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Magic @ Hornets Thread; 1/16, 8:00 PM, Ford Center
Topic Started: Jan 15 2007, 11:03 PM (1,819 Views)
MAGICMANEVAN
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This is just crap. Terrible game by the team as a whole. Everyone sucked at different points. Dwight and Darko could have won the game if they could hit FREE throws!!!!! :@
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Jan. 17 2007 03:46 AM
I bet the collective FT% of the members of this board is higher than the collective FT% of the Magic.

To be honest, I suck at shooting.
Still, your point is valid.
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I dont know why but i crack up every time i see that, Zuppafly. :lol:
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MAGICMANEVAN
Jan. 17 2007 03:51 AM
This is just crap. Terrible game by the team as a whole. Everyone sucked at different points. Dwight and Darko could have won the game if they could hit FREE throws!!!!! :@

Honeslty I don't blame them. They missed one of them each, but that wasn't why we lost this one.
Reasons are simple and I've been saying them for quite some time now:
-We need to start playing faster offense. That will bring better ball movement.
-We need to play Diener and Redick because they spread the floor better than any of our guards do now.

Our defense looks ok, our offense is pathetic.

Grant Hill's contract expiring at the end of the season may become less valuable than it would be if we trade him for a really good shooting guard our an elite point guard from a team than wants to rebuild. I don't know if we can get someone worth it but at least giv a look at the market.

And please, send Arroyo to the D-league.
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MAGICMANEVAN
Jan. 17 2007 03:54 AM
I dont know why but i crack up every time i see that, Zuppafly. :lol:

99% of viruses/trojans are allocated to the System32 folder on windows. A few years ago a virus called Sasser was a headache for many windows users unprotected with a firewall/AV.
Everytime I saw a report about the Sasser virus the name Jerryl Sasser came to my mind. After all we wasnt better than a virus in the Magic :lol:
So I just kind of added 2+2 and came up with that one. :D
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Honeslty I don't blame them. They missed one of them each, but that wasn't why we lost this one.
Reasons are simple and I've been saying them for quite some time now:
-We need to start playing faster offense. That will bring better ball movement.
-We need to play Diener and Redick because they spread the floor better than any of our guards do now.

Our defense looks ok, our offense is pathetic.

Grant Hill's contract expiring at the end of the season may become less valuable than it would be if we trade him for a really good shooting guard our an elite point guard from a team than wants to rebuild. I don't know if we can get someone worth it but at least giv a look at the market.

And please, send Arroyo to the D-league.
Well im just pissed that we lost... and if either one of them would have hit another free throw... we could have won.
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We didn't score a single point in overtime until 25 seconds left. Did anyone see how many shots we took coming up to that point? 5!! That's right. Five whole shots. Doing the math, that's just about 1 shot per MINUTE! Our offense is slow as s**t and it's killing us. We are pump faking and giving up open shots so we can make an extra unnecessary pass with 2 seconds left in the shot clock. We almost get called for shot clock violations on every possession. It's sad and terrible to watch. I don't know what B Hill is thinking. We have depth, and yet he wants to slow the game down. Doesn't make sense to me, but hopefully his plan works out. I have nothing else to say.

It's Xbox 360 time for me, baby!! Thanks God for that system. It's the only thing keeping me sane after tonight's loss.
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MAGICMANEVAN
Jan. 17 2007 03:59 AM
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Honeslty I don't blame them. They missed one of them each, but that wasn't why we lost this one.
Reasons are simple and I've been saying them for quite some time now:
-We need to start playing faster offense. That will bring better ball movement.
-We need to play Diener and Redick because they spread the floor better than any of our guards do now.

Our defense looks ok, our offense is pathetic.

Grant Hill's contract expiring at the end of the season may become less valuable than it would be if we trade him for a really good shooting guard our an elite point guard from a team than wants to rebuild. I don't know if we can get someone worth it but at least giv a look at the market.

And please, send Arroyo to the D-league.
Well im just pissed that we lost... and if either one of them would have hit another free throw... we could have won.

True, but if any other player hitted one single missed FT or shot, we'd have one also ;)
And I wrote on this thread when Arroyo missed those 3 consecutive open looks that it could cost us the game. We were gaining momentum and could have got the lead but he made three incredible misses. I know he, more than anybody, wanted them to count, and when NO called the timeout after tha last miss he went to our bench angry with himself (he kicked the air twice on frustration), but seriously he's hurting our team a lot!
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Yeah true... It just sucks how we lose to bad teams without their top 4 scorers and we have a very talented team. A team that we think can go to the playoffs and make some noise but games like these make you wonder...
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magiclive
Jan. 17 2007 04:02 AM
We didn't score a single point in overtime until 25 seconds left. Did anyone see how many shots we took coming up to that point? 5!! That's right. Five whole shots. Doing the math, that's just about 1 shot per MINUTE! Our offense is slow as s**t and it's killing us. We are pump faking and giving up open shots so we can make an extra unnecessary pass with 2 seconds left in the shot clock. We almost get called for shot clock violations on every possession. It's sad and terrible to watch. I don't know what B Hill is thinking. We have depth, and yet he wants to slow the game down. Doesn't make sense to me, but hopefully his plan works out. I have nothing else to say.

It's Xbox 360 time for me, baby!! Thanks God for that system. It's the only thing keeping me sane after tonight's loss.

Exactly! There was one play on overtime that got me rubbing my eyes in disbelief. Nelson and Turk had several open looks to shoot the three and kept passing the ball to each other. Nelson had a clear open look and drove to the basket with 3 seconds left to finally pass it outside to Turk who missed the three at the buzzer.
I couldn't believe how badly drawn that play was!
B.Hill needs to change things, fast!
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I agree. There is something very wrong that needs to be fixed... It could possibly be that the guys are a little tired from all the traveling on the road. But we will see if its just cause they are tired, when we play the Wiz at home on Friday.
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Jan. 16 2007 11:09 PM
magiclive
Jan. 17 2007 04:02 AM
We didn't score a single point in overtime until 25 seconds left. Did anyone see how many shots we took coming up to that point? 5!! That's right. Five whole shots. Doing the math, that's just about 1 shot per MINUTE! Our offense is slow as s**t and it's killing us. We are pump faking and giving up open shots so we can make an extra unnecessary pass with 2 seconds left in the shot clock. We almost get called for shot clock violations on every possession. It's sad and terrible to watch. I don't know what B Hill is thinking. We have depth, and yet he wants to slow the game down. Doesn't make sense to me, but hopefully his plan works out. I have nothing else to say.

It's Xbox 360 time for me, baby!! Thanks God for that system. It's the only thing keeping me sane after tonight's loss.

Exactly! There was one play on overtime that got me rubbing my eyes in disbelief. Nelson and Turk had several open looks to shoot the three and kept passing the ball to each other. Nelson had a clear open look and drove to the basket with 3 seconds left to finally pass it outside to Turk who missed the three at the buzzer.
I couldn't believe how badly drawn that play was!
B.Hill needs to change things, fast!

That's the play that I remember in particular. Instead of Hedo taking the first open 3 pt shot he had, we wasted about 8 seconds or so passing it back and forth between him and Nelson. Unnecessary passing.
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God damn you, Chuck.
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I am a fan of Arroyo. Honestly, I didn't think that Arroyo's slump was going to last this long. Like someone mentioned in a thread, he more than anybody wants those shots to go down, but I think Brian Hill's patience is running thin with Arroyo's peformance. That's not him out there, even in his worst times in Utah his performance wasn't this bad. For the sake of the team, I will definitely bring Diener back into rotation, and let Arroyo work his way up again. It's clear that he is frustrated, but his frustration is not helping the team. I was the first one to defend Arroyo with any critics, but is time to do something. I wonder how the crow in Orlando will perceive him now that he is not producing.
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this is pathetic, we lost to a sorry a** hornets team w/out chris paul, david west, or bobby jackson and we got lit up by janero pargo, we need to get diener in the game if arroyo is gonna keep sucking it up like this, honestly if arroyo played like he did last year after being traded and stopped w/ all the and 1 dribbling and stupid a** circus shots hoping to get a call i bet we would have about 5 more wins this season
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