I loved the toughness our team showed tonight, we can really go places if this continues. Great win.

I did not like Bynums chucking the last few mins of the game, he needs to learn to pass when he is getting double/triple teamed. He played a great game but needs to dish every once in a while.

ditto. they played with a lot of heart tonight. nice bounce-back game after losing focus in milwaukee

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Originally posted by BLIZZADEMIZZASSTER:
I did not like Bynums chucking the last few mins of the game, he needs to learn to pass when he is getting double/triple teamed. He played a great game but needs to dish every once in a while.

I agree. Otherwise, I finally realized who Stuckey is: a big guard who won't get many assists, but can, if he reaches his potential, be a 20 points 8 to 10 rebound per game lead guard.

It was a great strategy to forget the 3 ball and get howard in foul trouble. Guards driving minimizes the fact that our bigs are offensivley chalenged

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Originally posted by The Question:

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Originally posted by BLIZZADEMIZZASSTER:
I did not like Bynums chucking the last few mins of the game, he needs to learn to pass when he is getting double/triple teamed. He played a great game but needs to dish every once in a while.

I agree. Otherwise, I finally realized who Stuckey is: a big guard who won't get many assists, but can, if he reaches his potential, be a 20 points 8 to 10 rebound per game lead guard.

Bynum is providing the aggressiveness we've been missing in seasons past, he changed the complexion of the game. If you noticed, the Magic started double teaming him at the end and still couldn't keep up! I am impressed.

i liked bynum taking over. everybody else but him & gordon shot like crap

Stuckey played SF, and SG a lot tonight, he finished with I think three assists. He will probably average about 6 or 7 by the end of the season. He had eight I think the last game.

I know people are going to complain about his shooting percentage, but when Rip comes back, I don't think he is going to be taking as many shots and as many jumpers.

His rebounding has been stellar so far though! Nine tonight, and he had six the last game. I think he is going to end up being a pretty good combo guard. His shot-selection will improve with experience. He should also develope a mid-range game with time.

Bynum obviously is the hero coming back from that poke in the eye to take it right at Howard and foul him out. That took huge guts.

Gordon continued his scoring, Ben again set the tone on defense.

I also thought this was by far Maxiell's best performance of the season. Very impressive cheerleading from the bench which was better than anything he has done on the court so far this year.

Maybe after a game like this Joe can start feeling out what Prince can get him on the trade market.

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Originally posted by MikeA:
Bynum obviously is the hero coming back from that poke in the eye to take it right at Howard and foul him out. That took huge guts.

Gordon continued his scoring, Ben again set the tone on defense.

I also thought this was by far Maxiell's best performance of the season. Very impressive cheerleading from the bench which was better than anything he has done on the court so far this year.

Maybe after a game like this Joe can start feeling out what Prince can get him on the trade market.

Wilcox didn't outplay Maxiell at all from what I saw tonight.

I was actually pleased about Bynum's play the last few minutes. Jameer Nelson, one of the supposed permier point guards in the league, could not guard Bynum to save his life. Bynum was smart enough to figure that out, and fouled out Howard in the process. If I can remember right, did he foul out Gortat, as well? Good good game.

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Originally posted by detfan08:

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Originally posted by MikeA:
Bynum obviously is the hero coming back from that poke in the eye to take it right at Howard and foul him out. That took huge guts.

Gordon continued his scoring, Ben again set the tone on defense.

I also thought this was by far Maxiell's best performance of the season. Very impressive cheerleading from the bench which was better than anything he has done on the court so far this year.

Maybe after a game like this Joe can start feeling out what Prince can get him on the trade market.

Wilcox didn't outplay Maxiell at all from what I saw tonight.

I agree completely, Wilcox looked something awful out there.

But Wilcox also didn't run his mouth about replacing McDyess and then lay three consecutive turds on the court either. Hopefully the DNP-CD wakes Maxey up. No reason why this dude can't give us 8-10 points a game off the bench.

Stuckey has one game of 5 or more rebounds and suddenly he's a guard who can give you 20 points and 8-9 rebounds?

Do you understand what 8-9 rebounds is? Question?

Say, who were those guys wearing Orlando's uniforms? When you get to the finals, you don't gut the whole team. And they paid for it tonight!

Hopefully we can start a winning streak, let's see how we play in Toronto tomorrow.

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Originally posted by Black Thought:
Stuckey has one game of 5 or more rebounds and suddenly he's a guard who can give you 20 points and 8-9 rebounds?

Do you understand what 8-9 rebounds is? Question?

Haha yea, after getting over the euphoria of a another orlando win I realized I exaggerated the numbers. Still, I don't think 5 rebounds a game is too much to ask for a guard his size.

I don't disagree.

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Originally posted by GOBLUEADAM:
Say, who were those guys wearing Orlando's uniforms? When you get to the finals, you don't gut the whole team. And they paid for it tonight!

Orlando did an excellent job of upgrading their roster in the summer. Every player they acquired is better than the one they had before last year. It's going to take time to gel.

Orlando's the deepest team in the league but their biggest weaknesses are their reliance on the 3 ball (35 attempts last night) and their lack of mental toughness.

Any team that doesn't decide to double Dwight will have success against them.