<div align="center"> <font color=""Blue"">Orlando Magic (3-6)</font> <font color=""Black"">vs.</font> <font color=""Navy"">Washington Wizards (5-5)</font> Wednesday, November 23, 2005 | 7:00 PM ET | TD Waterhouse Centre | Orlando, Florida Projected Starting Linueps <font color=""Blue"">Orlando Magic</font> (Steve Francis, Keyon Dooling, Hedo Turkoglu, Dwight Howard, Kelvin Cato) <font color=""Navy"">Washington Wizards</font> (Antonio Daniels, Gilbert Arenas, Caron Butler, Antawn Jamison, Brendan Haywood) Key Matchup Steve Francis vs. Gilbert Arenas This is going to be a high scoring matchup between two guards that lead their respective teams in scoring. Both Francis and Arenas are playmakers that can turn games around when their team needs it most. These two players should be going at it all night and I think this matchup will determine who wins this game. If either of these guy get shutdown, their team will struggle and will have a tough time snagging a win. My Prediction This game is very important for these two teams since they are both looking to grab a late seed in the Eastern Conference come playoff time. The Wizards started off red hot and have recently fell into a slump so I think the Magic will be able to win this Southeast Division showdown with a score of 91-86.</div>
Nice write up Swish. I'm thinking we grab our 4th win tonight, with us scoring below 100 as you said. Go Magic!
We beat the Wizards 91-83 today without Francis and Grant Hill. Also our 3rd best player Dwight had one of the worst games of his young career 2-8 shooting for 5 pts and only 7 boards as he was in constant foul trouble. So how did we beat the surging Wizards with our 3 players either not playing or being non existant in the game tonight? Wow, we won without Francis and Hill and Dwight played like crap since he was in foul trouble the entire game. Everyone stepped up tonight.
This was a great game and I think it means a lot that our reserves stepped up and did well tonight. This gives our bench guys some confidence and shows that our bench can keep us in games. Hopefully our players heal up and we can put together a string of wins.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MainMan:</div><div class="quote_post">anyone see who presented game ball?? cough cough</div> No, who was it? The game wasn't on television in my area so I missed it.
