April 24, 2025 • 23 mins
Dante and Jake recap Game 2 between the Magic and the Celtics from last night.
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You're listening to Magic Insiders with Dante Marketelli and Jae Chapman.
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Step back over, Durrance shot us up, Carro drills it
and the foll change for a three point great big
time bag. Cam Fort headed.
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Back the way.
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A steal by Franz Fondner to run out the fog
and get my to it.
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Froz Fagner and the fourth quarter.
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Over it went down.
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Welcome in into Magic Insiders.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
Take the l last night a little bit better.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You saw some improvement in some areas, but this Boston
team is pretty tough and the margin of error is very,
very thin. As we head into Game three, down to
oh in the series, and we're gonna need you tomorrow night,
Magic fans Kia Center seven o'clock for the tip six
thirty pre game right here on the radio side ninety
six nine in the game and on FANDOL Sports as well,
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with this man Dante Marcatelli already back in town. He
hopped the first thing smoking this morning out of Boston,
and we are getting set for Game three.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
We are going to need to be loud. And I've
never heard that expression before.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I love that the first thing smoking.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
One that is an old one.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
That Yeah, I remember Rick mchorn talking about the old
traveling days in the NBA and the first thing smoking
out of town, Dante, I know you high tiled it
out of there because you're probablyetting all kind of text
messages from your friends and family, maybe maybe goading you
a little bit. Maybe you're rubbing your nose in in
a little bit. Magic take the l in game two
and Jason Tatum did not play yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
We weren't sure what we would see.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Has got that distal abrasion or whatever his risk hurts
from the flagrant in game one, but frankly didn't need
him yesterday because they have Jalen Brown, and we were
worried about Jaylen Brown doing what he did thirty six points,
ten rebounds, five assists.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He was twelve of nineteen from the field.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You got another thirty plus point outing from Paolo Bankiro
in the postseason. We're getting greedy and expecting this now
thirty two from him. Also nine rebounds, seven assists, two
block shots. He was twelve to twenty five from the field,
six of eleven at the free throw line. If you
want a nitpick, and we will, because against the Boston Celtics,
that's what it comes down to. You lost, say that
game by nine points yesterday Dante one to nine to
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one hundred. The offensive rebounds were an issue yet again,
and that's been an issue through two games. We will
discuss that you leave nine points the free throw line
Dante last night fifteen of twenty four, as opposed to
Boston going twenty five of thirty three. Boy, there was
a lot to like, a lot that we talked about
that needed to happen. Some things we predicted that did
not happen at all. And he played five minutes yesterday
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and he wasn't very effective in those five minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
At all.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You're not renailed.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You're not getting much right now, Dante, from your bench
or from your supporting cast. Casep was one of nine
to zero for six from three point range yesterday. Everybody's
got to do everything a little bit better, Dante. And
even still it might not be good enough against the
Boston team that just needs that. They just need you
to leave the door open just a little bit. It
was the third quarter again yesterday. Really that ends up
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being the difference. But it wasn't like the third quarter
in Game one where it was a huge, massive swing.
Yesterday it was Jalen Brown. He scored thirteen points in
the third he assisted on nine more, three assists for
three points for three three pointers, twenty two points scorer
assisted upon in the third quarter for Jalen Brown yesterday,
and that's the difference. How'd you come away from that game, Dante?
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And how did it change or did it change at
all your outlook on this series?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, first of all, I think I'm at the point
now where once we thought Tatum was out, we said, okay,
this could certainly favor the Orlando Magic right in this game.
Wanted anyone to be hurt, but this could be an
opportunity right to get back in the series to even
things up, and with him, I'm at the point now
where I would rat and again, Tatum has had monster
games against the Magic. He's got a forty point game
three times, he's gone for four times, he's gone for
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thirty in a game. But I'd rather have Jalen Brown
out of the game than Jason Tatum. I mean, I'm
at that point when it comes to the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Only one of them has ever given us fifty, and
one of.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Them has given us fifty, and he's given us multiple thirties,
I mean multiple thirties, and he does it effortlessly. We
have no answers for Jalen Brown, and a lot of
teams don't. And I certainly understand that we haven't even
slowed him down remotely when he's had those games where
he's cooking. We have no answers for him, and that's
what happened last night. So he comes out, he knocks
down a couple of shots right away, that's an issue,
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knocks out his first four to threes. Then he just
absolutely dominates in the third quarter and no answers. I
thought we waited way too long to call a time out.
You're up, you're down three at halftime, and next thing
you know, we're down by twelve, and that's when the
time out came. Knowing that third quarters are a problem,
and I get it, you got to be judicious with
those things. But I think there's a lot of things
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that will learn from in that atmosphere. But still through
all that, you get it within five in the fourth quarter,
through the fourth quarter, within five, you're able to sustain
all of that. Jake, The offense is tough to watch.
I'm just gonna say that the offense, the three point
shooting a lot of times has been difficult to watch
this year. But it is tough, and it's the playoffs
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and the Boston MUCKs it up and they make it
hard on you. And for all the talk of their
offense and a historic three point shooting team, they are
just as good on the defensive end and they are
making it absolutely incredibly hard on this magic team. And
so that's that's something that they got to figure out.
And that may not be anything that you're able to
overcome just because Boston's so good. But I did walk
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out of their saying at the end of everything, you
still in totality. You were closer in two games in
Boston than you were two games in Cleveland, right, and
then you came back. Ironically, one year ago to the
day tomorrow was when they nearly a forty point playoff
win against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game three and got
themselves right back into the series. So I think that's possible,
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and I think that's coming. I think it's going to
be an offensive barrage on Friday, and if it doesn't,
we're in trouble. You have to be able to score
in the playoffs. You have to be able to score
against this bar, certainly against Boston. And Pollo is just masterful.
He is an absolute star right in front of our eyes,
right in front of our eyes. Franz needs to let
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the three point shot go for the postseason. In my opinion,
I don't think everybody should have the green light all
the time. And I know we have to draw the
defense out, but it's just not there. It's not there.
So he's one of seven from three, he's nine of
thirteen from the four, right, so let's get that thing.
Let's get that thing to fourteen for seventeen in the
paint right. I think it might be an adjustment that
you might see for right now, will when it's all
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said and Downe Froanz is going to be a very
good three point shooter. It's just not there right now.
And at some point they're going to have three point shooting,
right so the three point shooting isn't going to be
an issue. But we're struggling from beyond the arc right now.
But all that being said, for all your offensive deficiencies,
you're right freaking there, Jake. You're right there against the
defending champs at home, on their floor, in their own building.
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So I think you're gonna get energized. I think you're
going to come out and I think you're going to
see a much much different looking offensive version of the
Magic because you're working so hard defensively. You're just it's
a shame, it's a crying shame to see what's happening
offensively because you're defending well enough to have won one
or two games up in Boston.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah, I mean, it's a Boston team that averages almost
eighteen made threes a game. They made sixteen in game one,
only twelve yesterday. You're running them off the three point
I find doing your job in that regard. You know,
Derek White's the one who kills you in game one.
It did about forty four minutes of.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Fantastic defense on him.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
In Game two, and then he gets off and gets
two huge threes right after you get the lead down
to five in the fourth quarter, and that ends up
being the difference maker. He's three to ten from three
point range. Holliday was zero for three. Prichard hit another
three three pointers.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Off the bench. But you can live with all of that.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Even though one hundred and nine points it's more than
you're used to giving up, and obviously it was enough yesterday,
but it's still another seven eight points off of their
season average. And so you're doing all of these things
about well enough, Dante. In the regular season, the Orlando
Magic allowed under twelve second chance points per game, eleven
point nine, best in the league. And in these two games,
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in game one, you're talking about twenty second chance points
on thirteen offensive rebounds, and in game two you're talking
about nine offensive rebounds for seventeen second chance points, and it's.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
A net negative.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
You're not getting that many second chance opportunities. And it
was about a stalemate in Game one on the rebounding
on the glass in general, forty two to forty one.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
You got beat up on the glass last night.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Forty six thirty four were Dante, and the numbers back
this up. We're thirty two and twelve in the regular
season when we out rebounded the opponent. We are not
a good enough offensive team to not only last, and
Boston it's too good an offensive team to give them
second chance opportunities. You can't defend for twenty seconds and
tack on another fourteen against a team as talented as this,
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even without Jason Tatum.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, if long shots lead to if long shots lead
to offensive rebounds, then we should be leading the league
in offensive rebounds, right with the miss threes unfortunately, right,
I mean that's for some you know. And you got
to give Boston credit. They had three players with ten rebounds.
Three players, one of them is seven to four Christaps Perzingis,
which you certainly understand. But Al Horford did a phenomenal
job on the glass. He almost had a double double, right,
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the guy's almost forty. Then he had nine points and
ten rebounds. And then Jalen Brown, their guard, did a
phenomenal job coming in rebounding. So it is a priority
for them, and they're making an effort to make sure
they dominate the glass and they have those second chance
points are killers and Jacob and I think at the
end of the day, you could do there's been a
problem all year. We just foul the living heck out
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of people, we do, and we don't get the call
on the other end. So I will say that it
is not even and on how being called right now
in my opinion, But every file that they call on
the Magic for the most part, maybe maybe two or three, weren't.
We are fouling. We hit people, right, We are physical
and we hit people. Okay, we own that. You got
to get some help on the other end too. I
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mean there's times Polo's getting hit, times guys are getting
hit or you know, these tiki tac files that get
called in the playoffs drive me crazy, Goga batase, how
that could be a flagrant foul. I mean, if Kristaps
Porzingis doesn't crazy, if he doesn't wrap him up in
the first place, then he's not flailing and to But anyway,
this all sounds like a team. This all sounds like
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complaints from a team that's down to them, right, So
that's where we're at right now. At the end of
the day, stop filing and stop missing free throws. You
lost by nine, you miss nine free throws and you
got to make a three. You're in the playoffs. Yes,
defense wins championships, but we are proof in the putting
defense only doesn't win championships. Defense with scoring. You have
to be able to score. Couple that with unbelievable elite defense,
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which we possess. That's the recipe. So at some point
point they got to get the floodgates open offensively, and
I think they will. I think they will starting tomorrow.
The energy in this crowd understanding what's at stake. The
entire series hangs in the balance, so understanding what's at
stake here tomorrow, I think this crowd's gonna be electric.
We just did it last year. We know what we're
up against, and but it's time. It's time. It's time
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to get going. You have to start making some shots,
and hopefully that happens tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, when Delle was three for three from three point
range yesterday, you cannot count on that, and that basically
was half of your made threes, right, I mean yeah,
I mean kcpo for six. Gary was over oh from
three point range. Ji Cole, you just didn't get any
offensive pop off the bench.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Caleb was oh for two.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You shot twenty nine threes, you made seven of them,
twenty four percent and almost half of those.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And I think you got to look at the rotation.
I mean, Caleb was not giving you anything. He's not,
so you might have to look at that right offensively,
like you did with Cole. Right, Cole didn't give you much,
so you took him out. Caleb's not giving you much
because they're not letting him shoot. If he's out there
to do one thing, well, they're going to take that away.
That's how good Boston is. So you know, you played
eleven guys and last night Boston played eight without Tatum.
Without Tatum, they didn't go any deeper. They went to
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eight guys. So I think that's something that you'll adjust.
I think you'll look at that. Boston doesn't have to
change anything, right. In fact, if i'm Boston, probably sit
Tatum out one more game, whether he needs it or not.
You can probably live with one more game. Don't bring
them back until you have to. So I think personally.
We'll get a shot at them without Tatum again on Friday,
and that's huge. We have a chance to come back
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and get a game, but it's gonna take everything we got.
It's going to it would be superhuman for anybody to
upset Boston in the first round anyway, this is what
we're up against. Yeah, that is a phenomenal team. Everything
has to go perfect, and it just hasn't. It just
has not to this point, and make no mistake about it.
That's a must win game tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I haven't pulled that numbers, but the three to oh
season or the three OHO series numbers are monumental, and
so you got to get that one. Try to work
your way back into the series, and we're gonna need you. Guys,
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The Magic off today for travel and then back at
it tomorrow Game three the Celtics at Kia Center seven
o'clock for the tip pregame at six thirty. We'll have
it for you right here at ninety six nine in
the game and of course on FANDOS Sports as well
with Dante Marctelly will have Brian Hill with you again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
D I will I will have Brian Hill again tomorrow.
Will be will be outside for the pregame show, which
we're excited about. So we have the pregame show in
the outside about six thirty Kendrid Douglas will be part
of the broadcast. We got a surprise though, We've got
a couple of former players that are back in town.
They'll be courtside, they're going to be in the building.
So it's going to be a terrific atmosphere inside Kia
Center tomorrow, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Little fan fast action whether or not too bad. I
don't think they'll be sweating to out there.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Little fan fast action and a quick AI search shows
that NBA teams are one hundred and fifty seven and
oh one fifty seven and oh when they go up
three zero. So yes, I would say tomorrow is about
as much of a must win as there is.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Okay, yes, good call. That's well, that's that's pretty definitive.
Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yes, it is never ever been done. Only a handful
of force to Game seven. Uh, but yeah, that's what's
at stake and everybody and they know that, and they'll
be ready to go. And again, we are going to
be a much different offensive team tomorrow, no question about it.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I expect that to be sure, especially when you're talking
about guys coming off the bench and some of the
some of the role players always seem to shoot the
ball much better.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
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Speaker 3 (15:12):
There's not too.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Many positive numbers as far as the advanced metrics go
in games one and two, but there is a plus
twelve point five net rating for one player who has
only played nine minutes in the series. But Coco matase
a Man gave me some spot duty last night in
the last couple of minutes of the third quarter and
into the fourth. He was a plus one for the game,
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grab a couple of rebounds defended, doled out four pretty
hard fouls and one flagrant, which is ridiculous. If you
crack a guy in the in the forehead with your
elbow and you're rebounding and you're in a scrum, but
then you immediately reached down and check if he's okay,
it's not a flagrant foul.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
That is the Take Chapman corollary.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
The body language matters when we're talking about flagrant files
and if you if you just act like or genuinely
look like you didn't mean to do it, then you
shouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And there wasn't a flagrant file when they hit Jason
Tatum either. I mean, so we lost that when we
lost that right there, when that challenge happened. It depends
on the severity of the injury, how long the guy's
on the ground. Jason Tatum didn't get up, so that's
going to be a flagrant. And when you see blood, right,
when you see blood, it's going to be a flagrant.
Doesn't matter what happened. And they looked at it at
every possible angle until they found one that showed, Okay,
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this is the angle we're going to use to show
the whiff right.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
The follow through that he wouldn't be bleeding if there
wasn't any follow through.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Of course, what about the what about the what about
the elbow from Porzingis to Wendell that knocked him to
the ground, right, there was no blood and he was
able to stay in the game, So there was no flagrant.
There wasn't even a common file that went with that,
so no. I but how about you're the first you're
the only one I could think of Jake last night.
A minute and a half on the floor and Gogo
Batase delivers a shot heard around the world one minute
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and a half right there in Massachusetts where the original
shot Heard round the world took place.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
There.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It was delivered to Christaps Porzigas. And I tell you
what I you know, I grew up in Boston. I
grew up a Celtics fan. I'm not now, obviously, and
the crowd annoys me when I'm up there in that building,
But I understand. I understand how excited they were when
that all happened, and how that all went down, And
it would have been like that for any any team
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at home in their own building. That's how we would
have done the same thing if it was Go goa.
I mean, it would have the whole thing they were.
He was having an absolute ball with that. I thought,
the way he handled that whole thing, I thought, I
I do give him a lot of credit for that.
And once he went down, I thought, boy, that this
crowd is never going to come off with this high.
And I'm glad he's okay, glad he was able to
finish the basketball game. Obviously, he did not do that
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on purpose. Neither did KCP to Jason Tatum. But yeah,
that was your guy, your guy min and a half
on the floor and there you go a viral sensation immediately.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I think yeah, because because after the shot heard around
the world, it looked like the Boston massacre.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
He hit it exactly right. I had to pull on
greg the hammer Valentine, Yes he.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Did, he did, And then the cameras did a great
job of showing Goga on the sidelines massage and his eldbow. Well,
I got hit too here. But I think you know,
we talked about it the last couple of days, you know,
might you see Goga?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And we did.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
He got a look because right you had to spell
Wendell for a few minutes. Jay I didn't have it,
or you chose to go away from him for whatever reason.
Jay I only played seven minutes. You got to get
more there. You absolutely have to get more there. But
so you gave Goga chance and he delivered. And I
think we're going to see more Goga in game three too.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Coach Mosley is looking for juice right now, and you
don't you know, you don't have time to say, Okay,
here's another six minutes, hopefully you play better than you
did in the first half. So I look, I think
Goga at the very least raises the question whether or
not he'll be part of the rotation for the remainder
of the series. He acquitted himself well, and look, sometimes
it's just about a different book and kind of disrupting
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the rhythm a little bit.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I think Goga can help out on the glass as well.
But let me ask you this. We talked about the
files and I agree one hundred.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Percent with you that as as the game is going
on and the free throw disparity is mounting, and it
was the same way in Game one, it's easy to
get caught up and we're not getting this whistle down here.
But it does feel like our mentality is and I
don't hate it. It's I think it's what you need
to do against this Boston team is we're gonna fall
on every play. They can't call them all, So then
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then you then you lose the benefit of the doubt
when you're talking about a judgment call on flagrance.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right, that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And it's really hard to argue with the free.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Throw disparity when we when most of the files that
we're being called for are files. You can't just over
rely on the fact that it's the postseason. So it's
kind of a dangerous game we're playing. And again, I
think we have to be the more physical team. We
have to disrupt their rhythm any number of ways, but
that's one of the best ways to do it. But
it's it's tough to complain too much when you're playing
as physically as we're playing, and that is that is
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sort of our DNA.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
When you're when you're boxing out a seven to four
Kristaps Porzingis and he's literally leaning on you and hanging
over your back, and you get called for the foul, right,
like was trying to box? Come on, I mean that
that's asinine, Like those those ones you need to not
have them called, right, Yeah, And when you're having guys
get hammered going to the rim. Right the first quarter,
it was like, oh my goodness, there's no one's gonna
shoot free throws, right we we did. We annihilated Jalen
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Brown and Christaps Porzingis on a couple of those drives, right,
so they were well learned free throws. But Paula was
getting hit Franz was getting hit, so it's happening on
the other end. But uh then to to to not
call anything in the first quarter, and then all the
tiki tag files that Drew Holliday was getting, Luke Cornett
was getting. I mean, we're we're looking for reasons to
put people on the line instead of the other way, right,
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instead of letting them play. And I think that's it's
been that way since day one. Right when it's a
two against the seven, you have it in your mind
that you know, the Boston has all the stars, they're
going to get to the free throw line. But and
you could still survive that if you made your own
free throw. Think about all the things that went wrong
and you were up against and you were still right there.
That's the thing. And and I think at the end
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of the day, to Jake, this is painting, I think
a pretty good picture. For Jeff Weltman in the front office,
you know, whatever you decide to do this summer, right,
and I think you got to look at the totality
of the year, not just three playoff games, but who's
here who isn't right. I think as decisions you have
to make and what we need and I think you're
gonna get a pretty good picture by the time this
is all said and done. But now everything's being evaluated.
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Everything's being evaluated here in the postseason, and you're always
curious to see who's gonna step up to the who's
going to step up and answer the bell. And that's
why I was glad to see two other guys getting
double figures. I love what Wendell did last night. I
love what Anthony Black did last night. We just need
more of that, and we need other guys to join
him too.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Here in Game three, Aby looked a little bit more
like ab last night, and I fully he's the guy
that I fully expect a much much better effort at home.
You think about a twenty one year old and his
first taste of the postseason and it's the TV Garden
and this boss.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Oh absolutely, And what we're asking of thirty three year
old Corey Joseph, I mean, we're to line heroic what
this guy has given us, because it's not like he's
played all year and worked himself into shape. He didn't
get thrust into action until March right in a break
class in case of emergency, and he's delivered and now
we're asking him to play, to be the starting point
guard of the most meaningful games of the season. That's
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a lot to ask him. So guys are get We
are battling like crazy. Don't get me wrong, These guys
are given everything they've got and I love that. I
love to fight because it would be easy to say
it's a seven against the two. We got no shot.
This is a team that won the championship last year.
They're fighting like heck. There's just other things they can
do to help themselves, and I think they will starting tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, it's a matter of cleaning up a few things.
And again that speaks to how good this Boston team
is that you know, it feels like whack them mole.
You clean one thing up and then another thing crops up.
And they don't need much in order to win a game.
And they've been there before. They're all familiar with their
own system, and certainly they're able to with stand a
loss to a guy like Jason Tatum.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That's gonna do it for Magic Insiders. We'll be back
tomorrow a full preview show.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
We'll have a little bit better idea obviously of Tatum's availability,
and we're gonna need you guys at Kia Center tomorrow,
loud and proud as the Celtics come to town Game three.
We'll talk to you guys tomorrow night at three o'clock
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
Take the l last night a little bit better.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You saw some improvement in some areas, but this Boston
team is pretty tough and the margin of error is very,
very thin. As we head into Game three, down to
oh in the series, and we're gonna need you tomorrow night,
Magic fans Kia Center seven o'clock for the tip six
thirty pre game right here on the radio side ninety
six nine in the game and on FANDOL Sports as well,
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with this man Dante Marcatelli already back in town. He
hopped the first thing smoking this morning out of Boston,
and we are getting set for Game three.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
We are going to need to be loud. And I've
never heard that expression before.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I love that the first thing smoking.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
One that is an old one.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
That Yeah, I remember Rick mchorn talking about the old
traveling days in the NBA and the first thing smoking
out of town, Dante, I know you high tiled it
out of there because you're probablyetting all kind of text
messages from your friends and family, maybe maybe goading you
a little bit. Maybe you're rubbing your nose in in
a little bit. Magic take the l in game two
and Jason Tatum did not play yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
We weren't sure what we would see.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Has got that distal abrasion or whatever his risk hurts
from the flagrant in game one, but frankly didn't need
him yesterday because they have Jalen Brown, and we were
worried about Jaylen Brown doing what he did thirty six points,
ten rebounds, five assists.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He was twelve of nineteen from the field.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You got another thirty plus point outing from Paolo Bankiro
in the postseason. We're getting greedy and expecting this now
thirty two from him. Also nine rebounds, seven assists, two
block shots. He was twelve to twenty five from the field,
six of eleven at the free throw line. If you
want a nitpick, and we will, because against the Boston Celtics,
that's what it comes down to. You lost, say that
game by nine points yesterday Dante one to nine to
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one hundred. The offensive rebounds were an issue yet again,
and that's been an issue through two games. We will
discuss that you leave nine points the free throw line
Dante last night fifteen of twenty four, as opposed to
Boston going twenty five of thirty three. Boy, there was
a lot to like, a lot that we talked about
that needed to happen. Some things we predicted that did
not happen at all. And he played five minutes yesterday
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and he wasn't very effective in those five minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
At all.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You're not renailed.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You're not getting much right now, Dante, from your bench
or from your supporting cast. Casep was one of nine
to zero for six from three point range yesterday. Everybody's
got to do everything a little bit better, Dante. And
even still it might not be good enough against the
Boston team that just needs that. They just need you
to leave the door open just a little bit. It
was the third quarter again yesterday. Really that ends up
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being the difference. But it wasn't like the third quarter
in Game one where it was a huge, massive swing.
Yesterday it was Jalen Brown. He scored thirteen points in
the third he assisted on nine more, three assists for
three points for three three pointers, twenty two points scorer
assisted upon in the third quarter for Jalen Brown yesterday,
and that's the difference. How'd you come away from that game, Dante?
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And how did it change or did it change at
all your outlook on this series?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, first of all, I think I'm at the point
now where once we thought Tatum was out, we said, okay,
this could certainly favor the Orlando Magic right in this game.
Wanted anyone to be hurt, but this could be an
opportunity right to get back in the series to even
things up, and with him, I'm at the point now
where I would rat and again, Tatum has had monster
games against the Magic. He's got a forty point game
three times, he's gone for four times, he's gone for
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thirty in a game. But I'd rather have Jalen Brown
out of the game than Jason Tatum. I mean, I'm
at that point when it comes to the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Only one of them has ever given us fifty, and
one of.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Them has given us fifty, and he's given us multiple thirties,
I mean multiple thirties, and he does it effortlessly. We
have no answers for Jalen Brown, and a lot of
teams don't. And I certainly understand that we haven't even
slowed him down remotely when he's had those games where
he's cooking. We have no answers for him, and that's
what happened last night. So he comes out, he knocks
down a couple of shots right away, that's an issue,
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knocks out his first four to threes. Then he just
absolutely dominates in the third quarter and no answers. I
thought we waited way too long to call a time out.
You're up, you're down three at halftime, and next thing
you know, we're down by twelve, and that's when the
time out came. Knowing that third quarters are a problem,
and I get it, you got to be judicious with
those things. But I think there's a lot of things
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that will learn from in that atmosphere. But still through
all that, you get it within five in the fourth quarter,
through the fourth quarter, within five, you're able to sustain
all of that. Jake, The offense is tough to watch.
I'm just gonna say that the offense, the three point
shooting a lot of times has been difficult to watch
this year. But it is tough, and it's the playoffs
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and the Boston MUCKs it up and they make it
hard on you. And for all the talk of their
offense and a historic three point shooting team, they are
just as good on the defensive end and they are
making it absolutely incredibly hard on this magic team. And
so that's that's something that they got to figure out.
And that may not be anything that you're able to
overcome just because Boston's so good. But I did walk
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out of their saying at the end of everything, you
still in totality. You were closer in two games in
Boston than you were two games in Cleveland, right, and
then you came back. Ironically, one year ago to the
day tomorrow was when they nearly a forty point playoff
win against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game three and got
themselves right back into the series. So I think that's possible,
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and I think that's coming. I think it's going to
be an offensive barrage on Friday, and if it doesn't,
we're in trouble. You have to be able to score
in the playoffs. You have to be able to score
against this bar, certainly against Boston. And Pollo is just masterful.
He is an absolute star right in front of our eyes,
right in front of our eyes. Franz needs to let
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the three point shot go for the postseason. In my opinion,
I don't think everybody should have the green light all
the time. And I know we have to draw the
defense out, but it's just not there. It's not there.
So he's one of seven from three, he's nine of
thirteen from the four, right, so let's get that thing.
Let's get that thing to fourteen for seventeen in the
paint right. I think it might be an adjustment that
you might see for right now, will when it's all
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said and Downe Froanz is going to be a very
good three point shooter. It's just not there right now.
And at some point they're going to have three point shooting,
right so the three point shooting isn't going to be
an issue. But we're struggling from beyond the arc right now.
But all that being said, for all your offensive deficiencies,
you're right freaking there, Jake. You're right there against the
defending champs at home, on their floor, in their own building.
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So I think you're gonna get energized. I think you're
going to come out and I think you're going to
see a much much different looking offensive version of the
Magic because you're working so hard defensively. You're just it's
a shame, it's a crying shame to see what's happening
offensively because you're defending well enough to have won one
or two games up in Boston.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah, I mean, it's a Boston team that averages almost
eighteen made threes a game. They made sixteen in game one,
only twelve yesterday. You're running them off the three point
I find doing your job in that regard. You know,
Derek White's the one who kills you in game one.
It did about forty four minutes of.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Fantastic defense on him.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
In Game two, and then he gets off and gets
two huge threes right after you get the lead down
to five in the fourth quarter, and that ends up
being the difference maker. He's three to ten from three
point range. Holliday was zero for three. Prichard hit another
three three pointers.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Off the bench. But you can live with all of that.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Even though one hundred and nine points it's more than
you're used to giving up, and obviously it was enough yesterday,
but it's still another seven eight points off of their
season average. And so you're doing all of these things
about well enough, Dante. In the regular season, the Orlando
Magic allowed under twelve second chance points per game, eleven
point nine, best in the league. And in these two games,
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in game one, you're talking about twenty second chance points
on thirteen offensive rebounds, and in game two you're talking
about nine offensive rebounds for seventeen second chance points, and it's.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
A net negative.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
You're not getting that many second chance opportunities. And it
was about a stalemate in Game one on the rebounding
on the glass in general, forty two to forty one.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
You got beat up on the glass last night.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Forty six thirty four were Dante, and the numbers back
this up. We're thirty two and twelve in the regular
season when we out rebounded the opponent. We are not
a good enough offensive team to not only last, and
Boston it's too good an offensive team to give them
second chance opportunities. You can't defend for twenty seconds and
tack on another fourteen against a team as talented as this,
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even without Jason Tatum.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, if long shots lead to if long shots lead
to offensive rebounds, then we should be leading the league
in offensive rebounds, right with the miss threes unfortunately, right,
I mean that's for some you know. And you got
to give Boston credit. They had three players with ten rebounds.
Three players, one of them is seven to four Christaps Perzingis,
which you certainly understand. But Al Horford did a phenomenal
job on the glass. He almost had a double double, right,
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the guy's almost forty. Then he had nine points and
ten rebounds. And then Jalen Brown, their guard, did a
phenomenal job coming in rebounding. So it is a priority
for them, and they're making an effort to make sure
they dominate the glass and they have those second chance
points are killers and Jacob and I think at the
end of the day, you could do there's been a
problem all year. We just foul the living heck out
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of people, we do, and we don't get the call
on the other end. So I will say that it
is not even and on how being called right now
in my opinion, But every file that they call on
the Magic for the most part, maybe maybe two or three, weren't.
We are fouling. We hit people, right, We are physical
and we hit people. Okay, we own that. You got
to get some help on the other end too. I
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mean there's times Polo's getting hit, times guys are getting
hit or you know, these tiki tac files that get
called in the playoffs drive me crazy, Goga batase, how
that could be a flagrant foul. I mean, if Kristaps
Porzingis doesn't crazy, if he doesn't wrap him up in
the first place, then he's not flailing and to But anyway,
this all sounds like a team. This all sounds like
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complaints from a team that's down to them, right, So
that's where we're at right now. At the end of
the day, stop filing and stop missing free throws. You
lost by nine, you miss nine free throws and you
got to make a three. You're in the playoffs. Yes,
defense wins championships, but we are proof in the putting
defense only doesn't win championships. Defense with scoring. You have
to be able to score. Couple that with unbelievable elite defense,
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which we possess. That's the recipe. So at some point
point they got to get the floodgates open offensively, and
I think they will. I think they will starting tomorrow.
The energy in this crowd understanding what's at stake. The
entire series hangs in the balance, so understanding what's at
stake here tomorrow, I think this crowd's gonna be electric.
We just did it last year. We know what we're
up against, and but it's time. It's time. It's time
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to get going. You have to start making some shots,
and hopefully that happens tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, when Delle was three for three from three point
range yesterday, you cannot count on that, and that basically
was half of your made threes, right, I mean yeah,
I mean kcpo for six. Gary was over oh from
three point range. Ji Cole, you just didn't get any
offensive pop off the bench.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Caleb was oh for two.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You shot twenty nine threes, you made seven of them,
twenty four percent and almost half of those.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And I think you got to look at the rotation.
I mean, Caleb was not giving you anything. He's not,
so you might have to look at that right offensively,
like you did with Cole. Right, Cole didn't give you much,
so you took him out. Caleb's not giving you much
because they're not letting him shoot. If he's out there
to do one thing, well, they're going to take that away.
That's how good Boston is. So you know, you played
eleven guys and last night Boston played eight without Tatum.
Without Tatum, they didn't go any deeper. They went to
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eight guys. So I think that's something that you'll adjust.
I think you'll look at that. Boston doesn't have to
change anything, right. In fact, if i'm Boston, probably sit
Tatum out one more game, whether he needs it or not.
You can probably live with one more game. Don't bring
them back until you have to. So I think personally.
We'll get a shot at them without Tatum again on Friday,
and that's huge. We have a chance to come back
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and get a game, but it's gonna take everything we got.
It's going to it would be superhuman for anybody to
upset Boston in the first round anyway, this is what
we're up against. Yeah, that is a phenomenal team. Everything
has to go perfect, and it just hasn't. It just
has not to this point, and make no mistake about it.
That's a must win game tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I haven't pulled that numbers, but the three to oh
season or the three OHO series numbers are monumental, and
so you got to get that one. Try to work
your way back into the series, and we're gonna need you. Guys,
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Speaker 3 (13:24):
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Speaker 1 (13:31):
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Speaker 4 (13:37):
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The Magic off today for travel and then back at
it tomorrow Game three the Celtics at Kia Center seven
o'clock for the tip pregame at six thirty. We'll have
it for you right here at ninety six nine in
the game and of course on FANDOS Sports as well
with Dante Marctelly will have Brian Hill with you again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
D I will I will have Brian Hill again tomorrow.
Will be will be outside for the pregame show, which
we're excited about. So we have the pregame show in
the outside about six thirty Kendrid Douglas will be part
of the broadcast. We got a surprise though, We've got
a couple of former players that are back in town.
They'll be courtside, they're going to be in the building.
So it's going to be a terrific atmosphere inside Kia
Center tomorrow, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Little fan fast action whether or not too bad. I
don't think they'll be sweating to out there.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Little fan fast action and a quick AI search shows
that NBA teams are one hundred and fifty seven and
oh one fifty seven and oh when they go up
three zero. So yes, I would say tomorrow is about
as much of a must win as there is.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Okay, yes, good call. That's well, that's that's pretty definitive.
Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yes, it is never ever been done. Only a handful
of force to Game seven. Uh, but yeah, that's what's
at stake and everybody and they know that, and they'll
be ready to go. And again, we are going to
be a much different offensive team tomorrow, no question about it.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I expect that to be sure, especially when you're talking
about guys coming off the bench and some of the
some of the role players always seem to shoot the
ball much better.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Uh.
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Speaker 3 (15:12):
There's not too.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Many positive numbers as far as the advanced metrics go
in games one and two, but there is a plus
twelve point five net rating for one player who has
only played nine minutes in the series. But Coco matase
a Man gave me some spot duty last night in
the last couple of minutes of the third quarter and
into the fourth. He was a plus one for the game,
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grab a couple of rebounds defended, doled out four pretty
hard fouls and one flagrant, which is ridiculous. If you
crack a guy in the in the forehead with your
elbow and you're rebounding and you're in a scrum, but
then you immediately reached down and check if he's okay,
it's not a flagrant foul.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
That is the Take Chapman corollary.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
The body language matters when we're talking about flagrant files
and if you if you just act like or genuinely
look like you didn't mean to do it, then you
shouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And there wasn't a flagrant file when they hit Jason
Tatum either. I mean, so we lost that when we
lost that right there, when that challenge happened. It depends
on the severity of the injury, how long the guy's
on the ground. Jason Tatum didn't get up, so that's
going to be a flagrant. And when you see blood, right,
when you see blood, it's going to be a flagrant.
Doesn't matter what happened. And they looked at it at
every possible angle until they found one that showed, Okay,
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this is the angle we're going to use to show
the whiff right.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
The follow through that he wouldn't be bleeding if there
wasn't any follow through.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Of course, what about the what about the what about
the elbow from Porzingis to Wendell that knocked him to
the ground, right, there was no blood and he was
able to stay in the game, So there was no flagrant.
There wasn't even a common file that went with that,
so no. I but how about you're the first you're
the only one I could think of Jake last night.
A minute and a half on the floor and Gogo
Batase delivers a shot heard around the world one minute
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and a half right there in Massachusetts where the original
shot Heard round the world took place.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
There.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It was delivered to Christaps Porzigas. And I tell you
what I you know, I grew up in Boston. I
grew up a Celtics fan. I'm not now, obviously, and
the crowd annoys me when I'm up there in that building,
But I understand. I understand how excited they were when
that all happened, and how that all went down, And
it would have been like that for any any team
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at home in their own building. That's how we would
have done the same thing if it was Go goa.
I mean, it would have the whole thing they were.
He was having an absolute ball with that. I thought,
the way he handled that whole thing, I thought, I
I do give him a lot of credit for that.
And once he went down, I thought, boy, that this
crowd is never going to come off with this high.
And I'm glad he's okay, glad he was able to
finish the basketball game. Obviously, he did not do that
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on purpose. Neither did KCP to Jason Tatum. But yeah,
that was your guy, your guy min and a half
on the floor and there you go a viral sensation immediately.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I think yeah, because because after the shot heard around
the world, it looked like the Boston massacre.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
He hit it exactly right. I had to pull on
greg the hammer Valentine, Yes he.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Did, he did, And then the cameras did a great
job of showing Goga on the sidelines massage and his eldbow. Well,
I got hit too here. But I think you know,
we talked about it the last couple of days, you know,
might you see Goga?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And we did.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
He got a look because right you had to spell
Wendell for a few minutes. Jay I didn't have it,
or you chose to go away from him for whatever reason.
Jay I only played seven minutes. You got to get
more there. You absolutely have to get more there. But
so you gave Goga chance and he delivered. And I
think we're going to see more Goga in game three too.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Coach Mosley is looking for juice right now, and you
don't you know, you don't have time to say, Okay,
here's another six minutes, hopefully you play better than you
did in the first half. So I look, I think
Goga at the very least raises the question whether or
not he'll be part of the rotation for the remainder
of the series. He acquitted himself well, and look, sometimes
it's just about a different book and kind of disrupting
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the rhythm a little bit.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I think Goga can help out on the glass as well.
But let me ask you this. We talked about the
files and I agree one hundred.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Percent with you that as as the game is going
on and the free throw disparity is mounting, and it
was the same way in Game one, it's easy to
get caught up and we're not getting this whistle down here.
But it does feel like our mentality is and I
don't hate it. It's I think it's what you need
to do against this Boston team is we're gonna fall
on every play. They can't call them all, So then
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then you then you lose the benefit of the doubt
when you're talking about a judgment call on flagrance.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right, that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And it's really hard to argue with the free.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Throw disparity when we when most of the files that
we're being called for are files. You can't just over
rely on the fact that it's the postseason. So it's
kind of a dangerous game we're playing. And again, I
think we have to be the more physical team. We
have to disrupt their rhythm any number of ways, but
that's one of the best ways to do it. But
it's it's tough to complain too much when you're playing
as physically as we're playing, and that is that is
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sort of our DNA.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
When you're when you're boxing out a seven to four
Kristaps Porzingis and he's literally leaning on you and hanging
over your back, and you get called for the foul, right,
like was trying to box? Come on, I mean that
that's asinine, Like those those ones you need to not
have them called, right, Yeah, And when you're having guys
get hammered going to the rim. Right the first quarter,
it was like, oh my goodness, there's no one's gonna
shoot free throws, right we we did. We annihilated Jalen
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Brown and Christaps Porzingis on a couple of those drives, right,
so they were well learned free throws. But Paula was
getting hit Franz was getting hit, so it's happening on
the other end. But uh then to to to not
call anything in the first quarter, and then all the
tiki tag files that Drew Holliday was getting, Luke Cornett
was getting. I mean, we're we're looking for reasons to
put people on the line instead of the other way, right,
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instead of letting them play. And I think that's it's
been that way since day one. Right when it's a
two against the seven, you have it in your mind
that you know, the Boston has all the stars, they're
going to get to the free throw line. But and
you could still survive that if you made your own
free throw. Think about all the things that went wrong
and you were up against and you were still right there.
That's the thing. And and I think at the end
(20:59):
of the day, to Jake, this is painting, I think
a pretty good picture. For Jeff Weltman in the front office,
you know, whatever you decide to do this summer, right,
and I think you got to look at the totality
of the year, not just three playoff games, but who's
here who isn't right. I think as decisions you have
to make and what we need and I think you're
gonna get a pretty good picture by the time this
is all said and done. But now everything's being evaluated.
(21:21):
Everything's being evaluated here in the postseason, and you're always
curious to see who's gonna step up to the who's
going to step up and answer the bell. And that's
why I was glad to see two other guys getting
double figures. I love what Wendell did last night. I
love what Anthony Black did last night. We just need
more of that, and we need other guys to join
him too.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Here in Game three, Aby looked a little bit more
like ab last night, and I fully he's the guy
that I fully expect a much much better effort at home.
You think about a twenty one year old and his
first taste of the postseason and it's the TV Garden
and this boss.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Oh absolutely, And what we're asking of thirty three year
old Corey Joseph, I mean, we're to line heroic what
this guy has given us, because it's not like he's
played all year and worked himself into shape. He didn't
get thrust into action until March right in a break
class in case of emergency, and he's delivered and now
we're asking him to play, to be the starting point
guard of the most meaningful games of the season. That's
(22:15):
a lot to ask him. So guys are get We
are battling like crazy. Don't get me wrong, These guys
are given everything they've got and I love that. I
love to fight because it would be easy to say
it's a seven against the two. We got no shot.
This is a team that won the championship last year.
They're fighting like heck. There's just other things they can
do to help themselves, and I think they will starting tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, it's a matter of cleaning up a few things.
And again that speaks to how good this Boston team
is that you know, it feels like whack them mole.
You clean one thing up and then another thing crops up.
And they don't need much in order to win a game.
And they've been there before. They're all familiar with their
own system, and certainly they're able to with stand a
loss to a guy like Jason Tatum.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That's gonna do it for Magic Insiders. We'll be back
tomorrow a full preview show.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
We'll have a little bit better idea obviously of Tatum's availability,
and we're gonna need you guys at Kia Center tomorrow,
loud and proud as the Celtics come to town Game three.
We'll talk to you guys tomorrow night at three o'clock
on Magic consentit right here, ninety six nine again
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