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quote: Originally posted by Jareth Cutestory: Me and one of my girlfriends JD and Kirby Reinhold (brother of Judge Reinhold) Frank Caliendo I thought you were 6"7 and 270 lbs of muscle judging from the way you post. Is that your sister next to you? She looks like you.

I'm really down for Howard and playing a physical game. His lack of physical game during the first couple of games was need in order to send a message to body foul shot pierce and floater rondo.

quote: Originally posted by KillingInTheNameOf:Bledsoe isn't a pure point, but he's Kyle Lowry with more length, & a jump shot. He's a lotto talent imo. Avery Bradley is right there as well imo. Player I liked most 4 Magic, Paul George, is flying up draft boards, unfortunate. In other news, Luke Babbitt claims to be a stretch 4/combo forward, clearly the Magic's dream prospect. I think he's delusional, but I do like his game. If Steve Nash were a SF, he would be Luke Babbitt. Drew Bledsoe with the buffalo bills?

Cause its human nature ohh why o whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

quote: Originally posted by GhostAnime:That's because Lewis is just a jumpshooter against KG; he certainly can't post up on him, and he isn't going to run around to shoot off the dribble. That just isn't his game. There is a reason why Doc Rivers has not put the ball in KG's hands very often. I think in these series, Rashard has had the better feet out of the two, better movement. Van Gundy's has yet to make any type of gameplan that has yet to keep the ball in lewis hands. Matter of fact, he has never thought of Lewis as a player that can play closer to the post.

Stan Van Gundy has done a poor job with his gameplan thus far. Dumping the ball to Howard and creating an offense based on him. While this has worked in the past and is nice to stick to a good known gameplan, we can safely say it has been exploited. Howard is not a go to offensive player. I don't need to agree with the poster but it is not hard to agree that Stan Van Gundy has failed to create a gameplan for his team. I will withhold my judgement but this has to change starting today.

I like how you guys get into this trade machine bs too much and eat right of it as it if was an all open buffet. Then it follows by people objecting to the trade machine "creation" with countless of name calling. Tell you what.... Stan Van Gundy for 2 million and retirement. Replace him with a more worthy propect.

you guys make me laugh using those stupid trade machines.

Someone has to be blamed for these loses. The player are just weapons that serve the coaches purposes. This team has enough talent to be winning a lot of these games and at this point it is safe to realize that the players can only go as far as their leaders. In your opinion, and not a biased fan opinion but rather as a student of the game of basketball. Are the coaches the reason why our players are underachieving? Have the players grown tired of Stan Van Gundy? Or are the players simply underachieving?

I wouldn't be surprised if there is tension between the players and Stan Van Gundy. THen gets fired and we replace him with elmayi.

quote: Originally posted by Lewis4thewin:its just a slump. we'll be fine This is the same thing everyone says. I'm sure there are better excuses out there.

quote: Originally posted by bravlady:What's beginning to happen is that I'm reading the same type of posts about Stan that was being posted in the first season he was with the Magic. Also I'm hearing Stan taking responsibility for the poor play from the players the same as he did in the first season. I thought we had moved on from those days. Stan should see it as it is and quit taking blame for the players poor play. Honestly, as long as we get our head together when the playoffs comes this won't matter.

Seems like we can't have an intelligent discussion.

Someone has to be blamed for these loses. The player are just weapons that serve the coaches purposes. This team has enough talent to be winning a lot of these games and at this point it is safe to realize that the players can only go as far as their leaders. In your opinion, and not a biased fan opinion but rather as a student of the game of basketball. Are the coaches the reason why our players are underachieving? Have the players grown tired of Stan Van Gundy? Or are the players simply underachieving?

The problem with this team starts in the coaching department. We have moved away from the philosophies that have earned us as a great contender. Changing your starting 5 all season long shows the lack of fortitute in this team.

quote: Originally posted by davcivic:We have the best record in the East, and second best in the league. I'm not sure how much better we can be. We have been playing injured all year, injuries or suspensions aside, the team is playing and winning as good as they can so early in the season. I know there are things that need to be fixed. But I think that will come with a few more games. About the refs, in the NBA it is usually give and take, meaning you'll get a bad call here, and there, but they also make those bad calls in favor of us sometimes. Not call a foul or travel,etc. I think the refs do need to figure out of to deal with Dwight, he does get too many bad calls against him, but Dwight also needs to learn to go around that stuff and produce one way or the other. I do think the Miami game, at least that last shot, the goal tending, or offensive basket interference, wasn't called. But that doesn't excuse all the missed free throws and bad shots and lack of defense the guys showed. Basketball in the nba is a game of double standards. We don't say anything against bad calls against the opposite team but when it happens to us is the end of the world. The Miami heat was one of the worst defensive games I seen the magic play. I saw a lot of players standing around as if they were watching the game. The magic must have thought that the Heat pick and roll was nothing more than an amusement. Moving forward... I thought the Magic played some hard nosed defense against the Hawks, and they didn't let them get comfortable. The hawks is a team that won't survive against this magic team if we were to hit the playoffs next week.

I think this team put a great defensive effort tonite.

I think this team put a great defensive effort tonite.

Honestly, Rashard was brought out here to get 18-20 points a game 8 rebounds and a few assists. In the other hand, I would be more worried about Dwight Howard standing and watching when the game is on the line.

Vince Carter has always been a great player but you can't change the fact that his defense is just as bad as his cousins.

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quote: Originally posted by God hates Magic fans: quote: Originally posted by ChevyBallinHot:Got ****, here we go again.... Yep, SVG is to blame for all the miss FTs, the missed rebounds, and O'Neal showing up a DPOY. SVG is the reason VC and Pietrus fouled a 3 point shooter.... Also if anyone listened to JVG and Hubie on the situation, they preached it best. yeah lets forget he wasn't playing all 5 reserves at once or anything..... I sure hope that we were watching the same game.

The players became very lazy near the end of the game. That first player was dwight howard as he was doing more standing around and silly fouling than anything. Missing ihs free throws as always. Jason Williams should have made at least 1 of those shots as well near the end but we can't throw the bucket on him for this lost. The magic need to redeem themselves against the Hawks because last night was just a horrible effort defensively for this team. Vince Carters defense is also horrible.

quote: Originally posted by Marc Acres 3:16:Either don't draft any more of these guys from overseas without an angreement or the NBA needs to look at what can be done about this. There is nothing that can be done about this. The draft is nothing but a means to acquire the rights of a player to play in the league and that is it. All general managers know there is a risk involved and they still do it. What do you think the nba could do about this? Send a letter out to warn teams in the dangers of drafting overseas?

Gooden= younger battie