The national media on the other hand? Well now that the Magic are relevant to them I imagine he’ll get noticed as our bench will be a factor in us being a contender.

OT, I used Excel to create a graph of our point differential so far and it predicts that we will will by 56 in our next game. Lol.

he’ll get floor time. Jury is still out on his D, imo. I think he’s learning quickly though.

Boy if Ryan and JJ get going on the same night and shoot these >50% from 3pt land games…….

I know, I know. Preseason.

If I’m not mistaken he did lead the Pac-10 in scoring his freshman (only) year at Cal. There are some pretty good teams out west as well as some solid NBA players in nearly every draft. He’s got great length and a good basketball IQ. He’ll make a wonderful anchor for the second team, perhaps a Vinny Johnson “microwave” style player that can do more than just shoot. A real box score stuffer. Hey if JJ can play above adequate D in our system, surely Ryan will figure it out.
One thing is for sure, after the first preseason games I think every one on this site is chomping at the bit to get the real games going than 2 weeks ago, if that’s even humanly possible. I hope you guys (Ben and E) ain’t losing too much sleep yet! Keep up the great work! It’s all I can do here in Munich, to follow this site and a few others. Could be our year…
PS It’s snowing here already!!! The Magic keep me warm!!!

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Last year, it was Jeremy Richardson where SVG would probably only consider playing him significant minutes if there were only 4 other players available for the game. This year, I guess it is Adonal Foyle, but I would still feel comfortable with him thrown in the rotation if Gortat or Howard went down for any reason. This team is stacked 1-13.

Gotta get Anderson 33.

No Doubt.

What if after the first of the year Gortat and Anderson were rumored as trade bait. What do you think you could get?

Im glad Ryan had a great last game, but I feel like he has a shorter ceiling than everyone else does. I don’t know many PF’s that good from 3 land while being a defensive beast or rebounding machine, Troy Murphy is kinda that and a great goal for Anderson to be.

 I also contend the optimal lineup is Nelson, Carter, Pietrus/Barnes, Lewis, Dwight so where is Anderson? When Lewis is tired he will be great depth without changing style or dropping team play much, thats about all I see. And that doesnt even solve the problem of tough, big interior teams like BOS, LA maybe CLE and SAS too. (Unless they can’t respond as well to the offense and the Magic play great defense still)

Which goes back to my projected lineup prediction from the 3QC Project a Lineup post, Bass will be more important for the defense and style he brings so long as the team adapts to it well and Bass can ball (the preseason stats are very impressive, but Ive not seen enough of his defense yet). Magic will either use only Bass or only Anderson each game as the matchups dictate, but with Bass more so the Magic get more and more comfortable with a more traditional-ish lineup and so the game opponents get confounded with two different looks.