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ChevyLover nails it. Det 104 7 off on the magic. No tie breaker needed.

Millions of Americans sometimes feel like they are second class, they are living their lives with a terrible affliction. This affliction has been known to make people stay at friends house for hours at a time, drool on their relatives couches and sometimes makes a man feel impoverished. This affliction from which millions SUFFER..is High Definition Deficientcy. So if you are one of the millions of people effectd by HDD, what station are you watching on....the local, with the same old announcers, or goin national and watchin it with a top heavy bias national coverage. Im gonna switch between the two I think.... BTW..speaking of top-heavy. If yall are reading this soon...put it on Wheel of Fortune...TOP HEAVY...nice..too bad i don't have HD

for those who are here but may have missed thi edit.. quote: BTW..speaking of top-heavy. If yall are reading this soon...put it on Wheel of Fortune...TOP HEAVY...nice..too bad i don't have HD

Millions of Americans sometimes feel like they are second class, they are living their lives with a terrible affliction. This affliction has been known to make people stay at friends house for hours at a time, drool on their relatives couches and sometimes makes a man feel impoverished. This affliction from which millions SUFFER..is High Definition Deficientcy. So if you are one of the millions of people effectd by HDD, what station are you watching on....the local, with the same old announcers, or goin national and watchin it with a top heavy bias national coverage. Im gonna switch between the two I think.... BTW..speaking of top-heavy. If yall are reading this soon...put it on Wheel of Fortune...TOP HEAVY...nice..too bad i don't have HD

Some of yall missed the tie-breaker, Darko Boards.

quote: Originally posted by MagicmaninMiami: Tough game but I got to pick my team to win or whats the point? quote: Originally posted by richnba: Cant pck against my team. LOL - I hear ya - Im guilty of a bit of bias for my teams as well,If you were listen to me..The Magic win out, sweeping their way to and winning the NBA championship, The BoSox win the rest of the season, again sweeping there way thru the World Series, the Broncos and Bucs go 16-0 apiece, win out thru the playoffs, meet in the superbowl and TIE! and the "noles make a mockery of NCAA football and go undefeated for the national championship! GO MAGIC!

Here are the rules per DarkoHero, who is the Official brain child behind this thread. I just stole it and posted a new one seeing as we havent had one in awhile. Rules: 1. Guess the score of tonight's game. You must correctly guess the winner to win. 2. The person with who has the closest guess determined by points off of each team's score wins. 3. In the event of a tie, we'll have a tie-breaker -- Darko's rebounds (in honor of the games creator) Only one guess per person! My guess: Magic: 95 Pistons: 91 Darkos Reb's: 6 Good luck to all and thanks for playing!

*BUMPED. lets go for a Big chat today, chat yall up around 8

quote: Originally posted by WPMagic:Where is the predict the score thread? That was the brain child of DarkoHero and he hasnt posted one of those in awhile - I liked that game.. Lets giv ehim till 5 and make one ourselves, Ill PM him right now with our intent to Mencia his thread and see whats up.

hmmmm. Good point. If it were Darko in there instead of Battie - I would say we bring Darko out facing the hole looking for some room for a jumper and also up high setting some good screens and drawing his man out with him. Once again its going to come down to how we move the ball and what kinda spacing we can create. If we move guys on the outside, set solid screens and casue alot of switches, both high and low post, we may be able to get some points going towards the hole with the options on the outside moving looking to pop a shot or two - especially if we keep up that 62 percent we shot from the fieled last game..(i know alot of them were dunks, but atleast we created some space and looks thu protecting the ball and knocking down what is given to us.) (this is all if its goin to be sheed and webber taking on our bigs with Teyshawn moving over to guard Hedo)

quote: Originally posted by The Truth:After returning from some kick *** skiing I thought what about this...The NEW head coach of the Orlando Magic...The Truth. Thats some late season action there....my guess it hasta be an East Coast trip? most Western slopes are already closed.... im gonna go with...hmmm......Snowshoe?????

More sources saying that Pistons are starting to shut her down, again, maybe we can catch them shutting her down a bit earlier than we expected. and also, weve had two seperate Pistons fans come through and say that they think, as well, that they may rest up some. but in order for this to be relevant - Lets hope our 2nd team can keep pace with their second team. The keys to the game were posted by Iboned earlier. GO MAGIC. Bench might pick up late workload April 11, 2007 BY KRISTA JAHNKE FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER The Pistons have plenty of reasons to be happy with the way their bench has developed this season. They get scoring from Flip Murray, they get defense and energy from Jason Maxiell and Dale Davis, and they get a little bit of both from Antonio McDyess, Lindsey Hunter and Carlos Delfino. But Rasheed Wallace said he thinks the reserves still have some unfinished business. "This is the time when the bench can come together and contribute," Wallace said, "and make their mark for the playoffs." Wallace said that with the playoffs being so near, he expects that he and the other starters will play fewer minutes. He said he hopes to stay in the 23- to 28-minute range, and coach Flip Saunders seems to agree, having kept Wallace near that realm the last two games. Wallace said he thinks that while the bench is much better this season, it doesn't have a personality yet. "Right now, they can come in and contribute," Wallace said, "but I don't think they have that identity yet." However, in some games, it's the bench unit that first pulls away from an opponent, as in Monday's second quarter, when the reserves broke free from the New York Knicks with a 15-2 run before halftime. The Detroit Free Press Article

And the backlash continues.... Today on the Shannon Burke show, they were discussing the Imus situation and things got to where Soul Brutha Kevin was showed the door by Shannon, and and Soul Brutha Kevin took him up on it - the show went to break and hasnt come back since, they are playing best of now for the past 45 minutes. Well...as Im typing this, they came back... Kevin wont be back today - cooler heads are prevailing - they say they will have some good talks after the show - we'll see where it goes.

quote: Originally posted by ibonedteribell:The keys to keep this game close are low turnover rate, competitive offensive rebounding,good ball sharing and an excellent free throw % from Howard and the rest. We can win. Ya, If we can put these factors together we can play with and even beat any team in the NBA. The problem is we cant seem to get the guys to put all these pieces together, Sure we did against two of the worst recently, but this is going to be different - I hope they have taken what they have learned and are able to apply it when the competition is much better than the previous opponets. - Low TO's - Ball / off the ball Movement - FT's - step up the half cout D

Maybe, just maybe, we can catch a mini-break as the Pistons start to shut her down for the season and rest some guys up. hopefully they start tonight and not after.... If the Magic can jump on them early we could get this "tanking" started earlier than "after tonight" Pistons starters to take a breather Saunders plans to go to exhibition-season format over last few games before playoffs. Joanne C. Gerstner / The Detroit News Magic at Pistons Tip-off: 8 tonight, The Palace, Auburn Hills TV/radio: ESPN, FSN/WDFN 1130 Outlook: The Magic are hanging on to the final playoff spot in the East -- barely. The Pacers are within 1 1/2 games. Pistons coach Flip Saunders isn't the type of guy who likes to look too far ahead. But with the Pistons" magic number to clinch the East at one

quote: Originally posted by Carlitos Way:Is this the same Joker we wasted our draft pick on and decided to go back to Europe and never played a single game here? The one and the same.

As long as we are making premature speculations - I was looking at our second round picks earlier - (again WAAAYYY premature) but they have us listed as maybe getting Carl Landry 6-9 PF from Purdue with the 39th pick that we get from the kings. Dominic James 5-11 PG from Marquette (like we need another undersized PG, even if this guy can jump out of the arena and is faster than a speeding bullet, i dont like it, lets use our guy we already got from marqutte rotting on the bench) and possibly pickin up Daryl Starberries kid from Maryland a 6-5 SG with the 64th pick we get from cleveland. I know, I know -who knows how everthing will stack up and play out - Its way premature - I was just looking at some of the talent projected to be laying around and that is if we dont trade up or bundle some player and rights to get us that first rounder.

BUMPED. the Dude will be joining in around the half - gonna watch the first bit at my buddies with a one that is cold. Be in around half or so.

quote: and its not that Arroyo got his chance and blew it. Actually, It is like that. I dont think he ever fully recovered BHill's trust after the benching. If he did, BHill surely hasnt reacted as if that were the case. He has some decent minutes of late, but thats only in comparisson to his and the other PG's horrendous play of late. CA may have nudged out Dooling for some minutes here and there, but whats weird, is when he has been playing, he hasnt even been running the traditional point - Its Hedo or Dooling being trusted to bring the ball down... I still think it all goes back to BHill and his confusion, not the players, although some have done more than others to make me seem wrong.

quote: Originally posted by Magic31:Has anyone even though of giving Travis Deiner a shot at PG?? What's the worst that could happen? Too late in the season, cant start experiments with 6 to go and only 1 game up on 8th, Most people know how I feel about TD, but realisticly, were lookin at the same old same old, from here on out... Id try to keep TD as queit as possible and out of other minds right now too, it'll keep his offers down..

I think what we are seeing now, is what we will see the rest of the way out - Jammer, Dooling, and Arroyo. JN of course gets the starts and substitutions will most likely be situational or a free weilding roation where the minutes are doled out according to how each is playing. In the offseason, I cant see the Magic Giving in on Nelson just yet, so the PG situation wont change drastically yet..Dooling opts back in and we retain Travis's services for cheap by matching. I think Arroyo and his 4 mil will be traded in a bundle for a pick or thrown together in a bigger deal to get the Scoring threat we need.

quote: Originally posted by emory889:Agreed, the only two realistic free agent pgs out there are Blake and Atkins. I'm not sure why the original poster wanted to exclude his name. He has alot more left in the tank than Armstrong. and its one of those perfect stories gor the Magic - born and raised here, started his NBA career here... this is the kinda homegrown love that this organization loves to play up - I think he makes about 3 mil a yr in MEM.

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quote: Originally posted by ibonedteribell:I always believed our PG's rank about the same except for 3 pt shot range(Jameer in the past), defense(Dooling) and Carlos more creative ball handler but too much ball hogging) therefore we should play him acoording to the games situation and their performance at the time. If any slack off and fail to light up the offense, to the bench he goes. That means anybody in the team. Why stick with one or another because of defense, offense or playmaking potential. Yep - we got three guys who are eligible to play that spot - why not use them situationaly its exactly what should happen, and would have helped to have happen in the past... lets see if Bhill will agree any time soon. I hope.

quote: Originally posted by JOSE R. FERNANDEZ:I agree with you, but one thing is to stick up for your players and other thing is arguing even the most obviuos calls I agree 100 percent - It cant help to have that guy strokin out on the side line the entire game in your peripheral vision if your a ref. I kinda think he doesn't stand up for his guys enuff - he gets all red and looks angry but doent ever even get a word out or talk to the ref's he just vents it towards his players and gets yank-i-tis and sends you to the bench. and i still thinks the guys out there need to act more professionaly if they expect to be treated as such.