Hunched over his desk and looking very much like a coach trying to find a way beat the NBA’s hottest team, Atlanta Coach Mike Woodson kept shaking his head as he glanced at a television showing highlights from the Orlando Magic’s latest win.
Orlando has gone more than a month since its last defeat, a 112-100 setback at San Antonio on April 2. The Magic has won 12 straight since then, the last six of those in the playoffs. Going back even further, they are on a 26-of-29 roll, clearly a team peaking at just the right time of year.
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For Orlando rust may be a factor after having the longest layoff of this years(2010) NBA playoffs after completing the sweep of the Michael Jordan Charlotte Bobcats eight days ago, The Atlanta Hawks made the break even longer by taking the full seven games to knock out the injury-riddle Milwaukee Bucks… ATL looks to capitalize on the Magic by stealing game 1 in Orlando and send Dwight Howard lead team asking for answers. Dwight Howard can’t expect to be a absolute non-factor and like he was in the Bobcats series(Foul Troubles) and win against the rising Hawks.
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