NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.

There are all kinds of coaches in the NBA, tough coaches, smart coaches, driven coaches, easy coaches, and so on. It seems like a certain kind of coach would be the best coach to win for every team, but that is not the case. Often a coach needs certain kinds of players or a level of players. A great coach may go to another team and not be able to coach at all.

What happened? Did he lose his coaching mojo? Nah! Certain coaches are just better for certain situations.

Sometimes you just need the players. Look at George Karl getting Chauncey Billups in Denver. Can Karl suddenly coach? Nah! He just needed a point guard to represent his coaching. Simple.

Collins showed on the Pistons that he can take a team that is building, without tons of talent, and mold them into winners. It is a type of style that can last only so long. He was sort of the early prep coach for the eventual champion Pistons.

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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.

The Orlando Magic were expected to just roll over the Philadelphia 76ers with ease. Who on the 76ers was going to be able to stop Dwight Howard? Turkoglu was going to have a shooting hey-day, whether hey-day is a word or not.

It has not worked out that way and that has caught the attention of many.

Now we have to start the blame game. Hmm, how about the coach? That Van Gundy guy, yeah, him. He gets a little worked up over a lot of nothing. It must be affecting his team.

But he can coach.

Will Coach Stan Van Gundy rip his hair out over the way the Magic are playing?

Nobody cares if he can coach; he is making the players nervous.

But he can coach.

How can you say that when the 76ers are hanging in there?

He is not the one shooting the ball or trying to hang onto it, but he ultimately may be blamed for what happens.

Van Gundy’s loud, in-your-face coaching style was particularly good for the Magic during the regular season, spurring an otherwise mellow roster to some clutch, cold-blooded victories. Winners of 59 games, the Magic have been among the league’s best road teams for two seasons, and twice beat the Lakers, Cleveland, Boston and San Antonio this season.

But it’s the playoffs that matter most, and so far Orlando has looked like anything but a dominant team capable of rolling through the Eastern Conference and contending for the NBA crown. A massive offensive slump, due in part to injuries, hit late in the regular season and carried into the playoffs, making a once-formidable inside-out attack look rather ordinary.

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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 and a clutch 3 pointer by a cold Hedo Turkoglu.

Turkoglu nailed a three-pointer over Thaddeus Young with 1.1 seconds left to lift the Orlando Magic to an 84-81 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday, evening their Eastern Conference first-round series at two games apiece.

GAME REPORT: Magic 84, 76ers 81

“The coach had confidence in me,” said Turkoglu, who came in just 7-for-30 from the floor in the series. “He called a play for me and I’m just glad I made it.”

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Without an answer to Dwight Howard underneath, the 76ers are probably going to take this series to game 7.

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