03-05-2003, 06:35 PM
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Sweet as Wildhoney
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: North Carolina
Age: 22
Posts: 4,393
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Originally posted by <b>Jamal</b>!
The Magic are full of "if's" because we have been hurt by free agency and we've also done some very stupid trades too. We don't have a very good past with those type of things, to be quite honest. Penny Hardaway incident was unlucky, the fact that was lost Shaq was unlucky. We've just had so many screw-ups that our whole past has been a big whole question mark. At one point, with Shaq we were headed to become a dynasty with Penny but from there everything went wrong. I'm too young to remember this so forgive me if I get some of my facts wrong but we still had a pretty good team surrounded with Penny like Horace Grant, Bo Outlaw, Nick Anderson and still Magic player, Darrell Armstrong. Geez, there are plenty other players that were great but none that I can remember off the top of my head right now!
All we can do now is just continue to work with McGrady, Gooden and Giricek and our record since the All-Star break really gives Magic fans a hope for a brighter future. We're not gonna just sit there and cry over the loss of Penny, Webber and Shaq. Obviously, we would have been a dynasty if even one of them stayed since we have T-Mac but everything happens for a reason, it could be a blessing in disguise for the future for all we know, right? Also, maybe McGrady wouldn't have signed to come to Orlando and just go with the Bulls if we had already established superstars here. Too many question marks, the point is we've got a brand new team ever since that trade and our record proves it!
Go Magic!
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Good point. Bad Luck has just hurt this club. BTW, Darrell Armstrong was on the teams but he didn't really play much until the years when Shaq was gone and Penny was oft-injured.
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