Markelle Fultz remains something of a national curiosity as he starts to regain his game. Orlando Magic fans know that something special is brewing for him as he started to show hints of the player he was at Washington for the first time. And it leads to a big season to prove just how good he can be in 2024.
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Today's Question of the Day: What do you want to see from Markelle Fultz next season?
I just wanna see markelle cook this year. Anybody who watches him knows he passes the eye test and has crazy feel for the game. It will be cool to see how far he can take it
Fultz bout to be a menice
His groove led us to a team outside the postseason with the ROY on their roster. Been years since a ROY missed a postseason game of some sort and especially since once as dominant as Paolo was mised it. Many games we got off to very slow starts, and Cole's unit brought us back. Also towards the end of the year Jalen Suggs started to look great at PG on both ends of the floor, would much rather invest in the future than continue to think Fultz or Issac is the answer in Orlando but y'all ain't ready to REALLY rebuild yet! I wouldn't even mind keeping Markelle if he came off the bench. Paolo and Franz almost had the amount of assist Fultz had on the season. They don't need another playmaker at PG. They need someone who can knock down the open 3 consistently, and spread the floor. Fultz isn't that. Not to the scale he needs to be. We need a Jamal Murray, Jordan Poole, or someone in the like type of point guard that can eat from 3 EASILY throughout the game and spread the floor for Paolo and Franz. Invest in a better PG thru trade of invest in Cole and Suggs as the starter or starters and see what you have as they are both better shooters and their stats are almost equal to Fultz stats even though they played less minutes. Fultz is not the type of point guard that wins in today's NBA at a high level. But if being around .500 every year is your kink, knock yourself out.
Imo he needs to be traded his inability to shoot not only creates spacinf problems for franz and paolo it leaves us in a situation where its 4 on 5 in a hald court set when paolo and franz are in an iso situation while fultz is standing alone on thr hash or baseline 3 unguarded as his defender double teams paolo or franz
Just look when fultz does get thr ball when he is open at the 3 pt line defenders dont even close out on him when he shoots they turn around and anticipate the rebound
Paolo and franz need shooters around them to create spacing
To maximize not inly thier iso creation for themselves but also open 3s when they pull defenders
@lockedonmagic wouldnt you agree signing someone like vanvleet for a 4 year deal front loaded with the 4th year a team option be a clear upgrade over fultz not only in production but mentorship in the playoffs and mentorship for cole and suggs
Vanvleet is thr 9th best pg defender in the nba
He is also a shot creator like cole
He would be able to teach cole how to play defense and better shot selection while teaching suggs how to shoot
Vanvleet scores better than fultz
Plays better defense
Gets more assists with less turnovers
Is a clear upgrade and gives the magic a championship mentor in their prime to be the glue the team needs
Then if we get either a combo of
Taylor hendricks
Cam whitmore
Grady dick
Jordan hawkins
Would give us potentially 2 other shooters to pair with franz and paolo to allow them to iso
While simultaneously adding shooters to thr bench that would help fultz when coming off thr bench to have shooters on the wings to pass out to on his cuts to the basket
What are ur thoughts
I know u dont see the magic making moves but wouldnt u agree that the senerio i mentioned wohld not only solve the need for shooting but give thr players a true championshop type calibur player to learn from.in thr most crucial time of their development
Why allow them to learn from their own mistakes when we fan bring in a player to help expidite thaf process with his experience as a floor general
Markelle Fultz is one of my favorite players on the Magic, Meeting Fultz years ago was one of the greatest moments of my life, he was really cool. We are over .500 with Fultz but worse without him.