Air Gordon

Now there's a witty response... No need to panic after back to back losses. The Thunder couldn't miss last night. On top of that Oklahoma City is one of the toughest crowds to play against in the NBA, and they still needed a desperation heave by Jeff Green to beat us. It didn't help that Russell Westbrook ran circles around our guards either, but give me the Magic in any series come playoff time. What we're seeing out of Dwight is truly special right now

Dwight played all 82 games his first 4 seasons. His 5th season he missed 3 games, last year he played every game again and so far this year he's missed 2 games. Also in Dwight's playoff career out of a possible 52 games, he's appeared in 51 of them. So out of 583 possible games, Dwight's played in 577. The 3 he missed in 08 - 09 I don't remember why exactly. I remember him missing back to back midseason and I think he sat out the last game of the year to rest for the playoffs. This year he missed 2 games due to the stomach virus. The playoff game he missed was due to suspension for elbowing Dalembert. So all in all, we have a very durable big man. *knock on wood*

I love J-Rich as much as the next Magic fan, but is it really necessary to have an "official so and so appreciation thread" after every decent game a "so and so" may play? J-Rich made the game a little less painful last night, true, and he played great and I'm excited to have a new cold blooded assassin on the team, but I could just as happily post that in the, uh, ya know, game thread.. Not like it matters anyway, he's on his way to Charlotte for Boris Diaw, right? :)

HERPES!

Jameer's not going anywhere.. It would absolutely obliterate team chemistry to ship off Nelson.. Lewis and Carter were expendable because neither were in the role of leader on this team, Jameer and Dwight both are and have been for awhile now and it baffles me that people can't see that..

Rasheed Wallace back when the Pistons owned us was the best at defending Dwight.. Perkins is the best active at it in the league by far, assuming he comes back from his ACL smoothly.. What we really need from Dwight, because he does get foul calls eventually against Boston (though it takes a bunch of punishment), is for him to not let the Celtics and refs in his head and step up and knock down free throws. Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like Dwight's free throw percentage against Boston is abysmal, even for him

I remember Al Horford saying that we're the same exact team with different players when the Hawks beat us the first game we played with the new guys.. god, I hate Al Horford...

Oh Jaime Pressley.. I love her.. Which ever Poison Ivy she was in is my favorite movie of all time

this thread is silly.. who cares who said what about who.. we're one win away from being on the franchise record win streak and we're a serious threat whether people want to acknowledge it or not... can't we all just get along?

I'd argue with the Butler injury in Dallas that we have the best division in the league.. All that I can be certain of is the Central and Pacific divisions are terrible

In 08 - 09 when we made the Finals Gortat appeared in 24 games, averaging 3.3 points and 3.2 boards in 11 minutes. In 09 - 10 he averaged 3.0 points and 4.4 boards in 15 minutes. Moral of the story? We'd be foolish to blow up the good thing that we have going by going an acquiring some guy who will give us maybe 10 minutes every playoff game to back up the best big man in the league. Sign a free agent or trade Duhon and Q for whatever steal you can. Nobody in the 8 man rotation should be dealt unless someone gets hurt and I think Otis knows this.

Bogut makes Dwight look like Rick Barry at the free throw line

I'm aware of that, and I'm pretty sure by seasons end Boston and Miami will probably both have higher rankings than us going in to the postseason, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna watch. My comment was more about people reading something that Hollinger says and automatically thinking that it's truth. Don't get me wrong, the guy is definitely right more than he is wrong and he's one of the few ESPN analysts I care abouts opinion, but that doesn't mean just because he says something it's true.

I wasn't aware that Hollinger was allowed to be wrong. So many people on this board take his word as gospel. I mean the Hollinger power rankings don't have us in the Finals, so better luck next year, right?

Griffin wins.. and it won't even be close

i used to be really in to nostalgia

Why does everyone think Varejao would be such a great fit? I mean, maybe he would, but watching him play just irritates the hell out of me.. I hate floppers and wouldn't enjoy the most notorious flopper in the league being here..

I agree that Sheed would be nice to have, if he was okay with getting limited minutes. His low post D and his ability to stretch the floor would definitely be beneficial, that is if he still has any game left. He didn't play well for Boston last year until the Eastern Conference Finals against us, and even then he had one or two abismal games. I'm all for giving it a try if he's in, which he probably isn't or we'd have him by now. If we make a deal, I'd like to see Jeff Foster here. Whoever brought up Bonner must be on something delicious, San Antonio isn't making any deal for anybody and definitely not trading the guy who is far and away shooting the best 3 point ball in the league, especially for the package we'd be willing to offer for him.

I'm gonna go with Hedo, just cause of the +30 he put up on Christmas. I wouldn't be surprised if it was JJ though

haha.. Dwight yelling Earl is the man! at the beginning of the video is awesome.. Earl's got kind of a T-Mac look to em.. Big Sleep 2.0

Jameer - Gil - Hedo - Clark - Anderson I think it should be fairly obvious after tonight.. haha but for real, this team has too much depth and has too many talented players to have a set 4th quarter line up for every team and every game