F_ck the Orlando Magic

[EC123]

I really don't care which team the Bobcats play in the Playoffs, but I keep hearing this crap about how the Bobcats don't match up well with the Orlando Magic and how there's no way they could be the Magic in a Playoff series.

Sure, the Bobcats lost 3 out of 4 to Orlando, but that was before the Bobcats became the unit that they are now. Constructed as they currently are, I think the Bobcats are the team other than Cleveland (because of Shaq and Ilguaskis) that has THE best chance of beating Orlando.

When the Bobcats enter the Playoffs, they should have a healthy Ratliff, Chandler, Muhammad, and Diop to throw at Dwight Howard, in addition to Thomas providing help defense. This is a significant development. When they were getting decimated by Orlando in the first 3 matches, they never had "ALL" of those guys playing. They destroyed Orlando last time they played with just Chandler, Ratliff, and Thomas playing. Add Muhammad and Diop, and Howard will eventually get frustrated. Might even play a couple of those guys together.

Larry Hughes will make a big difference against the Magic since he can play all three wing positions. With Hughes, the Bobcats now have a huge advantage in the backcourt. Sure, the Magic have Carter and Nelson, and Carter is probably a future Hall of Famer (if he ever wins one), but the Bobcats have more quality overall now, when you have Augustine, Hughes, and Graham coming off the bench to compliment Felton, Jackson, and Wallace.

I think Diaw and Lewis are a wash unless Lewis is on, but you never know when either of those guys will bother to show up.

I do not fear the Magic at all, even though the last game where the Bobcats beat the Magic was a back to back for the Magic with one hour of sleep lost due to Daylights Savings Time.

Based on the bench the Bobcats now have, I think they have more quality depth than Orlando, and that will be the difference, despite Howard and Carter.

We haven't seen the entire Bobcats roster healthy all season, and we still aren't these last few games of the season but if all of their bigs are available in that series (as they are expected to be), I think Magic players are going to be in for a big surprise.

[ammofan]

I think it would be great fun to play ORL in rd 1. I can only imagine the hecklers getting on "superman", Vince, J-Will etc etc......
But playing Boston would be freaking awesome.........I would be in KG's ear all night lol

As far as who we can win easiest againest........I dont really care. We can beat anyone!

[BETCATS]

I think we can beat Orlando. They are a team that dies on the three as much as they live off it, and if we force them to try (they will oblige) we can beat them as long as we dont do the same thing. And as you said, Dwight will be flustered by our collection of bigs. I see us winning or at least taking it to 7 games. If we can win 1 in Orlando and just defend our home court the way we have all season, its ours. Its easier to type that then do it.

[nazsquad]

While Orlando might be tough to beat, we might as well get them out of the way early. Win one the first 2, win the next two at home, and try to seal the deal in 5 or 6.

IF we can beat Orlando, Atl will most likely be next which we match up very well against. Just think, the Bobcats could be in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Cavs.....who we are 3-1 against this year. How amazing would that be.

I think our best bet is to let D. Howard get his points and not double him too much. This way we cover the three point shot and shut down streaky shooters like Vince, Lewis, etc

[Ribs]

I'll take my chances with the shooters of Orlando and trust that our club can play good enough defense to contain them in that area. The one thing that can't happen is letting Howard beat us down low. They should be fouling him every single time he gets the ball on the block. He's a career 53% free throw shooter so keep him on the line and make him win it that way. We've got enough bigs to platoon them and rotate the fouls.

It will be interesting to see what strategy LB decides to use.

[CatNation]

The strategy we used last game seemed to work pretty well. Let our Cs guard him one on one and get his. He went 12/14 or something vs theo last time but we won because nobody else on the team knew what to do when they werent spotting up for wide open 3s. Not to mention they got a very lucky performance from Pietrus who was playing way above his normal level.

We definitely can beat them, its a matter of if stern and the refs want to give us a chance.

[Dexmor]

I actually think they matchup very well vs them.

Howard-We got 18 fouls
Lewis-We got 2 pf's who can guard the 3
Barnes-His strenth is toughness but would Crash even notice?
Carter-his and Jackson take out each other
Nelson-Got Felton and DJ, perfect.

[lforce31]

ok ok ok i have heard enough, my goodness charlotte fans are you serious, read what some of you are writing, first orlando has the #1 defense in the country as well as the #2 offense in the country, we have playoff experiance which you dont and larry hughes, freaking larry hughes is going to make a huge difference for you guys and gives you a better back court. I have seen some fanbases that are just clueless but you guys are saying some crazy things, now can you have faith in your team yes but staking claims that who else has as deep a bench as we do.......really have you not seen orlando's bench and how deep they are, have you not seen them average more points a night than some other teams starters. have you not seen that Brandon bass cant get consistent minutes because there is such a log jam. guys faith is great but you have got to really think before you type. i will give you one maybe two games but other than that its first round exit for you guys. and if you do better hey thats great for you but lets not sit around and stomp all over the magic and say they dont scare me one bit cuz remember charlotte they have the 2nd best record in the league, you have the 7th best in the east. thats saying something so not being a little nervous about your team facing a great team means one thing, your retarded or you didnt graduate high school. anyways best of luck i truely wish you the best i just cant stand the bashing going on and had to throw in my two cents...

[spectre]

Orlando doesn't scare me one bit...and we're going to stomp all over them.



Edit...to the outraged Mickey fan: paragraphs are your (and our) friend.

[lforce31]

Orlando doesn't scare me one bit...and we're going to stomp all over them.



Edit...to the outraged Mickey fan: paragraphs are your (and our) friend.

oh i appologize for my horrible grammar skills, you see i didnt go to college and i work at disney because thats all there is in orlando, speaking of things in cities whats in charlotte, oh wait nevermind i already know because my wife is from concord and now i live in hawaii but am in charlotte visiting my in laws.


listen i didnt come on to bash you guys but you give the magic no credit at all and then make fun of my grammar with no intelecual response. its childish. go over to the magic forum, we are at least giving you some sort of credit. not saying we are freaking out but saying that you are at least a good team. but not here, just a bunch of people making outrageous claims. whatever, i wish you well in the series but i would be a little nervous if i were you, the magic always show up in big games and sometimes sluff off a little in ones that dont mean much, and guess what the charlotte bobcats didnt mean much in the regular season, playoffs are a bit of a different story.


anyhow i hope that my post this time was a little easier for you to read and now maybe you can make an educated post this time. thanks.