basketbawful.blogspot.com - 5/14/2008
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The Orlando Magic: They had every opportunity to steal Game 5. Detroit's starting point guard -- All-Star Chauncey Billups -- missed the game with a hamstring injury. (Or am I supposed to just call it "a hamstring" these days?) The Pistons shot only 36 percent from the field and 3-for-14 from distance. And still the Magic lost. Orlando managed to miss 12 freethrows and commit 21 ...
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Detroit Pistons 91, Orlando Magic 86: The Morning After
Third Quarter Collapse —
... the pick that yielded Stuckey may go down as the worst move in the Otis Smith/Dave Twardzik era. In Otis' defense, the trade looked pretty good at the time, and we got some solid production out of Carlos Arroyo until he fell off the face of the earth. Seriously. Matt from Hardwood Paroxysm asked me the other day, "What happened to Arroyo?" and I had to think for a second about to whom he might be referring. I forgot he was on the team. Basketbawful: Orlando managed to miss 12 freethrows and commit 21 turnovers...which led to 34 ...
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unsurprised by the limitations that are sending the team home in the second
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