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Force9024 wrote:

zerp wrote:Pistons are more physical than Magic.
McDyess-Wallace-Maxiel more physical and can shot >>>>> Howard-Gortat-Battie.
Very difficult for the Magic against this team.

Agreed.. And this is why I'm all for a Joe Smith trade.. Having Howard/Battie/Smith/Gortat to throw at the Pistons would help alot.. I hope something can be done soon with that.. We need tweaks to further place us in the playoffs.. I really think Joe Smith can help out play wise and character wise..

supwitheddie wrote:Ok well I tried to watch this really hard without thinking that the calls were one sided, but it just seemed like detroit was getting away with hack after hack. Howard was hacked on almost all if not every shot, and yet got barely any calls. To an extent I agree that detroit out hustled us at times but as a former player I can tell you when call after call is going against you it takes you out of the game mentally. No matter how good our shooters are if they are mentally frustrated they are not going to make shots.

It may not even be the officiating crew, because I notice it every time we play the Pistons. They are very physical, and they do foul a lot. The Magic are a "softer" team and usually do play cleaner. So the officials dont want to call everything they pick and choose the fouls committed by the Pistons, and call any little thing the Magic do. I think by fourth quarter we should have started making them pay for everything. If we are going to get called for petty BS lets really foul hard and bring up our physicality level to that of the Pistons. Continuing to play like the "Magic" against physical teams like Detroit is not going to help us get any foul calls.

Drwho17 wrote:

supwitheddie wrote:Ok well I tried to watch this really hard without thinking that the calls were one sided, but it just seemed like detroit was getting away with hack after hack. Howard was hacked on almost all if not every shot, and yet got barely any calls. To an extent I agree that detroit out hustled us at times but as a former player I can tell you when call after call is going against you it takes you out of the game mentally. No matter how good our shooters are if they are mentally frustrated they are not going to make shots.

It may not even be the officiating crew, because I notice it every time we play the Pistons. They are very physical, and they do foul a lot. The Magic are a "softer" team and usually do play cleaner. So the officials dont want to call everything they pick and choose the fouls committed by the Pistons, and call any little thing the Magic do. I think by fourth quarter we should have started making them pay for everything. If we are going to get called for petty BS lets really foul hard and bring up our physicality level to that of the Pistons. Continuing to play like the "Magic" against physical teams like Detroit is not going to help us get any foul calls.

The Pistons are much more aggressive, 4 of Orlando's players stand out around the free throw line shooting jump shots most of the time, how are you supposed to draw fouls that way.

Drwho17 wrote:

Force9024 wrote:

zerp wrote:Pistons are more physical than Magic.
McDyess-Wallace-Maxiel more physical and can shot >>>>> Howard-Gortat-Battie.
Very difficult for the Magic against this team.

Agreed.. And this is why I'm all for a Joe Smith trade.. Having Howard/Battie/Smith/Gortat to throw at the Pistons would help alot.. I hope something can be done soon with that.. We need tweaks to further place us in the playoffs.. I really think Joe Smith can help out play wise and character wise..

The Pistons beat Orlando, because Orlando's back court is sub par. Orlando also only has 1 interior player who can be shut down, playing two small forwards leads to their problems, Rashard Lewis at PF is a joke. Detroit beat Orlando without Hamilton, and playing a guy who has mostly been CDNP'ed 20+ minutes. The Pistons are just now getting going, they lost most of their games without McDyess, and before Stuckey was inserted into the starting lineup.

HeroicKennedy wrote:I'm hoping after tonight that Orlando fans start to see what we see in Stuckey. I understand there's probably a lot of anger and frustration over swapping out that pick (which netted us Stuckey) for essentially a one and a half year rental of Darko Milicic, but you have to admit: dude can ball. This was an off shooting night for him, too (his jumper wasn't falling as consistently).

Watching the game, I admit there should have been a foul on Dice on that Iverson jumper that basically sealed it.

Hairy Midget wrote:Detroit got the helping hand from the refs, but the Magic still have to play harder. They can't breeze through Detroit like they can with most teams, and it seemed like they thought they were still playing the Wolves.

All in all, we played probably our worst game in a month and it was still pretty close in the end on the home court of a team that has our number.

damo[23] wrote:Stop trying to force Stuckey down our throats or I will consider it trolling.

vege wrote:For all those Magic Fans high on Nelson. Saying Nelson > Stuckey.

J.Nelson G 29:06 4-12 1-5 0-0 +7 2 0 2 0 5 0 2 0 1 9
R.Stuckey G 40:33 7-19 0-1 5-6 +11 2 3 5 4 1 0 1 0 2 19

Rodney Stuckey says Hi.