Why did the Magic buy out Davis?

[kobeunderbite]

Nothing more pathetic than openly tanking and giving up your best players for nothing. Shameful.

[Havlicekstealsit]

Youth movement. They fully expect playing the younger guys who haven't won shit, then drafting younger guys who haven't won shit, will somehow equal championships.

[kobeunderbite]

Havlicek, aka playing their worse players and losing intentionally, which is pathetic.

[elartman1973]

Big baby wasnt in the teams future plans..dropping him allows tobias harris...kyle oquinn and andrew nicholson more playing time and development time...
Dropping big baby also makes the roster entirely a roster hand selefted by the gm rob hennigan and wipes away every move that otis smith made..whole new team now..
Lol at kobeunderbite vastly overrating big baby.
Classic

[kobeunderbite]

Dropping him hurts the depth chart and gets worse players more minutes... got it.

[Havlicekstealsit]

Big baby wasnt in the teams future plans..dropping him allows tobias harris...kyle oquinn and andrew nicholson more playing time and development time...
Dropping big baby also makes the roster entirely a roster hand selefted by the gm rob hennigan and wipes away every move that otis smith made..whole new team now..
Lol at kobeunderbite vastly overrating big baby.
Classic

The Magic will dangle Tobias as trade bait these next two years.

[kobeunderbite]

Tanking is disgusting and classless.

[elartman1973]

Big baby wasnt in the teams future plans..dropping him allows tobias harris...kyle oquinn and andrew nicholson more playing time and development time...
Dropping big baby also makes the roster entirely a roster hand selefted by the gm rob hennigan and wipes away every move that otis smith made..whole new team now..
Lol at kobeunderbite vastly overrating big baby.
Classic

The Magic will dangle Tobias as trade bait these next two years.

Lol..no they wont..he is part of the core..we traded for him last year for a reason
Lol at all these fools thinking they know what the magic have planned

[elartman1973]

Tanking is disgusting and classless.

So the lakers and you are disgusting and classless?

[elartman1973]

Underbite doesnt understand the cncept and value of developing player..
He doesnt u derstand that dropping big baby was an all.around upgrade better done nownthan later.
Kobeunderbite doesnt understand anything at all when talking about magic basketball and especially mahic fans pssyche...doosh

[elmouse03]

According the Magic fans on here it's all part of their plan for tanking.

[kobeunderbite]

Tanking is disgusting and classless.

So the lakers and you are disgusting and classless?

Lakers are trying to lose but kept Gasol on an expiring contract?

You really are an embarrassment.

[kobeunderbite]

We're developing our young talent. We have won 6 of our last 7 at home; how do you explain that if you think our players are playing to lose? Playing Big Baby took away valuable minutes from Harris, Nicholson, and OQuinn and it would have been unfair to a guy like Baby to make him rot on the bench.

Right, losing Davis doesn't hurt the team in any way.

[kobeunderbite]

We're developing our young talent. We have won 6 of our last 7 at home; how do you explain that if you think our players are playing to lose? Playing Big Baby took away valuable minutes from Harris, Nicholson, and OQuinn and it would have been unfair to a guy like Baby to make him rot on the bench.

Right, losing Davis doesn't hurt the team in any way.

It helps the team long term because these young guys need as much experience as they can get. Big Baby isn't really a huge difference maker; nobody wanted him on his current contract.

Are you really pretending that the 30 minutes a game Davis' would have played that will now be dispersed among 3 players is going to make a difference in their development?

It makes some sense now, the struggles that the Magic have had.

[elartman1973]

Tanking is disgusting and classless.

So the lakers and you are disgusting and classless?

Lakers are trying to lose but kept Gasol on an expiring contract?

You really are an embarrassment.

So they are tanking ...dipshit
At least the magic dont need to cling on to a guy for an expiring contract...magicnowned thenhellmoutnof the lakers in the dwight trade which still has the lakers shook

[elartman1973]

We're developing our young talent. We have won 6 of our last 7 at home; how do you explain that if you think our players are playing to lose? Playing Big Baby took away valuable minutes from Harris, Nicholson, and OQuinn and it would have been unfair to a guy like Baby to make him rot on the bench.

Right, losing Davis doesn't hurt the team in any way.

Not really..what did he do so great? he was like the fifth best player on the team and the other players are getting better as he gets worse
Tobias is already the better player ..your magic basketball IQ is horrendous

[kobeunderbite]

We're developing our young talent. We have won 6 of our last 7 at home; how do you explain that if you think our players are playing to lose? Playing Big Baby took away valuable minutes from Harris, Nicholson, and OQuinn and it would have been unfair to a guy like Baby to make him rot on the bench.

Right, losing Davis doesn't hurt the team in any way.

Not really..what did he do so great? he was like the fifth best player on the team and the other players are getting better as he gets worse
Tobias is already the better player ..your magic basketball IQ is horrendous

You're right.

So they released the fifth best player on the time, by your own admission, but that doesn't hurt the team.

Very smart.

[kobeunderbite]

So the lakers and you are disgusting and classless?

Lakers are trying to lose but kept Gasol on an expiring contract?

You really are an embarrassment.

So they are tanking ...dipshit
At least the magic dont need to cling on to a guy for an expiring contract...magicnowned thenhellmoutnof the lakers in the dwight trade which still has the lakers shook

They are tanking by keeping their best player. Good call.

[kobeunderbite]

It helps the team long term because these young guys need as much experience as they can get. Big Baby isn't really a huge difference maker; nobody wanted him on his current contract.

Are you really pretending that the 30 minutes a game Davis' would have played that will now be dispersed among 3 players is going to make a difference in their development?

It makes some sense now, the struggles that the Magic have had.

It will absolutely make a difference. Also consider this trade will most likely put Dipo in the starting lineup on a more permanent basis(Our old typical starting lineup was Jameer-Afflalo-Harris-Baby-Vuc, the one we used against the Knicks was Jameer-Dipo-Afflalo-Harris-Vuc). Dipo seems to play at his best when he plays big minutes(everything that was said about his motor pre-draft is true, he didn't even look remotely tired playing most of the second half and both OTs for a team high 49 minutes).

Davis doesn't prevent Olapido from getting big minutes. No reason he can't start with Davis on the team. And it won't make any difference.

[kobeunderbite]

It will absolutely make a difference. Also consider this trade will most likely put Dipo in the starting lineup on a more permanent basis(Our old typical starting lineup was Jameer-Afflalo-Harris-Baby-Vuc, the one we used against the Knicks was Jameer-Dipo-Afflalo-Harris-Vuc). Dipo seems to play at his best when he plays big minutes(everything that was said about his motor pre-draft is true, he didn't even look remotely tired playing most of the second half and both OTs for a team high 49 minutes).

Davis doesn't prevent Olapido from getting big minutes. No reason he can't start with Davis on the team. And it won't make any difference.

How do we keep Harris in the starting lineup in that scenario? Playing Baby took a collective 30 MPG away from our other players that need as much experience as they can get. I don't see why you don't seem to get that. It's not like Baby would put us over the top. With all the young guys on our team we're a lottery team regardless; why make Baby suffer on a rebuilding squad?(he wanted to be bought out according to everything I've heard. He's a team player and would have continued to play hard for us, but he wanted to play for a contender). We tried to trade him, but we couldn't get a decent deal.

What do you mean? Just bring one of the veterans off the bench or go small. Seems pretty simple.

No one suggested he would put them over the top, but he makes them a better team.

It was a move that made the team worse with 0 tangible benefit, only fairy tale benefit. It was a classless, tank move.