Amidst all the talk this year about the Eastern Conference being back, the Orlando Magic just got beat down by the Lakers so bad in Game 1 and looked so over-matched that it's hard not to think that the Eastern Conference was a bit of a sham this year. And shame on us for not realizing this sooner, after all a team like the Suns didn't even make the Western Conference Playoffs, while I don't even want to get into the Eastern Conference Playoff race.This Magic team, which everyone conveniently forgot had their problems with the 76ers and were taken to the max by a worn down, beat-up Celtics team before they shot the lights out exposing the weaknesses of the Cavaliers last series. But all anyone remembered was the Cavs series, and believed they were undefendable. Looks like they can miss three-pointers after all.
Maybe Dwight can call out Stan Van Gundy again after the game. That is if he can finally stop talking about how butt-hurt he is he didn't get to shake King James hand. Maybe he should have spent a little less time reflecting about a missed handshake and a little more time worrying about the Lakers frontcourt - a little bigger challenge than the joke he used and abused last series.
So happy to see they didn't scrap the puppet commercials, instead we get a shameless, unapologetic, ineffective, revamped, pewch bunch of whiny commercials we have to sit through. Thanks Nike, you continue to be a classy company.
This Magic team is still good, they can't win this series but hopefully they can heat it up a bit and at least make the games more entertaining - if they don't make this at all competitive their defeat of the Lebrons will end up being a bigger blow to the NBA than initially thought.
