<div align="center"> - <font size=""3"">Orlando Magic @ Golden State Warriors</font></div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Orlando Magic bounced back from their worst losing streak of the season with a perfect four-game homestand. Now they'll get the chance to avenge the defeat that sparked that losing streak and try to halt a different one when they visit the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday. The Magic (21-14) won all four contests during their recent home stretch, including an 87-79 win over the Boston Celtics on Sunday. Orlando already boasts one of the NBA's best defenses, allowing 91.7 points per game, and has been even better during their recent run, giving up an average of 76.8. They've held three of their last four opponents under 35 percent shooting, and limited the Celtics to 31.5 percent. The Magic weren't much better Sunday, hitting a season-low 37.5 percent (27 of 72) and turning the ball over 23 times. "You're going to have games where it's not going to be so pretty," said Magic guard Jameer Nelson, who had six points on 3-of-13 shooting. Prior to their winning streak, things certainly weren't pretty for the Magic as they lost a season-high four in a row, allowing 106 or more points in three of those defeats. The Southeast Division leader gave up its most points of the season in a 117-108 loss to the Warriors on Dec. 22, which kicked off that losing streak. Baron Davis scored a season-high 38 points to lift Golden State to the victory, its third in the last four meetings between these teams. The Magic are hoping for a better performance this time around as they open a four-game road trip and a stretch of six of seven away from home. Twelve of their last 15 games have been at home. Orlando has lost a season-high four straight road games since winning at Sacramento on Dec. 4.</div> Source Damn, I guess I'll be staying up late to watch this one. The Magic have been playing great lately and have now won four games in a row. Since Jameer, Hedo, and Grant came back from injury, things have been clicking again and we are looking like the team that was leading the Eastern Conference at the start of the season. Golden State has been weakened by injuries and I feel we can get the best of them tonight. This is the first game of our four game road trip and the players realize how important it is to win when we're out West. The Warriors are a running team so if we can get back on defense and limit their transition points, we should come out of this one with a win.
We traditionally play horrible in Golden State. They did beat us at home though and we are going to want revenge. Not to mention that we got a couple of days off to rest. So I will surprisingly pick us to win.
Hedo is out because of dehydration? He must have bad diarrhea or vomiting, something like that, because IV electrolytes could take care of it quickly...
I remember i vomited like 15 times in a day (the Magic were playing the pistons and it was X-Mas day, T-mac dropped 47) and I went to the hospital after the game, they gave me IV and I was reborn man! EDIT: free throws are killing us, we could have a double digit lead if we were to hit them (6-14) EDIT: 6 out of 16 EDIT: wow, we really suck this game, im surprised we are not down by more...their turnovers and our offensive rebounds have kept us in it...if we keep this up, it's just a matter of time before they blow the game open
30 points and 25 rebounds for Dwight as the Magic start their road trip off with a big win. Great game by Bogans who came in after Trevor Ariza went down with an injury in the first half. Great game by the Magic and Dwight is a beast!
Magic are now 8-8 on the road(including 5-1 out West) and 10-5 against West teams. Hopefully we can continue this trend the rest of the trip.
Ladies and Gentlemen tell me why he is not the starting center in the all star game??? He is a beast... 30 and 25 is something else.
<div class="quote_poster">smokrockz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Ladies and Gentlemen tell me why he is not the starting center in the all star game??? He is a beast... 30 and 25 is something else.</div> Because the All-Star game is a waste of time and a popularity contest. He will be a reserve though and will finally get some respect. No way an injured, old Shaq deserves to be starting over him though. That really pisses me off. Maybe after this performance, Hill will actually give Dwight the ball more often and let him work his magic down low. When Dwight dominates down low, we win. When Dwight scores, we win. When Dwight scores, all aspects of his game improve. Why not give him the ball? Let's hope Brian Hill wakes up out of his coaching coma after tonight's beastly performance.
<div class="quote_poster">Swish Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"><div align="center"> - <font size=""3"">Orlando Magic @ Golden State Warriors</font></div> </div> Thank god the Undercover Tourists won this one. With our win and the Pistons loss, we are now the 2 seed.
I can see the Magic logo, but you and Carter said the logo was screwed up. Does it say something else for you guys?
Oh, haha, well I fixed it. Anyways, did anyone see Ariza go down? I guess it's a sprain and they're doing an MRI tomorrow. Hopefully he's alright but Bogans played great tonight in his absence.
<div class="quote_poster">GatorsowntheNCAA Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">If Ariza is out for awhile, Turkoglu needs to come back NOW.</div> Yeah really. No more of that dehydration ****. It's ashame though because Ariza was playing really well. EDIT: Dwight is on the frontpage of NBA.com. Get ready to read 100 articles about how he's the best young big man in the league in the next two weeks.
Dwight is a monster ! It was his fifth 20-20 (or better) game. :S And last night, he put up 30 points and 25 rebounds ! 11-18 from the field is good and 9 offensive rebounds is sick. :S It would me scary if he would've 3-5 blocks or something, too. Biedrins had 15 rebounds, which is a good accomplishment. But yeah, D12 is a killer.
