[JNice]

Nice start to the 4th. Turk with the cram and Super Mario with the layup.

I hate to say it, but Mario looks like he is slowly improving.

[JNice]

Hey, that Duncan guy is pretty good.

[hobojoe]

Come on now, that's not a foul unless that's Tim Duncan shooting the ball.

We need to pull this game out, get Turkoglu some open looks, he's shooting really well tonight.

[hobojoe]

Magic open up a 10 point lead with a couple minutes to play.

[hobojoe]

I think the calls have really favored the Magic tonight. It hasn't been a horribly officiated game, but it hasn't been very good. They're making up for robbing the Magic in San Antonio a week ago.

[hobojoe]

Magic win!


Boxscore

[Idunkonyou]

Good win for the Magic. Good to see this team go at least 5-5 in that tough 10 game stretch in which they had to play 9 west teams and the only east team they played was the Heat, on the road, on the back end of a back to back.

January and February are looking mighty easy. In January the Magic only have to play 3 teams that are 2 games over .500 for the entire month. In February they only have 11 games and 7 of those are at home.

The Magic have a chance to go on a huge winning streak IMO.

[JNice]

Originally posted by hobojoe!
I think the calls have really favored the Magic tonight. It hasn't been a horribly officiated game, but it hasn't been very good. They're making up for robbing the Magic in San Antonio a week ago.

That, and the fact that the Spurs couldn't shoot free throws worth crap. But i'll take it.

8 quarters against SA this year and Orlando basically won or been even in all but the 4th qtr of that last game.

[X-Factor]

Magic win despite me picking against them for the first time this season. Damn I really do suck.

[JNice]

Originally posted by Minnesota Magician!
Magic win despite me picking against them for the first time this season. Damn I really do suck.

[JNice]

Post-Game Quotes

On not playing Dwight Howard down the stretch: “They really had all smalls at that point. Tim Duncan was the only big guy they had in the game and we had Tony in. So we went with a little smaller group to match that up a little bit better. I thought Dwight was huge for us just in rebounding and blocking shots he did a terrific job for us. The fact that he wasn’t ion the game late in the fourth quarter was nothing about how he wasn’t playing or something he wasn’t doing, it was just that the match up wasn’t a favorable one for him at that point.”

Legit answer.

On what Coach Davis said to the team in the second quarter after the delay of game technicals: “One of the things that we have to have with our group is good balance and not get over emotional about things. We have to understand that sometimes calls are going to go against us but it’s not prudent to react in a way that gives you techs and puts the referees against us because it’s human nature that if you’re screaming at a guy, he’s not going to like you quite as much. I thought that once we got things calmed down, we got back to playing our game, took the focus off the officials because it’s never the officials. Sure, they make bad calls but it goes both ways. Some nights you get more than the other guys but you still have to play. I don’t ever want officials or lack of calls to be a reason that we don’t compete at a high level.”

Another good answer.

[hobojoe]

I like those answers from Davis. I really don't like the habit this team has of picking up techs. Francis, Turkoglu, Cato and Davis all do it. It's acceptable from the coach from time to time, but I really don't like anyone else picking up techs more than once in a blue moon.

[DwyaneWade4MVP]

Yeah, great win against the Spurs!!! Unfortunately a bad day for Dwight Howard....1-9 shooting...

[hobojoe]

Originally posted by DwyaneWade4MVP!
Yeah, great win against the Spurs!!! Unfortunately a bad day for Dwight Howard....1-9 shooting...

Honestly, watching the game it wasn't like Howard forced a bunch of stuff and was just missing shots, almost all of his misses(I'd say at least 4 or 5) came off failed put back attempts off offensive rebounds. He played a great game defensively though, blocking shots and challenging many others.