This was a great game. NY was up by 1 with just under a minute. Steve F. drove by Marbury and was fouled. Steve hits both pressure FT's to give Orlando the lead. Marbury tries to drive and tie the game for NY. He's fouled and goes to the line. Marbury can now sink both FT's and put his team on top just like Steve had done seconds before. Marbury, however, misses both FT's. STeve then shoots the next shot, and misses, but Cat comes up with a huge Offensive rebound. STeve and Cat both shot some free throws. Steve made both and Cat missed one. Then with just a few seconds to go the Knicks are down by three and inbounding the ball. Cat is gaurding the player throwing the ball inbounds, and steals it from him. It was huge. It's good to see that Steve still has mastery over Marbury.
Mobley had a huge game. On any given night, the Magic have 4 players in Francis, Mobley, Hill, and Turkoglu that can light it up for 30+.
Mobley was phenomenal down the stretch but he still made a couple head-scratching plays near the end... with about two minutes left the Magic had an odd-man break and he attempted a foolish pass to Steve that hit Tim Thomas instead... TO. Next possession, he fires up a contested shot as soon as the Magi cross midcourt. But overall, he played great, with the type of intensity and heart that the Rockets have been missing this year.
And Marbury always lost to STeve. Tonight Marbury's numbers were great, but he lost. The same was true when Marbury was in PHX, and Francis was in HOU.
What's crazy is is that they are first in the east if Indiana loses tonight. It would be so sad if Weisboro gets a GM of the year out of this.
what! damn i guess if they're first and the knicks were first then that only leaves indy as the other first place team and they're 10-6 also. geez. awesome game. mobley goes crazy and keeps up the shooting coming off the groin injury. he's shooting so many shots but when you hit as many as he was hitting you might as well. marbury and francis got in a nice duel for a while and pretty much ended up with the same stats. nice to see steve punk marbury on the pressure free throw battle at the end. and then there was the awesome alley from cuttino to steve. marbury shoots a 3 barely long but it caroms all the way out to the 3 point line, steve catches it on a dead run, one dribble, passes to mobley, mobley doens't even dribble before lobbing it to the rim, francis just catches it flying down the court and slams it home. it's still crazy after all these years how high he can jump (which brings up the question, can marbury dunk?). nice road win against a team with 6 straight home wins. and rudy won also so it was a good night.
that was an amazing alley oop dunk. He also had a break away dunk earlier in the game. Where was this last year w/ the rockets.
I remember two years ago when Francis threw an alley oop pass and it looked like it was going to be intercepted by the opponent. Cat comes out of nowhere and literally takes it out of the defenders hands in the air and dunks it in one motion. It was just plain sick.
CD an JVG, just die, just die I can't take it anymore, seriously, Magic play soo well and the fact that our boys contribute so much makes me crazy. I am not against trading SF for T-Mac, but right now, it looks like we traded SF, Cat and Cato for T-Mac. It doesn't worth it.
Cuttino Mobley Interview By ************.com / Dec. 4, 2004 Orlando Magic guard Cuttino Mobley went to Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, Maine for high school, had a solid University of Rhode Island college career, and was drafted 42nd overall in 1998 by the Houston Rockets. This summer, Houston traded the 6-4, 215-pound Mobley, along with Steve Francis and Kelvin Cato, to the Orlando Magic for Tracy McGrady and three other players. Mobley's NBA career average is 17.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game. Friday night in Madison Square Garden the Magic defeated the Knicks in a close, exciting game. "Cat" was huge with 34 points, six rebounds and four steals. ***********.com editor Jeff Lenchiner met with Mobley after the game for an exclusive interview. ***********.com: You guys are winning. And the team is fun to watch. And you look like you're enjoying yourself out there. It's basketball. It's real, and it's working, and you look free on the floor. Cuttino Mobley: I mean, I'm not really going to say... I always have fun playing basketball, but this year is a lot of fun. When Rudy [Tomjanovich] was there [in Houston], it was a lot of fun. Running up and down, that's what people want to see. We're just getting to show our talent a little more. And everybody love each other. We all go out with each other, restaurants. We pull together, just like our boys in Houston, Yao and Mo, Jimmy, we're close, too. We miss those dudes, but we're over here, we've having fun. That's what basketball is about. Not no dictatorship, know what I mean? ***********.com: Is that what it felt like over there (in Houston under Van Gundy), a dictatorship? Cuttino Mobley: Yeah, I mean, people try to control you because they think it's to the best, but sometimes it's right, and sometimes it's not, but, whatever the case is. **********.com: And like you said, you always have fun, but like tonight, when you saw Marbury waving to the stands to pump the fans up, you started doing it, too. Cuttino Mobley: Yeah, I like that. I like to hear that sh*t, know what I mean? The people in the Garden, getting all "Woo woo woo!" Yeah, ok. I like that. Hype me up. ***********.com: You get into that. Cool. Because this place gets electric, and some players feed off of crowd energy more than others. Cuttino Mobley: I'm from the East coast. I'm from Philly. I love it. So if you're quiet, it's psychological. You think of something else. But if they're loud, to me, I love it. The louder you are, the better it is for me. **********.com: Even if you're away, on the road, as long as the crowd has energy, you dig it, right? Cuttino Mobley: Yeah. I feed off of fans. The more you talk to me, the more I'm going to come at you. ***********.com: Let's switch back to Houston. What was up? What was right, what was wrong? Cuttino Mobley: I would love Houston, but I just think we slowed the ball down too much, and we didn't have as much freedom as we should have. No knock on Jeff (Van Gundy), because he's a great defensive coach. But offensively, I think the freedom like that we have here, with the same defense that he had... you know what I mean? I don't know; Jeff's a good dude. He's misunderstood. But offensively, at times, you were bored and frustrated (laughs). That's just what it is.
Those are some good honest comments. No taking shots at anyone, just calling it like he saw it. I wonder if the Rockets today are as close as they were. I guess they still need time to develop that.
Yeah really..... Steve's line for this game; Stephon's [sic] Yeah so much for mastery. Reminds me of the "Jordan over Ehlo" encounter.
I agree with everything that you said except for that last part. Francis played well but by no means does he hold any "mastery" over Marbury. The only difference there is that Steve's team won.
