Turkoglu out and Carter is in
June 26, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under NBA Basketball, Orlando Magic
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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.
Hedo Turkoglu is looking for a big payday
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 points once, but that was when she was hurt and using a walker.
Turkoglu was a more stable player and understood that Dwight Howard was what made Orlando great. There is a reason that New Jersey could not win when Carter, Jefferson, and Kidd played there at the same time.
The Magic believe Carter is an upgrade over Turkoglu as a one-on-one player who can create his own shot, any time, any where, especially at the end of games.
They traded starting shooting guard Courtney Lee, point guard Rafer Alston and power forward Tony Battie to the New Jersey Nets for Carter and power forward Ryan Anderson, a rookie like Lee.
The Magic will have a distinctively different look next season, changing starters at shooting guard and (probably) small forward.
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