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Daily Dime: Celtics slow down Magic

By Dr. Jack Ramsay
ESPN.com

Thursday, January 22, 2009

ORLANDO -- Obviously the Magic are a very good shooting team, but sometimes you can love the 3-point shot too much. Even when you have great shooters like J.J. Redick, Jameer Nelson, Hedo Turkoglu and Rashard Lewis, if you build your offense around the 3-point shot, you're not going to win the big games. The Celtics proved that in tonight's 90-80 win. Their defense was tremendous. They had a game plan of challenging the 3-point shot and keeping Nelson out of the paint and they did a good job in both of those areas.

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