I told myself I wasn’t gonna watch any Magic games for a while after that Miami game…I don’t know. I just thought they would’ve been better at this point. Good win this game…but I"m not sure we can keep pace with the Celtics, Lakers, and Cavs with our inconsistency. I don’t know if it’s Jameer or not, but we’ve been coasting in games.

I have been very critical in the past!

but dont get down on vince so much, he didint shoot well tonight but he distributed the ball well and played good d

I know it’s still very early in the season, and the Magic have not had a full healthy roster for a single game yet. I also know that the changes implemented on the off-season require MAYOR work during the season and that it’s going to take time. Furthermore, I witnessed what this Team CAN change when it’s crunch-time, during the Playoffs.

All of this makes ANY real Magic fan pause and temper any harsh judgment… at this point.

Still… I found this blog by to be quite eye-popping and to the point:
“This team is just plain too soft. And for those folks who keep saying “it’s only 1 game”, or “look at our record”, first of all the Magic have played horrible defense all season thus far, and secondly their record is 15 and 1 against sub 500 teams, and 4 and 6 against teams 500 or better. So if you take away the cream puffs the Magic are just basically a 500 team at best. To prove my point I say that the Magic over these next 5 home games will have a record of 1 and 4. And I am not trying to be a wise guy here. I am being totally serious. 4 of these opponents are over 500. Milwaukee is 1 game below 500." – jflygo37 (12/18/2009, The Orlando Sentinel, 3:58 PM )

To this I may add… I keep reading, “It’s only one game”; or, “there is no correlation between game-to-game performance during the regular season, and during the Playoffs”.

Well…This is NOT “just one more game” lost. This is 3 out of 4 games lost. The Magic were TIED for the best record in the entire NBA just 2 weeks ago… NOW we’re in FOURTH place in the East… Second, in the Southeast DIVISION!

The Team IS capable of pulling out of this slump (It IS a “slump”). The personnel is certainly THERE!

But… IF WE DON’T, and the Magic are eliminated in… say the first round; THEN, I can promise you that heads WILL roll. The owners of this Team have not gone so deep into the Penalty box to have this kind of nonsense, err results. I tell you… this Team better shape up, or it WILL be disassembled.

NOTE: By the way; the way we started the first half of the Portland game does NOT inspire confidence that anything will change… more of the same!