NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
It often seems like a mistake to me that teams will go so far in the playoffs, lose and then use that loss as a map for how the team should be defined the following year. For example, if your team loses to a team with a big center that posts up, like a Shaq, then in the off season you trade a starter to get a defensive low post player. That rarely makes sense to me.
Orlando failed to consult with NBAObsessed and went ahead and …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
You have Chris Bosh. He is an excellent player and almost nobody in the USA realizes it. Chris will be a free agent next year and may want to belong to a different NBA team. Is he that good? What do you do?
He played on the Olympic team, you know.
During the tournament itself, Bosh operated as the main backup to center Dwight Howard as Team USA went unbeaten in all eight games en route to the gold medal, defeating Spain in the …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
This will be more about opinion and less about facts, sorry about that. Hedo Turkoglu has opted out of Orlando and will be a free agent. Orlando decided to sign Vince Carter from New Jersey.
Wait, those are facts. Now comes the opinion, and feel free to chime in and disagree.
Orlando will be worse off with Vince Carter. While Carter can put up numbers, he does not play winning basketball and he cannot check anyone. Ok, he held my grandma to less than 10 …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Hey, this Dwight Howard guy is pretty darn good. Well, we all know that is an underestimation for the ages. Howard has been dominant.
Oh, yes, LeBron has been LeBron and is still clearly the greatest player this side of Kobe Bryant, but Howard has turned his team into winners and carried them on his back. When he becomes unstoppable underneath, then the Orlando shooters like Rashard Lewis, Hedo Turkoglu, Rafer Alston, and Michael Pietrus become great 3 point shooters.
Vinnie Johnson once remarked after making a …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
You know we have sort of been sidetracked by the Chicago Bulls/ Boston Celtics series that became very interesting once Kevin Garnett was announced out of the playoffs with an injury. Don’t look now, but the pesky Philadelphia 76ers are giving the Orlando Magic all they can handle.
The 76ers made play after play at the end of the 4th quarter to almost pull out game four, in spite of Orlando’s 10 point lead. It all came down to a botched pick play by Orlando on offense …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
LeBron James is partying at the thought of all the NBA players available in 2009

Even with all the big name free agents in 2010, with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh in the group, the year 2009 could still be the year of the free agent.
Try this out for 2009.
Some of the Restricted Free Agents: Andrew Bynum, Marvin Williams, Jason Maxiell
Some of the players that can opt out of contracts: Kobe Bryant, Carlos Boozer, Rip Hamilton, Hedo Turkoglu
True Free Agents: Shawn Marion, Andre Miller, Rasheed Wallace
So what …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
LeBron James salutes Team USA

Wow! Small news. Team USA beats Turkey. Turkey with no Memo Okur and no Hedo Turkoglu.
No Hedo Turkoglu for Turkey? No problem for LeBron Ameri-James. Evidently the sprained ankle is a thing of the past.
James was 8-of-9 from the field and finished with six rebounds, five steals and four assists in 23 minutes, sitting out the fourth quarter.
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Team USA had a lot of problems paying attention in this game and kind of let the Turks hang around for a …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Tayshaun Prince can be the Prince, if LeBron James is the King.
Prince is known more for his defense than his offense and he has shown that side in the playoffs guarding Hedo Turkoglu on two game winning attempts that failed, one of them blocked in a spectacular piece of defense.
Actual his best block was on an attempted breakaway jam by Keith Bogans. Tayshaun slapped it away and Bogans still went through the motions of a dunk, but without a basketball.
In the NBA Playoffs Tayshaun is …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Hedo Turkoglu misses over Jason Maxiell with game 4 of the Orlando Magic vs. Detroit Pistons NBA playoffs on the line
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The Orlando Magic had great chances to win game two and game four of the second round series with Detroit.
In game two, Rashard Lewis had the ball with seconds on the clock and Orlando down by 1. He chose to drive to the hole and put up a funky shot while guarded by McDyess. Rashard …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Rashard Lewis – We beat the Pistons!
Young teams have to go through a growth cycle and it appears that the Orlando Magic took a big step in that growth cycle.
The Magic beat the Pistons 102 to 100.
The Pistons had pounded the Magic on a regular basis
It had gotten to the point that some of the Magic were tired of the losing and some of them half expected to just lose again.
This is the growth cycle.
You must overcome the psychological hurdles that the great teams can throw at you. …read more