Orlando vs BAWWWWston gameday thread

[Venti Quattro]

Sons, I think the Magic would win this unless VC doesn't turn into half man half effort and jacks up 15000 shots. Dwight Howard has to show up to and at least get 20 attempts in this game.

The BAWWWston are without Paul Pierce, this time with a REAL injury and the odds are stacked against them. However, they play great defense and are never out of games.

My prediction: Orlando by 7.

[Culburn369]

A Xmas ass pounding by Orlando would suit Cubby to a >T<.

[Venti Quattro]

Garnett throws a cheap elbow on Dwight.

Hahaha what a cheapshotting pussy

[LnGrrrR]

Early foul trouble certainly not helping my Cs.

[Venti Quattro]

Orlando settling for too many threes like they always have done in the past.

Has Dwight even touched the ball on offense in this game?

[Allanon]

Ugly game.

[LnGrrrR]

Any game where Scalabrine gets minutes is ugly for
the Celtics lol

[Venti Quattro]

No good offensive flow for both sides. Bad shots here and there. Ugh. I expected a better game than this.

[mogrovejo]

Any game where Scalabrine gets minutes is ugly for
the Celtics lol

He played pretty decent defence on Carter.

Great game from 2 defensive clubs so far.

[Venti Quattro]

Big Baby! LOL

[LnGrrrR]

Uhoh... Big Baby is in! :lol

[LnGrrrR]

Rondo stole Pierces jump into the defender move there :lol

[mogrovejo]

Rondo trying to pull a Kobe 3 point play.

[LnGrrrR]

WTF is DHo retarded? lol

"Ha.... ppy.... Hol.... Uh... Daysssssss"

that mofo sounded like Frankenstein

[Amarelooms]

Horrible basketball...

[Venti Quattro]

Rondo's FT stroke is ugly.

[redzero]

The Magic and Celtics are building a homeless shelter with their bricks.

[LnGrrrR]

That was a bs and one that Rondo got... Rondo barely got touched.

[mogrovejo]

West-based NBA forum -> Great defence = Ugly basketball

[Amarelooms]

Where are Bass and Gortat....lol at the Magic for signing them and then letting em sit the bench...very smart :elephant

[LnGrrrR]

West-based NBA forum -> Great defence = Ugly basketball

:lol

Well, DHo's game has been kinda ugly...

[Amarelooms]

West-based NBA forum -> Great defence = Ugly basketball

This is shit basketball and if you think you can win it all playing like this you are sadly mistaken :elephant

[Venti Quattro]

LOL Redick

[LnGrrrR]

Helluva block there.

[redzero]

lol no post moves Dwight

[mogrovejo]

This is shit basketball and if you think you can win it all playing like this you are sadly mistaken :elephant

Yes, it makes sense to hear a Mavs fan explaining what you have to do to win it all.

[Venti Quattro]

Orlando will have 10 brick houses by the end of this game

[resistanze]

Boston's D is just nasty.

[Venti Quattro]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Stan Van Gundy has a request for the NBA: no more games on Christmas.

"I actually feel sorry for people who have nothing to do on Christmas Day other than watch an NBA game," the Orlando Magic coach said.

The Magic were playing Boston on Friday, one of five NBA games on Christmas.

Van Gundy said he understands the high-priced TV contracts generate money for the league and it would be difficult to stop such games. He said he wishes the league at the very least had fewer games on the holidays.

The Magic play games on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day this season.

"I think we get a little carried away with ourselves with sports thinking we're more important than everything else," Van Gundy said before the game. "But that's the way it is. There's nothing more important than the NBA on Christmas Day."

Van Gundy believes the day is best spent with family. He woke up early but managed to spend only about 15 minutes with his wife and four children. They went to church services the day before.

Van Gundy said he hadn't even had a chance to open his family's gifts before the 2:30 p.m. ET tipoff.

The only time he could recall watching a Christmas Day game was when his brother, Jeff, was coaching one of them. Van Gundy also said he doesn't watch NFL games on Thanksgiving.

"Christmas to me, obviously basketball is very important to me, but there are some days of the year where it's got to take a back seat to something," he said.

Celtics coach Doc Rivers wasn't quite as adamant, but he didn't disagree.

Rivers said it's tough for players to be away from family, but he realizes the league is not going to stop playing on the holidays. Rivers lives in the Orlando area and was able to wake up Christmas morning in his own bed.

He said he always watched Christmas Day games growing up because the league features the marquee teams.

"As a kid, you wanted to be on [Christmas]," Rivers said. "Then when you get to the league, you don't want to be on any more. You're like, 'No, I changed my mind.' But it's going to happen, so why try to fight it? I tend to look at it as a reward."

Van Gundy is doing what he can to give his team a break.

He gave the players consecutive days off for the first time this season for the upcoming weekend. The Magic's schedule -- with travel days and all -- hasn't allowed for a break, he said.

"The league has been good to all of us in terms of what we get out of all these TV contracts and everything, so it would be a little disingenuous to complain too much," Van Gundy said. "But if I had my way, we'd take a five-day break at Christmas. I mean it."

His team doesn't disagree with him. It's all evident.

[LnGrrrR]

Oh those poor NBA players. I've missed enough holidays on deployments, so I don't have much sympathy.

Also, my family would watch Christmas bball together. I guess from the looks of it, SVG had to block out a few extra hours for eating.

[mogrovejo]

That foul on Perkins was so fabricated by the refs.

[LnGrrrR]

Yeesh Tony :lol

[jdev82]

fact: jameer nelson is the only magic player with a single assist. he has 3. orlando has three. boston has 7. wow.

[PGDynasty24]

rondo is such a flopper

[LnGrrrR]

rondo is such a flopper

It's not a flop when the foul is going to be called anyways. It's only flopping when it brings a foul that might not have occurred otherwise. That wouldve definitely been a foul, flop or not.

Edit: that's my definition of it anyways.

[LnGrrrR]

Get Santa off the fing screen!

[PGDynasty24]

I bet you heather cox is going to suck Santa slow after the game

[mogrovejo]

rondo is such a flopper

Wow, you mean in that foul by Nelson? A flop? :rollin:rollin

Scared much?

[Pero]

Wow, you mean in that foul by Nelson? A flop? :rollin:rollin

Scared much?

Oh there was a foul alright, but Rondo was lying on the floor like he got shot or something.

[23LeBronJames23]

You call this game of the day?

[PGDynasty24]

Oh there was a foul alright, but Rondo was lying on the floor like he got shot or something.

exactly I never said it wasn't a foul u Bawwwston FagBoy,it was but he made it seem like he just got layed out by Ed Reed or something

[LnGrrrR]

Both these two teams blow cock.

You would know; you've got the most experience on these boards at blowing cock.

[LnGrrrR]

:lobt:

I'm not saying your Lakers didn't win a title... I'm saying you suck a lot of cock :lol :toast

Has Rondo made any FTs?

[LnGrrrR]

Rondo blows better than your sister. Go away and come back 20 years and talk to me when you are relevant again.

Hmm I don't have a sister.. You must have meat YOUR sister.

We're relevant now; no better time to be a Boston sports fan. We've got one or two years until our core ages too much, and I want everything we can get from it.

[mogrovejo]

Man, it's too bad Rondo is a complete scrub when he's not playing along 3 HoFers.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Stan Fat Gundy is retarded. A trade off athletes always make is having to oftentimes play on the Holidays, that's always how it's been. Also, what the fuck is wrong with watching basketball on Christmas? You're sitting around with your family all day and everything is closed, what else is there to do during the day?

[LnGrrrR]

No, I didn't meat my sister, dummy.

Spelling smack? I expect better from you, especialy since I'm typing on a crappy iPhone :lol

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

He's a scrooge that's out of a job at seasons end.


He and Mike Brown are the two most overrated coaches in basketball. They both get credit for how good their teams are statistically, and the only reason for that is cause they run their starters into the ground during the regular season so they can blow crappy teams out by more points.

[LnGrrrR]

Get a better phone, loser, or buy a computer.

I have a computer, moron. It's sadly still in shipping, on it's way over here to Hawaii.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

So far the X-Mas day games have sucked. You are right though.


Yeah I was out hiking for most of this game (I guess according to SVG I'm a loser for going out and getting exercise on Christmas since he obviously doesn't do that), but it hasn't been too fun to watch. But just looking at the box score, why the fuck has every Orlando starter played 30 or more minutes in a December game?

[LnGrrrR]

Let's see what plan Ron Jeremy comes up with on the Magic sideline...

[Muser]

Glad I got back in time for the end of this game, just in time to see KG have a nice fall :lol

[lefty]

Today's NBA sucks

[LnGrrrR]

A three right in your ass.

You know, not everyone is obsessed with putting things in their ass.

[Muser]

Lmao Dwight.

[PGDynasty24]

stop fouling orlando u lost

[lefty]

Orlando could have used Turkoglu and Alston

[LnGrrrR]

Celts lock up another win here... And VC driving for a meaningless two :lol

[lefty]

Have you noticed that over the last 2 seasons, there hasn't been much homecooking between Orlando and Boston ?

[Bob Lanier]

West-based NBA forum -> Great defence = Ugly basketball
:tu

[Venti Quattro]

Wow that was a torture.

[HeyIt'sMe]

Dwight needs to get a jump shot; period, end of story. If he can't, well, then he's always going to struggle against a guy like Perkins because he simply gets pushed out too far to do anything consistently on offense.

[HeyIt'sMe]

Slow down there gimp. How bout getting a basic post move.

His post moves are fine, when he gets position. Dude needs to do what Kobe and Josh Smith have done and go to Hakeem. Either that, or get rid of Patrick Ewing, who flat out sucks as a big man coach. He didn't teach Yao anything, either.

I love Dwight- he's an amazing defensive player and incredible rebounder, but he has games like this offensively sometimes that just irritate the hell out of me.

[Bob Lanier]

His post moves are fine,
What, he has more than the one?

when he gets position.
Maybe what he needs is to spend less time flexing with barbells in front of a mirror and more time working on those toothpick legs and flat ass of his.