March 14, 2025 • 22 mins
Dante and Jake recap last night's game between the Magic and the Pelicans. They also preview Orlando's matchup tonight with the Timberwolves. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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And Welcomember one. It is Magic Insiders were presented by
International Diamond Center and Magic got themselves a nice win
last night. They're back at night, no rest for the weir.
They'll take on the Minnesota Timberwolves, one of the hottest
teams in the Western Conference. Here we'll have it for
you at seven thirty Right here on ninety six to nine,
the game and seven thirty on fan Duel Sports Network,
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Dante Marcitelli and Jake Chapman here with you. The Magic
get a good win last night, a much needed win.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Last night.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
They put up one hundred and thirteen points. They knocked
one hundred and thirteen to ninety three was the final.
They knocked down thirteen threes on way to a twenty
point win. They led at one point in this game
by thirty six, their largest lead of the season. And
of course they're paced by Paulo Bancaro with thirty four
points eleven rebounds, his fifth double double of the season,
the tenth time this year he's gone for thirty and
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Franz Wagner twenty seven point, six rebounds, and five assists.
And none of that even remotely tells the story. Jake,
I think of what Franz and Pollo did last night,
and credit also to Corey Joseph his best game as
a member of the Orlando Magic, incerted it into the
starting lineup, his second start with Orlando, and all he
did was play thirty minutes. It's the thirty three year old.
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Then he gets you a season high twelve points, season
high six rebounds and three assists to go along with it,
but Powo and Franz had missed one shot combined in
the first half. It was absolutely remarkable what they did
in the first half of that basketball game last night
against the New Orleans Pelicans, And for Franz Wagner, it
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was the first time in Magic history that someone had
twenty points at the half, did not miss a shot,
and did not have a turnover. That had never happened
in Orlando Magic history, and in Magic history, the Magic
had never had two players with twenty points by halftime
in a basketball game. You got to go back to
ninety six to ninety seven for that one. How about
the performance of Polo and Franz last night.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Oh d it was a munch needed game altogether.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
But you're just seeing those guys and the vision and
we've you know, we've seen it obviously for an extended
periods of time, but when it's working with the two
of them in concert like that the first half, that
was pretty awesome.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Or sixty eight points as a team in the.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
First half of that game, but those two were just,
you know, they were like maestros. And Paula I didn't
think he was gonna miss.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It was just one after another.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
They combined for twenty five of thirty nine from the field.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
I didn't do the match on that, but that it
feels like somewhere on seventy percent shooting.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
No, that was a good one.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
And you know you mentioned the no turnovers for Franz
in the first half. The two of them played, you know,
thirty five and thirty four minutes because late in the
third New Orleans made a little charge that at the
very least met coach Moseley to put the guys back
in the game in the fourth quarter to make sure
you got out of there with the twenty point win.
Three turnovers for the two of them combined in sixty
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nine minutes on the floor. And we know how much
the balls in their hands. When Paulo's making threes, and
he made four of them last night. Some of them
were giving him to were given to him, and some
of them he was covered up and he was knocking
him down as well.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
I just don't know what you do with him. I mean,
he didn't go to the freey throw line last night.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
He didn't to.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
But it's just, you know, it's pick and poison. When
Paulo and franz are knocking down shots from the perimeter.
They're so good obviously from the mid range in and
then you add the free throw line element to it,
and they were just spectacular last night.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
That was a good win.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
New Orleans not interested in defending.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
We know, we understand, but they do still have some
tough shot makers. Trey Murphy gave you something to think
about Zion. Zion was kind of in and out of
the game. He you know, he wasn't foul trouble, but
he just felt like he didn't ever really get going.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
And I think you can credit our defense a little
bit for that good win, one we needed. And now on.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
As you sort of ratchet up the competition a little
bit to as you said, Dante, one of the best
teams in the league right now. The Minnesota Timberwolves winners
a five straight red hot since the All Star break,
so this should.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Be a good win.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Actually six in a row. They just beat the Denver
Nuggets as well, so they have the longest win streak
in the in the Western Conference. Well, in the NBA,
they're they're tied with the Golden State Warriors, who were
just red hot, and especially since getting Jimmy Butler, so
six consecutive wins. They're now a happy game behind Golden State.
So this is a big game for Minnesota and that's
what the magic they're running into tonight. Some stiff competition.
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This starts a five game homestand and all winnable games.
If you're in Minnesota, you're looking at and saying, Okay,
you've got Orlando, and then you've got two against the Pelicans,
You've got the Utah Jazz, you've got Indiana. These are
all winnable games. This is a big home stand kind
of what we saw in Houston against the Rockets. That
was the start of a big home stand in a
game that they had to get. They've won six in
a row and coincides with the return of Julius Randall.
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He was out for about eleven or twelve games with
a groin injury and since he's come back, man, he
has been an absolute force. Has been all year, but
they are really clicking with him back. Rudy Gobert missed
ten games with a back injury. He's back and they're
playing like the Minnesota team that we thought they would
play like at the beginning of the year. And Anthony
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Edwards is the guy that's leading the way and as
no surprise, are he's fit in the NBA and scoring.
He's the NBA's leading three point shooter. No one has
made more threes this year than Anthony Edwards, one more
than Elik Beasley, by the way, and anybody could have
had that guy one year, six million dollar contract. What
a fine by the by the Detroit Pistons and a
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former Timberwolve by the way. So this is not gonna
be easy. But before we shift gears to Minnesota, just
to kind of tie up what we saw with Polo
and Franz. I know it's New Orleans. I know it's
a bad team. I know they don't protect the paint
and I know they don't have any interest in playing defense.
I know they were injured. I know they don't I
know they're playing out the string. But you still have
to go out there and do it. And that's that's
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one game. Hollo since the All Star Break is the
second leading scorer in the NBA. Yeah, I mean he
has been that. He's twenty eight point six points per
game in eleven games since the All Star Break. Only
Shake Gildes Alexander, who is probably this year's MVP. You know,
I probably should be honest, but it's not gonna be.
You know, shake gild just Alexander thirty four points a
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game and OKC is the best team in the Western Conference,
so he's gonna get it. But Paulo bank Gero is
right there with them twenty eight point six points per game.
But he's almost forty nine percent from floor, thirty six
percent from three.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
No one's getting to the free throw line more than
Pollow since the break, and only Trey Young and Shaye
Dildess Alexander are making more free throws since the All
Star break. This is the Pollow that we got that
five game sample size up before he got hurt to
start the year, when we thought, oh, this guy's an
MVP candidate, and obviously we had some struggles. He's trying
to figure things out. Obviously was still All Star. Happened
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an All Star season, but these last eleven games, he's
taken it to another level.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Two little tweaks I'll throw onto that is.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
He's also averaging over a steal per game since the
All Star break and had what four more last night.
He's been at the very least contributing defensively in that regard,
and you know.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You mentioned the free throws.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Those have actually come down the last two games.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
He had about three or four straight games there where
he's shooting double digit free throws. Didn't get to the
line against Houston, didn't need to get to the line
last night. But so you know, he's shooting almost ten
threty thrower times per game, which is still tops in
the league post All Star, but he's made seventy eight
and a half percent. And earlier in the season even
you know, after he came back in the month of January,
just wasn't knocking down free throws. He was getting there
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as he always does, but he was making him in
a sixty five to sixty eight percent clip. Now he's
up around eighty. He's got his percentage for the season
up over seventy. We talk about it a lot, but
that you know, that's a couple extra points per game
on on the total, and obviously it's so important for
this matching team who needs to generate and manufacture offense.
At times he's been absolutely outstanding. You know, you can
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sort of see how how the numbers jump efficiency wise
when his teammates are helping him out and when it's
working sort of in concert with a five man.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Offense rather than a two man offense.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
But I think it's you know, he's doing every It
seems like ages Ago, doesn't the Dante that there were
question marks when he came back off injury. Oh what happened?
Is there is there an identity crisis on the team
or is he is he out of champers, he trying
too harder?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Is he struggling to play with Franz?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
This issy us But you're right, but external externally.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Twitter Magic Twitter in the year twenty twenty five has
been has been let's just call it a little bit
of assessful. So, yeah, dumb questions to be asked. You
got to take all of this stuff in the aggregate.
And right now he's looking like the same guy who
scored thirty eight points in Game seven against the Cavaliers
last year. And lest anyone forgets that, dude was awesome
and in the biggest games. His magic franchise is played
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in many, many years. So he's at the center of
just about everything positive happening right now.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
And open.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well. And that's why it's important to point out because
he used to look and say, okay, that was the
New Orleans Pelicans. But this has been an eleven games
sample size now since the All Star break, where he's
the second leading scorer in the NBA. Yes, but last
night he added the little flair, the behind the back,
the lob I mean that passed to Tristan da Silva.
No look past was unbelievable. Tristan tried to It would
have been an incredible finish if he was able to
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finish it last night, but it just everybody, you're right
working in concert last night. You had a couple of
days off, you had a fun team activity on Tuesday,
you had a spirit practice on Wednesday, And if that's
what it takes to try and salvage the final fifteen
games of the season, then whatever by all means necessary,
because it's not easy. But this is the place you've
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had success. You've won five in a row at Minnesota,
which I think would surprise a lot of people. They've
had some success here in this building. And you're only
one this year against the Timberwolves, just split the season
series last year. But you've won eight of the last
eighteen here against the ten of the last eighteen against
the Minnesota Timberwolves. And you know you've won five in
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a row here at this building, so it's been Hopefully
you can make it six in a row, and we'll
see if we can make that happen here tonight. Much
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This is Coach Moles and you're listening to Magic Insider,
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Speaker 3 (11:06):
Ninety six to nine the game.
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Welcome back everyone.
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That is Magic Insiders, presented by International Diamond Center Donte
Marctelli Jake Chapman. Here within the Magic back in action tonight.
This is game four of a five game road trip
and they will visit the Minnesota Timberwolves. Will have it
for you at seven thirty right here, ninety six to nine,
the game in seven thirty on fan Duel Sports Network,
The Magic and the Timberwolves, a place that the Magic
have had success. They've won five in a row here
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in this building and they're hoping to continue that as
we take on Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves. Let's get
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Visit glip dot com to learn more. Jake, it's interesting
to me and you know this Minnesota Timberwolves team, which,
first of all, as we know, they lost four games
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to one to the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference
finals last year. So is that not more puzzling, more
head scratching that Luca by himself was able to beat
this Minnesota to Wolves team four games to one to
get to an NBA finals. Is that just another example
of how dumb that trade is?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Oh, my goodness it is.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
And not to mention that Dallas, en route to play
in Minnesota, beat Oklahoma City.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
It was the class of the Western Conference this year.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Yes, with their.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Side, with the side that they needed so desperately to
trade for the dafense.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I just I can't.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
I still get I'm still concerned about Oklahoma city size
a year later.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
But that's a whole nother conversation.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
But no, it is.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
It's crazy now.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Look on the flip side, Minnesota also made a major.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Move after making it after.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
One of those successful seasons in a long time. So
I guess you could look at both sides of it.
But I do think a year it's taking them a
while obviously, Dante, But I think a year later you
look at Minnesota and you say, Okay, I don't know
what this would look like with Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
But this was on obviously division when they made that move.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
They're playing like they expected to play, and I think
everybody knew it wasn't going to happen immediately. There was
going to be an adjustment period, and it looks like
that's behind them.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Well, there are questions about Carl Anthony Towns. You know,
could he defend and you know there are a lot
of games and in that series, and certainly with Jokich,
he struggled with Jokich. They beat Denver. I mean this
Minnesota team beat Denver, So you could say, okay, you
beat the Denver Nuggets and you trade away Carl Anthony Towns.
That doesn't make sense. But he struggled with jokicch everybody does.
But he found himself on the end of the bench
at the end of these games because defensively, he just
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couldn't have him on the floor, so they decided to
move on. You bring in Julius Randall. You want the toughness,
you want the shooting of Dante DiVincenzo, and you're starting
to get all of that here the last six games.
But now you've got to dig yourself out of seventh,
try to get out of that play in here in
the Western Conference. But as we look at our play,
our call of the game, Anthony Edwards, we've known he's
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one of the best players in the NBA, and surprisingly Jake,
the Magic have had some decent success against Anthony Edwards.
He's played nine games against the Orlando Magic. He's averaging
nineteen point six points per game. That's the third lowest
for him against any opponent in the NBA. So the
Magic have done pretty well. Now a lot of that
is because of Jalen Suggs and the defense that he plays,
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and Jalen sugs ain't walking through that door to night. Unfortunately,
he'd love to have him. But what do you make
of Anthony Edwards, the number one overall pick?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
When you go back.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
To that twenty and twenty season, He's called out his
teammates a lot. This year, he had a fifty three
point game, they scored one hundred and five as a team.
They lost at Detroit. He's a hard guy for me
to figure out because to me, he's funny, he's a leader,
he's everything you want. But then he calls out his
teammates and sometimes it seems like there's a rub out
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there on the floor. Well what do you make of
Anthony Edwards as he tries to learn how to be
a leader here in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I don't know if you've seen the clip.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Netflix has this news series from the Paris Olympics called
Court of Gold, and it was produced by the Obamas.
And so there's this big banquet as they got all
the guys together in the US men's national team from
this past summer, and Obama walks in and he's just
small talking with Anthony Edwards, and he says, you know,
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he turns to somebody else. I think it was KD
and he says, this guy can play a little bit. Huh,
you know, just small talk, and Anthony Edwards turns to
Barack Obama, the former president of the United States of America,
and says, stand down.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I'm the truth.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
You just said stand down to the president of the
United States because he didn't compliment you enough about how
good you were, because he said you could play a
little bit, and.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I was just like that.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
That to me is Anthony Edwards in a nutshell. He
is so confident, he is so himself and genuine, and
I think that sometimes gets.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Him into trouble. He's twenty three years old.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Still, we got to remember that, and he is not
just the face of a franchise, but he is one
of the guys who were talking about being in the
next faces of the league and so and so.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
You know.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
But he's young, he is raw, he is unfiltered, and
sometimes it can be difficult, especially when your team isn't
you know, comes into a season with big expectations obviously,
and they hadn't necessarily delivered on it. Earlier in the season,
when he was complaining about getting double team and sort
of calling out his teammates a bit so look.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
You know, it's a roller coaster.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
I think I think twenty nine other gms would kill
to have him be the face of their franchise.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I mean, he is, He's something pretty special.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
And his game, you know, you can sort of notice
here in the month of March, he's shooting two less
threes per a game than he did in the month
of February, but he's knocking down in a forty one
percent clip, So he's getting more and more efficient. It
feels like as he gets more comfortable with his teammates,
that's scary for the rest of the league.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Well, and it's interesting, isn't it. You know, that's the
struggle in the NBA as these superstars try to take
that next leap. And we've seen some frustration with Polo
ban Caero. You're fifth in the East, you have all
these injuries. You come back, he comes back from injury.
Everybody in the world thinks, Okay, now that he's back,
we're going to go on a run, win ten in
a row. And it's not that easy. You know, you're
not surprising people anymore. And I think here in Minnesota,
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the thought is, okay, you made it to the Western
Conference finals, now you're going to get back, and you know,
you're a top four team in the West last year,
and I think everyone thought, Okay, you're probably going to
be first or second. You're probably the favorites to win
these You're probably gonna compete with Okac in Denver to
come out of the Western Conference. And now here you
are still a happy game in the playing You got
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to find your way out. I think that adds to
a lot of frustration for a guy that's an Olympian
won a gold medal. He's being touted, as you said,
one of the faces of this league. There is a
lot of frustration that can come with that. And and
I think you know we're hearing from Anthony Edwards. I
think you would hear a lot of frustration from other players,
you know, as well as they try to figure this
out real quick and then we'll, uh, we'll kind of
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shift back to the Orlando Magic. Do you like the
fit of Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo here in Minnesota?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Yeah, I think it's It's obviously been a work in progress.
We talked about this a few months ago when we
were talking about the Knicks. I thought that I didn't
like the trade for either team. Really, I thought that
it was I thought the Knicks were really gonna miss
the Vincenzo specifically, and I just thought Minnesota. I just
don't know how Julius Randall fits ever, almost no matter
what he's you know, you talk about a unique player.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
He is. He's up to him if he wants to fit.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
And that's and that's the whole thing is it feels
like it.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Obviously the results back up.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
It feels like it's trending in the right direction.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
And I do understand that Karl Anthony Towns I think
I think the fit had sort of outlasted itself. I
think the new team that they built around didn't necessarily
fit with Karl Anthony Towns. Then you throw in the
salary and the long term commitment, et cetera, et cetera.
So I understand that part. I I don't know if
it made them better in the short term, but I
do think now you've got you're sort of free of
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the cat of Umbrella and all the money that you
owe him.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
You've got more flexibility. And the other thing they did last.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Summer is they made a trade for a young cat
named Rob Dillingham, who is now playing just a little bit,
but he is a big, big part of their future.
So at the very least that we know with Minnesota
there was an ownership thing going on there. There's just
a lot going on within that organization. At the very
least they got off the cat money, they made themselves
a little more flexible short term to make sure they
make the direct with that moves around ant to try
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to keep a contender going right now, and they've gotten a.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Few pieces for the future.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
So I think I think you have to take all
that into consideration, because I don't think you try to
wake Carl Anthony Towns and your better day one of
training camp the next season.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, remember everybody was throwing dirt on him right last
year when they made the Rudy Gobert trade and Walker
Kessler was looking out the worldly or two years ago,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
They broke the trade market. Oh no, right.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Exactly exactly how is this going to work? And they were,
you know, they were taking on water and it was
a bad fit. And the next thing, you know, during
the Western Conference Finals, and it was looking pretty good
having Rudy Gobert in that size right and now and
and so I think it started slow again. But I
think Julius Randall and they do a great job out
here in Minnesota, no question about it. It's get your
injury report real quick and we'll take a look at this.
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We did not have Cole Anthony last night for the
Orlando Magic. That's why Corey Joseph had to make his
second start of the season. He is still questionable again
tonight with the left big toast train. We got to
get that right. Hopefully he's able to go. Contavious Caldwell
Pope is questionable. I would imagine we do not have KCP,
so then you've got some options, Jake. And as you
look at it, you know Caleb Houston had his season
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high against these Minnesota timber Wolves. He started the last
time we saw them, so you wonder if he might
get the opportunity. Gary Harris didn't play last night. Typically
doesn't play both games of a back to back. He
sat out the entire game. Maybe that's the reason you
knew you were planning to give KCP some rest, So
maybe it's an opportunity for Gary Harris. And then I
think so it's two fold Jake, and I'll throw it
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to you as we close out the show. Who would
you start tonight? And then moving forward? Do you consider
do you at least consider call Anthony coming off the bench.
You need him as a starter. He's been fantastic as
a starter. He's almost forty percent from three in the
absence of Jalen Suggs. But that second unit desperately needs
a shot in the arm, and I wonder if that
might be where you get it.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I don't hate it.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
I think look Anthony black has with the ball in
his hands in the second unit, and without a guy
like me Wagner, it's just kind of a struggle right now,
and there's been so many different moving pieces as far
as the second unit go. You know what you're getting
from Cole Anthony. He is at the point in his
career now where he's a pretty proven commodity. Yes, some
nights it might be too many turnovers, might be too.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Many misses, but I like that idea. And you also
know what you're.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Getting from Corey Joseph, and he performed well last night.
I don't know what we'll see tonight because of the injuries,
because you don't have KCP. If you get cold back,
or you likely won't. If you get cold back, then
it might make sense to throw him in there right
now and make this change, you know, for Sunday. But
I like where you're going with that, because the idea
of Cole being your here's the ball, just go be
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Coal within that second unit, I think could work and
it could get some of the other guys going as well.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
And you have Coal on the.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Flour at the end of the game, you know, you
can have him out there and fishins and go win
a basketball game. But you know, maybe that gives that
second unit a shot in the arm or not. And
if not, somebody's got to step up from that second unit.
It has been wildly inconsistent. Love what Jonathan Isaac did
last night, Love the energy he brought, but we have
got to get more out of that second unit. If
you're going to rattle on for run, if you're going
to go on a run here down the stretch, that'll
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They'll take on the Minnesota Timberwolves, one of the hottest
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Dante Marcitelli and Jake Chapman here with you. The Magic
get a good win last night, a much needed win.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Last night.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
They put up one hundred and thirteen points. They knocked
one hundred and thirteen to ninety three was the final.
They knocked down thirteen threes on way to a twenty
point win. They led at one point in this game
by thirty six, their largest lead of the season. And
of course they're paced by Paulo Bancaro with thirty four
points eleven rebounds, his fifth double double of the season,
the tenth time this year he's gone for thirty and
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Franz Wagner twenty seven point, six rebounds, and five assists.
And none of that even remotely tells the story. Jake,
I think of what Franz and Pollo did last night,
and credit also to Corey Joseph his best game as
a member of the Orlando Magic, incerted it into the
starting lineup, his second start with Orlando, and all he
did was play thirty minutes. It's the thirty three year old.
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Then he gets you a season high twelve points, season
high six rebounds and three assists to go along with it,
but Powo and Franz had missed one shot combined in
the first half. It was absolutely remarkable what they did
in the first half of that basketball game last night
against the New Orleans Pelicans, And for Franz Wagner, it
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was the first time in Magic history that someone had
twenty points at the half, did not miss a shot,
and did not have a turnover. That had never happened
in Orlando Magic history, and in Magic history, the Magic
had never had two players with twenty points by halftime
in a basketball game. You got to go back to
ninety six to ninety seven for that one. How about
the performance of Polo and Franz last night.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Oh d it was a munch needed game altogether.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
But you're just seeing those guys and the vision and
we've you know, we've seen it obviously for an extended
periods of time, but when it's working with the two
of them in concert like that the first half, that
was pretty awesome.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Or sixty eight points as a team in the.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
First half of that game, but those two were just,
you know, they were like maestros. And Paula I didn't
think he was gonna miss.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It was just one after another.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
They combined for twenty five of thirty nine from the field.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
I didn't do the match on that, but that it
feels like somewhere on seventy percent shooting.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
No, that was a good one.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
And you know you mentioned the no turnovers for Franz
in the first half. The two of them played, you know,
thirty five and thirty four minutes because late in the
third New Orleans made a little charge that at the
very least met coach Moseley to put the guys back
in the game in the fourth quarter to make sure
you got out of there with the twenty point win.
Three turnovers for the two of them combined in sixty
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nine minutes on the floor. And we know how much
the balls in their hands. When Paulo's making threes, and
he made four of them last night. Some of them
were giving him to were given to him, and some
of them he was covered up and he was knocking
him down as well.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
I just don't know what you do with him. I mean,
he didn't go to the freey throw line last night.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
He didn't to.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
But it's just, you know, it's pick and poison. When
Paulo and franz are knocking down shots from the perimeter.
They're so good obviously from the mid range in and
then you add the free throw line element to it,
and they were just spectacular last night.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
That was a good win.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
New Orleans not interested in defending.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
We know, we understand, but they do still have some
tough shot makers. Trey Murphy gave you something to think
about Zion. Zion was kind of in and out of
the game. He you know, he wasn't foul trouble, but
he just felt like he didn't ever really get going.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
And I think you can credit our defense a little
bit for that good win, one we needed. And now on.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
As you sort of ratchet up the competition a little
bit to as you said, Dante, one of the best
teams in the league right now. The Minnesota Timberwolves winners
a five straight red hot since the All Star break,
so this should.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Be a good win.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Actually six in a row. They just beat the Denver
Nuggets as well, so they have the longest win streak
in the in the Western Conference. Well, in the NBA,
they're they're tied with the Golden State Warriors, who were
just red hot, and especially since getting Jimmy Butler, so
six consecutive wins. They're now a happy game behind Golden State.
So this is a big game for Minnesota and that's
what the magic they're running into tonight. Some stiff competition.
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This starts a five game homestand and all winnable games.
If you're in Minnesota, you're looking at and saying, Okay,
you've got Orlando, and then you've got two against the Pelicans,
You've got the Utah Jazz, you've got Indiana. These are
all winnable games. This is a big home stand kind
of what we saw in Houston against the Rockets. That
was the start of a big home stand in a
game that they had to get. They've won six in
a row and coincides with the return of Julius Randall.
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He was out for about eleven or twelve games with
a groin injury and since he's come back, man, he
has been an absolute force. Has been all year, but
they are really clicking with him back. Rudy Gobert missed
ten games with a back injury. He's back and they're
playing like the Minnesota team that we thought they would
play like at the beginning of the year. And Anthony
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Edwards is the guy that's leading the way and as
no surprise, are he's fit in the NBA and scoring.
He's the NBA's leading three point shooter. No one has
made more threes this year than Anthony Edwards, one more
than Elik Beasley, by the way, and anybody could have
had that guy one year, six million dollar contract. What
a fine by the by the Detroit Pistons and a
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former Timberwolve by the way. So this is not gonna
be easy. But before we shift gears to Minnesota, just
to kind of tie up what we saw with Polo
and Franz. I know it's New Orleans. I know it's
a bad team. I know they don't protect the paint
and I know they don't have any interest in playing defense.
I know they were injured. I know they don't I
know they're playing out the string. But you still have
to go out there and do it. And that's that's
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one game. Hollo since the All Star Break is the
second leading scorer in the NBA. Yeah, I mean he
has been that. He's twenty eight point six points per
game in eleven games since the All Star Break. Only
Shake Gildes Alexander, who is probably this year's MVP. You know,
I probably should be honest, but it's not gonna be.
You know, shake gild just Alexander thirty four points a
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game and OKC is the best team in the Western Conference,
so he's gonna get it. But Paulo bank Gero is
right there with them twenty eight point six points per game.
But he's almost forty nine percent from floor, thirty six
percent from three.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
No one's getting to the free throw line more than
Pollow since the break, and only Trey Young and Shaye
Dildess Alexander are making more free throws since the All
Star break. This is the Pollow that we got that
five game sample size up before he got hurt to
start the year, when we thought, oh, this guy's an
MVP candidate, and obviously we had some struggles. He's trying
to figure things out. Obviously was still All Star. Happened
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an All Star season, but these last eleven games, he's
taken it to another level.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Two little tweaks I'll throw onto that is.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
He's also averaging over a steal per game since the
All Star break and had what four more last night.
He's been at the very least contributing defensively in that regard,
and you know.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You mentioned the free throws.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Those have actually come down the last two games.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
He had about three or four straight games there where
he's shooting double digit free throws. Didn't get to the
line against Houston, didn't need to get to the line
last night. But so you know, he's shooting almost ten
threty thrower times per game, which is still tops in
the league post All Star, but he's made seventy eight
and a half percent. And earlier in the season even
you know, after he came back in the month of January,
just wasn't knocking down free throws. He was getting there
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as he always does, but he was making him in
a sixty five to sixty eight percent clip. Now he's
up around eighty. He's got his percentage for the season
up over seventy. We talk about it a lot, but
that you know, that's a couple extra points per game
on on the total, and obviously it's so important for
this matching team who needs to generate and manufacture offense.
At times he's been absolutely outstanding. You know, you can
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sort of see how how the numbers jump efficiency wise
when his teammates are helping him out and when it's
working sort of in concert with a five man.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Offense rather than a two man offense.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
But I think it's you know, he's doing every It
seems like ages Ago, doesn't the Dante that there were
question marks when he came back off injury. Oh what happened?
Is there is there an identity crisis on the team
or is he is he out of champers, he trying
too harder?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Is he struggling to play with Franz?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
This issy us But you're right, but external externally.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Twitter Magic Twitter in the year twenty twenty five has
been has been let's just call it a little bit
of assessful. So, yeah, dumb questions to be asked. You
got to take all of this stuff in the aggregate.
And right now he's looking like the same guy who
scored thirty eight points in Game seven against the Cavaliers
last year. And lest anyone forgets that, dude was awesome
and in the biggest games. His magic franchise is played
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in many, many years. So he's at the center of
just about everything positive happening right now.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
And open.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well. And that's why it's important to point out because
he used to look and say, okay, that was the
New Orleans Pelicans. But this has been an eleven games
sample size now since the All Star break, where he's
the second leading scorer in the NBA. Yes, but last
night he added the little flair, the behind the back,
the lob I mean that passed to Tristan da Silva.
No look past was unbelievable. Tristan tried to It would
have been an incredible finish if he was able to
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finish it last night, but it just everybody, you're right
working in concert last night. You had a couple of
days off, you had a fun team activity on Tuesday,
you had a spirit practice on Wednesday, And if that's
what it takes to try and salvage the final fifteen
games of the season, then whatever by all means necessary,
because it's not easy. But this is the place you've
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had success. You've won five in a row at Minnesota,
which I think would surprise a lot of people. They've
had some success here in this building. And you're only
one this year against the Timberwolves, just split the season
series last year. But you've won eight of the last
eighteen here against the ten of the last eighteen against
the Minnesota Timberwolves. And you know you've won five in
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a row here at this building, so it's been Hopefully
you can make it six in a row, and we'll
see if we can make that happen here tonight. Much
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This is game four of a five game road trip
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The Magic and the Timberwolves, a place that the Magic
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Visit glip dot com to learn more. Jake, it's interesting
to me and you know this Minnesota Timberwolves team, which,
first of all, as we know, they lost four games
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to one to the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference
finals last year. So is that not more puzzling, more
head scratching that Luca by himself was able to beat
this Minnesota to Wolves team four games to one to
get to an NBA finals. Is that just another example
of how dumb that trade is?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Oh, my goodness it is.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
And not to mention that Dallas, en route to play
in Minnesota, beat Oklahoma City.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
It was the class of the Western Conference this year.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Yes, with their.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Side, with the side that they needed so desperately to
trade for the dafense.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I just I can't.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
I still get I'm still concerned about Oklahoma city size
a year later.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
But that's a whole nother conversation.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
But no, it is.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
It's crazy now.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Look on the flip side, Minnesota also made a major.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Move after making it after.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
One of those successful seasons in a long time. So
I guess you could look at both sides of it.
But I do think a year it's taking them a
while obviously, Dante, But I think a year later you
look at Minnesota and you say, Okay, I don't know
what this would look like with Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
But this was on obviously division when they made that move.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
They're playing like they expected to play, and I think
everybody knew it wasn't going to happen immediately. There was
going to be an adjustment period, and it looks like
that's behind them.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Well, there are questions about Carl Anthony Towns. You know,
could he defend and you know there are a lot
of games and in that series, and certainly with Jokich,
he struggled with Jokich. They beat Denver. I mean this
Minnesota team beat Denver, So you could say, okay, you
beat the Denver Nuggets and you trade away Carl Anthony Towns.
That doesn't make sense. But he struggled with jokicch everybody does.
But he found himself on the end of the bench
at the end of these games because defensively, he just
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couldn't have him on the floor, so they decided to
move on. You bring in Julius Randall. You want the toughness,
you want the shooting of Dante DiVincenzo, and you're starting
to get all of that here the last six games.
But now you've got to dig yourself out of seventh,
try to get out of that play in here in
the Western Conference. But as we look at our play,
our call of the game, Anthony Edwards, we've known he's
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one of the best players in the NBA, and surprisingly Jake,
the Magic have had some decent success against Anthony Edwards.
He's played nine games against the Orlando Magic. He's averaging
nineteen point six points per game. That's the third lowest
for him against any opponent in the NBA. So the
Magic have done pretty well. Now a lot of that
is because of Jalen Suggs and the defense that he plays,
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and Jalen sugs ain't walking through that door to night. Unfortunately,
he'd love to have him. But what do you make
of Anthony Edwards, the number one overall pick?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
When you go back.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
To that twenty and twenty season, He's called out his
teammates a lot. This year, he had a fifty three
point game, they scored one hundred and five as a team.
They lost at Detroit. He's a hard guy for me
to figure out because to me, he's funny, he's a leader,
he's everything you want. But then he calls out his
teammates and sometimes it seems like there's a rub out
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there on the floor. Well what do you make of
Anthony Edwards as he tries to learn how to be
a leader here in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I don't know if you've seen the clip.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Netflix has this news series from the Paris Olympics called
Court of Gold, and it was produced by the Obamas.
And so there's this big banquet as they got all
the guys together in the US men's national team from
this past summer, and Obama walks in and he's just
small talking with Anthony Edwards, and he says, you know,
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he turns to somebody else. I think it was KD
and he says, this guy can play a little bit. Huh,
you know, just small talk, and Anthony Edwards turns to
Barack Obama, the former president of the United States of America,
and says, stand down.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I'm the truth.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
You just said stand down to the president of the
United States because he didn't compliment you enough about how
good you were, because he said you could play a
little bit, and.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I was just like that.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
That to me is Anthony Edwards in a nutshell. He
is so confident, he is so himself and genuine, and
I think that sometimes gets.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Him into trouble. He's twenty three years old.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Still, we got to remember that, and he is not
just the face of a franchise, but he is one
of the guys who were talking about being in the
next faces of the league and so and so.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
You know.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
But he's young, he is raw, he is unfiltered, and
sometimes it can be difficult, especially when your team isn't
you know, comes into a season with big expectations obviously,
and they hadn't necessarily delivered on it. Earlier in the season,
when he was complaining about getting double team and sort
of calling out his teammates a bit so look.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
You know, it's a roller coaster.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
I think I think twenty nine other gms would kill
to have him be the face of their franchise.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I mean, he is, He's something pretty special.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
And his game, you know, you can sort of notice
here in the month of March, he's shooting two less
threes per a game than he did in the month
of February, but he's knocking down in a forty one
percent clip, So he's getting more and more efficient. It
feels like as he gets more comfortable with his teammates,
that's scary for the rest of the league.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Well, and it's interesting, isn't it. You know, that's the
struggle in the NBA as these superstars try to take
that next leap. And we've seen some frustration with Polo
ban Caero. You're fifth in the East, you have all
these injuries. You come back, he comes back from injury.
Everybody in the world thinks, Okay, now that he's back,
we're going to go on a run, win ten in
a row. And it's not that easy. You know, you're
not surprising people anymore. And I think here in Minnesota,
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the thought is, okay, you made it to the Western
Conference finals, now you're going to get back, and you know,
you're a top four team in the West last year,
and I think everyone thought, Okay, you're probably going to
be first or second. You're probably the favorites to win
these You're probably gonna compete with Okac in Denver to
come out of the Western Conference. And now here you
are still a happy game in the playing You got
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to find your way out. I think that adds to
a lot of frustration for a guy that's an Olympian
won a gold medal. He's being touted, as you said,
one of the faces of this league. There is a
lot of frustration that can come with that. And and
I think you know we're hearing from Anthony Edwards. I
think you would hear a lot of frustration from other players,
you know, as well as they try to figure this
out real quick and then we'll, uh, we'll kind of
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shift back to the Orlando Magic. Do you like the
fit of Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo here in Minnesota?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Yeah, I think it's It's obviously been a work in progress.
We talked about this a few months ago when we
were talking about the Knicks. I thought that I didn't
like the trade for either team. Really, I thought that
it was I thought the Knicks were really gonna miss
the Vincenzo specifically, and I just thought Minnesota. I just
don't know how Julius Randall fits ever, almost no matter
what he's you know, you talk about a unique player.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
He is. He's up to him if he wants to fit.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
And that's and that's the whole thing is it feels
like it.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Obviously the results back up.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
It feels like it's trending in the right direction.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
And I do understand that Karl Anthony Towns I think
I think the fit had sort of outlasted itself. I
think the new team that they built around didn't necessarily
fit with Karl Anthony Towns. Then you throw in the
salary and the long term commitment, et cetera, et cetera.
So I understand that part. I I don't know if
it made them better in the short term, but I
do think now you've got you're sort of free of
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the cat of Umbrella and all the money that you
owe him.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
You've got more flexibility. And the other thing they did last.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Summer is they made a trade for a young cat
named Rob Dillingham, who is now playing just a little bit,
but he is a big, big part of their future.
So at the very least that we know with Minnesota
there was an ownership thing going on there. There's just
a lot going on within that organization. At the very
least they got off the cat money, they made themselves
a little more flexible short term to make sure they
make the direct with that moves around ant to try
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to keep a contender going right now, and they've gotten a.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Few pieces for the future.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
So I think I think you have to take all
that into consideration, because I don't think you try to
wake Carl Anthony Towns and your better day one of
training camp the next season.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, remember everybody was throwing dirt on him right last
year when they made the Rudy Gobert trade and Walker
Kessler was looking out the worldly or two years ago,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
They broke the trade market. Oh no, right.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Exactly exactly how is this going to work? And they were,
you know, they were taking on water and it was
a bad fit. And the next thing, you know, during
the Western Conference Finals, and it was looking pretty good
having Rudy Gobert in that size right and now and
and so I think it started slow again. But I
think Julius Randall and they do a great job out
here in Minnesota, no question about it. It's get your
injury report real quick and we'll take a look at this.
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We did not have Cole Anthony last night for the
Orlando Magic. That's why Corey Joseph had to make his
second start of the season. He is still questionable again
tonight with the left big toast train. We got to
get that right. Hopefully he's able to go. Contavious Caldwell
Pope is questionable. I would imagine we do not have KCP,
so then you've got some options, Jake. And as you
look at it, you know Caleb Houston had his season
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high against these Minnesota timber Wolves. He started the last
time we saw them, so you wonder if he might
get the opportunity. Gary Harris didn't play last night. Typically
doesn't play both games of a back to back. He
sat out the entire game. Maybe that's the reason you
knew you were planning to give KCP some rest, So
maybe it's an opportunity for Gary Harris. And then I
think so it's two fold Jake, and I'll throw it
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to you as we close out the show. Who would
you start tonight? And then moving forward? Do you consider
do you at least consider call Anthony coming off the bench.
You need him as a starter. He's been fantastic as
a starter. He's almost forty percent from three in the
absence of Jalen Suggs. But that second unit desperately needs
a shot in the arm, and I wonder if that
might be where you get it.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I don't hate it.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
I think look Anthony black has with the ball in
his hands in the second unit, and without a guy
like me Wagner, it's just kind of a struggle right now,
and there's been so many different moving pieces as far
as the second unit go. You know what you're getting
from Cole Anthony. He is at the point in his
career now where he's a pretty proven commodity. Yes, some
nights it might be too many turnovers, might be too.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Many misses, but I like that idea. And you also
know what you're.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Getting from Corey Joseph, and he performed well last night.
I don't know what we'll see tonight because of the injuries,
because you don't have KCP. If you get cold back,
or you likely won't. If you get cold back, then
it might make sense to throw him in there right
now and make this change, you know, for Sunday. But
I like where you're going with that, because the idea
of Cole being your here's the ball, just go be
(21:31):
Coal within that second unit, I think could work and
it could get some of the other guys going as well.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
And you have Coal on the.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Flour at the end of the game, you know, you
can have him out there and fishins and go win
a basketball game. But you know, maybe that gives that
second unit a shot in the arm or not. And
if not, somebody's got to step up from that second unit.
It has been wildly inconsistent. Love what Jonathan Isaac did
last night, Love the energy he brought, but we have
got to get more out of that second unit. If
you're going to rattle on for run, if you're going
to go on a run here down the stretch, that'll
(21:57):
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