The Desmond Bane Trade PROVES The Magic Don’t Get It…

The Desmond Bane Trade PROVES The Magic Don’t Get It…

i’ve been saying for a while now that this was going to be an action-packed off season filled with big moves and trades galore and while I kind of expected that excitement to get underway after the NBA finals were over the floodgates seem to have already opened up as the Orlando Magic and the Memphis Grizzlies just made a deal that shocked the basketball world as you probably guessed in today’s video we will be reviewing everything there is to know about this trade for both teams going through the rationale each side came into the deal with what this means for each group moving forward whether or not the trade makes sense and who benefits the most from it before we start though it turns out a good amount of you watching right now aren’t even subscribed to the channel so if you enjoy the content consider hitting the subscribe button as not only does it help out a ton but it also very much appreciate it now with that being said let’s begin to start things off let’s go over the full details of the trade in this deal the Memphis Grizzlies traded Desmond Bayon to the Orlando Magic in exchange for Contavius Caldwell Pope Cole Anthony four total firstround picks and a firstround pick swap there’s a lot to dive into here so we’ll review things one team at a time and first up let’s look at how the Orlando Magic came away here the Magic are still a pretty young team but their core has been built on the strength of their defense and now that they’ve made the playoffs in back-to-back seasons this was a pivotal off season for them to determine whether they’re serious about taking this group to the next level or not in each of the last two seasons the Magic have been a top three ranked defense with them finishing as the second best defense this season and third best defense last season on that end so by that alone they’re really close to forcing the league to take them serious as title contenders because being able to lock up the league’s best players night to night is obviously a recipe for success what is not a recipe for success though is simultaneously having the worst offense in the playoffs every year that is exactly what the Magic have dealt with in back-to-back seasons ranking 16th out of 16 playoff teams on offense this year and last year that’s probably really hard to believe if it’s the first time you’re hearing that information because when you look at how promising their young stars Paulo Beno and France Vagner are developing on offense you would think they have a good basis for offensive output but in the playoffs those two have way too much of the burden on their shoulders to carry the load and there just isn’t nearly enough of two main things around them the first of which is shooting as you guessed it the Magic were also ranked dead last season in team three-point shooting which brings us to this trade where the goal was pretty obvious to improve the team’s shooting contavius Caldwell Pope was the team’s big free agency signing last summer for this exact purpose but KCP unfortunately lost his shooting touch in Orlando going from being someone who made above 40% of his threes in Denver to just being a 34% shooter from three this season with the Magic desmond Bane meanwhile is not only a much better shooter making 41% of his threes for his career but on a much higher volume of attempts per game than KCP but he’s also been a much better scorer overall having put up 22 points per game two seasons ago 24 points per game last season and 19 points per game this season that’s very good news of course but there’s a reason that contributed to Contavius Caldwell Pope’s percentages dipping this year after being lights out the last two seasons that this trade still fails to address and it’s the second main thing that they’re missing from what I mentioned before being that the team has a severe lack of playmaking from the point guard position in order for a team’s shooters to actually produce in their roles they need to be set up for good looks on a regular basis of course Contavius Caldwell Pope is going to knock down 40% of his threes when Nicola Joic is drawing all of the attention from the defense and finding his shooters for wideopen looks as one of the best passers in the entire NBA the Magic have zero players that are even above average passers and it has crushed their offense consistently they play way too much iso ball expecting Paulo and Fron to create everything and neither are natural passers to begin with with this trade Desmond Bane will likely be thrust into a more prominent ball handling role just like he was when John Morant was out for extended stretches of time in Memphis and even though Bane’s individual numbers went up during those stretches his efficiency took a hit and the Grizzlies offense as a whole plummeted to dead last in the NBA because amongst many reasons Bane is just not a natural playmaker i’ve said it in videos before but the Magic are in desperate need of a point guard if they want to be taken serious about competing for titles because a natural playmaker initiating the offense would make life a whole lot easier not only for Paulo Benero and Fron Vagner as scorers but it would also have made the life of someone like Contavius Caldwell Pope as a shooter easier if the Magic had a little bit more patience and waited to see all of the potentially available players there are on the trade market this summer instead of rushing to open the floodgates getting the first deal of the summer done they may have seen someone like Darius Garland become available with the Cavaliers potentially looking to break up their two small guard backcourt garland’s shiftiness natural court vision and passing talent and his incredible skill as a shooter off the dribble would have given the Magic an element on offense that they have none of right now which is someone who can attack off the dribble collapse the defense and then kick it out to the open man regularly another player with a good chance of becoming available this summer based on reports and rumors is LaMelo Ball of the Charlotte Hornets who is one of the most creative offensive talents in the league bringing a level of playmaking that the Magic should have been salivating over and then of course Trey Young and the Atlanta Hawks have been treading dangerous waters the last few years and if Trey doesn’t sign a contract extension this summer he is yet another incredibly crafty point guard who can single-handedly elevate an offense and the Magic are equipped with elite defenders to overcome his shortcomings on defense too instead they took the lazy way out trading for another shooter without addressing the fact that they have no one to set him up for shots and on top of all of that they probably overpaid for him kcp and Cole Anthony may not turn heads but four firstround picks and a pick swap added on to them in the offer sure made the Grizzlies decision a lot easier bane probably won’t be an all-star in his career and just got traded for an all-star caliber package and while I do think the Magic will improve as a shooting team next season with him it’s mostly because they literally can’t get any worse than dead last like they were this year now over to the Memphis Grizzlies side of things it may not be easy saying goodbye to a player that you developed from being the 30th pick in the draft to being a borderline star in the NBA but the NBA is a business and it’s hard to complain about the return that they just got for Bane after a season where they fizzled out at the end of the season and got swept in the first round of the playoffs as the eight seed the Grizzlies are feeling the pressure to getting back on track towards contention as was made clear when they fired head coach Taylor Jenkins during the regular season and with Jiren Jackson Jr due for a max contract extension this summer they probably didn’t want to have all of their money tied up in their three best players moving off of Desmond Bane’s max contract for two more years of Contavius Caldwell Pope for half the price along with Cole Anthony playing for his next contract off the bench with just one year left on his contract gives the Grizzlies more leeway for the future then when you factor in the four first round picks they just brought in they can now consistently add contributors on costcontrolled rookie contracts year after year as they move forward as well i’m seeing a lot of analysts and media outlets speculate that this trade insinuates that the Grizzlies are starting to blow things up and that they may explore trading both Jarant and Jiren Jackson Jr too but I just could not disagree more with that they’re going to give new head coach to Isalo a full season in charge to implement his system and see if they can yield better results than Taylor Jenkins before they blow things up completely and even with this deal being what it is I very much see it as a retooling more than a re-evaluating of everything contavius Caldwell Pope is an NBA champion two-way wing who shouldn’t be written off just because of one down year on a roster with zero playmakers freeing John Morant after his role felt a bit restricted for most of this season is a good way to get the Grizzlies back into the mix at the top the development of players like Scottie Pippen Jr Zack Edy and Jaylen Wells is exciting and the influx of draft picks they just got allows them to make even more moves this summer too all in all I’ll say this i understand the logic behind why the Orlando Magic did this but I just think the logic is flawed and is missing the point regarding their big picture their offense won’t take off until they bring in some playmakers into their backcourt the Grizzlies are taking full advantage of a generous offer sent their way that opens up flexibility and adds depth and overall I like how they came away from this trade a lot more than Orlando and with that being said that’s all I have for you today 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In this video we analyze the trade between the Orlando Magic and the Memphis Grizzlies that featured Desmond Bane getting traded to the Magic!

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