It’s annoying Yak getting such a disproportionate amount of hate, he’s had a bit of a rough patch but I don’t think he was even that bad tonight relative to the rest of the team.
Consider that we have to watch:
Gary getting swatted driving into 7 footers at the rim and chucking up contested middy’s 5 seconds into the shot clock.
Precious playing with oven mitts and severe CTE preventing him from making any sensible decisions on the court in his 4th year
6/8 games going down 16 or more
Darko sending out Otto for garbage minutes while giving the world’s longest leash to the previously mentioned players
I get being upset with the front office for putting this sad sad sad product on the court but at this point it feels like people are just crying about yak because it’s an easy way to shit on masai for making that deal.
The entire team deserves heat, not just Yak. Scottie played terrible, OG played terrible, Pascal wasn’t good, Poeltl wasn’t good, Gary was bad. No one gave any effort or hustle all game.
We can complain about shooting and roster construction all we want, but the team simply got beat by effort. The Magic aren’t a good shooting team, they don’t have a great offence, yet they were energetic and running and active on defence.
This one was 100% on the players, not the FO.