What an outstanding victory for the Magic tonight. It doesn’t matter if the Mavs have been struggling and it doesn’t matter that Josh Howard is either blind or stupid. A road win is a road win and the Magic hadn’t won a game in Dallas since 1997. Jameer Nelson, Mickael Pietrus and Rashard (yes Rashard tonight) Lewis stepped up big in Orlando’s 102-100 victory tonight. Big Dwight only scored 18 and the rest of the boys stepped up to help out tonight. The Magic trailed to start the fourth quarter 80-72 and outscored the Mavs 30-20 behind Pietrus, Nelson and Lewis. Pietrus, Nelson and Lewis had 20, 21 and 23 respectively which included 6, 8 and 8 in the fourth. Pietrus had that sick killer look on his face when he hit those two late threes and Lewis hit 2 of the final three (Nelson went 1 of 2) put away free throws to finish it. Lewis actually played some good defense on Dirk Nowitzki (no really, he did) and the Magic pulled out a nice come from behind victory. Hedo Turkoglu fouled out with just over two minutes left after another off night offensively for him. The Mavs reporters will have a field day with Josh Howard in Dallas after this though. With around 10 seconds left and the Mavs down 101-100, Howard threw an awful inbound pass in Jason Terry’s direction that went straight into Jameer Nelson’s arms as if intended for him. Nelson held on, hit 1 of 2 free throws and that finished it off. To me it doesn’t matter that the Mavs are now 2-7 on the season, this was still a big win for Orlando and they should feel good about themselves tonight. The best part of the comeback was the fact that it wasn’t the annoying ‘foul everyone down the stretch and bomb three point shots’ kind of comeback that’s so typical on today’s NBA. It was a straight up tight defense, good shooting victory. The Magic have another tough road game coming on Sunday in Charlotte so they better not party too much, but they need to enjoy this one.

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