<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Orlando, FL - The Orlando Magic will open the 2005-06 preseason at Atlanta on Tuesday, October 11. Orlando's first home preseason outing will be against Maccabi Tel Aviv, back-to-back champions of the Euroleague, on Wednesday, October 19. The Magic will play a total of eight preseason games, including three at the TD Waterhouse Centre (Oct. 22 vs. Atlanta, Oct. 27 vs. Miami at home). They will also take on the New Orleans Hornets at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa on Saturday, October 15. Date Opponent (Home games in ALL CAPS) Time (ET) 10/11/05 @ Atlanta 7:00 pm 10/12/05 @ Houston 8:30 pm 10/15/05 New Orleans (Tampa, FL) 7:00 pm 10/18/05 @ Miami 7:30 pm 10/19/05 MACCABI TEL AVIV 7:30 pm 10/22/05 ATLANTA 7:00 pm 10/24/05 @ Memphis 8:00 pm 10/27/05 MIAMI 7:30 pm All preseason games can be heard on the Magic Radio Network throughout the state of Florida and in Orlando on the Magic's flagship station, Newstalk AM 580 WDBO. Every game will also be broadcast in Spanish on AM 1030 WONQ (Salsa 1030). Orlando's preseason television schedule will be announced later this month. Preseason tickets go on sale to the general public August 12th at 10:00 am. The Magic's regular season schedule will be released August 8th, with regular season tickets scheduled to go on sale to the general public September 30th. </div> Source I'm looking forward to the two Miami games because I want to see how we handle Shaq and Wade and the game against Houston because of McGrady obviously.
Tmac won't play more than 15-20 mins more than likely, same with Wade and Shaq in the first meeting. The 2nd meeting between the Magic and Heat we will start using the normal players more and it will be a much better deciding point. It will be interesting how we stack up against the Euroleague champs. I kinda wish that was Vazquez's team so that we will be more inspired to kick their ass.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting GatorsowntheSEC:</div><div class="quote_post">Tmac won't play more than 15-20 mins more than likely, same with Wade and Shaq in the first meeting.</div> Why do you say that? I'm not disagreeing or anything, just curious why you think that. That'd be cool if I could make it to the Magic - Heat game in Orlando, i'm curious to see how our starting lineup will be.
I remember last preseason we also played twice against Miami and Shaq played only in the latter of the two game. Same with Houston, we played them in the preseason and T-Mac came but didn't play.
There are still people trying to make the roster and we don't want to risk any huge injuries that could cost us the season. Normally about the 6th or 7th game is when you start to see the starters get more time.
