Game #64: Orlando Magic(36-27) @ Denver Nuggets (35-28)

[Prolific Scorer]

Well, Stan got his wish. Dwight's off the team, so Stan can now focus on winning... Um... McGee would NEVER do this on Dwight. And about that, why can't our pgs do that for Dwight? Here's the answer, because they suck as passers. It's unbelievable that Dwight hasn't played with a good pg passer in his entire NBA career.

This

If Dwight Howard was playing against this Magic roster now with Harper and Orton at the 4 and 5 he'd have 80 points and 20 alley oops by now. The idea that our PGs can't throw and alleyoop to Dwight is completely ridiculous.

They used to

[magicman123]

the dunce should go to the pg rotation, awful

[ORLMagicGirl15]

Wow, look at that, another opponent that shot over 50%. At least this team is better offensively without Dwight.

[thelead]

Well, Stan got his wish. Dwight's off the team, so Stan can now focus on winning... Um... McGee would NEVER do this on Dwight. And about that, why can't our pgs do that for Dwight? Here's the answer, because they suck as passers. It's unbelievable that Dwight hasn't played with a good pg passer in his entire NBA career.

Dude, we don't have a center on our roster other than Daniel Orton who barely even played in college. Why can't our PGs do that to Dwight, because other teams have centers that play defense on him. If Dwight plays a team without a center, he destroys them.

Why can Blake Griffin get 2 to 3 every game? Even before CP3.

[Howard Mass]

These last couple of minutes were horrible for The Magic. Hard to watch. This team was clearly out of gas.

Magic need that #6 seed. Better to have a playoff matchup with indiana, then potentially get slaughtered/embarrassed for 4 games vs. miami.

[Prolific Scorer]

3.3 M/Season for Chris Duhon

Thanks Otis

[rcklsscognition]

I think seeing this game and the Jazz game showed me how good Howard really is. He's our ENTIRE defense man... Without him were possibly the worst defense in the NBA

We are playing an undersized (height) PF at center and backing him up with a scrub who barely got minutes at college and couldn't play in the summer and didn't even practice with our team until 2 weeks ago and we are shocked that our defense is bad? Really? Wow, you don't need Dwight to make a defense good, but you do need a center at least.

[JNelson43]

Well, Stan got his wish. Dwight's off the team, so Stan can now focus on winning... Um... McGee would NEVER do this on Dwight. And about that, why can't our pgs do that for Dwight? Here's the answer, because they suck as passers. It's unbelievable that Dwight hasn't played with a good pg passer in his entire NBA career.

This

If Dwight Howard was playing against this Magic roster now with Harper and Orton at the 4 and 5 he'd have 80 points and 20 alley oops by now. The idea that our PGs can't throw and alleyoop to Dwight is completely ridiculous.

We were actually pretty bad at that imo. The fact that Hedo was the best at it should be pretty disturbing, a top pg really could have done even more with the lobs than we ever did (and we were effective with it at times).

[mhi]

At least this team is better offensively without Dwight.

Sarcasm ? They only put up 74 points against Denver.....

[OrlandO]

Dunce goes to Nelson for being an injury prone ****

[Last Guardian]

I think seeing this game and the Jazz game showed me how good Howard really is. He's our ENTIRE defense man... Without him were possibly the worst defense in the NBA

That I no doubt agree with. He is our defense. And the lack of paint defense is disgusting to watch.

[arkknight1988]

stan postgame: We played no defense!!!! dwight wants me fired!

dwight>>>>stan

[Neon1]

Why can Blake Griffin get 2 to 3 every game? Even before CP3.

Because he is more MOBILE and AGILE then Dwight??????? Is this a serious question?

[rcklsscognition]

Well, Stan got his wish. Dwight's off the team, so Stan can now focus on winning... Um... McGee would NEVER do this on Dwight. And about that, why can't our pgs do that for Dwight? Here's the answer, because they suck as passers. It's unbelievable that Dwight hasn't played with a good pg passer in his entire NBA career.

Dude, we don't have a center on our roster other than Daniel Orton who barely even played in college. Why can't our PGs do that to Dwight, because other teams have centers that play defense on him. If Dwight plays a team without a center, he destroys them.

Why can Blake Griffin get 2 to 3 every game? Even before CP3.

Because he is faster, more evasive, and has more control over his body than Dwight.

[ORLMagicGirl15]

I think seeing this game and the Jazz game showed me how good Howard really is. He's our ENTIRE defense man... Without him were possibly the worst defense in the NBA

I still can't believe people thought that this team was better without him. Calling him to leave the team and assuming that our players would "step it up" once he's off the team. We want to claim that it was the "drama" that was causing all of this, yeah okay. When you have only one person on the team that will play defense, I think I can understand Dwight's frustration with his teammates.

[magicfan4life05]

3.3 M/Season for Chris Duhon

Thanks Otis

FWIW

http://hoopshype.com/salaries/orlando.htm

He's getting 3.4 this season, 3.6 and 3.9 next 2.

Im a sad person !

[Chris1]

Anyone think that SVG's coaching has gotten worse this year even with Dwight Howard? I don't remember him being this bad in the past.

[londoncollin]

Remember when people wanted Ish to start?

[NickAnderson]

So Dwight has nothing to do with Stan's win percentage??... ummm

[magicman123]

we dont need dwight, let him go, we are better off without him, heart and hustle 2.0