It’s one of those games the Magic are supposed to win, and they did. The Magic beat up on the Washington Wizards tonight 106-81. Behind Dwight Howard and Mickael Pietrus the Magic blew ahead of the Wiz in the second quarter and had a 58-39 halftime lead. They didn’t look back from that point as the Magic let the bench log some minutes, namely Courtney Lee and Keith Bogans. Lee played over 13 minutes and looked decent in his time out there. It’s becoming pretty clear that the Magic are going to give Lee every chance possible to mature as quick as possible while at the same time dropping JJ Reddick further into the abyss. Howard had 31/16 and had 3 more blocked shots to raise his league leading total to 21 and Mickael Pietrus had 18 points. Bogans contributed 13 off the bench to help offset bad nights by Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu. Turk and Lewis had 16 points total and shot 6 of 23 combined. I’m happy the boys in blue won but they better start playing better because this wouldn’t have been the outcome tonight had they played this way against a Gilbert Arenas led Wizards team. I’ll take wins any way they come, but they need to shake these shaky offensive performances against the better teams.  

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