Orlando Magic 109, Charlotte Bobcats 107 OT

Well today was a pretty good day for JJ Redick. First he has a pretty nice game for me in my fantasy league (I believed Stan Van Gundy, boy was I wrong) then he hits the game-tying three for Orlando after the team did everything it could to give away the game.

OK, I only listened to the last 5:30 of the game (that is in gametime). But I got a pretty good sense of how the Magic were playing in that time.

First there was a reckless drive to the basket by Rashard Lewis with the team down one. I did not see it, but Richie Audubato made it sound like a pretty poor shot attempt.

My thought, glancing at Dwight Howard's box score was to get him the ball any way possible. With 45 points and 19 rebounds in the game -- and 13 makes out of 18 shots on the line -- he seemed like the obvious choice for a final shot. He would have made one if not both those free throws the way he was playing tonight.

But Lewis is an All Star too.

The worst was when Hedo Turkoglu was called for a foul before the ball was inbounded. The Bobcats could have taken a four-point lead. But Raja Bell missed a free throw and allowed Redick to be the hero.

In overtime, Howard took over as did the rest of the team.

I am still trying to figure out how the game got to this point. No disrespect to Charlotte, but as Marcin Gortat said, "They're not that good. Don't you want to see the Polish Hammer?" (paraphrasing, but he did say something like that on a sketch for Dante and Galante's show).

Clearly there is still a ways to go before this version of the 2009 Magic hit their stride.