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Johnson is such a
It's Otis Smith's fault
Hedo, Lee and Alston? yes yes yes
VC and Barnes? NO
Magic is either an idiot, or is pissed at Orlando because Boston will get tons of rest before ting on his Lakers
down 0-2 you have to come out with energy and with everything you got
the message was not made or turned out
and he ripped the magic for getting rid of hedo
Johnson is such a
It's Otis Smith's fault
Hedo, Lee and Alston? yes yes yes
VC and Barnes? NO
Magic is either an idiot, or is pissed at Orlando because Boston will get tons of rest before ting on his Lakers
It was a dumbass gamble to get rid of players from your Finals starting lineup.
Hedo's contract is bad but so is VC's. VC only has 5 assists for the series...Game 7 last year, Hedo had 25 pts/12 assists. He moved the bal welll; Hedo's not an all star but he was a damn good fit for them. Hedo was also a better closer.
Now we see why Orlando wanted to get Sheed or McDyess as well since Lewis is a horrible match up against Boston and probably LA too. Can you imagine if you had a frontcourt of Jamison and Lewis?
Last edited by Cane; 05-22-2010 at 11:51 PM.
Johnson is a dumbass, but I think he's right. This was a loaded squad and they rolled over and died, not like the suns who are flat out over matched. Orlando should've been the team coming out of the east this year.
Just goes to show you how lame the Leastern conference was last year - and this year too.
Western conference ain't that much better.
Celtics and Lakers are the only teams capable of playing something that resembles real basketball, so they're going to meet in the finals.
The Magic ain't that tough of a nut to crack: Just 3 point gimmickery and a low-skilled post player.
Jesus Christ, what are these re s going to say when LeBron James or Howard lead a team to the le? Because sooner or later it's going to happen. LOL at the concept that unless you win you aren't a contender and you can't win. For how long have these knownothings been following the NBA?
Somebody sent 'em the codes for the video game.
I don't think last year's Magic team gets past Boston this year either. Now, they might put up a better challenge because I do think Hedo's playmaking ability at least gave the offense a little more diversity. But I also don't blame the Magic for not giving Hedo the ridiculous contract he got with Toronto. Think Toronto is happy about that contract?
To me, Orlando is a good team in today's NBA but obviously not as good as some made them out to be. When your offense is all three point shooting and then dumping it down to a guy in the post with extremely limited post skills who is not even a good passer, then I think it's going to be tough when you face good teams that play good defense. Orlando doesn't get past Boston last year if Boston had a relatively healthy KG. And this year when they went on that "amazing" last 30 games and finished Charlotte and Atlanta easily and had guys like Hollinger drooling all over himself, they simply didn't take into account that they weren't playing very good teams who could defend them.
Dwight Howard doesn't really look the part of franchise superstar. Not at all. It's too bad, but it is true. The NBA is really lacking quality centers today. The two best centers in the league are probably guys that insist they are power forwards... Pau and Duncan.
Why the are Turkoglu and Lee so much better than VC? They would have lost to Boston last year if Boston was healthy just like the Magic are doing right now. They needed 7 games to beat a worn down team that needed 7 games to beat Chicago. Boston would be up 3-0 in this series regardless of whether or not Orlando has VC or Turkoglu.
Srsly, this board is like the all time KING of over-exaggeration.
Dwight Howard was widely regarded as the best big man in the league, all of a sudden after one game, some states he's not even a top 25 player.
Gimme a break people
^Nice comeback, youngster, after that Bill Russell Fiasco.
Btw this Magic team is an example of how small ball, pick and roll, 3 point basketball doesn't work. Boston is exploiting their lack of size at PF like no other. If Howard's ever gonna win a le he's gonna need a big man playing next to him who plays the tough, physical interior D he doesn't. The problem there is Howard's lack of offensive tools makes it so he needs spacing to be productive.
^Nice comeback, youngster, after that Bill Russell Fiasco.
Contributes a lot more here than you do^Nice comeback, youngster, after that Bill Russell Fiasco.
Outside of gay 1-liners that rival lefty in levels of epic-failness what do you bring?
Your mother's beaver.
& 15 NBA World les, daddy-O.
In fairness to him he contributes a lot more than Lefty. He has his own shtick and when being serious knows a lot about basketball. Lefty just makes terrible jokes.
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Rarely have someone said so much nonsense in so few words.
Neat! When a team wins a le playing 4 perimeter players at once and having no half court offense other than pick and rolls, I'll admit I'm wrong.
DUNCAN is correct here, Mo.
They don't even have a good pick-and-roll in my opinion. When the threat of the rolling man is either "popping" for a jumper instead of rolling towards the basket or a guy they aren't going to pass it to anyway, it's not as tough to defend the play. Orlando's pick-and-rolls are more "pick-to-screen" so I can shoot a jumper. Look at Jameer run a pick-and-roll, and tell me he doesn't want to get that pick and shoot the jumper every single time. It's more "pick-and-pop" or "pick-to-screen-so-I-can-shoot-the-jumper."
Orlando's offense is really "let's play hot potato out on the perimeter until someone feels like chucking a three point shot" sprinkled with a little bit of "dump it down to Dwight so he doesn't feel left out and people think we actually try to post him up."
It'll be interesting to see what they do, but at this point Orlando should know Rashard Lewis at PF does not and will not work. It played a huge role in why they lost to LA last year and is a huge reason why Boston is beating them right now.
What was your Bill Russell comment? I didn't catch it.
But based on the Ben Wallace reference, I'd like to know cuz I have a feeling I have a similar stance on Bill Russell.
I said Bill Russell is overrated as for being able to dominate a bunch of 6'5" honkies and wouldn't be much more than Ben Wallace in today's NBA.
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