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Orlando Magic 111, Chicago Bulls 82: The Morning After

  • The Orlando Magic pound the undermanned Chicago Bulls on Tuesday night, stretching their season-high winning streak to seven games.
    Vince Carter realizes that the playoffs are near.

    There are 16 regular-season games remaining for the Orlando Magic. Although they haven't officially clinched a postseason spot, you can see the pending playoffs written all over Vince Carter's game face. [...]

    "Been a while but I've been there [to the playoffs] and I know what it takes," Carter said. "You have to take the necessary steps to get there. Right now we're playing out best possible basketball and it doesn't matter the opponent." [...]

    Carter looked invigorated. Maybe it was the playoff push. Then again, maybe it was something else. "I think had too much Red Bull before the game," he laughed.
  • Orlando Magic are set to scout the teams they might play in the first round of the NBA playoffs.
    Brian Schmitz states that the scouting staff for the Orlando Magic is going to start to scout possible first-round opponents as the regular season winds down.

    The club went into Thursday night's game against the Chicago Bulls positioned as the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference playoff race. If they held the spot, they would begin the postseason facing the No. 7 seed, which is currently a grab-bag of possibilities.

    Toronto, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Miami and the Bulls are all in the mix at No. 7. The Magic might have to see how the season plays out before knowing their opponent.

    "You just don't know the way teams are bunched down there," Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said. "We'll start watching them more and more intensively."

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Orlando Magic 111, Chicago Bulls 82

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With injuries to Luol Deng and Joakim Noah, the cards were already stacked against the Chicago Bulls when they faced off against the Orlando Magic in front of a nationally-televised audience. Losing Derrick Rose to a wrist injury near the end of the first quarter, when he attacked the basket and collided with Dwight Howard, just exacerbated the discrepancy of talent between two teams heading in completely opposite directions. The Magic won the game by a score of 111-82, extending their winning streak to a season-high seven games.The Bulls' six-game losing streak is slowly taking the team out of the playoff picture with 16 games to go in the regular season. Vince Carter led Orlando with an efficient 23 points (8-13 FG, 2-5 3PT). Rookies Taj Gibson, with 12 points (6-10 FG) and 9 rebounds, and James Johnson, with 13 points (5-9 FG) and 3 steals, played relatively well for Chicago.

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Post-Game Media Availability: Taking Care of Business

Another game, another win.

With a victory against the Chicago Bulls, a depleted team that lost All-Star point guard Derrick Rose to injury near the end of the first quarter, the Orlando Magic extended its winning streak to a season-high seven games. Like its game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday, the Magic took care of business in the first half and coasted to a blowout win. There’s not much else to say, other than Orlando is beating teams it should beat and doing it in impressive fashion.

I was able to speak with Stan Van Gundy amongst the media, as well as Vince Carter, Jameer Nelson one-on-one, Brandon Bass, and Dwight Howard.

Here's what they had to say:

Stan Van Gundy:

Could you talk about the bench, in terms of what they were able to bring to the table?

I thought they brought good energy I thought, particularly in the second quarter … and then I thought in the third quarter, we were really stumbling and not playing very good basketball and I thought Jason [Williams] got us going again so yeah, I was happy. I’m just happy. I think our guys – all of them – are coming in the game with a solid approach, really trying to play consistently from night-to-night and so I’m happy with that.

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Tonight's Orlando Magic Game: vs. Chicago Bulls

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Orlando Magic News for March 11th: New Ways to Work Out; A Look at Jameer Nelson's Passing Ability

  • The Orlando Magic are finding new ways to keep their workouts competitive
    Amanda Angel of ESPN the Magazine explains a workout routine the Orlando Magic conduct that helps with its defense. The purpose of the Velcro is to remain intact, which signifies good defense.

    Joe Rogowski has a bag of tricks and isn't afraid to use it. "Yeah, I incorporate gimmicks," says the Orlando Magic strength and conditioning coach. To take the drudgery out of defensive workouts, Rogowski straps resistance bands around the waists of two players -- in this case, forwards Ryan Anderson and Rashard Lewis -- and links the bands with Velcro. He then designates one guy as an offensive player and the other as defensive. Next he has them go through a series of sprints and shuttle runs, with the offensive player setting the pace and making sudden moves.
  • NBA HD: Adjusting How We Measure and View Assists
    Tom Haberstroh of Hardwood Paroxysm takes a look at how assists are measured and creates a new metric, weighted assists per game, which rewards players who distribute the basketball to high efficiency areas: at the rim and beyond the three-point line. Jameer Nelson rates well in weighted assists per game.

  • Orlando Magic Dunk-In
    Video of Magic players dunking before a game. (via TrueHoop)

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What They're Saying Before the Orlando Magic Face Off Against the Chicago Bulls

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Orlando Magic News for March 10th: Looking Ahead to Free Agency and the Draft

  • Stats Trump Winning in Clipperland -- NBA FanHouse

    Tim Povtak of NBA FanHouse reports that the Orlando Magic may be interested in signing point guard Steve Blake this summer as a free agent. What's more certain is that Drew Gooden, Blake's L.A. Clippers teammate and fellow free-agent-to-be, wants to sign with Orlando this summer, having played there for one-plus seasons early in his career.

    "I would love to come back and play in Orlando. I wanted to come back last summer,'' Gooden said. "But we'll just have to see what happens. This is a business, and nothing is guaranteed.''

    Povtak says the Magic were interested in Gooden last summer but ultimately decided to sign Brandon Bass instead.

  • Orlando Magic BasketBlog -- Magic are better than last year, yes

    Brian Schmitz has another personnel note, writing that we should "look for the Magic to take a point guard in the draft," and that they might be willing to trade up.

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Practice Report: Stan Van Gundy on Dwight Howard's Defense and on Statistics; Marcin Gortat on the Playoffs

There’s one NBA head coach who thinks Dwight Howard deserves to be the Defensive Player of the Year and that’s, unsurprisingly, Stan Van Gundy. Effusive in his praise after practice was over for the Orlando Magic earlier this afternoon, Van Gundy detailed why he thought Howard makes the biggest impact on defense out of any player in the league. Even Marcin Gortat got into the spirit of praising Howard but for a different reason and it had nothing to do with defensive skills. What did he say?

That’s what we call a teaser in journalism.

I was able to speak with Van Gundy amongst the media, as well as Gortat.

Here’s what they had to say:

Stan Van Gundy:

Could you provide your thoughts on the Chicago Bulls after the trade, in which they let John Salmons and others go?

Well, I don’t really know. I mean, in terms of … they’re still playing and starting the guys they started before [the trade]. Flip Murray has sort of taken Salmons’ role, who was a guy coming off the bench scoring, so other than [Joakim] Noah being out with the injury, I don’t think they’re a whole lot different than they were before but I do think the things that have happened is that they’ve had Noah out with injury and then they traded Tyrus Thomas and so their frontline depth is less right now.

With Vince Carter and this time of the year, do you think he’s found a happy medium in the offense at this point?

I think he’s playing very, very well. He’s been very efficient since the first of February and his shooting percentages are very, very high, both from the floor and from three. He’s making great decisions with the ball. I think he’s been fantastic.

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