LOL...All these high paid idiots think they should ALWAYS get the ball. And when they lose it is ALWAYS the coaches fault. Maybe you should talk to your team mates. Perhaps THEY didn't want to give you the ball. Or perhaps you weren't open. Get over your stupid self.

saw the collapse and damn was ugly... 3 pointers on the road..?? and that's it driving and entire defense knows it; pretty darn ugly to have lead on the road and die like they did last nite ..

do you guys remember when the miami heat lost the lead & the game to detroit who later ended up the champions that year? i think that was shaq's first year with the miami heat. what was the common denominator between that game & this one?..... coach stan van gundy..... right!!!!

The coach can only give direction to the players on the floor, he can't make the plays for them. If Howard wanted the ball so badly, then he needed to either go after the passes (and not wait for the ball to come to him) or get in the face of his teammates. Van Gundy may have some fault, but the players on the floor have to take the responsibility and the blame when the team loses.

Too many professional athletes are cry-babies. Too few of them are true role models that I would want my children to look up to, and Howard is one that is not on my short list.

Now Magic fans know how Bulls fans feel. A 10+ point lead turns into a Celtic win. Orlando will get mad enough to win game 6 at home and then choke away game 7 back in Boston. Then I'll laugh as a toally rested Cavs team absolutely murders the Celtics in 5 games or less.

"As a team we have to stop hanging our heads and stop getting frustrated when things don't go our way." Did I read that right? Someone needs to send him his own message on videotape. And add not attacking your coach in the media to the mix. You're up by double digits the whole game, and the gameplan is to blame for their horrible play at the end? They looked like a highschool team out there in the last ten minutes last night. Van Gundy tried to lift his guys by falling on his sword for game 4, and for what? For not making sure Big Baby Davis doesn't get the ball 21 feet out with 2 seconds on the clock? With the clutch shooters on the Celts, teams would love that scenario. Does Howard think leadership is about demanding the ball, dubiously and conveniently claiming after a tough loss that things would be different if he had the ball more, and pounding his chest about how dominant he is? What does it say about the rest of the team when he suggests that only he has the skill to make a difference? Next thing you know he'll be wearing superman costumes to games. Get over yourself Howard...your attitude is as much of the problem as any other on that team. Anyway, lovin the team dissention up here in Beantown.

As a fellow Magic Fan I have watch this team self implode in the final 4th quarter for years they play great basketball for 3 quarters then its the same thing every time they get lazy in the 4th quarter thinking that their lead is good enough to just "hit them with jump shots" for the big play that rarely happens Stan if you are reading this stop the (many ) jump shots only allow your players to take that option if Howard or another of your big men are under the basket to finish it up especially in the fourth quarter Boston does the same thing every time they drive to the basket time and time again knowing the officals will call it more than not then your players get frazzled and don't think the game learn from Paul Pierce experience experience in using the offices to win the games that is why I like Courney and Petrius they attack the basket let them attack the basket in the 4th more draw the foul like boston does to us