avitale8

quote: Originally posted by echo4papa: quote: Originally posted by avitale8: I'd personally just like to thank the Celtics, Lakers, Jerry West, Lebron, Wade, Bosh & Chris Paul for ruining the NBA. Idk about you guys but my favorite team was the Magic team a couple years ago. We had 1 star (Dwight) and 4 other solid *** players (Meer, Lee, Turk, Shard). We were always underrated but we knew we were an elite team. We were a TEAM. Now these fools are making it pretty much impossible to be that, or an old Pistons team or Spurs team. You have to have super squads now. It's pretty disgusting if you ask me. Initially, I felt the same. But then I remembered something. We were on the verge of a similar move years ago, it just didn't pan out. Kind of hard for me to hold it against Miami when we almost had our own super team of T-Mac, Hill, and Duncan. Yea but even if we did it, i still think it sucks. That's why I put Chris Paul on that list. Even if we end up getting him...yea thats great for the Magic, I guess, but it takes the fun out of it. I loved characters on our team like Meer, Turk, Peach, Tat, etc...guys that aren't necessarily supestars but they would rise to the occasion and make us a great team...idk I'm saying I'm not saving blame from us, I just hate the eway the league is becoming now with super squads.

I'd personally just like to thank the Celtics, Lakers, Jerry West, Lebron, Wade, Bosh & Chris Paul for ruining the NBA. Idk about you guys but my favorite team was the Magic team a couple years ago. We had 1 star (Dwight) and 4 other solid *** players (Meer, Lee, Turk, Shard). We were always underrated but we knew we were an elite team. We were a TEAM. Now these fools are making it pretty much impossible to be that, or an old Pistons team or Spurs team. You have to have super squads now. It's pretty disgusting if you ask me.

You can't always go by those numbers. You can't expect his win share numbers to be comparable when you got a team that wins over 50 games and a team that barely wins over 10. I watch the games and although JJ is much improved, and is a good team defender, against quicker guards, even the likes of Ben Gordon, he looks silly. Lee is a much better defender. I think the only thing Redick is better at is ball-movement/passing. You could say shooting, but Lee is very good shooter himself. I also don't get the argument that JJ should start because he has a 20 million dollar contract and Lee doesn't. Umm, if you remember Lee's rookie year he started over Pietrus who had a 20 million dollar contract.

quote: Originally posted by cunningstunt: quote: Originally posted by Nyce_1: quote: Originally posted by Its just zo: The best golfer. Now the best NFL player. Watch out Pujols, Nadal and whoever is the best in the NHL Tiger is a Lakers fan. He just goes to the Magic games cause he lived in Orlando. Now that his wife gets that house, and he's probably moving to Jupiter, expect to see him at HEAT games. so she's going to live in outer space? lawl tiger is from cali like kevin smith, he played for ucf, but he is from miami... tells you what you should think about ucf recruiting that we had a kid like chris johnson in our backyard and he ends up in the same conference at a school which has parallel national exposure if anything. but Kevin Smith > Chris Johnson in college

http://www.orlandosentinel.com...1203,0,6160313.story womp womp

http://www.orlandosentinel.com...1203,0,6160313.story womp womp

His defense, as a whole is pretty bad, (individual and pick&roll) but if he can improve that, his offense is already there, he could be something else.

I think I'd go with... 1. Thunder 2. Portland 3. New York 4. New Jersey 5. Toronto 6. Denver 7. Grizzlies

The thing is though, they put Lebron on Skip last year because Skip can't shoot, so they can afford to leave him open on 3s while Bron helps on D. But I'd love to see them try to matchup Bron on Jameer, and leave Jameer open for 3s all game long.

ugh, maybe its my computer but it plays for like a second then freezes for 3 minutes...

all I know about Almond is dude is was a beast on 2k...like 83 from 3 and lock defender

I'm down.... avitale8@aol.com Thanks

Hall is a garbage football player and JJ is a garbage basketball player

quote: Originally posted by InsideoutO:This boards if by far at its lamest. But its something that comes with success. The past few years this was a board full of diehard Magic fans and since our team has had some success we have alot of fairweather fans who now check this forums when they look at 4chan and their favorite World of Warcraft forums. I know alot of the offseason is usually slow and boring but the IBTL and .gif posts keep useless threads alive that would have died in years past. This used to be my time warp internet sanctuary from all the normal forum BS but with new blood comes new worthless posts.

quote: Originally posted by rtillaree:please don't tell me they are going to have Common banging on the Magic... also, I'm pretty upset that Otis didn't try harder to snag Common instead of Anderson... VC & Commmon, that's too much

I think they should start him regular preseason minutes, and maybe a couple games start the alt. starters. Remember, they still need to see how the lineups will work with him back in the lineup for the rest of the year.

can't believe someone said Ray isn't declining. He is strictly a spot up jump shooter, who relies on off-ball screens (for the most part), he used to be just as effective with the ball as off the ball.

doesn't really affect me, the bandwagoners that is...one of my friends used to talk sooooooo much crap about the magic 2 years ago, The Sonics & the Pistons were his team, then this year he's Mr. Magic lol

no homer but Shard had the best verse lol off topic (Iggy's name was Chief Blocka, so it reminded me of this video) but tell me dude at 3:49 don't look like Otis

Dwight Jameer Vincenzo Shard Peachez Bass Gortat Barnes Anderson Johnson Redick

quote: Originally posted by ThuglifeJ:o btw, Durant sucks at defense and has a better team than Vince did with the Raptors. N Vince was capable of leading his team to the playoffs. But it's ok Durant puts up more PPG. Hes better than Vinsanity. I think you just don't like anybody who rivals Vince, ala PEC with JJ (not sayin you're like PEC lol)...but nobody was talkin about Vince with the Raptors, we're talking about right now, and Oklahoma has noooo depth you're kidding yourself if you think VC's raptors were worse than OKC the past couple years.

Here's the thing... Durant, Green, Harden & Westbrook are untouchables...I can't believe some of you are saying Gortat > Green...anyways. Other than that, I don't really think anyone would be an improvement, unlesss maybe we get a couple players and a pick, maybe backup pg, big (Krstic or Collison). But at this point, we really don't need a pick, I think Gortat would be more vauable to our finals run, and I think the Thunder have a decent shot at making the playoffs this year, or atleast vastly improving their win total, so their pick might not be as good as some of you guys think... lol @ wanting VC over Durant....again

KEVIN DURANTZZ!!!!!1112211!!1 OMGZORZ!

A friend of mine who's from LA, swears that Gabe is the goods. He played ball with him and has played with alot of different NBA players going through the LA school systems (Pruitt, Farmar, Jennings, Derozan, etc... and Rubio even played at his gym). He swears Gabe is better than all the names I mentioned, skill-wise, he tells me Gabe is better than them. lol Idk, for what it's worth, maybe Stan could get his best out of him and really allow Gabe to shine......however, I don't see Boston or Orlando intiating a trade with one another.