Archive for December, 2011

The Orlando Magic defeated the Charlotte Bobcats 100-79 Friday night. Evan Dunlap explains why the Magic can have success with Jameer Nelson out of the lineup: When the entire team makes a commitment to moving the ball and playing unselfishly, Orlando can succeed even without starting point guard Jameer Nelson, as it did Friday. Nelson sat out with a neck stinger suffered on Thursday, leaving Chris Duhon to start in his place. Duhon played an unspectacular 32 minutes–two points on 1-of-1 shooting, two rebounds, six assists, three turnovers–but Orlando didn’t ask him to do a helluva lot. He and backup [...]

The Orlando Magic played their best game of the season on Friday night in a win over the Charlotte Bobcats. After letting the Bobcats hang around for a majority of the game and get within nine points in the fourth quarter, the Magic put the game away for good in the fourth quarter, earning a 100-79 win. Ryan Anderson led the Magic with 23 points while Dwight Howard scored 20 points and grabbed 24 rebounds. Corey Maggette poured in 20 points to lead the Bobcats. The Magic looked energized from the start while the Bobcats showed signs of fatigue in [...]

The Orlando Magic improved to 2-1 with a 94-78 win over the New Jersey Nets Thursday night. The Magic will look to extend their winning streak to three games when they take on the Charlotte Bobcats Friday night. The Bobcats opened the season with a 96-95 win over the Milwaukee Bucks but dropped to 1-1 after a heartbreaking 96-95 loss to the Miami Heat Tuesday night. Tip-off from the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina is scheduled for 7:00 pm EST. The game will be shown locally on Sun Sports. As always, if you can’t watch the game, you [...]

The Orlando Magic improved to 2-1 with a 94-78 victory over the New Jersey Nets Thursday night. Ryan Anderson led the Magic with 22 points while Dwight Howard scored 16 points and pulled down 24 rebounds. Rookie Marshon Brooks led the Nets with 17 points. Dwight Howard was an absolute monster on both ends of the floor. He scored 16 points on 7-of-9 shooting and could have had even bigger numbers if he didn’t struggle from the free throw line (2-of-9). Howard missed a career rebounding night by just two, pulling down 24 boards. He also dished out 3 assists, [...]

The Orlando Magic will try to build on their victory over the Houston Rockets Monday night when they play host to the New Jersey Nets Thursday night. The Nets are 1-1 but are coming off an embarrassing 106-70 loss to the Atlanta Hawks Tip-off from the Amway Center is scheduled for 7:00 pm EST. The game will be shown locally on FSN Florida. As always, if you can’t watch the game, you can listen on the radio – in English on AM 580 WDBO and in Spanish on AM 1270 WRLZ. The officials for tonight’s game are Dick Bavetta, Olandis Poole [...]

We’ve heard about the three teams on Dwight Howard’s list – the New Jersey Nets, Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks. Lately, there have been several new developments in the ongoing Dwight Howard saga. Adrian Wojnarowski has also reported Adidas would like to keep Howard out of Chicago because they are the top two endorsers: Adidas has two franchise endorsers: Derrick Rose and Howard. Rose signed a $94 million extension with the Bulls, and sources say Adidas is working on a lifetime shoe deal for him now. And as one high-ranking sneaker executive says, “Adidas simply cannot have its two [...]

Evan Dunlap of Orlando Pinstriped Post explains why a coaching decision helped Hedo Turkoglu have a big fourth quarter: A coaching decision from Stan Van Gundy made Turkoglu’s fourth-quarter performance possible. Van Gundy shifted the veteran to power forward, with Jason Richardson at small forward, Redick at shooting guard, and Jameer Nelson at point guard. Van Gundy didn’t leave Rockets coach Kevin McHale much of a choice: he could either stick with a slow, big lineup with Luis Scola at the four and Sam Dalembert at the five or go small with Scola at center. McHale chose the latter–better to [...]

Redick scored 20 points in Orlando’s victory over the Houston Rockets. (Andrew Melnick is Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger, ESPN Florida’s Magic Insider (http://ESPNFlorida.com) and is the co-host of the ESPNFlorida.com Insiders Show Sunday mornings at 10:00 am EST. Subscribe to his RSS feed, add him on Facebook and follow him onTwitter to follow him daily. You can download the HTD app here)

The Orlando Magic defeated the Houston Rockets 104-95. (Andrew Melnick is Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger, ESPN Florida’s Magic Insider (http://ESPNFlorida.com) and is the co-host of the ESPNFlorida.com Insiders Show Sunday mornings at 10:00 am EST. Subscribe to his RSS feed, add him on Facebook and follow him onTwitter to follow him daily. You can download the HTD app here)

The Orlando Magic played their best basketball late in the game, pulling away from the Houston Rockets in the fourth quarter to earn a 104-95 win. Hedo Turkoglu led the Magic with 23 points while Kyle Lowry had 20 points and 12 assists for the Rockets. The Magic came out with good energy and immediately tried to get Jason Richardson and Hedo Turkoglu going in the post. Due to their match ups, it looked like a good idea. Richardson had his first shot shot blocked while Turkoglu hit a tough layup. After a couple of missed jumpers, the Magic went [...]