<div align="center"><font color="Black"><font size="3">Magic Roster: 2004-05</font></font> <font color="Blue">Stacey Augmon</font> Position: F-G Born: 08/01/68 Height: 6-8 What he brings: Veteran leadership, consistency off the bench. Random Fact: His nicknames are <font color="RoyalBlue">"Ice"</font> and "Plastic Man." <font color="Blue">Tony Battie</font> Position: C-F Born: 02/11/76 Height: 6-11 What he brings: Battie is a big man down low, and he can play solid defense. Random Fact: Lists his favorite movie as Batman. <font color="Blue">Keith Bogans</font> Position: G Born: 05/12/80 Height: 6-5 What he brings: Premiere defender, underrated offensive player. Random Fact: His full name is Keith Ramon Bogans. <font color="Blue">Michael Bradley</font> Position: F Born: 04/18/79 Height: 6-10 What he brings: A big body in the paint. Random Fact: Grew up a fan of Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics. <font color="Blue">Kelvin Cato</font> Position: C Born: 08/26/74 Height: 6-11 What he brings: Rebounding & Defense. Random Fact: Enjoys video games. <font color="Blue">Andrew DeClercq</font> Position: C Born: 02/01/73 Height: 6-10 What he brings: Hustle off the bench. Random Fact: His hobbies include surfing the Internet, reading, camping, watching movies and working on his computer. <font color="Blue">Steve Francis</font> Position: G Born: 02/21/77 Height: 6-3 What he brings: Energy and offense. Random Fact: Runs a record label called Isoh Entertainment. <font color="Blue">Pat Garrity</font> Position: F Born: 08/23/76 Height: 6-9 What he brings: Outside shooting. Random Fact: Father played football at Air Force. <font color="Blue">Grant Hill</font> What he brings: X-Rays. And leadership. Random Fact: Wife, Tamia, is a four-time Grammy-nominated recording artist. <font color="Blue">Dwight Howard</font> Position: F Born: 12/8/85 Height: 6-11 What he brings: Raw talent, potential, defense. Random Fact: His full name is Dwight David Howard. <font color="Blue">Mario Kasun</font> Position: C Born: 04/05/80 Height: 7-1 What he brings: Big body in the paint. Random Fact: He is from Croatia. <font color="Blue">Cuttino Mobley</font> Position: G Born: 09/01/75 Height: 6-4 What he brings: Another option on offense. Random Fact: Has one son, Cuttino, Jr. <font color="Blue">Jameer Nelson</font> Position: G Born: 02/09/82 Height: 6-0 What he brings: Courtvision, overall PG skills. Random Fact: He attended St. Joseph's. <font color="Blue">DeShawn Stevenson</font> Position: G Born: 04/03/81 Height: 6-5 What he brings: Offense, solid backup 2 Guard. Random Fact: DeShawn and his wife Yahari make their offseason home in Fresno, California. <font color="Blue">Hidayet Turkoglu</font> Position: F Born: 03/19/79 Height: 6-10 What he brings: Outside shooting. Random Fact: Started playing basketball at age 10</div> <font size="1">*FA's were not included </font>
This squad is playoff contender and possibly even a runner for the championship in a few years when howard and nelson mature.
Thats an amazing squad compared to last year and has a heck of a lot more depth they have 9 SF/PF/C's and 6 PG/SG's. I counted the players that play F-G only once. I thought DeShawn was a FA, when did they resign him?
Magic fans will have mixed feelings about Michael Bradley, with whatever playing time he gets. He's very inconsistent, but once a month (unless hes changed for the better) he will have a good game if given playing time. He has the ability to score and can actually be a good rebounder. I figured I'd give some info on him because he spent a couple years with the Raptors and I watched him in college. Perhaps I might be acting nice about him because all of you may hate him (like I did sometimes, if he plays). Although it doesn't look like he will get any playing time with the amount of size in your lineup. It looks like the Magic have changed for the better but I wouldn't expect big things untill Dwight develops, but the playoffs can be a possibility because the dept in that lineup isn't that bad. However, the last 5 seeds in the east are open, and there are teams that can easily fill those spots.
This team is very good a lot of vetern leaders that will make us good. Only one question when did we sign Kasun never heard of him before is he from the european leagues? Sorry if my question sounds stupid, but I have never heard much about him. Anyway the franchise will really be a huge help for us and nelson was a steal cant wait to see him perform well. I dont think he will get the minutes to be ROY, but I hope so because he is so talented that he deserves to be reconized and he will be a future super star for the team no question. He will have a rookie season like hinrich did for the bulls.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Pure Skillz:</div><div class="quote_post">This team is very good a lot of vetern leaders that will make us good. Only one question when did we sign Kasun never heard of him before is he from the european leagues? Sorry if my question sounds stupid, but I have never heard much about him. Anyway the franchise will really be a huge help for us and nelson was a steal cant wait to see him perform well. I dont think he will get the minutes to be ROY, but I hope so because he is so talented that he deserves to be reconized and he will be a future super star for the team no question. He will have a rookie season like hinrich did for the bulls.</div> You'll find a thread about Kasun's signing a little below, well here it is: Magic sign Mario Kasun; Magic sign Michael Bradley. As you don't know so much about him, I have some infos on him as I'm German and he played in Germany for a while now. He played for the last years German champion "Opel Skyliners". I have a link to his statistics here (German but I think you can guess most of it). He played 41 games, 27 regular and 14 playoff, where he averaged 20 minutes, 59% FG, 50% FT, 7 rebounds, 3.6 PF, 1.8 TO, 0.6 blocks and 9.6 points. Not very impressiv though. I haven't seen him for a while since I'm now living in the UK, but last year I already was thinking about him becoming a Magic and talked about it on a German board. At the end, I was convinced that he isn't any better than DeClerq. He gets in foul trouble very soon and compared with DeClerq he has no NBA experience.
Magic could very well sneak in the playoff. Depends on how good out of the box Dwight Howard is, and how well Turkoglu,Francis,Declerq, play, and also can Grant Hill play a whole season healthy.
Well if it depends on how well Declerq plays, then we are screwed. The season depends on the depth, if everyone can play well with the time they are given.
