A Heart-Thumping Victory of Orlando Magic(Dec.25,2010 game)

It's December 25,2010 in Amway Center, Orlando,FL. It's the 4th game of the newly-traded players. And it's gonna be against the number one team in the East, Boston Celtics. Celtics had just won a 14 game winning streak until this day when Magic snapped it! Last Thursday, Dec.23, they also snapped the 10 game winning streak of San Antonio Spurs, the number one team in the west. They head Spurs 22 points behind, 123-101. It's kinda scary because they just traded 4 new players from other teams. Gilbert Arenas from Washingotn Wizards. Then, Hedo Turkuoglu, Jason Richardson and Earl Clark from Phoenix Suns. They only had one practice last Wednesday. They lost the 1st 2 games which is understandable because the 4 players just flew from their roadtrip games and barely has clothes to change. Not even a good rest. But then, after they practiced last Wednesday, after a "not-so-bad" loss from Mavericks, Magic came out strong against the Spurs on thursday. Then come saturday, on Christmas Day which is a tradition every year, Magic almost lost it to Celtics until Jameer Nelson made that two 3-point clutches under 3 minutes in the 4th quarter. Then JJ made 2 in 50 seconds left. Then Jameer made 4 free-throws that lead Magic on an 8 point win against Celtics, 86-78. The first 4 minutes of the game, Magic came on fire with 13-0 but Celtics managed to snatched that away and led the scoring from 1st to 3rd quarter. The biggest lead even came to 12 points I think. Start of 4th quarter, Celtics is ahead of 10 points. But Magic fought...and they got it! The much needed win, to boost their shattered confidence for the last 8 lost games they had. But honestly, they didn't play that good tonight. I thought they were terrible. Their shots are failing. They didn't play as good as with Spurs the other night. Dwight only had one field goal and only made 6 baskets and a rubbish technical foul. But what matters most is...they won! That's all that matters for the team. So, ESPN analysts, what's up? Hey Magic Johnson, were you laughing and taunting Magic earlier, right? So what now?

Will The Magic Still Works?

There has been a drastic change for my favorite basketball team, Orlando Magic last weekend. Four key players are traded to other teams. After they had proven themselves for the past 2 years for being a team that will bring championship to their homecourt, some internal issues came up and believed there are some personal reasons why the team is not making magic for the last 7 games they had. After that stomach virus that hit the team in Chicago, although they won the game against Chicago despite Howard, Nelson, Redick, Pietrus,and Anderson was out, they were able to win it and proved that the bench players can do it! But even then, the team's chemistry, for some reason, fell apart. Was it the virus? Is there some ego tripping going on? Who knows, but there's definitely something's going wrong. Otis Smith, the general manager is in a bad position for making this abrupt change.
And so, last Saturday, he traded Rashard Lewis(my favorite Sweet Lew!) to Wizards's Gilbert Arenas and will play as back-up for Jameer Nelson as point guard. Then, they got Jason Richardson,Hedo Turkoglu and Earl Clark from Phoenix Suns to trade Vince Carter, Mikael Pietrus and Marcin Gortat. I have seen Jason play and he's pretty good, Hedo is always been Hedo. But he never played good since he left Magic last year. I dunno about Clark, I know nothing about him. This change that Magic does is pretty scary for me. Well, I don't play basketball, I am just merely a fan of the game and I know little. But I wish this change they made will make the people of Florida proud. Though we have the big 3 down south(Miami Heat), I don't particularly like Lebron, so I don't care much about that team. I wrote this blog because I want to express my sadness. I love Rashard Lewis, I love Vince Carter and I like Mikael Pietrus a lot! But I agree that I noticed that sweet Lew's not doing great lately. I still believe in Vince, but it seems like he's not the "go-to" guy that they need. Mikael is hurt all the time and lacks aggression in driving the basket. Rashard and Vince is both 33 yrs old now and i guess age has to do with it. I think they were passed their prime. I feel sorry for Vince. He was so happy that he plays for Magic this past season because he was born and grew up here in Daytona. He was supposed to be the hometown hero! He had done a lot of community service for this city and even built a nice restaurant recently. I dunno...I hate to see them go. There's a game tonight in Atlanta against the Hawks. I don't know if it's even worth watching. But I will...out of curiosity. I wish them all the best.

The BB Experiment

I guess you'd say it's just one of those bored days and I just thought of doing some revisions of Brandon's photos. Actually these are taken from the video. I made like still photos of the video and did some revisions or say, experiment, as i would like to put it. Enjoy...