Man all those Orlando trades backfired.

[capstone21]

Does Otis Smith gets fired?

Does Dwight leave?

Does SVG get fired?

[lethalweapon3]

Annnnnnd the desperation begins....

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-magic/os-dwight-2012-interactive,0,1600830.htmlpage

Really, should their local paper be doing this?

I think SVG gets a repreive but Otis is a goner.

~lw3

[hawkshomer]

Hope they aren't doggin' SVG he really didn't have much to work with besides Dwight.

[bonethugz]

do you guys really think they could beat us with lewis?

[dlpin]

do you guys really think they could beat us with lewis?

I don't think their main loss was Lewis. Gortat was a highly serviceable back up and gave the Magic flexibility when they wanted to go big. And Pietrus was by far their best perimeter defender. And for all his many, many faults, Vince Carter at least was better than Richardson at driving to the hoop and getting to the line.

Pre-trade, as flawed as that Magic team was, at least they had some options with regards to game plan. They could go big with Howard-Gortat-Lewis in the frontcourt, they could put Pietrus as a defender on the perimeter, they had Carter at least getting to the line when things weren't going well. After the trade, they had no flexibility and became essentially a team of 3 point specialists.

Otis Smith has got to be bottom 5 in the league as a GM. Inherited Howard and Nelson and each season has taken a step back for the last 3 years. I mean, do you realize that Howard has never been Magic's best paid player in all the years he was there? He collects bad contracts like Presti collects draft picks.

[Admin]

Annnnnnd the desperation begins....

http://www.orlandose...600830.htmlpage

Really, should their local paper be doing this?

I think SVG gets a repreive but Otis is a goner.

~lw3

Wow some of those are really bad! Putting him in pigtails and make-up to look like a girl is one way to really say we love you Dwight :sarcastichand:

[sasuke]

Otis should be fired. When I heard they were taking Hedo's contract I thought, "OMG, they're getting Nash for sure, no way they take Hedo without Nash". But......wow, just wow. They took Hedo's contract, added one of the most coveted players on the market in Gortat & on top of that give up 3 mill & a 1rst for Richardson & Clark........Otis is as smart as a goldfish. Not to mention Pietrus defense & Vince ability to create his own shot gone too.

[lethalweapon3]

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_bianchi/2011/05/dwight-howard-tweets-that-orlando-sentinel-trying-to-force-him-out-like-shaq.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sports_bianchi+%28Open+Mike%29

If Orlando wants to maximize their chances of keeping Dwight, they'd better upgrade their newspaper's sportswriters.

~lw3