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Written by Maxwell Effort
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Sunday, 14 June 2009 21:31 |
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The final buzzer has sounded on the Orlando Magic's season and we get to watch the Los Angeles Lakers celebrate a NBA championship at the Amway Arena.
Considering I did not expect the Magic to be in this position during the season nor in the playoffs I am pretty darn satisfied with this season. You simply cannot fault the effort or the desire that this team showed. They just ran into what might be the most talented team in basketball playing fantastic team ball at a very high level.
This was more so about the Lakers as a whole than it was about Kobe Bryant. Though he was great like always and the national media can now resume their Kobe vs. Jordan talks the fact of the matter is that this was a total team effort. The front court of Gasol and Odom were just fantastic on both ends of the floor and did a great job on Dwight and Rashard. Trevor Ariza was relentless on both ends of the floor as well bothering Hedo on basically every possesion and hitting 3's at a clip that I for one never thought he could. Written off by most except his team Derek Fisher was able to provide the heroics the Lakers needed to get to tonight's closeout game.
In closing out the finals one last thought keeps running through my mind and it has to do with the experience factor. I know Stan kind of laughed at the notion of experience but deep down he cannot believe that. He would never provide his team with an excuse but I will give a minor one. No matter how many basketball games you play at various levels Game 1 (first of the finals) and Game 5 (the closeout game) have to be different than anything you have ever faced. The Lakers simply executed better on both ends of the floor in both and the Magic never really had a response. The Lakers frontcourt will not have their toughness questioned again nor will the team as a whole face criticism for their defensive intensity. These are lessons learned from the way in which Boston was able to defeat them last summer and those very lessons helped transform this Lakers team into what they were in the Finals.
Soon we will look back at this season with an amazing sense of pride but we can discuss that in the coming months. Tonight we give the champions their due and congratulate the Los Angeles Lakers on a hard fought and well deserved NBA Championship.
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Image of the day: Via Orlando Sentinel
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We are Terry and The Pump Fakes, Jareth Cutestory, Vile Feminista, Maxwell Effort, I 3 Freely, Paul Ego, Supply and Demand, El Fantasma de Carlos, The Big Train, The Nickel Steak, Ayo!, and Tyson J. Perfect. Together, we are Magic fans. We remember Nick’s steal against Jordan, Billy Donovan, Scott Skiles, Jerryl Sasser and Reece Gaines, The Mac Attacks, the NBA on NBC, and Grant Hill’s ankle. We also watch TV and read the internet, thus noticing the endless flow of unoriginal Orlando Magic related puns. We have combined to discuss the Magic, the NBA, and from time to time supply side economics and the life of Leonardo da Vinci. Together we are The Puns Are Starting to Bore Me.
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