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http://www.nba.com/magic/news/film-room-victor-oladipo-playing-elite-defense plenty out there on how much oladipo has improved on defense - he s not horrible by any stretch, its 2016 ppl

"He's not much better for us this year either but no where nearly as bad. " I was with u on the Baze Conundrum thread but you are reading what you are writing, no

got plenty of hawks stuff there, where do u guys make this shit up

I think the reason he hastn tried thabo baz lineup because of the way teams are playing Kyle and how that benefits us still.

Right - Why cant they win with a bigger SF or a la the article above something that gives us back the benefits of Carroll

I would take tobias and hezonja in a heartbeat for teague

Carroll fighting through screens and moving around the court as a thicker player would just cause them so many more problems like you said combo forward. I dont know how we get a wing with keeping the team in tact.

Great post - hopefully this is true and its something we can find. Nobody is looking at it like this but it makes sense because of the way things are falling, teams are getting more open looks this year for sure,

Just look at how much faster the other teams players are, except Mavs and thats the perfect matchup for us. Look at Gordon all over the place last night playing def. Both there shooting gaurds doing things our SG and SF could only dream about, all there players in early 20's all our players in 30s so we outsmart some teams sometiems, this was a flawed idea to begin with as with all pro sports, too many older players and eventually you just cant keep up. Thats whats happening here. and ppl want Tobias Hariis ??!?!? lol

Why is everyone surprised, we won with a gimmick last year, a nice system that worked when everything went right and teams took a minute to figure it out, the players even said it themselves, the teams have figured us out - and we dont have the athletes to combat it. There is no choice but to try and get better players/talent and that is what is going to happen. Its just a matter of time, what I will be pissed about is if we get nothing for Horford and let him walk cuz wee know we cant do anything with him here. We need high picks and talented guys we can develop period. Sap is fine but even he is playing within the system, how well does he play when horford and teague are gone.

Ithink Sap is a little slow right now not felling 100. Has been off for a few weeks now esp after that ankle.

I wish mike scott was a starter, hes got the potential. Dman he pisses me off. why did we get rid of lou williams again ?

Yea hes not going anywhere without a damn haul ppl - I was looking at a few articles out last month ranking nba s top players Al was in top 4 centers in both of them. Just saying hes a unique player - and is a commodity on the open market. Wildly held as the 3rd or 4th best free agent coming out and then a steep drop after that, we dont really have much of a choice.

WE have to see what Horford does in the playoffs when we have a healthy Thabo whos PER is sneaking up on Baze as his is dropping FAST. As well as healthy Milsap and Korver if he gets more consistency with his shot. WE didnt have anyone to gaurd lebron last year and were running on fumes. I have a feeling Horford goes Bawse mode cuz hes not playing anything like he used to and theres no way Bud and the team are just OK with that for whatever reason Horford has for himself. BUT none of this matters unless they implement changes to the scheme that the league has clearly figured out

Al just said this is his team - to AJC addressing trade rumors - the team has not approached him regarding a trade or anything liek that.

No it wont comem along when hes doing all that other stuff, hes concentrating on that and not just getting open looks, it will take awhile for this to happen but I would not hold my breath, its not likely at all, he should be better than he is at this point.

Bud is clearly ok with it its not Al being stubborn. They designed this whole thing - its just not working , maybe some adjustments will be made shortly, if this level of play keeps up, off season will see some big changes.

So who will play center then we dont have anyone that is a starter - so fine, Bud is cool with it, when do we get a starting center ?

Thats kinda interesting - get us some rebounding and ass beating in the paint for sure - wont have the scoring from those guys but will more chances with the rebounds, 5 picks, damn

I hope Pop hooks up Bud like Bud did him by taking Splitter off his hands, that shit was totally pointless.

ITs pretty simple - its the same shit tthat happened to the falcons beginning of this year, They are beating teams due to scheme/plays and as the league adjusts you have to adjust - problem is, we dont have the players to continue the process that forces teams to play certain guys a certain way - Bud was rigtht last night, were just not that good. We are the only team in the top 10 with this level of talent.

Soooo now its so obvious DMC and Pero being gone has killed the team and we all knew ....right, not soul was saying that shit last year, all I heard was upgrade this upgrade that. we need to keep Sap. Hindsight is hilarious on these boards, everyones a victim that was telling us all what was going to happen, ............and nobody was listening to them, only if............coach bud would listen to them.

thoughts of tiago and edy ...............sheeeesh

I like that orlando trade Hes playing better than Horf so is Brook, his best year I think.

When is AL going to start going all out ... playoffs - I hope so, that seems like wishful thinking but, its not like EVERYONE cant see this, His PPG is the same as last season because he is doing the 3pt thing - now hes not hustling down low, so we exchanged one thing for another. ONly hope is that Bud says he lets try and get Homefield adv into the playoffs dont worry really about top seed?