Orlando Magic News for September 17th: Improvement for Ryan Anderson, Insurance for Daniel Orton, and More
by Evan Dunlap on Sep 17, 2010 4:38 PM EDT
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Print- Why We Should Expect Improvement From Ryan Anderson | Howard the Dunk
Andrew Melnick of Howard The Dunk explains why "we should expect nothing less than continued improvement" for Orlando Magic power forward Ryan Anderson, 22, who's entering his third pro season, and second with Orlando.
- Magic Sign Malik Allen
In his write-up on the news that the Magic signed veteran big man Malik Allen for training camp, Philip Rossman-Reich of Orlando Magic Daily wonders if Allen is merely "some insurance" in case rookie center Daniel Orton "is not ready to play in the NBA quite yet."
- UPDATE (this bullet only) Stan Van Gundy was main factor in Malik Allen signing – Orlando Magic BasketBlog
Zach McCann of the Orlando Sentinel spoke to Allen's agent, Andy Miller, about how Allen wound up in Orlando. Magic coach Stan Van Gundy, who knows Allen from their days together with the Miami Heat, was instrumental in the process.
Via a Magic press release, the team's "Championship for Charity" golf tournament this morning raised $165,000 for the Orlando Magic Youth Foundation.
- SLAM ONLINE | SLAM 142: On Sale Now!
In promoting the latest issue of SLAM, which features Magic center Dwight Howard on one of the two covers, Ben Osbourne says the Magic are overlooked as title contenders.
Forget the Heat for a second; the Magic haven’t even gotten the same hype this offseason as the Celtics [...] But that doesn’t mean they won’t be a worthy challenger.
- The NBA, A-through-Z: Energy guys - Ball Don't Lie
Yahoo! Sports' Kelly Dwyer begins his essay about NBA "energy guys" with a photo of former Magic player/current Magic community ambassador Bo Outlaw. It's hard to imagine a player who bests Outlaw as an example of an "energy guy," isn't it?
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I think Dennis Rodman was the typical energy guy.
I don’t know if people realize how good he was at basketball though, due to the insane off court distractions. In my opinion, he was the greatest rebounder ever, and no one is close.
Good point. I was thinking of the fact that DA usually wasn’t a great shooter, but he was a good distributor. I’m too used to the water-cooler talk, where “energy guy” is a way for someone to describe a player who’s a good defender but bad on offense. Outlaw was just disgustingly tenacious – he wouldn’t outskill you, but the moment you made a mistake he jumped on it.
Honor is no substitute for victory.
Outlaw did a lot of little things.
His defense (steals and blocks,) definitely. But the thing I’ll always remember about Outlaw…
Well, okay. After the blocks, and the goggles, and his freakishly huge arms, the other thing I’ll always remember about Bo is his mastery of the outlet pass. Now, that was a guy who could get the ball down the court.
And while Armstrong wasn’t a great shooter, he was better than he probably seemed at the time, because almost half his shots were threes. TS% during his prime with Orlando was generally in the 54-55% range, which was probably a little above league average given how low-scoring the league as a whole was in that era.
Of course, his TS% was probably also a bit inflated by all the technical FTs he shot.
Unless, of course, it takes playing time away from Ryan Anderson.
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