the Magic

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

The thing with the magic is that it's true,
it's incredible to take a .500 team and add
the two best forwards in the NBA, along with
the best young swingman.  But Orlando is going
to have a whole new team next year, and it remains
to be seen if they gel and function like last year's
no-names did.  Hill and Duncan will dominate in
clear outs, but I don't think that Hill and Duncan
have the same kind of defensive presence as Robinson
and Duncan did.  Nor do I think Orlando will be able to
go very long with giving in and playing Tim Duncan as a
center, which is what he is.  (The interesting thing about
the old celtics was that McHale and Parish were really
playing each other's natural positions in a lot of ways.)
Orlando w/ Duncan is pretty scary, though, and borderline
unfair.  But they're not a lock to win the east, once some
good new teams emerge in a couple of years.  Great teams
on paper have a way of not living up sometimes.

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mark Estepp [SMTP:EsteppJM@appstate.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, July 07, 2000 11:01 AM
> To:	celtics@igtc.com
> Subject:	a ray of sunshine
> 
> Ray wrote:
> I know it's early in the ball game, but you gotta figure if the
> Magic work they're magic and pick up Hill, McGrady,
> and Duncan, it's tough noogies for everyone, except
> the Lakers and Portland. I mean geez, it sort of takes the
> starch out of next season. Not that the lottery bound Celtics
> were going to have any say-so....
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> The only bright spot in the rise of the Magic is that the Lakers won't run
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> off a string of NBA championships!!
> 
> J. Mark Estepp
> Chair, Department of Technology
> Appalachian State University
> esteppjm@appstate.edu
> http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/tech/