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		<title>No Matter Where You Go; There Your Are!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magic Maven</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Magic took their show on the road hoping to capitalize on the momentum of their blowout victory against the surging Atlanta Hawks last Saturday. Things began nicely, with a convincing win in Sacramento against the injury riddled Kings. Then reality struck once again on Wednesday night in Denver as the Nuggets dissected the Magic en route to a 115-97 trouncing over Orlando. Playing short-handed without their leading scorer Vince &#8220;Cupcake&#8221; Carter for the secong straight night, Orlando simply had no answer for the physical play of the Nuggets. Dwight &#8220;The Coward&#8221; Howard struggled mightily against the likes of Kenyon Martin and Chris &#8220;Birdman&#8221; Andersen, managing a meager 8 points on 1-7 shooting. A far cry from the 30 points and 16 rebounds he collected the night before in Sacramento. In what may have been the funniest sound bite I&#8217;ve ever heard from a player came from Dwight Howard after the loss to Denver in which he stated &#8220;the Nuggets took away the inside game and FORCED the Magic to shoot jump shots&#8221;. Excuse me if I&#8217;m missing something here, but have you ever seen anyone having to force Rashard Lewis, Vince Carter, Ryan Anderson or JJ Redick(let me stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orlando Has Lost It&#8217;s Magic!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magic Maven</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It may not have been what they asked for, however, all those Orlando Magic fans out there got something very valuable for Christmas: The Truth! No I&#8217;m not referring to Paul Pierce, who didn&#8217;t even play due to a knee infection. The truth I&#8217;m speaking about is the transparent state of the current Orlando Magic, a team with no real leader and a slew of finesse players. Hopefully, this serves as a wake up call, for the always asleep at the wheel GM Otis Smith, to finally make a preemptive strike and make some desperately needed changes to this roster. On the surface, it may look like I&#8217;m another overzealous fan reacting hastily to a tough loss against a very formidable opponent. However, if we take a closer look at the numbers, I think there is genuine cause for concern. The Magic have no low post scoring presence, do not rebound well, with the exception of Dwight Howard,  and rely far too heavily on the 3 point shot to score. Not to mention they are missing one of the most important intangibles of a championship caliber team: Heart. It was painful to watch the Magic repeatedly get beat to loose balls and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All That Jazz</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magic Maven</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=748</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Orlando Magic, fresh from a night off, strolled into Utah to take on a Jazz team who just suffered a debilitating loss the night before to the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers. A perfect scenario for the Magic to continue on their winning ways. As expected the Jazz looked sluggish early on and the Magic were hitting on all cylinders, building what you would think would be an insurmountable 18 point lead. Well, think again folks, because the always tough at home Utah Jazz had other plans. I can&#8217;t help but think that the momentum change was spurred on when Rashard Lewis pulled a Scottie Pippen in the 2nd quarter; refusing coach Van Gundy&#8217;s orders to get back in the game. Lewis, saddled with 2 fouls, later claimed he felt Ryan Anderson had it going and didn&#8217;t want to interrupt his hot streak.  Unbelievable as it sounds for a player making a cool $118 millions bucks to refuse a coaches instruction. Stan Van Gundy himself, who has coached some questionable characters in his career, claims he has never had a player question his authority in this manner. Even if Rashard Lewis thought he was being unselfish, is this the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magic Meltdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magic Maven</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night was a classic example of a good team letting their inferior opponent stick around too long and having the rug pulled out from underneath them. The Orlando Magic appeared to have their 13th consecutive win against the Miami Heat all but sealed up midway through the 4th quarter, until you guessed it, Mr. Dwayne Wade himself took matters into his own hand. As much as I&#8217;d love to put the onus on Vince &#8220;Cupcake&#8221; Carter, I have to give the &#8220;Goat&#8221; award to Dwight Howard and the rest of the Magic frontline. They were clearly out hustled and showed zero heart or intensity down the stretch. It looks as if the recurrent theme of the Magic&#8217;s season is going to be their lack of killer instinct. Until Vince Carter and Rashard Lewis realize referee&#8217;s are not going to blow the whistle on weak finger roll drives to the basket, or Dwight Howard starts to make critical free throws, the Magic will continue to falter in close meaningful games. Dwayne Wade&#8217;s humiliating block of Vince &#8220;Cupcake&#8221; Carters 4th quarter fade away drive to the basket, was reminiscent of last years finals series against the Los Angeles Lakers, when Kobe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magic Malaise</title>
		<link>http://tampabaysportsblog.com/uncategorized/magic-malaise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magic Maven</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Orlando Magic are riding a five game winning streak which included wins against a struggling Celtic team on the road and another three against sub five hundred ball clubs. With Jameer Nelson, the fragile starting point guard out once again for a long duration, things could take a turn for the worst if the Magic don&#8217;t pick up their defensive intensity and start executing better offensively as well. If Hedo Turkoglu was considered lackadaisical on the court at times, Vince Carter is now filling his shoes quite nicely. There is no real true leader on this group, especially, with Nelson out of the line up, who is capable of inspiring championship caliber effort. While Stan Van Gundy may be perceived by some of his players as negative or too hard on them, the fact of the matter is if he doesn&#8217;t try to get the most out of his players, the majority will just accept a mediocre effort. Dwight Howard should try and assert himself as a leader and increase his game day intensity. Instead, he chose to ask coach Van Gundy to lighten up on the guys, especially, newcomer Vince Carter. Basically, summing up his lack of dedication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s talk some NBA.</title>
		<link>http://tampabaysportsblog.com/orlando-magic/lets-talk-some-nba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 04:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeezNuts</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The finals have been good on both ends this year and there has been a lot of discussion and debate over a lot of crap. I think it&#8217;s time for me to toss my opinions out there on the whole thing and I really don&#8217;t care what anyone thinks. I&#8217;ll start with the Lebron/Kobe debate. Kobe is still better than Lebron for one reason. He is a closer.  In my opinion, there is way too much talk about sharing the ball, game ending shots and officiating in these games. The thing that still stands out to me is this. Kobe finishes games like Lebron doesn&#8217;t right now. The ball sharing argument is stupid to me because of this. When it is time to finish off a game, you&#8217;re best player needs to do it. Kobe shares the ball early in the game but in the last couple minutes, when it matters, he has it and finishes things off. Lebron doesn&#8217;t finish games this way. He is still looking to dish the ball even though he is rolling right through the lane and that is a sign of a guy who doesn&#8217;t think he can do it. He hit the big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a freakin game!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 03:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeezNuts</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This series is going to be awesome! The Magic came out ugly but they closed the gap late and this thing was absolutely great to watch. If the entire series is like this it will be the best in a long time. Lebron James is one of the most ridiculous athletes I&#8217;ve ever seen but the Magic match up very well against them. Watching this game took me back to the old days of the Lakers/Celtics and what not. There is really no one on Orlando to step up against James to make it a Bird/Magic thing, but it is fun to watch. The Magic have more good players than Cleveland, but James counts for like three so it evens out. After the game started I thought Cleveland was going to run away with it, but the Magic stepped up and really showed something. Rashard Lewis hit the clutch three late to put the Magic up and it actually held up. I thought for sure that Lebron would find a way to finish it off, but it didn&#8217;t happen. I can&#8217;t believe the Magic pulled this game out but I&#8217;m happy they did. There isn&#8217;t anything more I can say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angry NBA Wednesday.</title>
		<link>http://tampabaysportsblog.com/orlando-magic/angry-nba-wednesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeezNuts</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was an odd night in the NBA last night. A couple of not so close games has some odd behavior attached to them. The Magic got handled fairly easy by the Celtics in game two, but it was Rafer Alston&#8217;s girly behavior that caught my attention. It&#8217;s not shocking that the Celtics came out with a lot more fire and intensity last night. They finally had some time to recover from the wild Bulls series they had in round one. They also needed to take that game to avoid going to Orlando down 0-2. What surprised me was Alston. Eddie House was going off last night (he finished with 31) and it finally got to Alston. It was funny but will probably land Alston on the sideline for game 3. After Eddie House hit a three pointer (in Alston&#8217;s face) Alston decided to slap him in the head as turned to run down the court. That&#8217;s right, he &#8220;slapped&#8221; him. He&#8217;s lucky House didn&#8217;t turn and pummel him, but even House had to laugh at the girly attack Rafer laid on him. It was so pathetic that the ref&#8217;s didn&#8217;t eject Alston and gave he and House both technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn Courtney Lee loose and you&#8217;ll beat Boston.</title>
		<link>http://tampabaysportsblog.com/orlando-magic/turn-courtney-lee-loose-and-youll-beat-boston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeezNuts</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Magic are going to be stuck playing the Celtics in the second round and that could be good. Dwight will do his thing against Perkins, Garnett or whoever squares up on him. Lewis will continue to be effective yet erratic. Turk will be the enigmatic figure that he has become with the injury. Alston will get torched by Rondo throughout every game. The key will be Courtney Lee. Lee is fighting off an injury himself, but he&#8217;ll be there. Injury or not, if the Magic turn him loose, he&#8217;ll go off. Courtney Lee has shown what he&#8217;s capable of this year and hasn&#8217;t even touched the surface yet. Lee is quick, tough, athletic and a defensive animal that will leave the Celtics wondering what happened to them if Van Gundy gives him the keys to the offense. Alston has helped and hurt at the same time. It&#8217;s obvious. He would be great behind Nelson, but that&#8217;s not an option. I loved the strides Jameer Nelson made and he&#8217;s is the biggest reason the Magic became an elite team earlier in the season. When he went down it was awful. Alston gave us hope and has done enough to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jameer Nelson isn’t getting any love.</title>
		<link>http://tampabaysportsblog.com/orlando-magic/jameer-nelson-isn%e2%80%99t-getting-any-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Magic are tearing through the NBA right now with a 33-8 record and look like serious title contenders right now. The improvement on both sides of the court is relevant to everyone picking up their game. Turk is what he always has been, a cold blooded beast that attacks other teams defense&#8217;s with the reckless abandon of a football player. Dwight Howard is dominating inside the paint and has dramatically improved his defense, namely his shot blocking skills. Rashard Lewis has gotten with the program and has shown a much tougher side to him on both ends of the floor. Courtney Lee is doing right now what we expected from Mickael Pietrus and when Pietrus is healthy again the bench will get that much deeper. Aside from Lee, we&#8217;ve seen all of these guys play at this level before during their careers. The one guy that has really taken giant steps forward is Jameer Nelson, and that has translated into the Magic taking a giant step forward. Nelson is having a career year for the real Orlando Blue Man Group and is bringing the team with him. If anyone said they didn&#8217;t notice before, the Laker game should&#8217;ve gotten [...]]]></description>
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