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Where: Amway Center Orlando, FL
When: 7:00 EST, Saturday, December 21 20013
Why: ... a-hee, Why-a-hoo, My-a-ha, My-a-HA-ha.
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Yahoo! wrote:Kings-Magic Preview
By NICOLINO DIBENEDETTO (STATS Writer) 11 hours ago AP - Sports
The Orlando Magic are expected to have their top scorer back.
They certainly could have used him their last time out.
With Arron Afflalo likely back, the Magic will try to bounce back from their worst shooting performance of the season and send the Sacramento Kings to a fifth straight road loss Saturday night.
Afflalo leads Orlando (8-18) with 21.6 points per game, and that production was sorely missed in Wednesday's 86-82 loss to Western Conference-worst Utah. With the guard out due to an illness, the Magic shot a season-low 32.6 percent from the floor in their third straight home loss and sixth in seven games.
Afflalo feels he should be healthy enough to return.
"There was a little something going on with my throat or something. I'm fine," he said. "I'll be OK."
Orlando surely hopes so, as it could use some offensive help since it's averaging 91.5 points while dropping nine of 11 games, after scoring 100.0 in the first 15.
"We gotta get those stops in play with a little more pace," Afflalo said of solving the recent scoring slump. "We can't count on half-court execution for a full 48 minutes, so the more we can get the proper stops and get out there and get some transition 3s and some fast-break layups. Hopefully, generate some fouls. Whatever it takes to get us back up in the hundreds."
Improvement from Victor Oladipo would also help. The rookie guard went 1 for 12 with a season-low three points Wednesday, two days after going 3 for 12 to finish with eight points in an 83-82 win at Chicago.
Oladipo, the second overall pick in the June draft, isn't dwelling on his recent performances.
"You gotta let it go, especially in this league," he said. "If you let it build up and let it stay with you, you still not going to play well the next game. That game has come and gone, so I'm not really worried about it."
The Magic lost both meetings with Sacramento (7-18) last season, including a 125-101 defeat at home Feb. 27.
The Kings, though, are 2-8 on the road, losing four straight while surrendering 114.3 points per game and 53.5 percent shooting - 50.6 from beyond the arc.
Those struggles continued Friday with a 122-103 loss at Miami, which connected on 61.4 percent of its field goals.
The Kings shot 58.1 percent - and still lost by 19 points. Shooting that well and losing by that much simply doesn't happen in the NBA, or at least, hadn't happened since April 5, 1986, when Phoenix shot 61.1 percent and lost to Sacramento 119-100.
"Every day in practice, every shootaround, every team meeting, every film session, all we talk about is our defense and obviously the message isn't getting through," coach Michael Malone said. "They're not accepting it. They're not willing to accept it. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I have to find five guys (Saturday) night starting in Orlando who are willing to compete on the defensive end of the floor."
DeMarcus Cousins is doing his part offensively, averaging 28.3 points, 10.7 rebounds and 5.7 assists while hitting 62.5 percent from the floor during this four-game road trip. The center scored 27 points on 11-of-15 shooting against the Heat.
He's totaled 22 points in two visits to Orlando.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/kings-magi ... --nba.html
dr3's Recliner of Rage
Yesterday, I began my day like any other. A bowl of Wal-Mart brand Great Value™ Strawberry Awake® cereal, a couple swigs of Homemaker Premium® Florida Squeezed Orange Juice, and Steve Harvey's syndicated television talk show Steve Harvey.
The show began as many episodes do, with host Steve Harvey answering audience questions, applying his characteristic wit and charm to his unique brand of humorous life advise. In the next segment after the commercial break, Steve was to share the footage of his trip to the White House and his knee-slapping and occasionally insightful interview with US President Barack Obama. Naturally I wanted to record this, so I set my AT&T U-verse® Digital TV box to record the event. But a thought occurred to me: I would also like to record that first segment with Steve answering audience questions cleverly. So I devised a plan: I backed up the TV coverage to the beginning of the show using the rewind button on my remote and then pressed record. The interview was just as terrific as one could have expected, and my delight was all the greater knowing that I would have this program recorded on my AT&T U-verse® Digital TV box for years and years to come, to watch again whenever I wanted.
It wasn't until the program was over and I looked through my recorded programs to play it again that I discovered the huge problem. The first segment never recorded! To my chagrin, the AT&T U-verse® Digital TV system did not allow me to record the earlier material, even though it allowed me to watch it again, 10 minutes after it originally aired. I would never be able to watch those few minutes of Steve Harvey bantering cheekily with audience members before interviewing the President. Gone forever will be that indelible moment in television history.
In the end, I was left with only the 21 minutes of recorded TV that I really wanted to be able to maybe see again someday, and not the other 9 minutes that I kind of wanted to be able to maybe see again someday.
Bottom line, Orlando (and outlying regions both domestic and abroad):
AT&T U-verse® Digital TV needs to improve the software on their cable boxes to allow you to record programming prior to real-time.
