Arex Bawrin

Stop making excuses for Vince!!! This guy is going to ruin our team. We need to bench him for someone...anyone. I'm more than ok with Jameer being our closer with Shard as the second option. I can't trust VC anymore and SVG needs to realize this and put him on the bench.

I just want us to play at a high level tonight, that's all. If they still beat us, then atleast we can say we actually gave it our all. Our performance up to this point has been anything but great. Let's Go Magic!!!

F*k you Vince Carter and F*k you refs!!!! I can't even begin to describe how ill I was last night watching VC play. I kept telling myself he wasn't going to choke in the playoffs, but there it is. If we lose this series I hope no one goes to his ****ty restaurant and it closes down. What a disgrace. I was equally sick with the calls from the refs as well. ***! It was so hard for us to get on a good streak because the whistle would blow on some ticky tack b/s and then on the other side of the court they swallow their whistles. What a disgrace.

I've heard them talk about this a few times on The Sports RX w/ The Shot Dr. They say if they switched to 'granny' style a lot of big man would be more successful with their free throw shots. The only problem is their giant ego and them being afraid of being laughed at. Well guess what Dwight, 60% is laughable.

Can we all agree JJ should start for this series? This isn't a knock against Barnes, it's just JJ has a history of playing good D on Ray Ray. He also makes good decisions which is something all of our starters could learn from him. On the plus side: we could've mailed it in in the fourth quarter, but we never gave up. This will be a hard-fought series.

Cmon Jameer you gotta stop with the stupid turnovers...vc too. The 3's will drop...hopefully soon.

SVG never gets any credit for his coaching...what a shame. How bout we're 8-0 in the mutha f*kin playoffs. How's that for coaching? Great thread.

Doesn't bother me, we already got the all-star game:P

I was at Houligans tonight watching this and F*KING LOVING IT! That was a complete game in every essence of the phrase. Too bad the Hawks showed no heart and couldn't even make it respectable. I thought it was the golden rule in the NBA: when you're down by a lot, if you take it to the hole you will get the benefit of the call. Instead they just settled on some low percentage jump shots. If that was the coach's plan he should be fired. But anyways, what a great game! Dwight came out there with a purpose and kept his head on his shoulders enough to stay out of foul trouble. Pietrus surprised me with his play considering he sprained his ankle a short while ago. JJ was money...so was Jameer and VC (second half). Rashard only had 9 but he didn't need to do a lot with everyone else stepping up big time. No criticisms from me tonights....truly a complete game.

quote: Originally posted by GhostAnime:If we had last year's first round, we'd be tired. If we have an easy past, we won't be battle tested. can't win. I think we needed to face that adversity against Philly last year, as it helped us raise our level of play against the Celtics. Then the Celtics helped us raise our level of play to a point where we beat CLE. I'm concerned about our cupcake matchup in the next round, for fear of us not reaching our potential against CLE/BOS.

All I saw that 4th game was Dwight comitting stupid a** fouls and then yelling at Stan after the game. Grow up Dwight, because you're going to lose respect from your fans if you keep acting like a child. I was listening to "The Sports RX w The Shot Dr." today, and a listener called in and said that a lot of Dwight's issues usually are broken down and eliminated at the college level. Maybe Dwight missed a valuable lesson by coming out early.

I don't see what the big deal is. Marc Cuban used to do this all the time before David Stern got fed up and fined him until he started to sit back on the bench. I want to see Matt Barnes get in his face lol.

I still like his form, he just has to keep at it.

If Dwight did that he'd be T'ed up every single time.

Pietrus is playing dumb take him out.