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LET’S DO THIS ON THURSDAY NIGHT

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Whew!!!!!! Are ya’ll as exhausted as I am after that killer game? That was a gut-check of all gut-check games for us and the Magic came through again? What are they gonna say now?

We’re so, so close to playing for that championship in the Finals, but now is no time to celebrate because really we haven’t done anything yet. We’ve won three games, but you don’t get anything for that. If you think winning last night was hard, t rying to close out the Cavs at The Q will be super hard and we know it. That’s a good team that won 66 games and they aren’t going down without a fight.


Speaking of fighting, how about those tackles that Varejao put on me a couple of times during the game??? And I’m the one who gets the technical foul!!!! I was just playing with emotion. You get in the game and you score a big bucket, you let your emotions take over. I wasn’t taunting Varejao or anything. My thing was, it was a tough play, he grabbed me around the neck and I made the shot, so hopefully they will look at it.

And on that final lob play, he rode me out of bounds, but there was nothing called. I just feel like if that had been a certain guy on the other team, the whistle would have been blowing.

This thing with the T’s is bugging me pretty bad right no w, but I can’t let it take me away from my focus on helping us get the job done. I can’t believe that I’ve had six of them called on me so far, and some of them have just been crazy. I’m not a dirty player, I don’t talk a lot of trash and I don’t curse the officials, so I can’t figure out why I keep getting them again and again.

Hopefully, the league office will look at this one and realize it was just the heat of the game. There was no taunting. I’ve already had to miss one game because of my elbows, and I made a promise to myself that I’d never have that happen again with my elbows. The thought of me having to miss another game is killing me, so I’ve got to keep my mouth shut and my elbows down.

We’re getting contributions from so many guys now – Shard, Turk, MP, C-Lee and my man Skip to My Lou. That wasn’t Rafer Alston out there tonight, that was professional street baler, Skip To My Lou!!!!

We just feel like when we’re playing like we did last night, getting help from everybody, moving the ball, running and playing defense, that we can beat anybody.

We’ve got to close this baby out now. It won’t be easy, but we feel we can get it done against anybody if we just play our game.

I’ll be ready and my guys will be ready, so let’s go do this.

Holla. — DWIGHT

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GAME 1 IS HERE AND WE’RE READY

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Game day is here and we’re ready to go. Confidence will never be a problem with my team, and we’ve got a lot of confidence going into this series against Cleveland. The Cavs have been so hot, killing everybody really, but we know if we play our game, we can beat any team in the NBA – Cleveland included.

Some people are shocked that we’re in the Eastern Conference Finals, but not me. I said a couple of years ago that we are going to bring a championship to Orlando and a lot of people laughed, but we’re serious. We have the talent and the team to win it all and we all believe we can do that this year.

I know we were down in the Boston series, but I never lost faith that we’d win that series. We just thought, deep down, that we were the better team and it was just about us proving that. Once we realized that we had to play the full 48 minutes to knock out the defending champs, we did just that.

Cleveland is going to be a tough matchup because LeBron presents problems for everybody. That dude is almost as big as me and he’s a guard!!! We have to keep him out of the lane and away from the rim – that’s a must for us. If he’s driving in there getting dunks and getting other dudes involved then we’re going to have a tough time.

I don’t want to say that we’re going to give him jump shots, but we have to make him a jump shooter in this series. If we can somehow accomplish that, I like our chances.

On the other end, I know that Cleveland is going to be physical with me and try to get into my head. Big Z and Varejao are good at lots of little tricks and flops so I have to prepare myself for that. I think the key for us is to run them and not try to go against their set defense all game. We keep them moving and use our athleticism I think we’ll be much better off.

Cleveland has had a lot of rest and we’re coming off a tough series, but I think it works in our favor. I like playing every other day to stay sharp. Maybe we can catch them a little rusty and steal Game 1 and get homecourt advantage right off the jump.

Aight ya’ll, I’m out. Wish us luck.
– DWIGHT

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