03-30-2012, 03:22 AM
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GDT: Dallas Mavericks @ Orlando Magic, March 30, 7:00 p.m. central
I've never started a GDT so I'll give it a shot.
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The Orlando Magic have lacked consistency over the last two weeks, experiencing blowout losses that are becoming all too familiar.
The Dallas Mavericks know the feeling.
Orlando seeks to avoid a sixth straight home loss to Dallas on Friday night in a matchup of teams coming off lopsided defeats.
The Magic (32-19) scored a season-high 117 points in a win over Toronto on Monday, but they followed with a 108-86 loss at New York on Wednesday that snapped their three-game winning streak.
Orlando has split its last eight games -- all decided by double digits -- with the four defeats coming by an average of 17.3 points.
It's been a similar story lately for Dallas (29-23), dropping three of its past five games with each loss coming by at least 16 points. The Mavericks fell 106-85 in Miami on Thursday and now make the short trip to Orlando looking to keep Dwight Howard in check, just as the Knicks did Wednesday.
Howard scored 12 points -- his fewest in a game since the All-Star break -- and his five rebounds were one off a season low.
He said the Magic can't pick and choose when they want to play hard if they plan to make a postseason run.
"It's the same thing I've been telling the guys: Our effort has to be consistent," Howard said. "If we want to win a championship every guy has to buy in to playing the right way every night. If we don't do that we're going to be sitting at home early (during the playoffs)."
Coach Stan Van Gundy also has been perplexed by the up-and-down performances given Orlando is in third place in the Eastern Conference. The Magic have scored fewer than 70 points four times, including a franchise-low 56 in a loss to Boston on Jan. 23 and most recently in an 85-59 defeat to Chicago on March 19.
"What is shocking to me is a team that is playing over .600 basketball can get absolutely rocked as many times as we have been -- Boston, New Orleans (a 93-67 loss Jan. 27), Chicago and (Wednesday). That's what's mind-boggling to me," Van Gundy told the team's official website. "It will happen some if you are a bad team. But to be a .600 team and get crushed like that as many times as we have, that's shocking."
The Magic have lost five in a row at home to Dallas, with four coming by at least nine points. The exception was a 105-99 defeat Dec. 21, 2010, in the most recent meeting in Orlando.
The Mavericks, though, have lost nine of 11 away from home and have given up an average of 104.2 points over their last six road games. They're among the league leaders in points allowed at 93.3 per game.
Dallas was outscored 26-13 in the fourth quarter Thursday as Dirk Nowitzki missed all five of his field-goal attempts. Nowitzki, though, scored a game-high 25 points and is averaging 25.9 over his last nine games.
"We got some good looks, got some rolls, had everything going," Nowitzki said. "Then they really picked up their pressure and we didn't have many good looks."
An injured Nowitzki missed the last meeting as Orlando won 117-107 on Jan. 8, 2011, behind Howard's 23 points and 13 rebounds. Howard is averaging 30.0 points and 16.7 boards in his last three home games in the series.
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03-30-2012, 08:03 AM
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you made 4DN1 cry....
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03-30-2012, 09:56 AM
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you made 4DN1 cry....
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Lol'd, true story.
Gotta recover after last night fellas. Let's go Mavericks!
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03-30-2012, 10:38 AM
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Dirk needs to go off tonight - remind Dwight what kind of an elite floor-spacer he could be teaming up with in the future...
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03-30-2012, 10:47 AM
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must win
go mavsssssss
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03-30-2012, 11:42 AM
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gotta win this one, cant go 0-2 in Florida.
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03-30-2012, 12:35 PM
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Must win.
Just look at the freakin standings.
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03-30-2012, 02:32 PM
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The last time either team won at home in this matchup was December 17, 2007. (Road teams have gone 7-0 since.)
The last time Orlando won this matchup at home was March 31, 2006. (The Mavs have won the last five.)
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03-30-2012, 02:32 PM
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Hopefully Haywood plays.
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03-30-2012, 04:06 PM
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Jets just said something to the media.....SOO this is a sure L according to some...on to the next game.
GOOO MAVS
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03-30-2012, 04:16 PM
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Jets just said something to the media.....SOO this is a sure L according to some...on to the next game.
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Nobody ever slightly insinuated that we'd lose because Jason Terry talked to the media.
But he did say that he wanted to play for the Miami Heat after turning in a 1-10 performance against them, so f*ck him...
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03-30-2012, 05:30 PM
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When was the last time we lost in Orlando?
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03-30-2012, 05:41 PM
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"So Jet do you see yourself in Orlando blue next year?
"The uniforms are nice and there's a shot at the ring, sure why not. I can help Dwight win one here and keep him in Orlando"
It's the Jet free agent tour.
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03-30-2012, 05:48 PM
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Lol did he really say that? This is getting annoying...
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03-30-2012, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by MavsFTR
Lol did he really say that? This is getting annoying...
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Nah, not yet, I'm sure someone in the Orlando media will have a followup FA question. That's what these media types do to get their names pumped around the country.
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03-30-2012, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Kidd Karma
"So Jet do you see yourself in Orlando blue next year?
"The uniforms are nice and there's a shot at the ring, sure why not. I can help Dwight win one here and keep him in Orlando"
It's the Jet free agent tour.
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Lol
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03-30-2012, 07:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Underdog
Nobody ever slightly insinuated that we'd lose because Jason Terry talked to the media.
But he did say that he wanted to play for the Miami Heat after turning in a 1-10 performance against them, so f*ck him...
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I'd like some clarification on this point - I actually recall reading that he made those comments before the game. Doesn't matter ultimately but I wonder it would be interesting if he really had that inflated an opinion of himself after the game.
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RT @TyLawson3 Good game between Dallas and Portland. Good thing we didn't end up getting Dallas. Coach Karl lost his mind.
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03-30-2012, 07:11 PM
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Sometimes I forget how cold-blooded Vince is...
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03-30-2012, 07:13 PM
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Sometimes I forget how cold-blooded Dirk is...
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03-30-2012, 07:15 PM
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Dirks been fouled twice now, no call
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03-30-2012, 07:16 PM
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Haywood looking sharp.
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These days being a fan is a competition to see who can be the most upset when
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03-30-2012, 07:17 PM
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Vince looking good again.
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03-30-2012, 07:17 PM
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Hack - a - Howard?
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03-30-2012, 07:26 PM
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Gotta grab some damn boards...
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03-30-2012, 07:26 PM
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Just bad...
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03-30-2012, 07:27 PM
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Guess their tired.. Bad passes and bad rebounding
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03-30-2012, 07:31 PM
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Smh.
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You say it in Brazil, you say Dirk, they know Nowitzki. You say it in China,
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03-30-2012, 07:32 PM
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god i don't even know if i want to watch the rest of this game; i'll stick through the 1st half i guess, but if they're down double-digits at the half, there's pretty much zero chance of a comeback.
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03-30-2012, 07:32 PM
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Please, please more open shots for Orlando and did Terry just made a shot? On the road?
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03-30-2012, 07:36 PM
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Wow... Anyone has a little effort they could share?
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03-30-2012, 07:36 PM
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lmao, that's about right to end the quarter.
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03-30-2012, 07:43 PM
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Booyakadirk
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03-30-2012, 07:43 PM
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Man, seems to be tough playing smart...
Good to have West back!
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03-30-2012, 07:44 PM
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Odom looks disinterested so far today.
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03-30-2012, 07:45 PM
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dirk's 3-point stroke looking gorgeous tonight! perhaps things are looking up?
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03-30-2012, 07:48 PM
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Wright needs to learn how to play defense! Gets annoying, his man is always open under the rim!
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03-30-2012, 07:49 PM
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great effort by odom in getting back on defense
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03-30-2012, 07:49 PM
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What? Crawford indoctrinating some young ref or what?
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03-30-2012, 07:50 PM
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Why is Carter still starting when we got West back? Carter should be a backup 3.
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03-30-2012, 07:53 PM
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Awful D, wow... What happened?
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