<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Glass Half Full wandered down to the Magic practice court this morning and saw Trevor Ariza, Tony Battie, Keyon Dooling and Pat Garrity all inside working on their games. You have to love it. August 14th ... Not much off/vacation time left before the start of training camp and the marathon of a season ... and this foursome -- a veteran foursome at that -- working to get better. That's professionalism. Gym rat Dwight Howard has been around a lot and now is headed to Vegas, along with teammate J.J. Redick, for the start of Team USA Training Camp tomorrow (Aug. 15th). Carlos Arroyo is getting ready to suit up for Puerto Rico, and you know Jameer Nelson is pumping iron today somewhere in Philly. -- OrlandoMagic.com</div> This is great news to hear even older veterans are working out. I really think with earlier continuous words of encouragement by Keyon Dooling and Carlos Arroyo etc. have really motivated this team. It's good to see our team is finally developing some chemistry. Would've been nice to see Lewis there as well but oh well. Also earlier in the year I read an article with Arroyo saying he was gonna compete for the starting job, and at first I didn't think he'd be able to. But Puerto Rican basketball seems to always bring out the best in him. Little competition never hurt anyone i suppose.
That's great to hear if you're an Orlando Magic fan. Training camp doesn't start for another month-ish and these guys are already starting on getting ahead of the game. I don't think Orlando's going to be a contender for the NBA championship, but they'll be one of the elite East teams, that people will groan when they see the upcoming schedule. Dwight Howard and Rashard Lewis makes one of the nicest frontcourt in the NBA and there's no doubt they will lack scoring this year.
