Road Warriors

["hironaka@xxxxxxxxx"<hironaka@xxxxxxxxx>]

Boston has moved up to tie Indiana for the best road 
record (5-2) in the Conference. They trail 7-1 Dallas.

I wrote but ultimately didn't post a game preview 
yesterday, because the Celts are so far 0-3 when I post 
on the same day as the game. I'll do a Philly one later 
today if I can find the time, since the game isn't until 
tomorrow.

The Orlando road victory was big, because the Magic at 
home had already defeated Philly, Sacramento, Seattle and 
blew out the Lakers with Shaq. 

Also Orlando had two nights off to prepare for the Boston 
game, and trailed us by just one win coming in. You can 
tell by the post-game comments that they wanted the win 
badly.

Last week at home, Mike Miller had a 19 rebound, 31 point 
game. McGrady followed that with a 38 point, 9 assist 
game against Kobe. Grant Hill came into last night's game 
shooting 58.3% from the field, while McGrady scored 88 
points over a two game stretch versus Milwaukee and 
Sacramento (both wins).

Boston, of course, was coming off a B2B game with heavy 
minutes for the starters. Antoine is second in the NBA in 
minutes per game, behind only Iverson.

We'll see a lot of Orlando this month. Boston will meet 
them two more times, including this coming Monday.

Next up for Boston's road warriors is Philly, a perfect 9-
0 at home. 

Joe H.

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