“You're just the only one who admits it.” Referring to Rod Strickland and his admission that he screwed up. Well, maybe he did - and it is nice to see someone step up. However, there are a few others on the team that could step up as well. Why Johnny Davis played Gordan Giricek at the end of the game instead of Keith Bogans @ESPN" href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3746" target="_blank">Keith Bogans. Why Drew Gooden is not playing worth a crap this season? And, why doesn't Gooden stand up and greet the players during starting lineup introductions. Why do we keep getting excuses about Steven Hunter and Reece Gaines? Why isn't Big 'Z' playing more minutes? Why has Tracy McGrady been disappearing in the fourth quarter lately? Sure they couldn't get the ball to him at the end but what happend for the other 11 minutes of the fourth quarter. After the three straight buckets by Juwan Howard, McGrady could have dealt the final blow by sinking a couple jumpers and the game would have had a different ending.

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the lakes got hella lucky giricek should've passed off to mcgrady (who was wide open) for the last shot but hey, woulda coulda shoulda as you said though, you should be proud of your magic, they put up a good game against a pretty good (although i think a little overrated) laker team.
Why talk about the end of the game? The point is it should never have come to the last shot. Orlando had a fu**ing 18 point lead and blew. This in my opinion is the worst loss of the season. Juwan did all he could. Honestly he did what he had to do. Where was everybody else? Why the hell did they give up the lead with Shaq and Payton on the bench? OF course they did come back and why did Strickland turn into a rookie? Why did Giricek get the last shot? So many question so little answers.
McGrady has been a no show for the majority of the fourth quarters this year. If he could have knocked down 2-3 shots along with Howard - the Lakers would not have known who to defend. Most of our points are scored in bunches by one player. We do not have a constant scoring offense where the load is balanced. It is based off whoever has the hot hand at the time.