Onward and Upward

Almost none of the major players on the Lakers and Magic spent more than a year, if that, playing basketball in college. Does that mean anything?

Yeah, it means their fundamentals aren’t as good—even near the end of Game Three, we saw two uncovered players (Dwight Howard on one end, Trevor Ariza on the other) unable to dribble when they were wide open and had clear paths to the basket. Both chose to turn around, put their backs to the basket and find a teammate like they were trying to pass off a hand grenade. I thought that was crazy.