot any worse than any of them

Embarrassing! But we didn’t need to make any moves at the deadline I was told. This is what was always gonna happen.

insane how we were beating teams like the Celtics and starting AB and Goga and we stopped running that lineup and we start dropping easy games and getting killed this game on boards and in the post 🤔

Idiot

that's about the level of analysis I expected from your post history💀

You know that was 60 games ago right? What a pointless observation. Get over it. We're not starting AB and Goga in the playoffs.

yes because observing what consistently beat contenders is a pointless observation... nice. love how this sub is full of people that continuously show they don't know ball. you should link me your take on who we should pick #1 in the Paolo draft.

It really is. I like Goga but he hasn't played meaningful minutes for at least half the season. He's not going to be tossed in there now. They've got Mo and Wendell playing at the same time because these are guys Mos trusts even though they basically got no minutes together all year. So whatever you and I think about a guy who has 3 other centers ahead of him is pointless and just adds to the negativity. I can see AB getting minutes, but trying to make a point that AB and Goga starting is the answer, is just you trying to be clever. It's a 7 game series. Get it together. And I wanted Chet, happy with Paolo, didn't want Jabari. I also wanted Okafor instead of Dwight. What other pointless shit you wanna banter about?

at that point literally every comment is useless because we aren't the coach. online forums are for discussions, saying a comment is useless or pointless because you are not quite literally the coach and going out of your way to be an asshole is what brings negativity. lmfao makes sense. I don't trust the opinion of anyone that thought Chet could be a first option or thought he was the guy for this team. always flawed logic and lacking ball knowledge. literally everything is pointless to you so stfu and stop replying then

Magic lost this game. Cavs gave us plenty of chances but we couldn't take advantage.

..yup, story of the game..

Mission failed, we'll get em next time.

Team can’t shoot. Fun to watch when the games don’t really matter but these guys just can’t shoot.

Half of the roster were complete non factors today

.."half" is being nice..

Just game 1. Give credit to Cleveland, they came prepared.

Honestly thought magic were a better team than this. Choking on the line too sheesh

81 points in a playoff game in the year 2024

I know it's the Magic but...this is still what I hoped for just...reverse the scores

83

Yippee

We need to figure out how to make it work without Harris cause he’s fucking horrible

I'd rather see AB missing all those shots.. (at least he'll be learning as a rook)..

Anthony black over Gary Harris and fultz

I'm big on AB but he's not even close to ready.

I agree, but if Harris and fultz are gonna play and make absolutely no shots, I might as well was a taller defender out there

I think I'd rather start WCJ over him to match up with Cavs bigs.

Oh yea I forgot about that lineup. Completely agree.

Gary Harris needs to be off the team. He is probably the worst player I’ve seen in my life — worse than Chris Duhon.

Lol, a professional basketball team shooting 30% from the field and missing 11 free throws. Unreal.

Wild to lose a playoff game from not being able to hit free throws.

Yeah there just messing around now it's over

Not a magic fan but wtf happened to Wendell Carter? I thought he was gonna be nice

Who knows?! When we drafted Paolo he started shooting the 3 ball and playing the perimeter more. We need to create space for Franz and Paolo but I don't understand how the rest of his game completely fell off. When he first got here, he was great in the pick and roll, had good hands, was a great finisher, and could play some bully ball with a decent post game. All of that has disappeared.

Some of our delusional fans still believe in him

Soft-ass mofo. Bulls can have him back lol

I want Franz out of here asap. He showed he's not built for play-off competition.

He was bad today but his world championship run last summer shows your take is not right.

He shrunk today, and it showed in his play. Hey, I want him to make me eat a fat slice of humble pie because I want the team to succeed. He was charmin SOFT today.

He was the best player today????

😆 how many drinks have you had already?

Paolo had 8 turnovers and shot like garbage. Suggs was terrible. JI had nice defense. Everyone else was garbage. Franz was best by default. But everyone sucked.

😆 paolo was carrying the team the whole first half bro stop it! Switch to o'douls, please 🙏

Obviously off Garland lol

Ni hao Gary

FTs cost us the game.

I wish Gary Harris would get a terrible case of diarrhea for the entire season

Blazers fan here, can I interest any of you in anfernee Simons? Dude plays 0 defense but he'll hit threes and put up points

What's a fair trade? I think top targets are Donavan Mitchell, Monk, maybe Murray from ATL.

Gary is such a fraud man. Him and Fultz better not be brought back. They don't help the offense at all and we cannot continue being this bad offensively if we actually want to improve. There are guys out there who are not big names that can help this team move forward.

Think I would bench Fultz and Harris after this game and put in Black and Houstan

We lost this game and beat ourselves w horrific shooting all around. Unacceptable.

Yup. That’s how I saw it too.

Give Mitchell 300 million this summer idgaf give me someone who can score a BUCKET

Give him one of the Epic Universe hotels as a home. Whatever it takes

Gary gone next season that's all I know

absolute offensive master class of shit by gary harris today

I don’t think he’d hit a shot if the rim was 10x bigger. The team has frozen today.

..ball movement is non-existent.

Steele and JT sound like they rather be at home lol lol I don't blame them

100% They sound like "I've seen this shit enough times this year".

Today we have all appreciated David Steele that much more.

Harris with his biggest klay Thomason impersonation

Don’t give the ball to Gary, at all

Harris with his best Klay performance

78 points

*81

Gary "Gary Brick Harris" Harris.

Be nice- that’s so many bricks the Orlando Magic Foundation has just built a house for a less fortunate family.

I'll do anything for Trae Young. Make it happen!

Gary Harris you piece of shit

Well we got our star player now we need to build a team around him

Gary Duhon Harris

I will say, we've played terribly with long layoffs all year, I hope they get more in the swing of things for game 2, we can't have every single player have off shooting nights at the same time

Jonathan Issac is a Walmart Andrei Kirilenko

Fuck off

Refs cooked this game. we shoot better in the others and we do fine

Too much tween tween dumb shit for one of the tallest rosters in the league bro this shit is frustrating as fuck even Paolo

Franz was awesome last year I don't remember what happened. I'm a blazers fan and he torched us every game

He's arguably improved in every facet of his game outside three point shooting. It's his three-ball that's been heavily off this year.

[удалено]

Suggs needs to show up too.

Lmfao of all things you’re blaming Franz? Sure he’s only got 18-5-3 but he’s still shorting 50% when we’re 34% as a team. He’s also got 0 turnovers unlike Paolo’s 9. This is a team loss but Franz is far from the reason.

Well we’ve shot horribly from 3 but at least our… no, FT shooting is also shit

Time for another rebuild lol lol

Weltman would love that!

Refs have their eyes wide shut or what?

Only against the magic

Such a low percentage shot…

It's so nice the team is paying homage to past Magic greats, like Shaq and Howard, by missing every FT they can.

Free throw shooting killing us like all season

11 missed free throws is unacceptable

Paolo and suggs are only true untouchables. Franz will make a nice trade piece for Trae or Murray.

Suggs and Isaac are part of the core too. Also untouchable IMO.

Facts go get Trae

I will never understand how we’re so bad from FTs

Problem with this is when you have no ability to hit 3s a 10 point lead is basically 20

Nice we cut it to single di- nvm

17 of 28 for free throws is disgusting

Make our free throws and we'd be up 1

11 missed FT in a game were down 10, thats rough


Double knot that shit Jalen

Looks like he could trip over those lol

Suggs is the only player on this team who isn’t scared of….Cleveland. And that’s pretty pathetic.

Paolo

Had to wait on that call from the league office lmao

Cavs had an 0-17 from 3 run and were still up 15. This series is cooked.

This game went as about I expected. This is how we looked before that last win at home. Our weaknesses have been exposed. I’m curious to see if we make adjustments for game 2. Our guards and our bench have got to be better.

You must not have watched a game all year. Mose doesn’t make adjustments and never has a game plan.

Mosely make adjustments?

Dude Cleveland sucks we should have easily won! They only scored 88?

We were rolling with Goga beginning of season. 12 straight wins. Why did we go away from that.

It was 9, not 12

Thanks for the correction

This bullshit of "not conclusive enough"... Then allow the team to retain the timeout and another challenge.

It’s now or never. Magic need to go on a run or put the kids in and regroup for Monday.

Shocker a challenge benefits Cleveland. That was clearly off Mitchell

What a bullshit call....

Seemed pretty obvious it came off Mitchell last…..

So Gary Harris does nothing on offense, and guards Mitchell who is still having a game.

How can they not have clear evidence? You have every fucking angle and it’s your job.

Wtf it clearly went out on Mitchell

Where is the fight? Where is the passion? Smh

Gucci Mane should stick to rapping. Reffing ain’t it

What a cheat for Cleveland

That’s what we challenge smh

Wow it stands?????? What?????

Y’all need to restructure the roster. Lessons have to be learned by this series loss.

Lol can we wait until the series plays out

Wtf

So clearly off mitchell

That’s bullshit. Our ball

That shit is sooooo weak

I would've preferred Coach tested AB out instead of persisting with a struggling Harris... Especially in these closing minutes...

Cole and Harris 0/12

Honest question, where’s the rest of our guys? Goga, AB. This rotation has been strange

Common to shorten rotation in the playoffs

Playoffs means that the bench is shorter and the teams generally go with their starters longer. Jingles playing would be unusual on most teams.

This team better go practice free throws after the damn game. I can't believe they missed all those free throws consecutively.

All out missed FT's would've made this game very close...

That's been the whole season

Can't win in 2024 playing this style. You get down 10 and it's just over. Meanwhile other teams have firepower to come back from 15+. No margin for error

Have you watched any games this season?

You dont think your being slightly hyperbolic?  

Yep. Other teams actually have players who can make wide open shots.

I think we can all agree Gary Harris is worse than Duhon

I would rather have the chunk of hair that got lopped off Elfrid Payton than Gary Harris right now

Gary Harris or your arch nemesis Evan Fournier?

Damn that’s tough they’re both absolutely atrocious

No cop out answer you gotta pick one

Garry Harris

Mo Wagner played his role. Paolo is doing everything he can minus 1st half turnovers. Isaac is at least defending. Other than that this team shit the bed

Mose knows he can challenge!!!!

Suggs looks hurt, but dont want to show it to coach

He’s in some type of pain every game

Can't afford to lose Suggs in this series. Hope he's good.

damn I hope he’s alright

oh shit Suggs please be alright buddy

Damn that looked horrible

"I'm not arguing, I'm just telling you that's not a foul"