It would work against our team with a stink-bomb PF like Varejao. Ugh.

My concern with Magic is that the trio of VC, Rashard, Nelson aren’t exactly the best perimeter defenders which leaves DPOY Howard more exposed on help D than usual. Unlike with Hedo on D last year, which gives them more length and less rotation issues.

@Magics4242 – I get what you’re saying with Rashard (I’m big on defense too, but he’s not a good defender at the 3 either; it’s not like you slide him down to the 3 and he’s suddenly Ron Artest,) but to me, the absolute nightmare for other teams on defense and a HUGE matchup problem he causes at the 4 (and lack of a better option there) suggest to me that that’s where I’d play him (they DID just win the East with him there.)
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And your point 3 that they can give Dwight some inside help. Unless that’s Bass (who I really like btw) who would that be??? The basis of my “Magic took a step back” idea isn’t just Vince/Hedo “switch”, but that they also lost their 2 top bigs behind Dwight (and Courtney Lee.) Unless the plan’s to dust off Adonal Foyle or start Ryan Anderson, who would that be? That’s my point w/ everything.

Would you rather start:
Jameer, Vince, Pietrius, Rashard, and Dwight OR Jameer, Vince, Rashard, Ryan Anderson, Dwight Howard
(Even if they get Bass, I’d still run out the small lineup to start games and if you start getting bullied, you can always keep Bass in and slide Rashard down to the 3)

Oh, and even SVG said it was nice to have Hedo handle some playmaking because that’s not Jameer’s strongsuit (not a weakness, but his vision/distributing is average, which is fine cuz he’s an amazing shooter.)

1) we only needed Hedo to be the point forward because Nelson was hurt. Dont watch many Magic games huh? Its not important now that Nelson is back, and Carter can be also run the offense a little bit and handle teh ball.

2) The Magic now fixed 1 of their 2 holes, by adding an iso threat in Carter.

3) The Magic halfway fill their other hole by getting rid of the SF logjam and allowing the possibility for a lineup where Howard has some sort of inside help (not Lewis or Turk both are soft)

4) Lewis is better at the 3 than the 4. Look at his numbers in Seattle playing the 3, then look at the last 2 years playing the 4. Just because you watche dhim playing against the Cavs and you think you knwo something about him now, doesnt mean its true. Plus Lewis hurts us on defense. Thats 50% of the game you know?

5) How many points did Szcerbiak have in the ACF finals again? Oh yea, thats right, he had 7 points in 7 games

Losing Hedo, Lee, and BOTH of Dwights backups isn’t made up by getting a guy that, at this point, isn’t even as good as Hedo (maybe they’re even, but Vince isn’t better,) much less able to play point forward like Hedo did. Also, by moving Rashard back to the 3, he’s back to being a good but not great player that doesn’t cause major matchup problems and isn’t worth his deal. At least at the 4, he’s a matchup NIGHTMARE that wreaks havoc on your defensive assignments/rotations. (I’m assuming they would slide Rashard down to the 3, but they should start Pietrius and keep Shard at the 4 and keep playing like they did last year.)

I do really like Bass though. Solid guy in the Leon Powe/Jason Maxiell mold, only better and with a solid J. (or think Big Baby only Bass devours weights and steroid like Baby hits up the All-You-Can-Eat Pizza Hut buffet.)

What an odd comment. He’s not going to start for a team with a good PF but Orlando doesn’t so yes he would. As you surely know, playing guys such as Turk or Lewis at PF will not get it done come crunch time.