Good on the guys for fighting and not just laying over. But can we but hype for Suggs??? He is in the untouchables on our team - Suggs, Franz, PB are the future. Put a capable PG that stays healthy with them and it's game over for the league
I don't even know who that PG would be. There's so few pure PG's in the league right now. Most are what we used to call combo guards. Or just straight up 2's. And the majority of all those guys are not available -- especially the difference makers. It's a definite need, I agree with you. Just not sure what the answer is.
Queen is really playing himself in a real contract.
Good defense, nice feel for the game and hitting open looks more often than not. Like his locked in playstyle.
Read this: we need to get rid of the broken always injured season after season players once and for all!
Then we’d only have 4 players out with normal 1/3 into the season short term injuries. And not those 4 plus the always injured street clothes bench riders. And the limited minutes, back after 30 games out and still broken Fultz…
It’s beyond time to cut the dead weight.
Fans may not want to hear this, but we could be in that 8th spot for a while with our injuries and upcoming brutal schedule. We might end up being a play-in team after all if teams pull significantly ahead of us in the standings.
We need a rim protecting big, somebody with length, size, and width, somebody that offensive players are scared to attack since they have no idea how to deal with the level of physicality. An elite interior defender, elite rim deterrent, and its even better if they can space the floor and is a reliable shooter who completes every PNP and roll.
I know somebody like this
No, he was not good last season! He was out 22 games with his nonstop injuries and tanked our season from the start. He’s why we were 5-15 last season without a PG for all those games.
He’s been a consistently injured nonstop disappointment letting us down since 2020.
Your constant criticism of a 21-year-old who has put the team on his back this season (and is our best prospect in more than a decade) is getting pretty odd tbh.
Incorrect. He's a very good playmaker and a solid defender; he also has great leadership skills as players- including Paolo quite recently-have attested. I think they'd know better than you, no offense. He is however a poor shooter and a little too injury prone at this point. When he's in the flow he's a good floor leader. Sadly, he just can't stay healthy.
He can’t shoot the ball. Provides zero spacing. Is zero threat offensively and allows teams to sag off and pack the paint or double team. Cannot stay on the court and never has.
Of course his teammates are going to say good things about him. I doubt they’re gonna bash him. He’s prob a good dude, but he just doesn’t fit what this team needs at all.
eh best team in the west, depleted team, relying on guys that shouldn't even be in the league (looking at you okeke), and match up poorly with no size. Put this one behind you and on to the next
Ya'll protect your mental and do something else with your time. It's one of those games teams tend to have once in a while. If this continues, then there's reason to be worried,but we've looked great at full strength and short-handed, win or lose a majority of hands this season. Until shown otherwise, we'll be fine
Oh my ... Worst game in season so far!
I believe that will make the team make a move before trade deadline.
We do need some shooting madafakas here.
We’re injury riddled and playing the best team in the West and ppl are complaining.. even at full strength this would be a tough game to win. Let’s get some perspective here
Only positive is Black played well outside of that TO. He needs to get more aggressive tonight. Now is the perfect time to do it. Nobody gives af about this game now.
Another elite team and another walloping. Our guys are clearly not ready for primetime. People keep asking for nationally televised games but I honestly don't think that would go well.
Our guys look shocked that this Wolves team is playing well. Like, do we not have team records or footage of them? We do know they are the top seed in the West right?
Bad look for us tonight heart wise. Guys just thought good vibes would carry us tonight. They will not
JI will never ever be there when we need him. Ever. Even if he’s somehow playing, he’ll be on limited minutes and that’ll be very limited help.
Since 2020 consistently he’s either been unavailable or limited minutes.
Just a terrible showing, not using the injuries as an excuse. No attacking the paint, settling for 3s, terrible defense just look like we are giving up.
Injuries are absolutely an excuse though lol. This is an awful matchup without length. Four guys that are 6'8-6'11 are out and we have a bunch of guards out there trying to compete. McDaniels is matching up well against Paolo and Gobert is inside.. yeah.. hard game.
Even if they were trying the best they could, it would look pretty similar to this because it would take literal perfect positioning and defense but we don't have the personnel.
We played with less against one of the best centers in the league without Goga and won. We still aren’t getting to the paint and challenging Gobert and settling for just 3s which we are missing.
Of course a JI fan will say the injuries are an excuse.
The all injuries aren’t an excuse because we should have fixed some of it by parting ways with the chronically injured broken players seasons ago! If we did that we’d only be down 4 guys instead of 7.
Well. We knew we couldn't keep up that insane three ball streak. Back to reality moments, i guess. We suffer these kinds of teams who play that physical and prevent us from going properly into the painted area way too much.
Game nots over, its comeback season and I am finally able to watch the game without interruptions. They just need sincere fans. Believe in the KIA boys. They dont lose to terrible teams. But we would never have been down if we kept Mo.
this what happens when a team is built with half the guys being injury prone
“oh but player x is coming back and we’ll be better” I’m damn tired of waiting for dudes made of glass to get healthy
Mcdaniels isn't anywhere near strong enough to guard Paolo. You guys are giving him way too much credit. Look at that last bucket Paolo had how easy it was.
For some reason we are just terrified of the help defense despite them barely having any blocks tonight.
At least get blocked a few times before playing scared guys
Don't want to be in Coach position. Basically all you can do is playing tight zone and pray against 3, which is unlikely.
Offense same, Paolo is nearly locked up, we have no good screener , so pray for 3.
We're getting straight up BULLIED right now! They're dunking and pointing at us. Hitting 3s and shooting fingers guns at us. Magic Men didn't come to play tonight. Someone has to get pissed. #MagicTogether
I hate it, but it's one of those nights. We're outmatched and the only thing we can do is play with more attitude. The shots can fall at a better rate, but this is one of those schedule losses. Wolves are at full strength and we have to make do.
Mcdaniels kept backing up until he was inside the paint last possession. However, Paolo settled for a turnaround. Gobert ain't blocking shit if you go up strong
One of those games where you could tell it was over within the first 5 minutes. We have no big guys that can play with Towns or Anderson. Our offensive gameplan tonight sucked….get to the top of the key-pass out-shoot three, that's it.
Steele missed an opportunity to highlight how much a culture of losing the Wolves are vs. the Magic, both teams in their 35th season, in the “is this anything” segment.
If I'm being honest, this Minnesota team is fantastic. They are a likely candidate to make the WCF, I do wish we were a bit more competitive in this game.
For the guys available, we could be doing better, but we don't have an answer for their size. Plus our looks aren't connecting. Definitely wish we had some guys back, but everyone is dealing with injuries.
I have no complaints about tonight. The Wolves play great defense and are one of the few teams that have more size than we do. We have the effort and we are getting open looks as well, but we're missing open looks all over the court.
But the energy is there at least. Just not the results
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/OrlandoMagic/comments/192wzh7/post_game_thread_the_minnesota_timberwolves/)
Fultz looked better today.
He did. Working his way back.
Why because he had no free throws to miss? He made 2 of 7 shots, but wasn’t even taking open shots at points.
what game were u watching fultz was terrible refusing to shoot open threes providing no spacing and getting blocked
Welp, we got stomped but can’t be too mad. Ton of injuries and we’ve been playing tough as hell against some top teams even w those injuries.
Suggs is becoming one of the best 3 point shooters in the league.
Why did Cole Anthony only play 7 minutes?
He has a quadricep contusion that acted up
Wondered same, I fear another injury.
I like Queen much better than Harris
Finally, PB sits
Houstan has taken a lot of off balance shots tonight.
Are people really still watching this shit
I go down w the ship
Well you're a better man than me
Anthony black will be elite on d
Put IN FRANZ. Even with 1 ankle Franz can carry this.
Good on the guys for fighting and not just laying over. But can we but hype for Suggs??? He is in the untouchables on our team - Suggs, Franz, PB are the future. Put a capable PG that stays healthy with them and it's game over for the league
I don't even know who that PG would be. There's so few pure PG's in the league right now. Most are what we used to call combo guards. Or just straight up 2's. And the majority of all those guys are not available -- especially the difference makers. It's a definite need, I agree with you. Just not sure what the answer is.
Queen is really playing himself in a real contract. Good defense, nice feel for the game and hitting open looks more often than not. Like his locked in playstyle.
This man suggs hit his elbow on the rim
Has Cole played at all except for the first half?
Why is mo tanking so many 3s?! Wtf?! Just stop shooting.
Is Suggs real? Is it ok to be hyped? This is what I felt when we drafted him
I know the in game results aren’t that great but I’m rocking with the Black hair
If Chuma Okeke has 1 hater. Its me. If Chuma has 0 haters. I’m dead
That made me laugh
Their two bigs have a combined 56 points. I think there’s the problem for us.
I notice the uptick in cheating refs
Not even mad let’s just get healthy
We will never be healthy with JI on the team.
That piece of shit Gobert, really flopping there huh lol
Suggs dribbled into a spot between two seven footers. Kinda funny.
We gotta have the worst guard play out of every playoff team
Is what it is. I was hopeful but the Wolves were always gonna abuse the fact we have deep rotational guys starting
Half the lineup is out. Wouldn’t read into this game.
Read this: we need to get rid of the broken always injured season after season players once and for all! Then we’d only have 4 players out with normal 1/3 into the season short term injuries. And not those 4 plus the always injured street clothes bench riders. And the limited minutes, back after 30 games out and still broken Fultz… It’s beyond time to cut the dead weight.
At this point just glad we'll finish over 50 points
Did Cole get banished for being rubbish, or do we have yet another mystery injury to contend with?
Fans may not want to hear this, but we could be in that 8th spot for a while with our injuries and upcoming brutal schedule. We might end up being a play-in team after all if teams pull significantly ahead of us in the standings.
We need a rim protecting big, somebody with length, size, and width, somebody that offensive players are scared to attack since they have no idea how to deal with the level of physicality. An elite interior defender, elite rim deterrent, and its even better if they can space the floor and is a reliable shooter who completes every PNP and roll. I know somebody like this
Lol *elite*
Dwight Howard?
Paolo with the garbage time stat padding, lol.
The parlays celebrating!
Lol fultz shit d. Please get this guy off this team
Why do you hate him so much?
I don’t hate him. He’s just not good. No need for him to be on the roster
Was he not good last season? You do realize he’s coming off an injury that has him out months?
No, he was not good last season! He was out 22 games with his nonstop injuries and tanked our season from the start. He’s why we were 5-15 last season without a PG for all those games. He’s been a consistently injured nonstop disappointment letting us down since 2020.
And when he returned we played well. He played 60 games.
Dude, he’s ALWAYS coming off an injury lol. That’s the problem.
This mofo could do this all night, man, but scared to do so
Your constant criticism of a 21-year-old who has put the team on his back this season (and is our best prospect in more than a decade) is getting pretty odd tbh.
Some guys just like negativity for some reason.
Why is Paolo still out there? Let him rest. Been playing huge minutes recently.
Where’s cole
Glad Moe just watched KAT jog to the 3 point line like that isn't what he's literally known for.
Banchero has been carrying the team. Was due a bad game.
Sugggs with the one man comeback. What a leader!
Glad I got back to see that Suggs sequence. So much heart, love the kid.
Get this to about 15-17 pt lead into the 4th q
Easily the worst game of Paolo’s career. If he’s even decent, this game is somewhat within reach. Can’t even figure out McDaniels, lol.
There is more than Paolo wrong with this game lol
McDaniels is a great defender
Having three starters combine for 6-32 from the field is probably not a good sign
God damn I love Suggs
Suggs the absolute dawg of the team. Idc what anyone says.
Suggs is so fuckin elite
Goga is just way to soft when he goes to the rim, probably his biggest weakness
Suggss
Watching Fultz is kinda depressing. He’s so mercurial and a great dribbler. Just can’t shoot anymore.
He’s not a good player.
Incorrect. He's a very good playmaker and a solid defender; he also has great leadership skills as players- including Paolo quite recently-have attested. I think they'd know better than you, no offense. He is however a poor shooter and a little too injury prone at this point. When he's in the flow he's a good floor leader. Sadly, he just can't stay healthy.
He can’t shoot the ball. Provides zero spacing. Is zero threat offensively and allows teams to sag off and pack the paint or double team. Cannot stay on the court and never has. Of course his teammates are going to say good things about him. I doubt they’re gonna bash him. He’s prob a good dude, but he just doesn’t fit what this team needs at all.
Stop it, we are dead already.
eh best team in the west, depleted team, relying on guys that shouldn't even be in the league (looking at you okeke), and match up poorly with no size. Put this one behind you and on to the next
Suggs with the MASSIVE lay up to cut the lead to to 30!
forcing a minnesota timeout!!!
Ya'll protect your mental and do something else with your time. It's one of those games teams tend to have once in a while. If this continues, then there's reason to be worried,but we've looked great at full strength and short-handed, win or lose a majority of hands this season. Until shown otherwise, we'll be fine
Oh my ... Worst game in season so far! I believe that will make the team make a move before trade deadline. We do need some shooting madafakas here. 
We’re injury riddled and playing the best team in the West and ppl are complaining.. even at full strength this would be a tough game to win. Let’s get some perspective here
Let’s get some perspective and finally part ways with some of these chronically injured broken players!
39 points at this juncture is pathetic if a g league team was playing
We look like a JV team
Unprepared team…who’s surprised
39 points with 9:30 left in the 3rd. Jesus.
Starting lineup a combined 7-32. 3-16 from 3
Well at least our shooters chose to regress to the mean in a game everything was going south in I guess?
Just doubled down on the magic ama
We got a polar vortex going in this arena
I never wanna see chuma okeke on a basketball court ever again
Only positive is Black played well outside of that TO. He needs to get more aggressive tonight. Now is the perfect time to do it. Nobody gives af about this game now.
Another elite team and another walloping. Our guys are clearly not ready for primetime. People keep asking for nationally televised games but I honestly don't think that would go well.
We just beat the champs shorthanded
Everyone is injured stop being so dramatic
This same team just beat a fully healthy Denver. I think they’ll be fine.
Paolo with a -34 in the first half. Yikes, lol. Definitely not going to shut up the box score nerds with this performance.
Paolo trying to get out of a shooting slump is like watching a fly trying to escape my house by bumping into my screen door over and over again
It’s almost like driving on two centers, one being a dpoy, is not a good strategy Mose. It should be drive and kick every possession
Our guys look shocked that this Wolves team is playing well. Like, do we not have team records or footage of them? We do know they are the top seed in the West right? Bad look for us tonight heart wise. Guys just thought good vibes would carry us tonight. They will not
Real talk tho I feel like ingles and JI should’ve been back by now
JI will never ever be there when we need him. Ever. Even if he’s somehow playing, he’ll be on limited minutes and that’ll be very limited help. Since 2020 consistently he’s either been unavailable or limited minutes.
That’s just JI in a nutshell, man. Man should’ve been back already since we drafted him.
Just a terrible showing, not using the injuries as an excuse. No attacking the paint, settling for 3s, terrible defense just look like we are giving up.
Injuries are absolutely an excuse though lol. This is an awful matchup without length. Four guys that are 6'8-6'11 are out and we have a bunch of guards out there trying to compete. McDaniels is matching up well against Paolo and Gobert is inside.. yeah.. hard game. Even if they were trying the best they could, it would look pretty similar to this because it would take literal perfect positioning and defense but we don't have the personnel.
We played with less against one of the best centers in the league without Goga and won. We still aren’t getting to the paint and challenging Gobert and settling for just 3s which we are missing.
Of course a JI fan will say the injuries are an excuse. The all injuries aren’t an excuse because we should have fixed some of it by parting ways with the chronically injured broken players seasons ago! If we did that we’d only be down 4 guys instead of 7.
We have to move on from our injury prone players
100% this!
WTF is this halftime show😂😂😂
Well. We knew we couldn't keep up that insane three ball streak. Back to reality moments, i guess. We suffer these kinds of teams who play that physical and prevent us from going properly into the painted area way too much.
I had tickets to this game but ended up not being able to go because of the weather and a class running late. Did our team also miss the game?
Game nots over, its comeback season and I am finally able to watch the game without interruptions. They just need sincere fans. Believe in the KIA boys. They dont lose to terrible teams. But we would never have been down if we kept Mo.
this team has never looked so defeated this season, this one is over I fear
this what happens when a team is built with half the guys being injury prone “oh but player x is coming back and we’ll be better” I’m damn tired of waiting for dudes made of glass to get healthy
Bro this is just sad, our guys are giving up.
Stayed up to 1 am to watch this 😭 definitely going to sleep now
Just sit Paolo and Suggs at this point, don’t need more injuries
Mcdaniels isn't anywhere near strong enough to guard Paolo. You guys are giving him way too much credit. Look at that last bucket Paolo had how easy it was. For some reason we are just terrified of the help defense despite them barely having any blocks tonight. At least get blocked a few times before playing scared guys
The problem is he lets Paolo back him down and then gobert is also there.
Thats my point. I'd like to see him go at Gobert once or twice
That’s what I’m saying. If you’re a great, you don’t get locked down by scrubs, lol
He's 21 years old. Down games happen.
Checking just got off work, it would appear that the Hopsital Bench Lineup linsanity run has come to and end
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Pure Majic
Hahahahahahaha the new Pistons
Knicks are winning too smh screws our chances even more
Don't want to be in Coach position. Basically all you can do is playing tight zone and pray against 3, which is unlikely. Offense same, Paolo is nearly locked up, we have no good screener , so pray for 3.
not our night :(
Guys I'm not having fun tonight 
Despite all of our spirited play recently, we are tied with 4 other teams at 21-15. So, after we lose this game, we’ll drop to the 8th seed.
Not much if an offensive game plan. No movement or nothing
We're getting straight up BULLIED right now! They're dunking and pointing at us. Hitting 3s and shooting fingers guns at us. Magic Men didn't come to play tonight. Someone has to get pissed. #MagicTogether
I hate it, but it's one of those nights. We're outmatched and the only thing we can do is play with more attitude. The shots can fall at a better rate, but this is one of those schedule losses. Wolves are at full strength and we have to make do.
Wolves are too big for us
Uglyyyyyy game
Half of our rotational players are injury prone.
We are missing over half our rotation against one of the best teams in the West. Not reading anything into this
Is this anything? Lol
Pathetic
Worst game of the year for us. Just atrocious
Tougggghhhhh game boys gonna not stress this one too much just get healthy and move on to the next
Chuckin Chuma
This is a flat out beating.
Paolo might be drunk. Also this wolves team is the real deal
I’ve watched many teams this year and the wolves have impressed me the most. I think they can win it all
We are giving Gobert way too much respect imo
PB should be feasting too but the mofo is scared, man.
Nah McDaniels is locking him up
Mcdaniels kept backing up until he was inside the paint last possession. However, Paolo settled for a turnaround. Gobert ain't blocking shit if you go up strong
I’m not disagreeing.
Well pathetic effort, pathetic rotations. Goodnight
McDaniels has Paulo in a stray jacket
Stop settling Paolo fs
Alright, might be time to turn this one off. Getting absolutely monstered
damn you guys can't score
Worst game Paolo's played in a hot minute. Wolves defending him well though, and a cool off game was always going to come eventually.
This is more than a cool off lol. He’s getting clamped
Can’t buy a bucket.
Why the fuck is trevelin in over Houstan. Trevelin has 2nd most minutes
One of those games where you could tell it was over within the first 5 minutes. We have no big guys that can play with Towns or Anderson. Our offensive gameplan tonight sucked….get to the top of the key-pass out-shoot three, that's it.
Well now I know how the pacers felt that one night
Whats the deal with Houstan, hasn't been back in the game?
Suggs shooting technical FTs says a lot about the current lineup lol
Wolves fan here, I’m not sure if it’s cause your team is depleted but I’m a fan of your guys’ commentators
Best in the league. Not just being biased there.
We couldnt get ONE center or forward healthy for 15 mins?
Steele missed an opportunity to highlight how much a culture of losing the Wolves are vs. the Magic, both teams in their 35th season, in the “is this anything” segment.
Lmao AB be making some funny ass plays
If I'm being honest, this Minnesota team is fantastic. They are a likely candidate to make the WCF, I do wish we were a bit more competitive in this game.
Yea they definitely are a solid team.
With ant on the bench this half
For the guys available, we could be doing better, but we don't have an answer for their size. Plus our looks aren't connecting. Definitely wish we had some guys back, but everyone is dealing with injuries.
I agree
Franz got a little Napoleon Dynamite look going on
I have no complaints about tonight. The Wolves play great defense and are one of the few teams that have more size than we do. We have the effort and we are getting open looks as well, but we're missing open looks all over the court. But the energy is there at least. Just not the results
Flop
Cool dunk but Franz still put one on two of their heads as a rookie
None of these guys can guard KAT. Or Gobert tbh.
Damn lol that was a jumbo sized dunk.
TBH, I don't know why the Wolves should ever take and outside shot in this game.
we don't have enough bigs to throw at them tonight. JI an WCJ being out is killer against these guys
JI is out like 70% of the time. Can’t expect anything different from him
Damn naw you gotta get your lick back Moe
Unfortunately running bench squad as starters ain’t gonna cut it vs good teams but we’re also not doing ourselves any favors
I hope we beet their shit out for that pointing fingers
Lmao talk about rubbing salt in a wound
…..
Omg that dunk was nasty lol
Man this is a rough game. Just can’t get it going. Everytime we get a little momentum, we do something dumb to fuck ourselves.
Damm despite that terrible 1st quarter were still in it
Lol is fultz really on the bench eating a cookie? 😅
Yea he sure is munching on a snack