Speaker 1: If you checked the Eastern Conference standings this morning, who
Speaker 1: did you see up there with Boston, Milwaukee and Philly
Speaker 1: the expected powers in the East. It's the Orlando Magic
Speaker 1: sixteen and seven as we've passed the quarter mark of
Speaker 1: the regular season, and joining us on this special edition
Speaker 1: of this League Uncut, it's Magic coach Jamal Moseley next
Speaker 1: right here with Chris and I.
Speaker 2: Welcome to this League Uncut rule of twenty four hour
Speaker 2: NBA News You, Chris Hans, It's time, work's time. It's
Speaker 2: so time. This League Uncut is.
Speaker 3: Underway and on fire.
Speaker 2: This should be a good one.
Speaker 1: Everyone, welcome in to a special edition of this League
Speaker 1: Uncut with a special guest Chris and I. As you know,
Speaker 1: we just dropped a pod yesterday, but on this Tuesday
Speaker 1: we were given the opportunity to speak with one of
Speaker 1: the absolute newsmakers of the.
Speaker 4: League so far this season. Who's Orlando Magic?
Speaker 5: Awoke on this Tuesday at sixteen and seven, tied with
Speaker 5: Boston and Milwaukee. They hold the East's second best record,
Speaker 5: which I don't remember too many of us know it
Speaker 5: alls saying what happen before Halloween? And he also happens
Speaker 5: to be the reigning Coach of the Month in the
Speaker 5: Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: A hearty this league, uncut. Welcome to Orlando Magic coach
Speaker 1: Jamal Moseley.
Speaker 3: Coach mos how.
Speaker 4: I don't know how we talked you into this, but
Speaker 4: we are glad we did.
Speaker 3: Because I love you both. So it's all good.
Speaker 1: We will take it because not many people say that,
Speaker 1: especially out loud.
Speaker 6: The early coach of the year favor. Right here, we
Speaker 6: have your hot coach. Coach, what do you just just
Speaker 6: tell me, man, just tell us about you're starting to
Speaker 6: people are starting to pick up on what your Lando
Speaker 6: Magic are doing, and just tell me, is this even
Speaker 6: a surprise to you? I have to be honest, coach,
Speaker 6: I didn't you know, I didn't.
Speaker 3: I mean it honestly.
Speaker 7: What Jeff and their group did, the ability to bring
Speaker 7: everybody back, you know, the same group, and then with
Speaker 7: the additions of Joe Ingles, who has changed our locker
Speaker 7: room in a lot of ways. But the continuity, the
Speaker 7: chemistry of the team, the jump we had a little
Speaker 7: bit towards the end of last year.
Speaker 3: You can feel what the guys felt.
Speaker 7: Uh they're confidence, their belief in each other and then
Speaker 7: walking in and adding you know, Anthony Black and Jet
Speaker 7: Howard and guys that just fit right into what we
Speaker 7: were doing. The character, the makeup, the defensive mindset. So
Speaker 7: it's the belief that this group has had. It's the
Speaker 7: belief that the organization has had in these guys. And
Speaker 7: you'll mind you it's early, but these guys are a
Speaker 7: tight knit group that they just believe in each other
Speaker 7: and what they're doing. And our staff does an unbelievable
Speaker 7: job with each one of these guys.
Speaker 1: As we're speaking to you, you guys just posted a
Speaker 1: very good win last night over Cleveland. And something else
Speaker 1: that happened when you woke up this morning. Top three defense,
Speaker 1: which is yet another element of this team's success that
Speaker 1: I don't remember too many of us so called experts
Speaker 1: touting would happen back in October when we were making
Speaker 1: preseason predictions.
Speaker 4: So you tell us, how do you get a.
Speaker 1: Young team to buy into defense like this young team has.
Speaker 3: Well, we keep saying it.
Speaker 7: We have guys that want to you know, you look
Speaker 7: at Jalen Suggs and what he's capable of doing.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Isaac.
Speaker 7: You know the defense that Franz Wagner and Paulo are
Speaker 7: playing that they you know, they took on this summer
Speaker 7: wanting to make take on that challenge of being able
Speaker 7: to sit down and guard. You got four guys that
Speaker 7: you know talk about making the All defensive team.
Speaker 3: And you know then Jonathan.
Speaker 7: Isaac, who's you know, possibly you know, being barring, you know,
Speaker 7: staying healthy, is you know he can get Defensive Player
Speaker 7: of the Year the way he plays. I think that
Speaker 7: you have guys that want to and then our system
Speaker 7: has guys that understand what we're asking them to do
Speaker 7: and they follow the game plan.
Speaker 3: At a high level.
Speaker 6: Coach, when you think about getting this opportunity, when you
Speaker 6: finally got an opportunity to be the head coach roaming
Speaker 6: the sidelines, call the shots a lot of times when
Speaker 6: you get that first opportunity, it's a situation where it's
Speaker 6: a rebuild. You're starting from the bottom, and you have
Speaker 6: to to make tremendous strides to even stay in that
Speaker 6: position with that organization or even move to a better
Speaker 6: position like you have to and and it's and it's
Speaker 6: tough for a lot of coaches. Can you tell me
Speaker 6: the process for you when you did accept your Lando
Speaker 6: Magic job, because you know, again, no nobody thought you
Speaker 6: guys would be doing this right now, but just just
Speaker 6: just take it through the process you had.
Speaker 7: Well, first, there's just a high high amount of gratitude
Speaker 7: for being given the opportunity, you know, from the Devas family,
Speaker 7: for Alex, for Jeff and John, just being able to,
Speaker 7: you know, given the opportunity to do it, you know,
Speaker 7: and someone believing that you know, you're capable of leading
Speaker 7: a group and leading an organizations as it happens, you know,
Speaker 7: you just lean on your mentors, you know what people
Speaker 7: have been through before you.
Speaker 3: You talk to your peers who have been in situations.
Speaker 7: Uh and and when you're talking about growth and building,
Speaker 7: it doesn't stop in my opinion, you know, whether we
Speaker 7: were sixteen and seven or seven and sixteen, it's still
Speaker 7: about the growth and development of each one of these guys.
Speaker 7: How do you help them become pros on and off
Speaker 7: the court? How do you help them develop the mindset
Speaker 7: for winning and learning how to win? Because I think
Speaker 7: people forget that in this league it's hard to win
Speaker 7: and you have to learn how to do it. So
Speaker 7: that's what our mindset has been. And then our staff,
Speaker 7: who I will sing their praises, you know till I
Speaker 7: can't sing it anymore. They do a tremendous job with
Speaker 7: this group because they meet each guy exactly where they are,
Speaker 7: help them realize their potential and communicate with them the
Speaker 7: exact way and what we need to do in order
Speaker 7: for them to be successful.
Speaker 3: That's to me, that's what it's about for this group
Speaker 3: of guys.
Speaker 1: Well, look, no one here in Dallas is surprised. This
Speaker 1: was your last stop as an assistant coach before you
Speaker 1: got this job in Orlando. And Chris, you cannot understand
Speaker 1: sayes how love this man is in the Dallas Mavericks organization.
Speaker 4: Dirk Noavitsky and Luke and Nelukah the.
Speaker 1: Two faces of this franchise for basically twenty five years.
Speaker 1: I think if we had them on they would get
Speaker 1: into a pretty good argument about who is the number
Speaker 1: one Jamal Mosley fan. I mean, but you know you
Speaker 1: talked about winning, and I think an overlooked part of
Speaker 1: this is you guys went twenty nine and twenty eight
Speaker 1: last season after the five and twenty start, So it's
Speaker 1: not just like these last twenty three games. You guys
Speaker 1: have been playing five hundred ball for a while now.
Speaker 4: How big a deal was that?
Speaker 1: Last year to basically be a five hundred team for
Speaker 1: almost sixty games.
Speaker 3: That was big, you know.
Speaker 7: I think the guys started to realize the belief system
Speaker 7: and what it took. I mean, we were so close
Speaker 7: to that playing game, and I think those games hurt
Speaker 7: guys because they started to register like it was this
Speaker 7: one game or that one game that and that changed
Speaker 7: exactly where you could be, you know, in the postseason.
Speaker 7: And so having that being known, you know, the guys
Speaker 7: talked about it this summer, sitting down with Paolo Franz
Speaker 7: Mo Markel and just talking and saying, hey, listen, this
Speaker 7: is what we need to do. You need to come
Speaker 7: out the gates the right way because you don't want
Speaker 7: your backup against it, you know, coming down later in
Speaker 7: the season. And each one of these guys has taken
Speaker 7: that on, the seriousness about what it means to be
Speaker 7: a team, and we say it as a group, we
Speaker 7: do it by committee, and these guys are registering that
Speaker 7: they're believing in it and it's a partnership with this group,
Speaker 7: and that's what the that's what they bought into.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing you at euro Basket the summer before
Speaker 1: last season, and I remember you saying that you were like, no,
Speaker 1: we're going to make a run at a play in
Speaker 1: spot at the least. And I remember saying, man, does
Speaker 1: he really believe that? But obviously you you were not kidding.
Speaker 1: And then I remember Polo Bancaro right before his rookie season.
Speaker 1: You guys played an exhibition game in Dallas, and I
Speaker 1: had the chance to talk to him, and I was
Speaker 1: excited to talk to him because I don't go see
Speaker 1: a lot of college games, but his one.
Speaker 4: Year at Duke, my beloved cal State Fullerton.
Speaker 1: Somehow, by the miracle of the draw, we got to
Speaker 1: play Duke in the first round, which has never happened
Speaker 1: is probably never gonna happen again. So I went all
Speaker 1: the way to South Carolina because I was not gonna
Speaker 1: miss the chance that we're actually playing Duke. So I
Speaker 1: got to watch him play this, you know, play his
Speaker 1: first college tournament game. And I remember when you guys
Speaker 1: were in Dallas, and I said, you know, you're going to.
Speaker 4: Lose a lot as a rookie. How prepared are you
Speaker 4: for that?
Speaker 1: Because obviously at Duke, you know, you lose one, two,
Speaker 1: three games a season, maybe five games a season, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you think he handled that last year and
Speaker 1: you know already you guys are a winning team in
Speaker 1: his in the Polo ban Caro era.
Speaker 3: Well, he's a winner, and I will say it over
Speaker 3: and over again.
Speaker 7: He is a big time winner and he's going to
Speaker 7: do whatever's necessary to help win games. And the great
Speaker 7: part about him walking in he had had so many
Speaker 7: the conversations, you know, knowing with Coach k other pros,
Speaker 7: how he was raised, knowing that it is a process.
Speaker 7: It was a process when he walked in that you know,
Speaker 7: you as a rookie, you're not always going to walk
Speaker 7: in and get your team to fifty wins. And what
Speaker 7: he registered in that was finding his space, finding how
Speaker 7: he could impact winning within the team. And it was
Speaker 7: never you know, there's frustrating moments obviously, but what it
Speaker 7: did was it allowed him to see both sides of it,
Speaker 7: you know, not taking any of the wins for granted
Speaker 7: and knowing exactly what it takes in this league to
Speaker 7: try to continue to know, you know, rack up wins.
Speaker 8: So since we're on Pollo Coach, let's go there.
Speaker 6: Let's see if you can shed some light because that
Speaker 6: draft was one of the more stranger drafts to start
Speaker 6: a drafts like y'all, y'all had us stump like all right, now,
Speaker 6: so being so called insiders that we are, you know,
Speaker 6: somebody we tap in. We talked to a lot of people,
Speaker 6: you know, GM, coaches, agents, scouts, whatever. Right where y'all
Speaker 6: had stuff? Is us or like, can you now that
Speaker 6: we're some time or move can you shed light a
Speaker 6: little bit light on like how everything went down? Was
Speaker 6: he your guy all along? Was it really a last
Speaker 6: minute decision? Like can you can you talk through that now?
Speaker 6: Because now ultimately it looked like it was the definitely
Speaker 6: the right decision.
Speaker 3: Well, I think everyone talked about it.
Speaker 7: There were so many options at that spot, you know,
Speaker 7: and I think ultimately there was just you know, there
Speaker 7: was back and forth. There was you know, there was
Speaker 7: studying of guys, information and whatnot, and like to the
Speaker 7: credit of you know, the front office, they did a
Speaker 7: great job of doing all the background of figuring out
Speaker 7: exactly what was the right thing and right fit for
Speaker 7: this team. And you know, he he's a special individual,
Speaker 7: you know, I mean he does so many things well
Speaker 7: and who he is as a as a young man
Speaker 7: is even is even greater. So I think there's just
Speaker 7: a lot of factors that went into it. You know,
Speaker 7: I'm not going to give the secret sauce to what
Speaker 7: went behind it.
Speaker 8: That's my way talking about it.
Speaker 7: So listen, that's why this group does such a great
Speaker 7: job of in the selection of who you know, who
Speaker 7: we who we pick up you know in the draft.
Speaker 8: Let me let me ask you this.
Speaker 6: So you guys are playing well, young guys will get
Speaker 6: a lot of credit they do.
Speaker 8: They do a lot of work, heavy lifting. When you
Speaker 8: look at this team.
Speaker 6: I try I try to like figure out, okay, who
Speaker 6: would be considered the leader, who would be probably the
Speaker 6: go to veteran leader. And obviously you know I got
Speaker 6: Joe Ingles there, Gary Harris. But is there a locker
Speaker 6: room presence where you have someone who's that designated leader
Speaker 6: on the team?
Speaker 8: Is there anybody identified as that? Or is it collective?
Speaker 3: It's a collective. I mean it really is.
Speaker 7: Like one day it's Paulo, one day, it's Franz, one
Speaker 7: day it's Joe, one day, it's Cole, one day it's
Speaker 7: Moe Wagner.
Speaker 3: Like one day it's one Dal one day it's it's Jalen.
Speaker 7: Like these guys are so connected that no one takes
Speaker 7: it personal and we all realize that it's about the team.
Speaker 7: How do we accomplish what we need to accomplish. I mean,
Speaker 7: you see our sideline, It's like they're celebrating each other
Speaker 7: and that's the most beautiful thing to see. And it's
Speaker 7: not even just about the offense. It's like we're celebrating
Speaker 7: when we get stops and we get out and go.
Speaker 3: And that's who this team is.
Speaker 7: It's a partnership, it's a collective that and say it
Speaker 7: over and over again.
Speaker 3: We continue to do it by committee on a nightly basis.
Speaker 6: You know, when you think about young teams out there,
Speaker 6: most people will say the blueprint if you're going to
Speaker 6: go young is that you've got to have that designated
Speaker 6: your Donna's Haslam or even a Vince Carter during this
Speaker 6: hey day. I don't think you guys have somebody like that.
Speaker 6: So what's the secret if you're going to go young? Like,
Speaker 6: what do you think you need to have in place
Speaker 6: to make sure the locker room is intact?
Speaker 7: Like I said, Jeff and those guys did a phenomenal
Speaker 7: job in his team. You have to draft you know,
Speaker 7: the high character, you know the high basketball IQ and
Speaker 7: each one of these guys in this locker room has
Speaker 7: won at some level. And I think when you can
Speaker 7: understand winning, you know what you're asked to do. And
Speaker 7: so whether you were the guy that scored forty on
Speaker 7: your college team or high school team, but you also
Speaker 7: knew what winning took. Sometimes it's not scoring forty. Sometimes
Speaker 7: it's scoring twenty two and giving ten assists and getting
Speaker 7: a big rebound. That they can all understand that language.
Speaker 7: And again to the credit of us bringing all these
Speaker 7: guys back, they understand the message of each one of
Speaker 7: our coaches on what we're asking them to do. So
Speaker 7: it's not like we're having to, you know, say a
Speaker 7: different message to different guys coming in. They've heard it.
Speaker 7: And in that last run of our twenty nine and
Speaker 7: twenty eight they heard what was being said, they felt
Speaker 7: it being real because it was producing you know, wins,
Speaker 7: And our process never changed from the moment we were
Speaker 7: you know, twenty two, you know, twenty two and sixty.
Speaker 7: You know, I think it hasn't changed since then to now.
Speaker 1: Before we get to Frondz in his partnership with Paolo,
Speaker 1: because obviously that's a huge element of your success, you
Speaker 1: actually really early in this pod, you said that Joe
Speaker 1: Ingles has changed our locker room? How has he done that?
Speaker 1: And I mean, I guess he is the old head
Speaker 1: at this point that you're kind of leaning on, So
Speaker 1: explain that to us. How has he changed your locker room?
Speaker 7: Well, by age and experience, he is the old head
Speaker 7: in the locker room, but he he says the right things,
Speaker 7: he lives the right things. And I think the guys
Speaker 7: have played against him enough and heard how much trash
Speaker 7: he talks, but is willing to back it up. And
Speaker 7: then when he walks in the locker room, he's doing
Speaker 7: the exact same thing. But it's all about winning. It's
Speaker 7: all about getting the best out of guys. The way
Speaker 7: he lives on and off the court, it's all it's true.
Speaker 7: And the guys recognize and feel and see that, and
Speaker 7: they've seen his body of work. And so I think
Speaker 7: when you've seen somebody do it that you respect, and
Speaker 7: he's telling you this in the locker room, it makes
Speaker 7: it a little bit easier to buy into what's being
Speaker 7: said because it's also the same thing that each one
Speaker 7: of our coaches are saying to these guys.
Speaker 1: He has quite the rep for trash talking. Does he
Speaker 1: trash talk the coach?
Speaker 7: He's not afraid and yeah he's talking. He's definitely talking
Speaker 7: to the coaches too. But that's what who he is.
Speaker 7: You can't take away who he is, and you know,
Speaker 7: you embrace it and it's fun like this is this
Speaker 7: is that group they have. We have fun with each other,
Speaker 7: We communicate, we don't take each other, we don't.
Speaker 3: Take it so seriously.
Speaker 7: We get our work done and it's a great group
Speaker 7: to be around every day.
Speaker 6: Coach, peel back the curtain a little bit. We know
Speaker 6: some of the best trash talkers in the league. Joe
Speaker 6: doesn't get a lot of exposure nationally for his trash talking.
Speaker 6: Can you give us a couple of trash token I
Speaker 6: mean trash talking commentary from Joe ingles that you can share.
Speaker 6: So people might have said to a teammate opposing player, you,
Speaker 6: is there anything that pops the head?
Speaker 7: I specifically remember, and I won't give specific names, but
Speaker 7: we were playing pick up when he first got here
Speaker 7: and there was a turnover with one of the guys
Speaker 7: and he started talking. You know, oh yeah, see, that's
Speaker 7: what you're gonna do in the games. That's what you're
Speaker 7: gonna do in the games, and so it got under
Speaker 7: one of the players skin and next thing, you know,
Speaker 7: it was like it was back and forth, back and forth.
Speaker 7: But what it did, and this is to players, but
Speaker 7: they don't realize it now lifts up your competitive edge
Speaker 7: and that's what was needed. And we already have guys
Speaker 7: that are competitive, but he lifts that up even more
Speaker 7: because now once you're under skin, now we're trying to go.
Speaker 7: And it was a beautiful thing to watch because that's
Speaker 7: what this group is now showing.
Speaker 3: Even more so.
Speaker 1: So, as I mentioned before, Dirk Noovisky likes to tout
Speaker 1: himself as president of your fan club and the reason
Speaker 1: I mean your I think this was your first season
Speaker 1: you coached against Steve Nash in Brooklyn.
Speaker 4: Yes, and he actually went to the game. A.
Speaker 1: I don't remember him going to many games that didn't
Speaker 1: involve the Dallas Mavericks over the last twenty five years.
Speaker 1: And B I'm not so sure he wasn't rooting for
Speaker 1: the Magic over his buddy Nash's net.
Speaker 4: So that's quite a compliment to you.
Speaker 1: But he is also, of course a huge fan of
Speaker 1: the Wagner Brothers, and he asked me he demanded that
Speaker 1: I ask you about what it's like to coach those
Speaker 1: two and Mo Wagner. I'm eternally a fan of his
Speaker 1: because at that EuroBasket I mentioned he I was I
Speaker 1: was stranded and he helped. He shared an uber with me,
Speaker 1: so he's he's you know, I will never I will
Speaker 1: never forget that. But obviously Franz is the one who
Speaker 1: gets the most notoriety. Tell us about coaching two brothers
Speaker 1: and what what that's like, and obviously the way they've
Speaker 1: impacted your team.
Speaker 7: They're about winning, you know, obviously saw what they did
Speaker 7: this summer, and I think it's so great for them.
Speaker 7: They're about winning, They're about team. They're about figuring out
Speaker 7: ways to just make everybody around him better. High basketball
Speaker 7: IQs and just great character guys that they want to
Speaker 7: do the right thing by those around them. You know,
Speaker 7: Mo is a guy that brings a ton of energy
Speaker 7: to the team, but with a high basketball like you,
Speaker 7: trying to figure out ways he can you know, get
Speaker 7: teammates involved. Franz has obviously emerged, you know, as the
Speaker 7: younger brother, but doing so many great things for this team,
Speaker 7: just being able to score, pass, His defense this year
Speaker 7: has been incredible. So I just think they just provide
Speaker 7: so many things to this team. But it's all about
Speaker 7: the team. That's the great part about both of them.
Speaker 7: They just want to do whatever is necessary to help
Speaker 7: this team keep rising.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure ten fifteen years ago that you know,
Speaker 1: we would have seen a team so willingly put the
Speaker 1: ball in the hands of two forwards.
Speaker 4: Like you guys have.
Speaker 1: How quick did you see that Franz and Paolo were
Speaker 1: gonna be able to play off each other?
Speaker 7: So well, well, it happened early on, you know, in
Speaker 7: the year when we had a bunch of injuries, and
Speaker 7: so a lot of it was that they end up
Speaker 7: having the ball in their hands and being able to
Speaker 7: coach different guys that were, you know, point forwards in
Speaker 7: a lot of ways, you could see it. And so
Speaker 7: having both of them being able to handle make decisions
Speaker 7: make the guys around them better. And I'll keep going
Speaker 7: back to it. They have such high basketball IQs. It
Speaker 7: makes it easy because they're willing and wanting to always
Speaker 7: make the right basketball play, and that's you know, sometimes
Speaker 7: that's rare, but you have two guys that they're always
Speaker 7: trying to make the right play for the team.
Speaker 6: Coach, Have you had to talk to have you had
Speaker 6: to have a conversation with your team about this the
Speaker 6: success that your guys are having right now, and then
Speaker 6: what comes with the attention and then ultimately expectations.
Speaker 8: I don't know. Maybe so young teams, they.
Speaker 6: Start to feel themselves, they may start acting a different way.
Speaker 6: Have you had to have conversations with your team about
Speaker 6: just how to handle this new found attention and success?
Speaker 7: Yes, you know to answer that in one statement, Yes
Speaker 7: we have because we understood like what we're capable of doing,
Speaker 7: but you have to go and prove it. And with
Speaker 7: this team, it's never changed. Like what we were about,
Speaker 7: like every single night, we're going to compete. You know,
Speaker 7: we're gonna we're going to detail our work and then
Speaker 7: we're going to cover for each other defensively, and then
Speaker 7: we're going to share the ball offensively, and we're going
Speaker 7: to do it with a sense of joy and enthusiasm
Speaker 7: for the game, for our fans, for this organization. Like
Speaker 7: we've said that from day one. We had to talk
Speaker 7: last week about the outside expectations and what that is
Speaker 7: is you embrace the expectations that people have for you,
Speaker 7: but you also hold yourself to a higher standard. So
Speaker 7: it shouldn't come as a surprise if you believe in
Speaker 7: each other, if you believe and the work that you've
Speaker 7: put in on a daily basis, and listen, people are
Speaker 7: going to say good and bad. You have to stick
Speaker 7: with the people in this building and the people that
Speaker 7: care about you and the people that are supporting you
Speaker 7: on a regular basis, and those are the voices that
Speaker 7: you listen to and just stick with the same consistent work.
Speaker 6: Would you say this team because because again you know,
Speaker 6: you go over the predictions before the season, people didn't
Speaker 6: have Orlando Magic high on the list. Is this the
Speaker 6: team a team that rush is off of being counted out?
Speaker 6: Or do you think you guys are just playing and
Speaker 6: just building on the continuity that you guys had last year?
Speaker 8: Like what is it?
Speaker 7: I think it's a combination of both, But I really
Speaker 7: do believe it's more it's leaning more on the side
Speaker 7: of the continuity and the chemistry we've had, knowing what
Speaker 7: we're capable of. And I think when you start to
Speaker 7: realize the work that you've put in and how much
Speaker 7: the coaches care about you and all the things that
Speaker 7: you've done, that now you see it turn and you
Speaker 7: win some of these close games and you recognize what
Speaker 7: you're capable of doing, then that starts to hit. With
Speaker 7: the belief system and the trust and the confidence and
Speaker 7: young guys, with the level of confidence that this group has,
Speaker 7: you know, it's it's a beautiful thing to see because
Speaker 7: it's what they all deserve and it's what they've worked towards.
Speaker 1: I guess, though you could also say, and look at it,
Speaker 1: it's a great problem to have managing If managing success
Speaker 1: is a problem, then I'm guessing that's a problem you
Speaker 1: would have signed up for if we if we were
Speaker 1: talking on October twenty second or twenty third.
Speaker 7: I will I would we would all have signed up
Speaker 7: for that to help these guys understand exactly what it
Speaker 7: means to be successful and to take it all and stride.
Speaker 1: I and you know this because I know you've reminded me.
Speaker 1: I have not yet been to Orlando since you since
Speaker 1: you have taken this job, but that I will be
Speaker 1: rectifying that in a matter of days. I will be
Speaker 1: in Orlando for the G League Showcase, and I have
Speaker 1: circled I think you guys are playing Miami a week
Speaker 1: from tomorrow and so I will I look forward to that.
Speaker 1: But people who I've been to Magic games lately keep
Speaker 1: telling me that the crowds have really picked up, really loud.
Speaker 4: The building is packed.
Speaker 1: What are you seeing from your vantage point from the atmosphere.
Speaker 3: The atmosphere and the vibe is so fantastic.
Speaker 7: And I'll say it over and over again, our fans
Speaker 7: are so much a part of this growth with this group.
Speaker 3: They've connected with them.
Speaker 7: I mean, the energy in the in the arena is
Speaker 7: big time, and you know, our record at home, you know,
Speaker 7: you know reflects that because there's been games that this
Speaker 7: crowd and this energy has willed us too.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: I think it's it's so great to have the excitement
Speaker 7: that this city has right now for this group because
Speaker 7: they deserve it, and they're just there's so much a
Speaker 7: part of this group which is which is exactly what
Speaker 7: we've wanted and needed, and the organization is embracing all
Speaker 7: of it, just like these young guys are embracing all
Speaker 7: of the expectations that are coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I know this is only your third year there,
Speaker 1: but from from what I gather, it's been it's been
Speaker 1: a while since the Magic have had crowds like you
Speaker 1: guys are drawing right now.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm going off what we have right now, and
Speaker 7: it's been fantastic to feel this energy and the support
Speaker 7: like our fans.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I think they are absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: Coach of the Month trophy do you keep that out
Speaker 1: or do you throw it in a closet and it's
Speaker 1: not to be looked at?
Speaker 4: I think I know the answer, but I want to
Speaker 4: hear you say it.
Speaker 3: Doan you know the answer?
Speaker 7: That trophy ultimately, and that award is more and always
Speaker 7: about the players and the staff members and what they
Speaker 7: do for this group, Like that's what it's about.
Speaker 8: Coach.
Speaker 6: My last question to you, I want to get your
Speaker 6: take on the n season Tournament, but in particularly the
Speaker 6: point differential. We've seen that cause some friction here and
Speaker 6: there between a couple coaches couple teams. Some coaches believe
Speaker 6: it's a good idea. Some coaches believe that it can
Speaker 6: kind of jeopardize the integrity of against the unwritten rule
Speaker 6: of palin on. What was your stance on on the
Speaker 6: point diferential implement it in the end season tournament formatt
Speaker 6: would you suggest something different? Did you like it and Lastly,
Speaker 6: the unwritten rule about scoring anyways in the last, you know,
Speaker 6: last juncture of the game.
Speaker 8: What's your take on those two?
Speaker 7: You know, I really think the league is going to
Speaker 7: try to do its best to clean any of it
Speaker 7: up and make the changes that are necessary. And I go,
Speaker 7: if you know the rules and you're playing by the
Speaker 7: rules of this game in this moment, then you played
Speaker 7: by the rules of this game in this moment. And
Speaker 7: I think that was a big portion of it because
Speaker 7: everybody knew the rules. Now, obviously there's a piece to
Speaker 7: that in that final game when you also know the
Speaker 7: point differentials of other teams going in, that may be
Speaker 7: something to look at where you don't know what you
Speaker 7: need and so you can't chase it. I think that
Speaker 7: may be something to look at, But overall, like, if
Speaker 7: you know there's a point differential in play, then that's
Speaker 7: what you're that's what you're going by, and I think
Speaker 7: that's part of what it provided.
Speaker 8: You think it's just heat the moment.
Speaker 6: Because all the coaches knew the rules going in, they
Speaker 6: understand how important it is for the point differential, you know,
Speaker 6: to be in place. Why do you think some still
Speaker 6: had a problem once it was implemented against them.
Speaker 7: Oh, you know, I think it's ultimately it's competitive nature.
Speaker 7: You know, it's competitive nature. You get in the middle
Speaker 7: of a game and you don't want to lose a game,
Speaker 7: and so you look at it as you know, some
Speaker 7: people talk about the respect of the game, and you
Speaker 7: can see that side of it, and but you also
Speaker 7: see the other side of you know, the rules of
Speaker 7: what this the tournament is, and so I think you
Speaker 7: have to look at both sides, try to understand both sides,
Speaker 7: and that'll be something I know that the league will
Speaker 7: look at. They'll they'll find a way to communicate with
Speaker 7: the coaches, the players and organizations about what is exactly expected.
Speaker 7: And I think it was great for the league, I
Speaker 7: really do. I think it was great for fans, it
Speaker 7: was great for players, and I think it was an
Speaker 7: overall it was a very good thing for everybody to
Speaker 7: be able to be a part.
Speaker 1: Of Jamal Moseley, coach of the Red Hot or Land Magic,
Speaker 1: We are so glad we were able to catch up
Speaker 1: with you and add you to the pantheon of head coaches.
Speaker 1: You know, we are nearing our one year anniversary of
Speaker 1: the show. We've had Mike brown On, We've had ty Lewon,
Speaker 1: We've had Darvin ham On, and now we can say
Speaker 1: we've had a visit with Jamal Moseley, coach of the
Speaker 1: sixteen and seven Orlando Magic.
Speaker 4: Wishing you continued success for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: And yes, I look forward to my return to Central Florida.
Speaker 4: Have not been there since the bubble.
Speaker 3: It'll be good to get you back down here.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be there next week. Out of your dog,
Speaker 4: out of your doghouse.
Speaker 3: Thank you, I appreciate you. I really truly am grateful.
Speaker 3: Those are some great names to be mentioned with, So
Speaker 3: thank you, Thank you, coach. Appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1: All right, everyone that will do it for this edition
Speaker 1: of this league uncut, our profuse thanks to Magic coach
Speaker 1: Jamal Moseley for joining us in the middle of the
Speaker 1: work week. And please remember, as always, if you haven't
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Speaker 1: to you soon, everybody.