clarkn1237

I saw the SVG interview, I thought that it was also interesting that JVG told SVG to stop texting him so much that he had a job to do. Was also shocked about the C Paul comment.

$20 to park is a joke, its not like I'm gonna have my car parked there for more than 3 hrs. This is Orlando not LA, NY, or Chicago. Hopefully there still will be people around the arena who let you park in there yard for $10.

This is freaking pathetic!! Why did we even bother getting on the plane? What a waste Magic, I know the series was all but over after a collapse in the first two home games. But what the hell? No emotion what-so-ever!!! We all on these boards bleed Blue & White and it kills us to watch this, so why aren't the players feeling the same way? I can't believe SVG let his players not show up like this. And I'm not giving Boston an ounce of credit because of there so called "stiffling defense", we're just flat out not showing any hustle!! Wheres Barnes our enforcer? Where's the swagger we had after the second round? Pathetic Magic!!! And please can someone tel JVG to shut the hell up, its like if he says any thing good about his bro he's considered a Magic homer. I thought I was upset at thi team after last years Finals agaisnt LA, but this series takes the cake. Never have I ever been so ticked off w/ this team like I am now.

If the 2nd half is called this bad we're gonna lose. Seriously how many over the back calls on The C's are the refs gona miss?!?! And when is Boston ever going to get called for tech!! These guys yell it from the top of the mountain and they don't get jack!! This is the season guys lets go!!!

I'm giving the C's little to no credit after this win. They came out with a lot of emotion which was what I was expecting after there win over LeBron. But we flat out missed shots, they weren't all over us with a hand in our face the whole game, we just flat out played sloppy for 3 qtrs. Everyone was so high on Rondo before the game, we shut him down, Nelson outplayed him. KG didn't do squat. This was the first time seeing both Allen and Pierce put together solid games together. Carter played better than expected. We came out flat it seemed not a lot of energy in the first half. It stincks we lost homecourt right away after game 1, but Boston is a lousy home team so I'm sure we can get it back. Yes I'm a little disapointed like most Magic fans after this game, but I'm not overly concerned. I'm confident that we'll be back at full strength for game 2. LETS GO MAGIC WE'VE COME TOO FAR TO LET THIS THING SLIP AWAY!!!! LETS BRING IT HOME IN 5!!

Magic in 5. After watching the Celts/Cavs series its obvious Boston offense isn't that great. Allen and Pierce seem to show up for maybe 1 or 2 games a series, and there both not on at the same time. Garnett seems to be hit or miss, either he shows up and brings his A game or he struggles badly. And Rondo is all over the place, but he stil has NO outside shot, and he hasn't had to deal with Dwight yet at teh basket. There bench isn't anything to worry about, the only guy i would have been scared to see is House and he's not there anymore. Our team has 4 quality scorer's in our starting 5 and you know at least 3 outta the 4 are going to put up close to 20 or more night in and night out. Also Doc was saying after the game last night how this team is drained from a tough series against LeBron. I see a rout by us in game 1 cause there tired. game 2 will be a little closer but Magic pull it out in the 4th. I'll give Boston game 3 cause there back at home. Then we come back and dominate game 4, and close it out at home in game 5. I see us getting 2 wins by 15 or more, 2 games we'll win by prob 6-10 points. Boston's only win will be by prob 10 or more and the media will fall in love with them all over again, then we'll come back and crush em in games 4 & 5 to take the series. GO MAGIC!!!

We're in a no win situation going into this game. If we win and the Cavs rest Lebron and company, than everyone in the media will use that as an excuse. Then if we lose and Lebron sits, that makes us look that much worse in the eye's of the media. With all that being said I hope we blow em' out of the water and send a staement that "WE'RE THE DEFENDING CONFERENCE CHAMPS!!", and that the Road to the Finals still goes through Orlando and NOT Cleveland!!

Thank you Jameer for talking some smack after a big win. What's wrong with ya'll who don't like it? This is the problem w/ this team and why we don't get any respect and we're always labeled soft, cause no one EVER says something like this to ruffle the other teams feathers. I am so sick (like every other Magic fan) of the media's love fest for the Cavs (Lebron) and the Lakers. We made a statement on Sun and we need to do it again come April. Keep talking Jameer, I know Barnes has got your back, and that's what we need some ATTITUDE come playoff time.

PATHETIC!!! Seriously, how on earth do we lose this game? Especially after a terrible effort in Chicago a couple of nights ago. This team has some issues that we need to fix quickly, or else we'll be looking at a 3 seed instead of the top spot in the east. And I don't want to here from people on this board say things like It's just 1 game out of 82, we'll get em tomorrow night!", or "This team just needs time to jell, wait till the 2nd half of the season". Wake up people!!! This team has issues right now, Dwight is playing like an average center, explain to me how the Defensive player of the year gets out played by some guy named Hibert on the Pacers?!?!? And I really don't think this team cares right now, how can Vince and Jameer be laughing it up on the sidelines when we're down by 10 to the freaking Pacers, who just lost 9 out 10 games and are coming off a blow out loss to the Knicks!!! It's losses like this that give us ZERO respect around the NBA and the national media. Thanks Magic for not giving a flip tonight, lets not show up again tomorrow night at home against the all mighty Raptors!!! ARRRGGGHHH!!!

Thanx J-Will, Dwight, VC & everyone else on the Magic who clanked a free-throw tonight. Why is it that every year this team sux at the foul line? Seriously I've been a fan since day one and I've never felt comfortable with the game on the line when we have a 80%+ foul shooter at the stripe (thanx Nick Anderson for cursing this franchise).!! Otis please get us a quality back up pg for J-Will, he prob missed those foul shots cause he was tired, the guy didn't take a break in the 2nd half. Now tomorrow night we'll prob get blown out of the building cause we're gonna be tired and let down after this tough loss. J-Will will prob have his worse game cause he's gonna try and be Superman to make up for his missed foul shots, same goes with VC, he'll have another 29+ shot attempt night to try to make up for this loss, and Dwight will prob be in foul trouble the whole night cause he's going to be too aggressive on the defensive boards. Losses like this are always frustrating especially when we had this game in cruise control with about 7 min left in the game. ARRRGGGGG!!!! Thanx Magic for starting my Holiday wknd off like this. There I'm done venting about the loss, feel free to bash this post cause I know a lot of you want to. So ya'll have a good Thanksgiving and I'm out.......peace!!!

Good win by us, but it shouldn't have been this close, and I'm not talking about the turnovers. SVG I thought did a lousy job of coaching the team tonight, ENOUGH OF AJ!!! This guy is a momentum killer BIG time, this reminds me so much of last year when Nelson went out, AJ has a great 1st game than sux after that. Why on earth was he playing so much 2nite SVG, when clearly he was killing us. I know J Will can't handle 40 mins a game, but I would have just let VC run the point and play JJ beside him for a few min. And why was Dwight and Shard sitting out for like the first 7mins of the 2nd Qtr? We're not playing a back-to-back, let these guys play, especially in a big game like tonight's. Hey I'm happy we won, but I question SVG's playing of the bench. and PLEASE OTIS GET US A NEW BACKUP PG ASAP!!!!

Man we played horrible tonight, I know we we're coming off a back-2-back and we are still not at full strength, so we all have to take that into consideration. But we showed NO INTENSITY out there tonight, for Dwight to be all business like before the game I thought we we're going to see playoff like intensity out there and I saw NONE of that from the Magic, sad. To me it seems like if we're not making the 3 ball we quit playing and say "oh well we tried". Come on WAKE UP MAGIC!!!! I'm just as frustrated as everyone else about this embarrassing loss on national TV, but I also know that the Cavs are on 4 days rest and are at full strength. And the fact that Dwight was in early foul trouble didn't help either. It's still early in the season but I would have liked for the Magic to act if it we're the last game of the season intensity wise. It was nice to see the Magic go straight to the locker room after the buzzer instead of staying around and shaking hands w/ the Cavs, but it ticked me off a little bit with Vince laughing it up with Moe "I'm so full of myself" Wiliams towards the end of the 4th, come on Vince put him on his back, lay him out we all hate Moe and Comp here in O-Town we don't want to make friends with these guys!

quote: Originally posted by Drunk on Mystery:At this point, Gortat is probably a legitimate top 20 center in the NBA. That says more about how bad the center position is right now than it does about him, but it means that the Magic have a top 20 center signed for the league average. Samuel Dalembert makes double that, and Gortat took his lunch money him in a playoff game that was Gortat's 6th start ever. In terms of basketball talent, this was a GREAT signing. Come on dude, seriously? I like Gortat but saying he's one of the 20 best centers in the league isn't saying much. I would much rather have had a proven vet like Mcdysse or Sheed on this team rather than Gortat for the money. Heck I wouldn't have minded us losing Gortat if it would have gotten us ZaZa, to me there about the same, cept ZaZa might have an edge in toughness. Bottom line is I think Gortat might be fools gold, and I'm either going to be dead wrong (which I hope I am) or I'm dead right, and if that's the case we're stuck with Ike Austin version 2.0

quote: Originally posted by Drunk on Mystery: quote: Originally posted by clarkn1237:I know everyone seems to be pumped about maybe getting Battier for Gortat, but why not try to get Bosh? I'm no cap expert but just looking at the salaries roughly I think that we could make it work. We all know that Bosh is going to opt out after this coming season and the odds are pretty good that he's not going back to the Raps, so I think they would be very interested in getting Gortat and teaming him up with Turk and Bargnani. So Bosh makes around $15 mil, I know that Gortat's salary is only worth about $3 mill in a trade right now cause of it being his first yr in a new contract, or something like that. So you take that $3 mil, plus the cash we got in the Turk deal that brings us in around $10, so then we throw in maybe Pietrus to make it work. So you give up Gortat, Pietrus and the trade exemption for Bosh, correct me if I'm off with the numbers. But man what a lineup of Nelson, Carter, Lewis, Bosh and Dwight. And if we pick up Barnes as a FA we really don't lose anything in Pietrus cause there almost the same player. Any takers on this trade? You can't combine a TE with a player salary to take on a larger salary. So no, there will be no takers on that trade. **** it, I knew it was too good to be true, so if that's the case, I'm kind of bummed/ticked that we resigned Gortat, I thought that we could land a TOP-NOTCH SUPERSTAR (and Battier isn't one of them) for Gortat + the TE but if we can't use the 2 together, I don't see us getting anything remotely close to being worth that kind of cash. Right when I think Otis does something good. So it looks like the Gortat signing will match the Lewis signing in one of the most OVERPAID contracts in the league.

I know everyone seems to be pumped about maybe getting Battier for Gortat, but why not try to get Bosh? I'm no cap expert but just looking at the salaries roughly I think that we could make it work. We all know that Bosh is going to opt out after this coming season and the odds are pretty good that he's not going back to the Raps, so I think they would be very interested in getting Gortat and teaming him up with Turk and Bargnani. So Bosh makes around $15 mil, I know that Gortat's salary is only worth about $3 mill in a trade right now cause of it being his first yr in a new contract, or something like that. So you take that $3 mil, plus the cash we got in the Turk deal that brings us in around $10, so then we throw in maybe Pietrus to make it work. So you give up Gortat, Pietrus and the trade exemption for Bosh, correct me if I'm off with the numbers. But man what a lineup of Nelson, Carter, Lewis, Bosh and Dwight. And if we pick up Barnes as a FA we really don't lose anything in Pietrus cause there almost the same player. Any takers on this trade?