Oh so you're RedZiggyZag or whatever you like to call yourself. Have they figured you out on Insidehoops yet? Pietrus and Barnes are both better than you give them credit for, but then again, saying that they're good defenders would really go against your agenda on criticizing the Magic for not having good perimeter defenders wouldn't it? I can't actually think you're being serious with the Alston comments either. Everybody knows that at best, he'll play average defense and get beaten by stronger point guard. You don't have to get torched to be excellent and 'one of the best'. Alston continually got out-done when he was the starting point guard, even if it was by a small margin. Any point guard who rolled into Orlando was never forcefully stopped by Alston. If that constitutes good point guard defense, then all of our guard defense the last few seasons have been excellent, dating back to when Tracy McGrady played point forward for us, lol. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't JJ Reddick contain Ray Allen in the playoffs? lol. I also seem to remember Paul Pierce only having one good shooting game. I don't remember who exactly was on him (Turk/Pietrus combination most likely) but they did a good job. And now what? Because they're one year older and presumably one step slower (see I can make opinions too and you can't say anything to me about it), they're going to beat essentially the same team, but the one difference being we now have another influential player on the team, on offense, at least. How did your ridiculous thinking come up with this one? Weak, seriously. Five games into the season and you have our season figured out. What's even funnier is that you pick on areas where you can't prove one way or the other, therefore, nobody can call you out on being wrong, of which you are about 99% of the time anyway. I think you pick at these areas because you're scared that you will indeed look like the idiot you are if you try to make a bold statement about something concrete.