March 18, 2025 • 23 mins
Dante and Jake talk about the supporting cast in the Magic's win over Cavaliers. They also discuss the recent stretch from Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner.
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Back the way, a steal by Franz Fondner to run
out the fog and get to it.
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We want your feedback and we'll do our best to
respond to that. And as we get ready for the
magic and tomorrow night, they're gonna host the Houston Rockets,
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who come in after a furious comeback last night at
home at the hands of the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
They win in overtime. But Jake, before we get to
all of that, a three and two road trip, how
about this Orlando Magic team. When you're leaving thinking, okay,
you got to get the New Orleans one. Can you
steal another one? Maybe two somewhere on that trip. I
don't know that we thought Milwaukee and Cleveland were going
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to be the ones, but they were. How about what
they did on that trip.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, you bookn that trip with some massive wins, and
the Milwaukee one was the one that sort of caught
us off comface and the team was playing the Cleveland one.
For me, well, heading out on that road trip, I
didn't know what to expect after that homestand a one
and six homestand so you go and you get that one,
and then I think you sort of calm down a
little bit, feel little bit better about yourself, and then
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obviously maybe the win of the season on Sunday, So hey,
three and two you'll take. I think people probably would
have taken two and three, maybe even one in four
successful road trip. Now you come back home, take care
business well, and.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
That's what's gonna be next for this Magic team. So
they've got the Houston Rockets. So you spend ten days
on the road, you have a five hour delay getting home,
and then you're home for a day and a half
and then you head right back out and you're gonna
right and you're gonna visit Washington, DC before you come
back for a couple of games in a row, which
will be big games here next week. So and again
we go ahead and invite you to send in your
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comments and your questions and we'll get those answered right
here for you now on Magic Insiders and coming up
for the Orlando Magic. That's what it's going to look like.
So after you have these are your next three home games,
or actually your next three games overall our monitor isn't working,
but we are able to see it here on the
screen on the stream in front of us. So you
have that game against Houston Rockets, then you go to Washington,
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our nation's capitol, and then you come home. Is that
going to be a decent game though? Luka Doncic and
hopefully Lebron James and the Los Angeles Lakers coming up
on Monday.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It always says added intrigue now with Luca and whether
or not see Lebron, I have a feeling we will.
Just figures crossed, but I have a feeling we will.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So will Dawson says, I love how you were chirping
on Twitter after the win.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
On I didn't see that.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I did do a little chirping because I always have
polow Ban Carro's back, and you know that we always
have Pollows back. And there were some people that were
taking exception to him talking with ty Jerome, and I
simply said, you know, mess around and find out. And
that's what happened, right because potentially ty Jerome kind of
woke the beast. Yeah, can we go? Can we make
that leap?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I said it on the broadcast. I said, I don't
know why he's poking that bear, especially with the way
the guys. Ty Jerome's having a fantastic season. He is
no question having a better one. Yes, So I don't
think there was any needed added motivation for that game.
I think everybody was was on ten for that one.
But sure, you know, early on you built up believe
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maybe maybe that's sleeping.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Dogs live let's sleeping dogs lie. Well, that one got
away from me to magic at the win of the season,
beating the Cavaliers, who were the hottest team in the NBA.
But in doing so, let's take a look at Polo Banco.
In that basketball game, he had a terrific road trip,
but he's been terrific since the All Star break. In
that basketball game, twenty four points, eleven rebounds. Right, he
gets his sixth double double of the season, seven assists.
He was three assists away from a triple double. But
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since the All Star Break, he is twenty four point
nine points per game, which is second best in the NBA.
He only trails shay Gilgess Alexander who is probably the
runaway winner for MVP. Right, you say that because of
their record. Obviously Nikole Jokich has something to say about that.
And Giannisi Detakumo twenty four points, eleven rebounds, seven assists,
nine to eleven from the free throw line on Sunday
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against the Cavaliers, but again, twenty five points a game
since the All Star break. This is what we saw
the first five games of the season from Polo Binkiro.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Absolutely, you knew it was coming. It took him a
little bit of time, I think to ramp up off
the injury. But just in the month of March, Dante
and this is getting to be a pretty big samples
as what eight games, just under thirty points a game,
twenty nine point nine points per game, two point one
turnovers a game.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
He's huge.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
He's not the The usage is through the roof, the
ball is in his hands. Typically there's two, maybe even
three defenders shading him, and he's not turning the ball over.
He's making the right play within the framework of the offense.
Had forty three points in a loss on Friday in Minnesota,
and he was absolutely phenomenal in that game in Cleveland,
and we're getting to the point where we're expecting it at
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night in night out. Obviously the team needs it. But
I think when you look at the turnovers, when you
look at those assists numbers, he's not just you know,
hijacking the offense and getting to his shot. He's creating
opportunities for his teammates as well. And you're seeing the results.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Jay Curve good tapping in with you as well. This
magic team getting three big well three and zero. Tom
says for those three game schedule that's coming up. But
how about this A couple of questions, A couple of
questions here, Jake, and we'll throw it back to you
first from Rome. Don't you guys love how P five
doesn't back down from anyone? Absolutely? I mean, that's what
we saw with TD Jerome, and that's I think we.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Knew that that was in his DNA coming out of dude.
I mean her, he sort of always has presented himself
that way. But yeah, like I think he could have
probably just cruise along and maybe we end up winning
that game. But I at that point, like, what what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
But now he was on a heater though, I mean
he was playing well, Ty Jerome. Everything he was throwing
up was going in. But yeah, why are you gonna
poke that bear? Like, and I'm sure and I'm sure
Jared Allen and Max Strus and all the guys that
had the guarden, We're like, really you're gonna do? Yeah?
Thanks a lot, Thanks, thanks a lot. Like Nero says,
what's your Twitter name? Guys? Okay, so I'm at Dante.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Magic at Jake chapman om and Orlando Magic.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
At Jake chapman oem Okay, there you go shooting the
ball with confidence. Will Dawson says, okay, and then I'll
let you tackle this from Nero Suggs and A b Right,
both shooting guards, small forward, we need to bring in
a pointing guard, shooting guard and then so he has
some suggestions on who you can add, but also from Leicester,
what will it take for Anthony Black to be your
starting point guard? So give us kind of a thought
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on Corey Joseph, who has been phenomenal filling in as
a starting point guard, and then the role that maybe
you envisioned for Anthony blackflow. I think there's two.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Schools of thought. Paula and Franz are going to have
the ball in their hands no matter what. So you
need somebody, I think, to get them organized, and that
is something that Corey Joseph has done very well. Mean,
somebody who can knock down open shots. But I don't know.
I think there's multiple ways to attack that. There's there's
the classic point guard, you know, the facilitator, a guy
who gets everybody. There's a guy who knocks down shots
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and gets everybody organized and plays the role that Corey
Joseph's playing. I don't think there's one right answer there.
I do think as far as Anthony Black goes, it's
a matter of being aggressive, getting to the rack, as
coach Mosley says at nauseum, and playing the way he
did the other night, which is stepping into his jumper
with confidence and being in attack mode from the get
goat Ap is so smart. He can be a ball swinger,
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he can facilitate and and at times I think he
can get lost within the framework of the offense. He
needs to get that thing and go and maybe, you know,
as far as the second unit goes, we'll see if
if with Cole getting healthy, does he into that bench
spot Just Cory Joseph stay in the starting lineup. You've
seen some pretty positive results with Kojo in there, so
I don't think they'll mess with it right now, do
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you do you?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I mean, do any of us disagree that Sunday's Anthony
Black would potentially be the starter? Like if you knew
you could consistently get that from Anthony Black, that that
would and that's that's the struggle for every second year player.
But if you can get that consistency, probably the only
thing keeping him out of.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Them, absolutely, And he's very solid defensively, he's a scrape passer,
he's a high IQ basketball player. So to have that
framework for a young player and then want to sort
of build like an add on more aggression and more
attack mode night in and night out, I think there's
that would be eventually the perfect compliment.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
We're not sitting here and saying that this one win,
it's one win against Cleveland. We're not sitting here and
saying now we're gonna go to the playoffs as the
eight seed and we're gonna be Cleveland. We could anything
can happen. Certainly say that, so let's not let's not
get it twisted. But that was a big game. And
I love this from Zach Attack who says, after that
point with the confrontation, I Jerome scored two points and
Polo scored nineteen. Okay, So there you go. That's what
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we mean by mess around and find out, okay, and
then the other guy we want to talk about before
we duck in the break, and then we'll come back
and kind of talk about some of the others. Wendell
Carter Junior, Contavious calledwell, Polpe, they were terrific. But Franz
Wagner in that basketball game started zero for seven, struggled
mightily after a tough game against Minnesota where teams we
are just seeing teams now understanding there's nothing we can
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do with Pollow. So Paulo's gonna get his We're gonna
throw every other available body at Franz, and we're going
to try to make it as difficult on him as possible.
And that's what we've seen and still through that. After
starting oh of seven, he goes six for fifteen the
rest of the way, okay, which is obviously terrific production.
I'm sorry that was Pollow. He goes oh for seven,
so he went two for twelve, eight for twelve, eight
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for twelve the rest of the way. Franz goes eight
for twelve. After starting oh for seven, he gets you
eight rebounds and get you a couple of assiscos for
twenty two points. Franz Wagner. Since he had the injury,
it's been twenty four games, he's getting you twenty four
point a game, five rebounds, three point six assists. After
that twenty two point eight rebound performance, they are on pace.
Pollow and Franz will only be the second duo in
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Orlando Magic history teammates to both average twenty points per game.
Other than Shack and Petty, it has not happened since
Shack and Petty, the two magic players on the same
team have average twenty points.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And it's picking poison. And you're gonna see different attack
like ways to attack at night in and night out.
I think different coaches are going to load up on
Pollow one night and then you're gonna see Franz loaded
up on like he was on Sunday, and they're still
learning how to play off of that. It's really important
to think about how young they are as far as
playing together and playing at this level together. And Franz
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Wagner is having a career year. The three ball has
not been falling as late for Franz and when that starts,
you know, thirty five, thirty eight percent.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
But he's not alone in that, I mean no, I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's sort of commonplace. But we know Franz is better
than month of March twenty three percent from three point
range when he knocks down three or four threes like
we talked about with Paul over the weekend as well,
when those guys are knocking out chouts from the perimeter,
there's just no way.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
To stop them. There isn't. There isn't. I see the
comments here and Amani, you're exactly right. KCP was crucial
in that last game, and we'll get into that when
we come back, because I think that's a big point.
You don't win that game without those two big threes
from Anthony Black, without that big three from Contavious Caldwell Pope.
And he's had a couple of opportunities to kind of
knock down that big three since he's been here, and
he came through in a big way against Cleveland. Magic
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fans celebrated Kingdom on the Rise with us at Kia Center.
See the Magic Representer Orlando and the City Edition uniforms
as they battle it out against the Mavericks on Thursday,
March twenty seventh. Hopefully Anthony Davis back in uniform for
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back with more Magic Insiders, a closer look at Wendell,
Anthony Black, and KCP when we return. In a moment.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
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Speaker 4 (11:57):
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start at six thirty on ninety six to nine the
game and at six thirty on fan Duel Sports Network,
and thirteen games remained. Can you believe that we're at
the point where we're midway through March and there's thirteen
games left?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I can because Thursday is the first officialty of the
NCAA tournament and that I got that one circle. That's
like people say the day after the Super Bowl should
be a federal holiday, first Thursday.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yes, I agree, And it's just it's the best. Maybe
the Friday after the first day, maybe maybe that day.
What are you going to do on Thursday?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I don't know, Just you know, hang out, watch some hoops,
watch some hoops, pin the dog.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Yep, there you go. You get the whole day playing.
It should be a good one. We know you were
looking forward to that and we're looking forward to that
Magic game. And again we do Magic Insiders Monday through
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KCP hit one of the biggest shots of the game,
a huge three late, came back and tied the game
as things were starting to get away as Cleveland was
starting to pull away. He had fifteen points in that game.
The Magic now are seven to three on the season
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in games where KCP goes for fifteen or more. We
brought him in. He's given you the stellar defense all year.
The shooting is kind of coming gone. He's the shooting
has been much better here. As you pointed out on
Magic DRIVETI our Magic Insiders yesterday. What have you seen
from KCP and how big was he against Cleveland, they.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Tried to get him going early. I think that's we've
all noticed that. And with a rhythm shooter like him,
and especially a guy who expends so much energy on
the defensive end, I think sometimes early on in the game,
when he's got all of his juice, like seeing a
couple jumpers fall, is very helpful for him. Look, he
scored in double digits five of the last seven games
in the month of March. He's shooting forty seven point
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six percent, So we knew it was a swing that
he wasn't He wasn't quite the shooter that we saw
early in the season. But you're right, like he's he's
brought it on the defensive end all season long. He's
brought it period. He's been available all season long. I
think a day off, which he had on Friday night
against Minnesota for KCP means more than just about for
anybody else like that guy. He's fighting a lot, just
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as far as being a veteran and how banged up
his body has to be in the way that he
plays the game. But like I think we knew that
was going to swing, that he was going to get
closer to his career average three point wise, and when
he knocks down shots, it just makes such a huge difference.
We know what we can expect night in and night
out as far as the defense goes. But he was
brought in, as you said, to the floor for Polo
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and Franz, and he's been doing that as a blade.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well, he's had an opportunity. He's not alone with some
of the big shots that have been missed late this year.
Everybody has kind of taken their opportunity. But that was huge.
He knocked down a big one. Ab got a couple,
got a couple of questions here. Everybody's talking about Quentin Grimes,
a comment here about TDD Jerome. You look at Dyson Daniels.
There's decisions that this on office has to make, and
there's options out there as you look at free agency
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this year, and we know they'll look at everybody. Those
are some names that have been suggested. We have no
idea where they're going to go, but there's some great
options out there as you start looking at improving this
team during the off season.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Absolutely, and that was you know, you go back to
the trade deadline and I know there was a whole
bunch of noise made about the lack of activity. But
now you still have all of those assets anything that
you must have yes tried to cash in at the
trade deadline for like a short term fix. You can
kind of stack some of those this summer and I
think you'll have hopefully a better idea of what exactly
you're looking for heading into the off season.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
We've been the first one to point out the inconsistencies
of the second unit, right, and Gary Harris has had
as ups and downs. But as Jake Curve points out
to steal by Gary under the basket, right, you get
two back to back turnover change the game, right. What
was your perspective as you were because you called the game,
I was watching it with my family. You were working.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
To see, especially when you're on the road, to see
a building quieted like the one that I grew up in,
felling Off a basketball in as a Cleveland native, and
you just don't see two steals in the back. That's
college basketball, that's high school basketball. Point right, right, You
just typically don't see a team unable to get the
ball across half court twice in a row. And that
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was absolutely the biggest swing of the game. I think
it was in the middle of an eight or ten
oer run that happened, you know, in like two minutes,
which obviously right steals in the back court and going
in for layups that tends to happen, but that to
me absolutely swung the game. It completely cooled down that crowd.
And we need plays like that, like our team I
think really gets energized. Some teams, you know, two or
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three threes in a row, that's you know, that's sort
of what gets them fired up. With us, I think
a lot of times it's defensive plays, it's hustle place
that type of stuff. And to see Gary and ab
Be in the middle of those plays and and the
cause of those plays, I think we've been waiting for
the bench to kind of to kind of chip in
and give us something special.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
When we saw that consistently, and that's what we saw.
You're exactly right, real quick, Well, shift gears for just
a second. I love this question. We're gonna have to
answer that immediately, but I'm gonna put that on hold
for second. Dwight Howard going into the Magic Hall of
Fame that's coming up against the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday, Right,
no brainer. That guy is probably, when it's all sett
and down, the greatest player to ever wear a Magic
uniform because of the records that he holds, the time
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that he was here and helped get this team to
a finals.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's it's I don't want
to say it's overdue, but I think we've been expecting
it for a while and look, it's it was really
cool to have him in the house for a game
six last year against the Cavaliers in the playoffs, felt like,
you know, kind of a lot of the maybe acrimony
about the way it all ended was sort of put
to bed with that, and this will be the next
step in that direction, certainly where he belongs.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
I love this question. It says, is Kendra Douglas the
coolest co worker you've ever worked with? And it comes
it comes from Kendra Douglas and no offense, Jake, but yes, yes,
she probably would be should be up there, absolutely no
question about it. Which, by the way, you've been busy
before games as well. How do how can we how
can we tap into what you're doing on a game night?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
That's a great question.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I still don't know, Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Fair enough, No, we don't know where to find it
or what you're doing magic YouTube at this point.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
There you're on this too, you do this also?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, yeah, I at times nice, we're experimenting. So ask
ask Stuberry an hour before the sport tipoff, where's Jake
And I'll be somewhere.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I get it. I'm like going to come out of
the meal room and there's a camera right there. There's
Kendra's phone right now, and it's this tiny little microphone
thing to say what's your day?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Like see, and that's going out to everywhere exactly Kendra.
Kendra is polished to know that she can walk through
the corridors with a camera over her shoulder.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
No, this is true.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Nobody wants to see or hear the things that I
say as I'm walking through the corridors of the Kia Center.
It's just a whole bunch of like swearing and mumbling.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Oh yeah, well this is true. I can vouch for that.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Now.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
You certainly want to have that monitor, no question. My
last thing before we get out here, Wendell Carter Junior.
I'd be remiss if we didn't mention the game we
got from him. He got his ninth double double of
the season and Wendell gets you sixteen points, fourteen rebounds.
I thought, terrific defense thirty five minutes. You know Goga's
going through it right now. He's got to figure it out.
We need go get back to do what you have
to do and to be the team that you're going
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to be. You need him playing terrific off the bench,
and he can get back to that, no question to
still have thirteen games left. But Wendell aggressive attack in
the basket. He had a huge and one. I thought
that was the most exciting play he's had of the
year where he drove right around Jared Allen later then
drew contact ninth double double. You don't need that production
every night from Wendell, but when you get it, you're
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gonna be tough to be.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, and especially against a Jared Allen and a team
like Cleveland. I think we needed it that night. You're right,
sixteen and fourteen is allowed to ask night in the
night out, But jay I played seven minutes off the bench,
Goga played what seven or eight. Those guys are going
through it right now, and sometimes availability is an issue
with those guys, especially at the end of a long
of a long road trip. So He's been solid all
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season long. He's been available short of that injury at
the beginning of the season, and you're right, like, we
need him, we need him to be to be the
beef down low, and he was awesome. He does so
many little things that he probably doesn't get appreciated enough for,
things like setting screens defense. But the rebounding has been
a roller coaster, and not just Whendell. I'm talking team
wide post All Star Break, and so you know, double
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digit rebounds night in and night out right now is
what we need from Wendell. And he brought it on
Sunday for sure.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
He certainly did. Now you got to keep it going.
You got thirteen games left and next up will be
the next up will be the Houston Rockets, which you
owe you were unable to score rebounds against the Houston Rockets.
They crushed just Steven Adams, Alpera and Shangoon. That team
was dead in the water last night against Philadelphia and
they found a way to come back, which, by the way,
a little another little side note here before we before
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we duck out, we didn't have the game in Cleveland,
so we had to fly back. Me Kendra Douglas Jeff
Turner and Greg Hartong flight is at seven thirty. Okay,
we got a lot of flak for this flight is
at seven thirty. What time would you leave the hotel
to make sure you were ready to get back? What
time would you have a in Cleveland? No, this is Minnesota.
We came back from Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I'm not sure how far the airport is.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Okay, seven thirty?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Fine, yeah, perfect, exactly, Yeah, that's what that's exactly what
time you leave, and that's why you get there plenty early.
We got a lot of flats. Kendrier thinks you should
leave at seven, so that would not have left us
enough time, Kendra, So we dragged her out early. But
it was a good thing because that was a packed airport,
and that's why you leave her. Never know, you never
know what you're gonna run into us. So I think
that's important. All right, Wendell is some comments about Wendell
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and what needs to happen there, but listen, I think
the other thing we have to realize is the injuries
that he's battled his entire career. This is the most
consecutive games Wendell Carter Junior has ever played in his career, right,
So think about that. So you're getting it from a
guy whose main goal right now is to be on
the floor. All the other things will kind of figure
themselves out. But in this year, with everybody being unavailable,
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the fact that he has had the most consistent run
of his NBA career, to me, speaks voyage.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
He plays a rugged position, ruggedly, and he and he
it was a point of emphasis for him to be
available year, to get his body to a point where
he could play thirty forty consecutive games, and that stuff
for anybody regardless, not to mention a big and a
big that plays the way that he plays. How heavy
was your lugga?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Oh jeez? Okay, listen, we were on an eight day trip.
Eight day trips, right, you got your allowed fifty pounds.
Kendra's was sixty three, Mind you sixty three with another
small suitcase that was jammed with all the heavy stuff, right, Okay,
so that thing mine was fifty eight. So you fifty
eight with.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Three suits as much stuff as Kendra.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, she had an extra suitcase with all of her heavy.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Stuff, fifty eight pounds of stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I know. But she was at sixty three with arguably
twenty pounds of it taken out. She brings, She brings
rocks and tools from what's right. Try to lift that
suitcase up. I don't know how much suff I'm good, yeah,
and ready to go. You travel light, no question about it.
But about you know what. I'm watching that game and
it was awesome to be there watch a game finally
national TV with my family that we won. Was huge, Yes,
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But the other thing you're listening and you're thinking, that
environment is unbelievable. What you said, you grew up going
to those games there, and to quiet that crowd, a
team that had won sixteen in a row, right, the
hottest streak in the NBA, and to think that when
they walked onto that floor, they thought there's no way
we're not getting seventeen in a row. And to steal
that from them, to me, it was huge and it
can give you just enough confidence the last thirteen games
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to go on the run. You need.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Quieting twenty thousand clevelanders is very difficult to do, but
it can be very satisfying. Quieting tied Jerome was was
that was the big one.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
All right, you're right, well, that's going to do it
for us We'll see you next Tuesday right here on
the Atlanta Magic YouTube channel. Jake Kendra, everybody will be
doing other things that asn a Pragazi says, nobody knows
where it is or how you get to it, but
they'll be doing that, So keep checking the channel throughout
the rest of the way. Thirteen games left. We will
next see you tomorrow on FanDuel Sports Network at six
thirty and Jake Chapman, we'll have to call at six
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who come in after a furious comeback last night at
home at the hands of the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
They win in overtime. But Jake, before we get to
all of that, a three and two road trip, how
about this Orlando Magic team. When you're leaving thinking, okay,
you got to get the New Orleans one. Can you
steal another one? Maybe two somewhere on that trip. I
don't know that we thought Milwaukee and Cleveland were going
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to be the ones, but they were. How about what
they did on that trip.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, you bookn that trip with some massive wins, and
the Milwaukee one was the one that sort of caught
us off comface and the team was playing the Cleveland one.
For me, well, heading out on that road trip, I
didn't know what to expect after that homestand a one
and six homestand so you go and you get that one,
and then I think you sort of calm down a
little bit, feel little bit better about yourself, and then
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obviously maybe the win of the season on Sunday, So hey,
three and two you'll take. I think people probably would
have taken two and three, maybe even one in four
successful road trip. Now you come back home, take care
business well, and.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
That's what's gonna be next for this Magic team. So
they've got the Houston Rockets. So you spend ten days
on the road, you have a five hour delay getting home,
and then you're home for a day and a half
and then you head right back out and you're gonna
right and you're gonna visit Washington, DC before you come
back for a couple of games in a row, which
will be big games here next week. So and again
we go ahead and invite you to send in your
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here for you now on Magic Insiders and coming up
for the Orlando Magic. That's what it's going to look like.
So after you have these are your next three home games,
or actually your next three games overall our monitor isn't working,
but we are able to see it here on the
screen on the stream in front of us. So you
have that game against Houston Rockets, then you go to Washington,
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our nation's capitol, and then you come home. Is that
going to be a decent game though? Luka Doncic and
hopefully Lebron James and the Los Angeles Lakers coming up
on Monday.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It always says added intrigue now with Luca and whether
or not see Lebron, I have a feeling we will.
Just figures crossed, but I have a feeling we will.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So will Dawson says, I love how you were chirping
on Twitter after the win.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
On I didn't see that.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I did do a little chirping because I always have
polow Ban Carro's back, and you know that we always
have Pollows back. And there were some people that were
taking exception to him talking with ty Jerome, and I
simply said, you know, mess around and find out. And
that's what happened, right because potentially ty Jerome kind of
woke the beast. Yeah, can we go? Can we make
that leap?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I said it on the broadcast. I said, I don't
know why he's poking that bear, especially with the way
the guys. Ty Jerome's having a fantastic season. He is
no question having a better one. Yes, So I don't
think there was any needed added motivation for that game.
I think everybody was was on ten for that one.
But sure, you know, early on you built up believe
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maybe maybe that's sleeping.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Dogs live let's sleeping dogs lie. Well, that one got
away from me to magic at the win of the season,
beating the Cavaliers, who were the hottest team in the NBA.
But in doing so, let's take a look at Polo Banco.
In that basketball game, he had a terrific road trip,
but he's been terrific since the All Star break. In
that basketball game, twenty four points, eleven rebounds. Right, he
gets his sixth double double of the season, seven assists.
He was three assists away from a triple double. But
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since the All Star Break, he is twenty four point
nine points per game, which is second best in the NBA.
He only trails shay Gilgess Alexander who is probably the
runaway winner for MVP. Right, you say that because of
their record. Obviously Nikole Jokich has something to say about that.
And Giannisi Detakumo twenty four points, eleven rebounds, seven assists,
nine to eleven from the free throw line on Sunday
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against the Cavaliers, but again, twenty five points a game
since the All Star break. This is what we saw
the first five games of the season from Polo Binkiro.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Absolutely, you knew it was coming. It took him a
little bit of time, I think to ramp up off
the injury. But just in the month of March, Dante
and this is getting to be a pretty big samples
as what eight games, just under thirty points a game,
twenty nine point nine points per game, two point one
turnovers a game.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
He's huge.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
He's not the The usage is through the roof, the
ball is in his hands. Typically there's two, maybe even
three defenders shading him, and he's not turning the ball over.
He's making the right play within the framework of the offense.
Had forty three points in a loss on Friday in Minnesota,
and he was absolutely phenomenal in that game in Cleveland,
and we're getting to the point where we're expecting it at
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night in night out. Obviously the team needs it. But
I think when you look at the turnovers, when you
look at those assists numbers, he's not just you know,
hijacking the offense and getting to his shot. He's creating
opportunities for his teammates as well. And you're seeing the results.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Jay Curve good tapping in with you as well. This
magic team getting three big well three and zero. Tom
says for those three game schedule that's coming up. But
how about this A couple of questions, A couple of
questions here, Jake, and we'll throw it back to you
first from Rome. Don't you guys love how P five
doesn't back down from anyone? Absolutely? I mean, that's what
we saw with TD Jerome, and that's I think we.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Knew that that was in his DNA coming out of dude.
I mean her, he sort of always has presented himself
that way. But yeah, like I think he could have
probably just cruise along and maybe we end up winning
that game. But I at that point, like, what what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
But now he was on a heater though, I mean
he was playing well, Ty Jerome. Everything he was throwing
up was going in. But yeah, why are you gonna
poke that bear? Like, and I'm sure and I'm sure
Jared Allen and Max Strus and all the guys that
had the guarden, We're like, really you're gonna do? Yeah?
Thanks a lot, Thanks, thanks a lot. Like Nero says,
what's your Twitter name? Guys? Okay, so I'm at Dante.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Magic at Jake chapman om and Orlando Magic.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
At Jake chapman oem Okay, there you go shooting the
ball with confidence. Will Dawson says, okay, and then I'll
let you tackle this from Nero Suggs and A b Right,
both shooting guards, small forward, we need to bring in
a pointing guard, shooting guard and then so he has
some suggestions on who you can add, but also from Leicester,
what will it take for Anthony Black to be your
starting point guard? So give us kind of a thought
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on Corey Joseph, who has been phenomenal filling in as
a starting point guard, and then the role that maybe
you envisioned for Anthony blackflow. I think there's two.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Schools of thought. Paula and Franz are going to have
the ball in their hands no matter what. So you
need somebody, I think, to get them organized, and that
is something that Corey Joseph has done very well. Mean,
somebody who can knock down open shots. But I don't know.
I think there's multiple ways to attack that. There's there's
the classic point guard, you know, the facilitator, a guy
who gets everybody. There's a guy who knocks down shots
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and gets everybody organized and plays the role that Corey
Joseph's playing. I don't think there's one right answer there.
I do think as far as Anthony Black goes, it's
a matter of being aggressive, getting to the rack, as
coach Mosley says at nauseum, and playing the way he
did the other night, which is stepping into his jumper
with confidence and being in attack mode from the get
goat Ap is so smart. He can be a ball swinger,
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he can facilitate and and at times I think he
can get lost within the framework of the offense. He
needs to get that thing and go and maybe, you know,
as far as the second unit goes, we'll see if
if with Cole getting healthy, does he into that bench
spot Just Cory Joseph stay in the starting lineup. You've
seen some pretty positive results with Kojo in there, so
I don't think they'll mess with it right now, do
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you do you?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I mean, do any of us disagree that Sunday's Anthony
Black would potentially be the starter? Like if you knew
you could consistently get that from Anthony Black, that that
would and that's that's the struggle for every second year player.
But if you can get that consistency, probably the only
thing keeping him out of.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Them, absolutely, And he's very solid defensively, he's a scrape passer,
he's a high IQ basketball player. So to have that
framework for a young player and then want to sort
of build like an add on more aggression and more
attack mode night in and night out, I think there's
that would be eventually the perfect compliment.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
We're not sitting here and saying that this one win,
it's one win against Cleveland. We're not sitting here and
saying now we're gonna go to the playoffs as the
eight seed and we're gonna be Cleveland. We could anything
can happen. Certainly say that, so let's not let's not
get it twisted. But that was a big game. And
I love this from Zach Attack who says, after that
point with the confrontation, I Jerome scored two points and
Polo scored nineteen. Okay, So there you go. That's what
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we mean by mess around and find out, okay, and
then the other guy we want to talk about before
we duck in the break, and then we'll come back
and kind of talk about some of the others. Wendell
Carter Junior, Contavious calledwell, Polpe, they were terrific. But Franz
Wagner in that basketball game started zero for seven, struggled
mightily after a tough game against Minnesota where teams we
are just seeing teams now understanding there's nothing we can
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do with Pollow. So Paulo's gonna get his We're gonna
throw every other available body at Franz, and we're going
to try to make it as difficult on him as possible.
And that's what we've seen and still through that. After
starting oh of seven, he goes six for fifteen the
rest of the way, okay, which is obviously terrific production.
I'm sorry that was Pollow. He goes oh for seven,
so he went two for twelve, eight for twelve, eight
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for twelve the rest of the way. Franz goes eight
for twelve. After starting oh for seven, he gets you
eight rebounds and get you a couple of assiscos for
twenty two points. Franz Wagner. Since he had the injury,
it's been twenty four games, he's getting you twenty four
point a game, five rebounds, three point six assists. After
that twenty two point eight rebound performance, they are on pace.
Pollow and Franz will only be the second duo in
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Orlando Magic history teammates to both average twenty points per game.
Other than Shack and Petty, it has not happened since
Shack and Petty, the two magic players on the same
team have average twenty points.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And it's picking poison. And you're gonna see different attack
like ways to attack at night in and night out.
I think different coaches are going to load up on
Pollow one night and then you're gonna see Franz loaded
up on like he was on Sunday, and they're still
learning how to play off of that. It's really important
to think about how young they are as far as
playing together and playing at this level together. And Franz
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Wagner is having a career year. The three ball has
not been falling as late for Franz and when that starts,
you know, thirty five, thirty eight percent.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
But he's not alone in that, I mean no, I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's sort of commonplace. But we know Franz is better
than month of March twenty three percent from three point
range when he knocks down three or four threes like
we talked about with Paul over the weekend as well,
when those guys are knocking out chouts from the perimeter,
there's just no way.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
To stop them. There isn't. There isn't. I see the
comments here and Amani, you're exactly right. KCP was crucial
in that last game, and we'll get into that when
we come back, because I think that's a big point.
You don't win that game without those two big threes
from Anthony Black, without that big three from Contavious Caldwell Pope.
And he's had a couple of opportunities to kind of
knock down that big three since he's been here, and
he came through in a big way against Cleveland. Magic
(11:25):
fans celebrated Kingdom on the Rise with us at Kia Center.
See the Magic Representer Orlando and the City Edition uniforms
as they battle it out against the Mavericks on Thursday,
March twenty seventh. Hopefully Anthony Davis back in uniform for
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back with more Magic Insiders, a closer look at Wendell,
Anthony Black, and KCP when we return. In a moment.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
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game and at six thirty on fan Duel Sports Network,
and thirteen games remained. Can you believe that we're at
the point where we're midway through March and there's thirteen
games left?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I can because Thursday is the first officialty of the
NCAA tournament and that I got that one circle. That's
like people say the day after the Super Bowl should
be a federal holiday, first Thursday.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yes, I agree, And it's just it's the best. Maybe
the Friday after the first day, maybe maybe that day.
What are you going to do on Thursday?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I don't know, Just you know, hang out, watch some hoops,
watch some hoops, pin the dog.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Yep, there you go. You get the whole day playing.
It should be a good one. We know you were
looking forward to that and we're looking forward to that
Magic game. And again we do Magic Insiders Monday through
Friday at three o'clock three to three thirty on ninety
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KCP hit one of the biggest shots of the game,
a huge three late, came back and tied the game
as things were starting to get away as Cleveland was
starting to pull away. He had fifteen points in that game.
The Magic now are seven to three on the season
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in games where KCP goes for fifteen or more. We
brought him in. He's given you the stellar defense all year.
The shooting is kind of coming gone. He's the shooting
has been much better here. As you pointed out on
Magic DRIVETI our Magic Insiders yesterday. What have you seen
from KCP and how big was he against Cleveland, they.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Tried to get him going early. I think that's we've
all noticed that. And with a rhythm shooter like him,
and especially a guy who expends so much energy on
the defensive end, I think sometimes early on in the game,
when he's got all of his juice, like seeing a
couple jumpers fall, is very helpful for him. Look, he
scored in double digits five of the last seven games
in the month of March. He's shooting forty seven point
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six percent, So we knew it was a swing that
he wasn't He wasn't quite the shooter that we saw
early in the season. But you're right, like he's he's
brought it on the defensive end all season long. He's
brought it period. He's been available all season long. I
think a day off, which he had on Friday night
against Minnesota for KCP means more than just about for
anybody else like that guy. He's fighting a lot, just
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as far as being a veteran and how banged up
his body has to be in the way that he
plays the game. But like I think we knew that
was going to swing, that he was going to get
closer to his career average three point wise, and when
he knocks down shots, it just makes such a huge difference.
We know what we can expect night in and night
out as far as the defense goes. But he was
brought in, as you said, to the floor for Polo
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and Franz, and he's been doing that as a blade.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well, he's had an opportunity. He's not alone with some
of the big shots that have been missed late this year.
Everybody has kind of taken their opportunity. But that was huge.
He knocked down a big one. Ab got a couple,
got a couple of questions here. Everybody's talking about Quentin Grimes,
a comment here about TDD Jerome. You look at Dyson Daniels.
There's decisions that this on office has to make, and
there's options out there as you look at free agency
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this year, and we know they'll look at everybody. Those
are some names that have been suggested. We have no
idea where they're going to go, but there's some great
options out there as you start looking at improving this
team during the off season.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Absolutely, and that was you know, you go back to
the trade deadline and I know there was a whole
bunch of noise made about the lack of activity. But
now you still have all of those assets anything that
you must have yes tried to cash in at the
trade deadline for like a short term fix. You can
kind of stack some of those this summer and I
think you'll have hopefully a better idea of what exactly
you're looking for heading into the off season.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
We've been the first one to point out the inconsistencies
of the second unit, right, and Gary Harris has had
as ups and downs. But as Jake Curve points out
to steal by Gary under the basket, right, you get
two back to back turnover change the game, right. What
was your perspective as you were because you called the game,
I was watching it with my family. You were working.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
To see, especially when you're on the road, to see
a building quieted like the one that I grew up in,
felling Off a basketball in as a Cleveland native, and
you just don't see two steals in the back. That's
college basketball, that's high school basketball. Point right, right, You
just typically don't see a team unable to get the
ball across half court twice in a row. And that
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was absolutely the biggest swing of the game. I think
it was in the middle of an eight or ten
oer run that happened, you know, in like two minutes,
which obviously right steals in the back court and going
in for layups that tends to happen, but that to
me absolutely swung the game. It completely cooled down that crowd.
And we need plays like that, like our team I
think really gets energized. Some teams, you know, two or
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three threes in a row, that's you know, that's sort
of what gets them fired up. With us, I think
a lot of times it's defensive plays, it's hustle place
that type of stuff. And to see Gary and ab
Be in the middle of those plays and and the
cause of those plays, I think we've been waiting for
the bench to kind of to kind of chip in
and give us something special.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
When we saw that consistently, and that's what we saw.
You're exactly right, real quick, Well, shift gears for just
a second. I love this question. We're gonna have to
answer that immediately, but I'm gonna put that on hold
for second. Dwight Howard going into the Magic Hall of
Fame that's coming up against the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday, Right,
no brainer. That guy is probably, when it's all sett
and down, the greatest player to ever wear a Magic
uniform because of the records that he holds, the time
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that he was here and helped get this team to
a finals.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's it's I don't want
to say it's overdue, but I think we've been expecting
it for a while and look, it's it was really
cool to have him in the house for a game
six last year against the Cavaliers in the playoffs, felt like,
you know, kind of a lot of the maybe acrimony
about the way it all ended was sort of put
to bed with that, and this will be the next
step in that direction, certainly where he belongs.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
I love this question. It says, is Kendra Douglas the
coolest co worker you've ever worked with? And it comes
it comes from Kendra Douglas and no offense, Jake, but yes, yes,
she probably would be should be up there, absolutely no
question about it. Which, by the way, you've been busy
before games as well. How do how can we how
can we tap into what you're doing on a game night?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
That's a great question.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I still don't know, Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Fair enough, No, we don't know where to find it
or what you're doing magic YouTube at this point.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
There you're on this too, you do this also?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, yeah, I at times nice, we're experimenting. So ask
ask Stuberry an hour before the sport tipoff, where's Jake
And I'll be somewhere.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I get it. I'm like going to come out of
the meal room and there's a camera right there. There's
Kendra's phone right now, and it's this tiny little microphone
thing to say what's your day?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Like see, and that's going out to everywhere exactly Kendra.
Kendra is polished to know that she can walk through
the corridors with a camera over her shoulder.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
No, this is true.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Nobody wants to see or hear the things that I
say as I'm walking through the corridors of the Kia Center.
It's just a whole bunch of like swearing and mumbling.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Oh yeah, well this is true. I can vouch for that.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Now.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
You certainly want to have that monitor, no question. My
last thing before we get out here, Wendell Carter Junior.
I'd be remiss if we didn't mention the game we
got from him. He got his ninth double double of
the season and Wendell gets you sixteen points, fourteen rebounds.
I thought, terrific defense thirty five minutes. You know Goga's
going through it right now. He's got to figure it out.
We need go get back to do what you have
to do and to be the team that you're going
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to be. You need him playing terrific off the bench,
and he can get back to that, no question to
still have thirteen games left. But Wendell aggressive attack in
the basket. He had a huge and one. I thought
that was the most exciting play he's had of the
year where he drove right around Jared Allen later then
drew contact ninth double double. You don't need that production
every night from Wendell, but when you get it, you're
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gonna be tough to be.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, and especially against a Jared Allen and a team
like Cleveland. I think we needed it that night. You're right,
sixteen and fourteen is allowed to ask night in the
night out, But jay I played seven minutes off the bench,
Goga played what seven or eight. Those guys are going
through it right now, and sometimes availability is an issue
with those guys, especially at the end of a long
of a long road trip. So He's been solid all
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season long. He's been available short of that injury at
the beginning of the season, and you're right, like, we
need him, we need him to be to be the
beef down low, and he was awesome. He does so
many little things that he probably doesn't get appreciated enough for,
things like setting screens defense. But the rebounding has been
a roller coaster, and not just Whendell. I'm talking team
wide post All Star Break, and so you know, double
(20:08):
digit rebounds night in and night out right now is
what we need from Wendell. And he brought it on
Sunday for sure.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
He certainly did. Now you got to keep it going.
You got thirteen games left and next up will be
the next up will be the Houston Rockets, which you
owe you were unable to score rebounds against the Houston Rockets.
They crushed just Steven Adams, Alpera and Shangoon. That team
was dead in the water last night against Philadelphia and
they found a way to come back, which, by the way,
a little another little side note here before we before
(20:33):
we duck out, we didn't have the game in Cleveland,
so we had to fly back. Me Kendra Douglas Jeff
Turner and Greg Hartong flight is at seven thirty. Okay,
we got a lot of flak for this flight is
at seven thirty. What time would you leave the hotel
to make sure you were ready to get back? What
time would you have a in Cleveland? No, this is Minnesota.
We came back from Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I'm not sure how far the airport is.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Okay, seven thirty?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Fine, yeah, perfect, exactly, Yeah, that's what that's exactly what
time you leave, and that's why you get there plenty early.
We got a lot of flats. Kendrier thinks you should
leave at seven, so that would not have left us
enough time, Kendra, So we dragged her out early. But
it was a good thing because that was a packed airport,
and that's why you leave her. Never know, you never
know what you're gonna run into us. So I think
that's important. All right, Wendell is some comments about Wendell
(21:25):
and what needs to happen there, but listen, I think
the other thing we have to realize is the injuries
that he's battled his entire career. This is the most
consecutive games Wendell Carter Junior has ever played in his career, right,
So think about that. So you're getting it from a
guy whose main goal right now is to be on
the floor. All the other things will kind of figure
themselves out. But in this year, with everybody being unavailable,
(21:48):
the fact that he has had the most consistent run
of his NBA career, to me, speaks voyage.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
He plays a rugged position, ruggedly, and he and he
it was a point of emphasis for him to be
available year, to get his body to a point where
he could play thirty forty consecutive games, and that stuff
for anybody regardless, not to mention a big and a
big that plays the way that he plays. How heavy
was your lugga?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Oh jeez? Okay, listen, we were on an eight day trip.
Eight day trips, right, you got your allowed fifty pounds.
Kendra's was sixty three, Mind you sixty three with another
small suitcase that was jammed with all the heavy stuff, right, Okay,
so that thing mine was fifty eight. So you fifty
eight with.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Three suits as much stuff as Kendra.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, she had an extra suitcase with all of her heavy.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Stuff, fifty eight pounds of stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I know. But she was at sixty three with arguably
twenty pounds of it taken out. She brings, She brings
rocks and tools from what's right. Try to lift that
suitcase up. I don't know how much suff I'm good, yeah,
and ready to go. You travel light, no question about it.
But about you know what. I'm watching that game and
it was awesome to be there watch a game finally
national TV with my family that we won. Was huge, Yes,
(23:01):
But the other thing you're listening and you're thinking, that
environment is unbelievable. What you said, you grew up going
to those games there, and to quiet that crowd, a
team that had won sixteen in a row, right, the
hottest streak in the NBA, and to think that when
they walked onto that floor, they thought there's no way
we're not getting seventeen in a row. And to steal
that from them, to me, it was huge and it
can give you just enough confidence the last thirteen games
(23:24):
to go on the run. You need.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Quieting twenty thousand clevelanders is very difficult to do, but
it can be very satisfying. Quieting tied Jerome was was
that was the big one.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
All right, you're right, well, that's going to do it
for us We'll see you next Tuesday right here on
the Atlanta Magic YouTube channel. Jake Kendra, everybody will be
doing other things that asn a Pragazi says, nobody knows
where it is or how you get to it, but
they'll be doing that, So keep checking the channel throughout
the rest of the way. Thirteen games left. We will
next see you tomorrow on FanDuel Sports Network at six
thirty and Jake Chapman, we'll have to call at six
(23:55):
thirty on ninety six to nine a game. Have a
great night.
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