{"id":569911,"date":"2010-05-19T08:22:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T12:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=11342"},"modified":"2010-05-19T08:22:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T12:22:01","slug":"empty-handed-orlando-magic-faces-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569911","title":{"rendered":"Empty-handed Orlando Magic Faces Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Boston+Celtics+v+Orlando+Magic+Game+2+kQQ5UUM8F6Ql.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Boston+Celtics+v+Orlando+Magic+Game+2+kQQ5UUM8F6Ql-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Eastern Conference Finals is 2 games down where <strong>Boston Celtics<\/strong> nailing both to set rival <strong>Orlando Magic<\/strong> cramming for a win in their third meeting on May 22. Not that <strong>Magic<\/strong> did not sweat it out on Tuesday\u2019s match, what could have been double-digit lost was pull down to 95-92.<\/p>\n<p>If statistics will translate the lead, <strong>Boston<\/strong> is to fill in one of the slots in the championship. NBA track has seen 22 out 25 series of 7 won by the team that snatches the first 2.<\/p>\n<p>With that calculation plus the <strong>Boston<\/strong> home court advantage, <strong>Magic<\/strong> might have to get ready in breaking scientific spells like moving mountains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coach Stan Van Gundy<\/strong> sees <strong>Magic\u2019s<\/strong> performance last Tuesday as \u201cnot enough for a good defensive team\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There hasn\u2019t been much movement from <strong>Jameer Nelson<\/strong> as <strong>Rajon Rondo <\/strong>scores 25 points with 8 assists that his team translated to some more points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magic<\/strong> has a steady scoreboard although never going past that of <strong>Celtics<\/strong> especially on the last quarter. It must have been a 1-1 if only <strong>Dwight Howard<\/strong> was able to get some teammates pulling-off defense more than looking for a way to hit a hard basket.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/sports\/2010\/steve-nash-leads-the-suns-despine-eye-injury\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Steve Nash Leads the Suns Despine Eye Injury'>Steve Nash Leads the Suns Despine Eye Injury<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/sports\/2010\/game-5-cavaliers%e2%80%99-worst-ever-home-play-off-loss-made-the-team-owner-unhappy\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Game 5: Cavaliers\u2019 Worst Ever Home Play-off Loss, Made the Team Owner Unhappy'>Game 5: Cavaliers\u2019 Worst Ever Home Play-off Loss, Made the Team Owner Unhappy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/sports\/2010\/james-lebron%e2%80%99s-hard-court-tantrums\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: James Lebron\u2019s Hard Court Tantrums'>James Lebron\u2019s Hard Court Tantrums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sevensidedcube\/OXLF\/~4\/zoGL9TNmnYo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Conference Finals is 2 games down where Boston Celtics nailing both to set rival Orlando Magic cramming for a win in their third meeting on May 22. Not that Magic did not sweat it out on Tuesday\u2019s match, what could have been double-digit lost was pull down to 95-92. If statistics will translate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}