April 4, 2025 • 23 mins
Dante and Jake recap the Magic's win last night over the Wizards. They break down the fantastic recent stretch from Paolo Banchero.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Step back over, Durrance shot us up, Carro drills it
and the foal change for a three point put. Big
time bag came tort headed.
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Back the way, a steal by Franz Fondner to run.
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Out the fog and get my to it. Fronz Fonner
and the fourth quarter.
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And welcome everyone to another edition of Magic Insiders, the
fineal Magic Insiders over the week, and we're winding down
for the season here, just four games remain for this
Oral Magic team, so we'll have Magic Insiders all next
week and we're gonna close this thing out here very soon.
Next week will be your last week of regular season
basketball for the Orlando Magic. They are off, four nights off,
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and then they come back on Tuesday with a back
to back against Atlanta and Boston, and then they close
it out next week on Friday and Sunday at Indiana.
At Atlanta, you're fighting off the Atlanta Hawks. You're one
game ahead of Atlanta, and you play them twice in
the final four games. Man, this is gonna be one
heck of a race. We'll break it all down for you,
but most importantly, the Magic win last night they beat
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the Washington Wizards one oh nine to ninety seven, and
monster performance from Polo ban Caro. Probably spend the majority
of this program discussing the performance of Polo ban Caro.
Since the All Star Break. He has been exceptional thirty
three points, eighteen rebounds, eight assists. These two assists away
from the third triple double of his career, a career
high rebounds with eighteen, he was sensational. Franz Wagner twenty
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seven points. It's now ten consecutive games that they've gone
for twenty or more in the same game, so you
continue to push that mark in Magic franchise history. Two
other players in scoring in double figures for the Magic.
You get thirteen from Contavis calledwell pull Jake had the
call last night, and he's right. KCP has been sizzling,
especially since the All Star Break and Wendell Carter Junior
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gets in double figures with ten points and seven rebounds,
and the Magic most importantly moved to thirty eight and
forty and now trying to inch closer to hopefully hopefully
locking in that seventh spot in the Eastern Conference. And
with that win last night, the Magic win, so you
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you get all that. But most importantly, Jake, you handled
your business. These were two big games on the road.
Would have been easy, would have been understandable if it
just didn't have it, Never for lack of effort, but
if you just didn't have it for one of those games.
That wasn't the case. You won two big road games
that you had to watching. Wizards had a big win
the other day. Doesn't matter who's playing and who's not.
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You got to go in and win that basketball game.
And that's what they did. So your impressions first, and foremost,
you got the win. And now you, my friend, have
four days off. What are you gonna do with yourself
this weekend? A mini All Star break?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Mindy, all Stars?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It's like a mini All Star break. It is.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's certainly a quirk in the schedule and supposed to
be a game this Sunday, but that was part of
the rescheduling because of the wildfires out in California and
of course the winter storms here in the South. So whatever,
the hardest part of our schedule is behind, it is
everybody else. You look at Atlanta, they played two games
less than us. I'm sure there's teams who have played
three games less than us at this point. So we
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certainly have earned this couple of days off. And I'm sure,
you know, I'm not sure how that whole process went
when the NBA was trying to you know, you you
throw one little wrinkle into the NBA schedule and it
affects everybody. It's like the it's like the you know,
the the butterfly theory or whatever, going back in time
and changing one little thing and then it impacts everything else.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
But you can't change one game for that, you know,
with the with the Stone and the analogy.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Absolutely, so that's what happened, and so that that's why
we're here, and we get these couple of days off,
and and so you had to go out and take
care of business for sure. But I'm sure I like,
I don't know if coach Moseley or you know, Jeff
Weltman had to sign off on the schedule change, but
I'm sure this is what the part that they had circled.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Where they said, oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
We can get four days off heading into the biggest
week of the season. And then obviously it's kind of ironic,
and and this is happening elsewhere too, like Milwaukee and
Detroit played each.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Other twice final week of the season.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So you're gonna have some interdivisional matchups that are going
to be huge as far as playoff seeding over the
course of the next week. And and we get to
get rested, refreshed, some practice time and then head into
a very difficult back to back on Tuesday and Wednesday,
which we'll preview next week. But look the you know,
this first game the other night, I felt like we
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kind of played their game, waited around and then played
magic basketball in there, and it made me.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
A little nervous.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Last night, Washington made their surge in the third quarter,
turned what a nineteen point lead?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
What did they get it down to single three?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
They got that thing down to three. I mean that
was terrifying for a while there.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
It was terrifying. It's frustrating.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Of course, I didn't have a problem with the process
last night. The ball moved offensively. You were going to have.
That was going to happen at some point. Teams make run.
I don't care if they don't have anybody on the floor.
They still have guys who can fill it up. To
be sure that Bob Carrington's going to be a player,
and I and I was. He's another guy that I
was a fan of. I really liked him, and I
like anybody named bub so he already had me kind
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of hooked on Singer.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But we know, do you think do you think we
know now that that we need to guard him? Think
we know now after that game.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
After the game at this point, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, Bob Carrington was pretty special. Thirty two a career
high for boy. I think his previous career I was
twenty five, it.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Was twenty three, it was twenty three. I down when
he was getting up to around thirty, I was like,
what was this?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh no, I missed it seven points ago. Yes, talk
about that offline, but no. So it was what it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Was the twentieth time you've held a depponent under one
hundred points. Yes, yes, this season, which I'm pretty sure
as of a week ago we were one up on
Houston and Oklahoma City for that total. So we're the
first or second in the league and holding opponents under
one hundred points.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
As to win, you had to get.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It's eight straight now against Washington, so I was pretty comfortable.
I thought, obviously we'll talk about Polo, but Ball moved.
I think he got everybody involved last night. Franz was
about as efficient as Polo was, and so the eighteen
rebounds obviously leap off the page. At you almost got
his third career triple double. But it was a pretty
good effort last night across the board.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It certainly was. And they're coming off a big win
against Sacramento. Man, that's a game that Sacramento absolutely had
to have to keep their playoff hopes alive or try
to meant to spot and they couldn't do that. So
and listen, coming up In the next segment, we'll break
down the standings of what lies ahead. I want to
get into all that and paint and paint this playoff
picture because it's huge. It's coming down, and you handled
your business. Those are games that could get away from you.
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Those were games in my opinion, that did get away
from you earlier in the year, maybe even as much
as a month ago, and you didn't let your guard down.
We have not. We have struggled to win in San
Antonio on the season, right that was in our franchise history.
That was our eighth win in franchise history in San Antonio.
We have struggled to win in San Antonio, Texas. So
that was a big win. We have had stretches where
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we've struggled against Washington, but we're on a roll right now.
So that was huge. So now you got to keep
this thing going. But Paulo Bancero has been absolutely otherworldly
as we know, and Jake, we're talking about now a
twenty two games sample size since the All Star break,
that's what we're talking about. We're talking this is this
is MVP like And I know the wins aren't there
right now to show for it. But if he has
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a stretch like this next year at the start of
the season or midway. If you can keep it going
for half of a season, he's going to be in
the MVP conversation. Then if the team is racking up wins,
you know, it's unbelievable what the Oklahoma City Thunder are
doing and nobody's going to catch them, And you would
think shake guild, just Alexander is the runaway winner. And
this OKC is sixty four and twelve on the season.
But this Orlando Magic team with Polo Bankero, he had
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been second the majority of games since the All Star Break.
He's now fallen to third. That's because Nikola Jokic is
the other MVP candidate, has gone on an absolute tare
so crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
How a sixty one point game can throw the averages.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's amazing. And that sixty one point that sixty one
point performance put him three tenths of a point ahead
of Polo since the All Star Break, right like, that's all,
that's all it was. So you're looking at and again
the stop me when you have when you're not hearing
an MVP candidate, right, shake guild, just Alexander. Since the
All Star Break, twenty games, thirty three points seven points
per game. Nicolea Jokic second, He's sixteen games, twenty nine
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point seven points per game. Polo Bank twenty two games,
twenty nine point four points per game. Janni Sideta Kumbo
twenty two games, twenty eight points per game, Luka Doncic
twenty one games, twenty eight points per game. Then you
go down and you go Jalen Bruns and Steph Curry,
John Morant, Anthony Edwards like, this is your this is
your company. And this isn't five games since the All
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Star break. This isn't the five game sample size that
we saw at the start of the season before he
got hurt. This is twenty two games. This is a
quarter of the season that you are hanging with the
big boys in the NBA and right there with him.
This is an MVP candidate and we are seeing him
have a We saw it in the playoffs last year.
He's now got his legs back under him, and this
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to me is a breakout twenty two game stretch for
Polo Banco and in the basketball world has to take notice.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah, I mean he's been lightsig.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You're right, the team's eleven and eleven since the All
Star break, and so you know, a few games above
five hundred and maybe teams people are starting to take
a little bit more notice. First off, as you went
down the list, I'll stop you as far as MPB can,
Andate's go as soon as you get to John Morant,
because I don't know what that knucklehead's got going on,
but there is no way.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Just going to be a sort of MVP work I
or League honors. And that's a conversation for another day,
to be sure.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But after that, it's Anthony Edwards, Jason Tatum, Kate Cunningham.
I mean, these are the guys that you're outscoring, Kobe White,
Trey Young, Lebron James like that. You you are in
and better than most of the people on that list.
It's it's remarkable what we have right here in Central Florida.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And I think it's important.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I think you said, like this is a huge sample
size now, like we're talking about twenty two games a
quarter of the season.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And and then you.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Know what people in the national media and what people
who aren't plugged in to what's going on down here
don't want to hear, is all the stuff about injuries
and all this stuff that that that is that matters
that you and I know have impacted the season. But
the reason we are where we are is because we
haven't had our guys on the floor together right to
the course of the year. And so for Paula to
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be able to do that, and yes, like we're pretty
close right now. Obviously you're still missing Jalen and Mo
and those are huge losses. But for Poulo to be
able to withstand all of that, yeah, there were some
bumps in the road as he worked his way back
from injury, but he was still getting used to to
new surroundings. You know, I thought about that in the
context of KCP. We were talking about him, and now
he's surging lately. It's not just that he's not playing
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with Jokic anymore. The whole sneazeon his whole first year
in Orlando. He had pollow for five games and he
went down s Fronz for the next fifteen or twenty
games or whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Then he went down.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's just been there's been no opportunity to kind of
build an identity offensively with this team this year until
the last twenty two games. And now you're starting to
see what it should look like, what it will look like.
Then you throw Jalen, you throw Moo off the bench
in that mix, and it could be something, if not special,
it could be something that is good enough to make
you one of the best teams in the league, coupled
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with your with your your top tier defense. So he's
he's carrying the load right now. Man, it's night in
and night out. This guy doesn't take nights off. He
is the same guy. And to do it at his age,
at twenty two years old, to be as consistent as
he's been over this stretch, consistently dominant, that's pretty impressive.
You just don't see that very often. You look down,
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check out the age column of all the guys.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
You were naming.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, twenty, absolutely twenty six, Yoki is thirty, Giannis is thirty,
Donta is twenty six.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right, No twenty two year olds in that, No twenty
twos in that in that baller, that's exactly right, And
then you can look at it. So then let's go
to the season. Right, So on the season, he's tenth
in scoring. He's the tenth leading scorer in the NBA,
So he's a top ten scorer on the season, and
I and that's a forty four game sample size, so
now you're talking a little bit past half the season.
Half the season, he's top ten. He's he's found a
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way to get to the free throw line. That's huge.
That's gonna get those numbers up there. If he can
get that three point percentage up there, that's gonna be
huge as well. He's at thirty two percent on the year.
He's forty five point three percent field goal percentage. That's
better than Jason Tatum and Luka Doncic uh. And there
are five players in the NBA that are averaging twenty
six points like Polo, seven rebounds a game like Polo,
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and four assists like Polo, and the other ones are
Giannis Jokic, Luca and Tatum. Right, I mean, that's the
category you're in, that one name, that single name category,
that single name company that he certainly is in right now.
And it's just it's just special. It's a joy to watch.
He's a lot of fun to watch, and we are
lucky and thrilled to have him here in Central Florida.
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And now that's got to continue here down this playoff
push and that hopefully it can't, because these games are huge,
and this thing's going to come down to Game eighty two.
It feels like maybe not, but it certainly feels like it.
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And who knows. Who knows if that game on Wednesday
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Magic as of today right now, got some help last night.
How about John Morant. I know obviously there are some
things going on with him that we just don't understand.
And it's puzzling, It really is puzzling. You've been warned
not to do that celebration, and you did it last
night after you hit the game winner. But we needed them,
We needed Memphis last night, and they go down and
snap that six game win streak for the Miami Heat.
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They get a big win in Miami. I don't like
the idea of playing Miami in the first round in
a playin scenarios. Well, not right now, not the way
they're playing right now. So thank you John Moran for
that game winner. So as we sit right now, the
Detroit Pistons are sixth in the Eastern Conference. The Magic
have the tiebreaker with the Detroit Pistons. We are five
games behind Detroit. We have four games remaining, they have six.
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We have to win out. They have to lose out.
Detroit most likely is going to clinch. But it's too bad, Jake.
Before we get into the rest of the standings, real quick,
you handled your business. You won the season series with Detroit.
But if that was closer Detroit scheduled down the stretch
is brutal. Yeah, they played, they played, They just played. Okay, See,
as we know they played Milwaukee twice down the stretch,
which you just mentioned they're gonna sit out for they
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they are looking at it like, we have to win
this game at Toronto. We have to win this game
at Toronto tonight and they can clench their own playoff spot.
Otherwise you come back home and it's Memphis, Sacramento, New York.
Those are not easy games. They could probably they can
beat anybody, no question about it. Then you play Milwaukee Milwaukee.
If we were within two or three games, this could
get very interesting here down the stretch with the Detroit
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Pistons situation. But you but you would imagine more likely
than not, they'll probably clinch that up tonight.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
But they play the Kings.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It always comes down to the Kings.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I was it was flabbergasted with with what was going
on with that group the other night. I mean, we
we beat them, we beat them well at home, it
was a great win. But there there's something going on.
There's poison in the water as far as Sacramento Kings
go uh dude, And we don't need to get into
it too deeply. No, I think, look, we knew it
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was gonna be a long shot to catch the sixteed
no matter what. Going back a couple of weeks now,
be it Detroit or Milwaukee, and it is. You know,
it would be really cool to be coming down the
stretch and to be hoping either Detroit quin twice against
Milwaukee or wins the first game. Make sure you win
the second one, because that's our only opportunity to catch them.
I think I've I've I've made peace with the fact
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that we are going to be a playing team totally totally.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
It certainly is still possible, so not, but it.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Shows the importance of every game. I can think of two, three,
four that you'll let get away. And this is what
we're talking about. If you know you're you're gonna be
in the play in And that's the reason why, right,
a couple of got away from it anyway.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Toronto and Utah to just say those two teams cities
and it's just yeah, and you know what, and and
at the beginning of the season, coach Mosley talked about
the importance of those games, and you know that's a
lesson that we you can you can talk about learning it,
but there's really no way to do it without experience.
And it's not a thing that happens with one Charlotte
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game last season and now you're the five seats like
it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It is.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's virtually impossible to keep an NBA team locked in
for eighty two games, sure you know what I mean,
And and so there's always going to be those type
games and you just hope to be able to minimize them.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
When all of a sudden done, Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
A couple got away from you. But you'd had some
remarkable wins that you didn't think you had too when
on the road in Cleveland, which was huge, and you
beat Boston earlier this year, so you've got some incredible
wins under your belt as well. So you certainly made
up for a couple of those, no question about it.
But there's certainly a lot that got away. You could
have got any offense, you'd be sitting in a completely
different situation. But you come into night seventh, seventh in
the East, you're now a full game ahead of Atlanta. Oh,
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we got some help last night or a couple of
nights ago, right, U with Theahawks losing to the Portland Trailblazers.
And I'm telling now, I'm Chicago. I don't want anything
to do with Portland. Portland now has got themselves two
and a half games out of the play in in
the West.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Think about that? Right? They are half a game behind Phoenix.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Everybody's I'm really pulling for them.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Me too. Absolutely, Phoenix doesn't get out of here right
Como doesn't want it. Phoenix doesn't want Dallas.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Dallas is healthy, they got the defense Juggernauts for trying out.
They're in the nine seed, so you call those big?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You got seven is Orlando. They're one game up on Atlanta. Okay,
Atlanta has six games left, Orlando four, so they will
play twice before we see them on Tuesday. So those
are big games coming up for the Atlanta Hawks. And
and what's important is and we'll all be watching this
here down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
The Atlanta Hawks next have the New York Knicks. That'll
be tomorrow, So at tomorrow afternoon game at home against
New York. Then they have Utah, They're at Orlando, They're
at Brooklyn, they're at Philly and then Orlando again. So
this is it. You have two games against Orlando which
are gonna be everything. We need that k next game.
We need the Knicks to come through and find a
way to win that game. We know Troy Young plays
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against New York, but we need the Knicks to muster
something and get that victory because the Hawks have lost
two in a row. They've lost four of five and
that has been huge. We're getting help that we need
here down the stretch. And then you look at the
So then you have the Atlanta Hawks that are eighth,
and then you go back and look at the Miami
Heat now or ninth. So the Miami Heat now a night,
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they're two and a half games behind you, and the
Chicago Bulls are tenth, three games behind you, so you
can finally get to a point. I think one loss,
certainly two will make it so Chicago can't catch you,
which is huge. You can take some pressure off of that.
You're still two or three losses from Miami away, or
two or three combination of two or three Magic wins
and Miami Heat losses where they can't catch you, where
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you can lock in that seventh or eighth spot, which
is huge. And now you look at the division, jack
that win last night, the division, with the division. With
the win last night against Washington, you're now eleven and
three in the division. Atlanta is nine and five. So
if you win that game on Tuesday, you win the
tiebreaker with Atlanta should you finish.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Time, yep, which is huge. It's huge.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
That's why the Washington's and the Charlotte games where they
feel like they might not mean as much, it does.
And we were we sort of had our eye on
this in regards to Miami earlier in the season, and
now with Atlanta it could be absolutely crucial.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
And so yeah, keep an eye over the weekend on
the Atlanta Hawks. We're gonna be kicking our kicking our.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Feet up and uh and getting treatment at the facility
and making the breakfast gym, trying to work work some
kinks out. But I like the way we're playing right now.
We know we still have our fastball. Defensively, we've seen
we're building, we're sort of ascending on the offensive end,
and we got I won't say just one guy, we've
got two guys that are playing about our anybody in
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the league, and it's you know, Franz is he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Need it, He didn't need the credit or the shine,
but he is. He's he's about a couple of buckets
off Poulow's.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Pace night in and night out, and he's his usage
is still like top fifteen, top twenty in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I mean, the ball is in his hands.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
But both those guys are just are on another level
right now, and that's a good place to start when
you're trying to build an offense.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Is late in the season.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
If we didn't have what we're seeing with Polo ban Caro,
we'd be talking about the meteoric rise of Franz Vagner.
And we are, and we do, and we have been
the entire year. But you're right, he's right there with
him and he gets you another twenty seven last night,
five rebounds, five assists, coming off a seven assist performance
in San Antonio. So he has been otherworldly. And we'll
take a look at that on Monday with Fronz Vagner.
And before we get out of here, real quick, Jay,
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congrats to the Ostiola Magic who win last night. They
take down the Indiana mad Ants, so they have now
advanced to the Eastern Conference. Finals, a one game on
Sunday against the Main Main Red Clause and see if
they can find a way to win that. You win that,
you're going to the g League Finals and another huge
performance for Mac McClung, who has been terrific. And now
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Speaker 3 (23:06):
They were mad, if they were mad before the game,
there must be some sad adds after the game.
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Next week will be your last week of regular season
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and then they come back on Tuesday with a back
to back against Atlanta and Boston, and then they close
it out next week on Friday and Sunday at Indiana.
At Atlanta, you're fighting off the Atlanta Hawks. You're one
game ahead of Atlanta, and you play them twice in
the final four games. Man, this is gonna be one
heck of a race. We'll break it all down for you,
but most importantly, the Magic win last night they beat
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the Washington Wizards one oh nine to ninety seven, and
monster performance from Polo ban Caro. Probably spend the majority
of this program discussing the performance of Polo ban Caro.
Since the All Star Break. He has been exceptional thirty
three points, eighteen rebounds, eight assists. These two assists away
from the third triple double of his career, a career
high rebounds with eighteen, he was sensational. Franz Wagner twenty
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seven points. It's now ten consecutive games that they've gone
for twenty or more in the same game, so you
continue to push that mark in Magic franchise history. Two
other players in scoring in double figures for the Magic.
You get thirteen from Contavis calledwell pull Jake had the
call last night, and he's right. KCP has been sizzling,
especially since the All Star Break and Wendell Carter Junior
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gets in double figures with ten points and seven rebounds,
and the Magic most importantly moved to thirty eight and
forty and now trying to inch closer to hopefully hopefully
locking in that seventh spot in the Eastern Conference. And
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you get all that. But most importantly, Jake, you handled
your business. These were two big games on the road.
Would have been easy, would have been understandable if it
just didn't have it, Never for lack of effort, but
if you just didn't have it for one of those games.
That wasn't the case. You won two big road games
that you had to watching. Wizards had a big win
the other day. Doesn't matter who's playing and who's not.
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You got to go in and win that basketball game.
And that's what they did. So your impressions first, and foremost,
you got the win. And now you, my friend, have
four days off. What are you gonna do with yourself
this weekend? A mini All Star break?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Mindy, all Stars?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It's like a mini All Star break. It is.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's certainly a quirk in the schedule and supposed to
be a game this Sunday, but that was part of
the rescheduling because of the wildfires out in California and
of course the winter storms here in the South. So whatever,
the hardest part of our schedule is behind, it is
everybody else. You look at Atlanta, they played two games
less than us. I'm sure there's teams who have played
three games less than us at this point. So we
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certainly have earned this couple of days off. And I'm sure,
you know, I'm not sure how that whole process went
when the NBA was trying to you know, you you
throw one little wrinkle into the NBA schedule and it
affects everybody. It's like the it's like the you know,
the the butterfly theory or whatever, going back in time
and changing one little thing and then it impacts everything else.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
But you can't change one game for that, you know,
with the with the Stone and the analogy.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Absolutely, so that's what happened, and so that that's why
we're here, and we get these couple of days off,
and and so you had to go out and take
care of business for sure. But I'm sure I like,
I don't know if coach Moseley or you know, Jeff
Weltman had to sign off on the schedule change, but
I'm sure this is what the part that they had circled.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Where they said, oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
We can get four days off heading into the biggest
week of the season. And then obviously it's kind of ironic,
and and this is happening elsewhere too, like Milwaukee and
Detroit played each.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Other twice final week of the season.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So you're gonna have some interdivisional matchups that are going
to be huge as far as playoff seeding over the
course of the next week. And and we get to
get rested, refreshed, some practice time and then head into
a very difficult back to back on Tuesday and Wednesday,
which we'll preview next week. But look the you know,
this first game the other night, I felt like we
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kind of played their game, waited around and then played
magic basketball in there, and it made me.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
A little nervous.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Last night, Washington made their surge in the third quarter,
turned what a nineteen point lead?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
What did they get it down to single three?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
They got that thing down to three. I mean that
was terrifying for a while there.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
It was terrifying. It's frustrating.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Of course, I didn't have a problem with the process
last night. The ball moved offensively. You were going to have.
That was going to happen at some point. Teams make run.
I don't care if they don't have anybody on the floor.
They still have guys who can fill it up. To
be sure that Bob Carrington's going to be a player,
and I and I was. He's another guy that I
was a fan of. I really liked him, and I
like anybody named bub so he already had me kind
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of hooked on Singer.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But we know, do you think do you think we
know now that that we need to guard him? Think
we know now after that game.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
After the game at this point, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, Bob Carrington was pretty special. Thirty two a career
high for boy. I think his previous career I was
twenty five, it.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Was twenty three, it was twenty three. I down when
he was getting up to around thirty, I was like,
what was this?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh no, I missed it seven points ago. Yes, talk
about that offline, but no. So it was what it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Was the twentieth time you've held a depponent under one
hundred points. Yes, yes, this season, which I'm pretty sure
as of a week ago we were one up on
Houston and Oklahoma City for that total. So we're the
first or second in the league and holding opponents under
one hundred points.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
As to win, you had to get.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It's eight straight now against Washington, so I was pretty comfortable.
I thought, obviously we'll talk about Polo, but Ball moved.
I think he got everybody involved last night. Franz was
about as efficient as Polo was, and so the eighteen
rebounds obviously leap off the page. At you almost got
his third career triple double. But it was a pretty
good effort last night across the board.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It certainly was. And they're coming off a big win
against Sacramento. Man, that's a game that Sacramento absolutely had
to have to keep their playoff hopes alive or try
to meant to spot and they couldn't do that. So
and listen, coming up In the next segment, we'll break
down the standings of what lies ahead. I want to
get into all that and paint and paint this playoff
picture because it's huge. It's coming down, and you handled
your business. Those are games that could get away from you.
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Those were games in my opinion, that did get away
from you earlier in the year, maybe even as much
as a month ago, and you didn't let your guard down.
We have not. We have struggled to win in San
Antonio on the season, right that was in our franchise history.
That was our eighth win in franchise history in San Antonio.
We have struggled to win in San Antonio, Texas. So
that was a big win. We have had stretches where
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we've struggled against Washington, but we're on a roll right now.
So that was huge. So now you got to keep
this thing going. But Paulo Bancero has been absolutely otherworldly
as we know, and Jake, we're talking about now a
twenty two games sample size since the All Star break,
that's what we're talking about. We're talking this is this
is MVP like And I know the wins aren't there
right now to show for it. But if he has
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a stretch like this next year at the start of
the season or midway. If you can keep it going
for half of a season, he's going to be in
the MVP conversation. Then if the team is racking up wins,
you know, it's unbelievable what the Oklahoma City Thunder are
doing and nobody's going to catch them, And you would
think shake guild, just Alexander is the runaway winner. And
this OKC is sixty four and twelve on the season.
But this Orlando Magic team with Polo Bankero, he had
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been second the majority of games since the All Star Break.
He's now fallen to third. That's because Nikola Jokic is
the other MVP candidate, has gone on an absolute tare
so crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
How a sixty one point game can throw the averages.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's amazing. And that sixty one point that sixty one
point performance put him three tenths of a point ahead
of Polo since the All Star Break, right like, that's all,
that's all it was. So you're looking at and again
the stop me when you have when you're not hearing
an MVP candidate, right, shake guild, just Alexander. Since the
All Star Break, twenty games, thirty three points seven points
per game. Nicolea Jokic second, He's sixteen games, twenty nine
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point seven points per game. Polo Bank twenty two games,
twenty nine point four points per game. Janni Sideta Kumbo
twenty two games, twenty eight points per game, Luka Doncic
twenty one games, twenty eight points per game. Then you
go down and you go Jalen Bruns and Steph Curry,
John Morant, Anthony Edwards like, this is your this is
your company. And this isn't five games since the All
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Star break. This isn't the five game sample size that
we saw at the start of the season before he
got hurt. This is twenty two games. This is a
quarter of the season that you are hanging with the
big boys in the NBA and right there with him.
This is an MVP candidate and we are seeing him
have a We saw it in the playoffs last year.
He's now got his legs back under him, and this
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to me is a breakout twenty two game stretch for
Polo Banco and in the basketball world has to take notice.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah, I mean he's been lightsig.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You're right, the team's eleven and eleven since the All
Star break, and so you know, a few games above
five hundred and maybe teams people are starting to take
a little bit more notice. First off, as you went
down the list, I'll stop you as far as MPB can,
Andate's go as soon as you get to John Morant,
because I don't know what that knucklehead's got going on,
but there is no way.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Just going to be a sort of MVP work I
or League honors. And that's a conversation for another day,
to be sure.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But after that, it's Anthony Edwards, Jason Tatum, Kate Cunningham.
I mean, these are the guys that you're outscoring, Kobe White,
Trey Young, Lebron James like that. You you are in
and better than most of the people on that list.
It's it's remarkable what we have right here in Central Florida.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And I think it's important.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I think you said, like this is a huge sample
size now, like we're talking about twenty two games a
quarter of the season.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And and then you.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Know what people in the national media and what people
who aren't plugged in to what's going on down here
don't want to hear, is all the stuff about injuries
and all this stuff that that that is that matters
that you and I know have impacted the season. But
the reason we are where we are is because we
haven't had our guys on the floor together right to
the course of the year. And so for Paula to
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be able to do that, and yes, like we're pretty
close right now. Obviously you're still missing Jalen and Mo
and those are huge losses. But for Poulo to be
able to withstand all of that, yeah, there were some
bumps in the road as he worked his way back
from injury, but he was still getting used to to
new surroundings. You know, I thought about that in the
context of KCP. We were talking about him, and now
he's surging lately. It's not just that he's not playing
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with Jokic anymore. The whole sneazeon his whole first year
in Orlando. He had pollow for five games and he
went down s Fronz for the next fifteen or twenty
games or whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Then he went down.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's just been there's been no opportunity to kind of
build an identity offensively with this team this year until
the last twenty two games. And now you're starting to
see what it should look like, what it will look like.
Then you throw Jalen, you throw Moo off the bench
in that mix, and it could be something, if not special,
it could be something that is good enough to make
you one of the best teams in the league, coupled
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with your with your your top tier defense. So he's
he's carrying the load right now. Man, it's night in
and night out. This guy doesn't take nights off. He
is the same guy. And to do it at his age,
at twenty two years old, to be as consistent as
he's been over this stretch, consistently dominant, that's pretty impressive.
You just don't see that very often. You look down,
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check out the age column of all the guys.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
You were naming.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, twenty, absolutely twenty six, Yoki is thirty, Giannis is thirty,
Donta is twenty six.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right, No twenty two year olds in that, No twenty
twos in that in that baller, that's exactly right, And
then you can look at it. So then let's go
to the season. Right, So on the season, he's tenth
in scoring. He's the tenth leading scorer in the NBA,
So he's a top ten scorer on the season, and
I and that's a forty four game sample size, so
now you're talking a little bit past half the season.
Half the season, he's top ten. He's he's found a
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way to get to the free throw line. That's huge.
That's gonna get those numbers up there. If he can
get that three point percentage up there, that's gonna be
huge as well. He's at thirty two percent on the year.
He's forty five point three percent field goal percentage. That's
better than Jason Tatum and Luka Doncic uh. And there
are five players in the NBA that are averaging twenty
six points like Polo, seven rebounds a game like Polo,
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and four assists like Polo, and the other ones are
Giannis Jokic, Luca and Tatum. Right, I mean, that's the
category you're in, that one name, that single name category,
that single name company that he certainly is in right now.
And it's just it's just special. It's a joy to watch.
He's a lot of fun to watch, and we are
lucky and thrilled to have him here in Central Florida.
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And now that's got to continue here down this playoff
push and that hopefully it can't, because these games are huge,
and this thing's going to come down to Game eighty two.
It feels like maybe not, but it certainly feels like it.
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Magic as of today right now, got some help last night.
How about John Morant. I know obviously there are some
things going on with him that we just don't understand.
And it's puzzling, It really is puzzling. You've been warned
not to do that celebration, and you did it last
night after you hit the game winner. But we needed them,
We needed Memphis last night, and they go down and
snap that six game win streak for the Miami Heat.
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They get a big win in Miami. I don't like
the idea of playing Miami in the first round in
a playin scenarios. Well, not right now, not the way
they're playing right now. So thank you John Moran for
that game winner. So as we sit right now, the
Detroit Pistons are sixth in the Eastern Conference. The Magic
have the tiebreaker with the Detroit Pistons. We are five
games behind Detroit. We have four games remaining, they have six.
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We have to win out. They have to lose out.
Detroit most likely is going to clinch. But it's too bad, Jake.
Before we get into the rest of the standings, real quick,
you handled your business. You won the season series with Detroit.
But if that was closer Detroit scheduled down the stretch
is brutal. Yeah, they played, they played, They just played. Okay, See,
as we know they played Milwaukee twice down the stretch,
which you just mentioned they're gonna sit out for they
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they are looking at it like, we have to win
this game at Toronto. We have to win this game
at Toronto tonight and they can clench their own playoff spot.
Otherwise you come back home and it's Memphis, Sacramento, New York.
Those are not easy games. They could probably they can
beat anybody, no question about it. Then you play Milwaukee Milwaukee.
If we were within two or three games, this could
get very interesting here down the stretch with the Detroit
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Pistons situation. But you but you would imagine more likely
than not, they'll probably clinch that up tonight.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
But they play the Kings.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It always comes down to the Kings.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I was it was flabbergasted with with what was going
on with that group the other night. I mean, we
we beat them, we beat them well at home, it
was a great win. But there there's something going on.
There's poison in the water as far as Sacramento Kings
go uh dude, And we don't need to get into
it too deeply. No, I think, look, we knew it
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was gonna be a long shot to catch the sixteed
no matter what. Going back a couple of weeks now,
be it Detroit or Milwaukee, and it is. You know,
it would be really cool to be coming down the
stretch and to be hoping either Detroit quin twice against
Milwaukee or wins the first game. Make sure you win
the second one, because that's our only opportunity to catch them.
I think I've I've I've made peace with the fact
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that we are going to be a playing team totally totally.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
It certainly is still possible, so not, but it.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Shows the importance of every game. I can think of two, three,
four that you'll let get away. And this is what
we're talking about. If you know you're you're gonna be
in the play in And that's the reason why, right,
a couple of got away from it anyway.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Toronto and Utah to just say those two teams cities
and it's just yeah, and you know what, and and
at the beginning of the season, coach Mosley talked about
the importance of those games, and you know that's a
lesson that we you can you can talk about learning it,
but there's really no way to do it without experience.
And it's not a thing that happens with one Charlotte
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game last season and now you're the five seats like
it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It is.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's virtually impossible to keep an NBA team locked in
for eighty two games, sure you know what I mean,
And and so there's always going to be those type
games and you just hope to be able to minimize them.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
When all of a sudden done, Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
A couple got away from you. But you'd had some
remarkable wins that you didn't think you had too when
on the road in Cleveland, which was huge, and you
beat Boston earlier this year, so you've got some incredible
wins under your belt as well. So you certainly made
up for a couple of those, no question about it.
But there's certainly a lot that got away. You could
have got any offense, you'd be sitting in a completely
different situation. But you come into night seventh, seventh in
the East, you're now a full game ahead of Atlanta. Oh,
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we got some help last night or a couple of
nights ago, right, U with Theahawks losing to the Portland Trailblazers.
And I'm telling now, I'm Chicago. I don't want anything
to do with Portland. Portland now has got themselves two
and a half games out of the play in in
the West.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Think about that? Right? They are half a game behind Phoenix.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Everybody's I'm really pulling for them.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Me too. Absolutely, Phoenix doesn't get out of here right
Como doesn't want it. Phoenix doesn't want Dallas.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Dallas is healthy, they got the defense Juggernauts for trying out.
They're in the nine seed, so you call those big?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You got seven is Orlando. They're one game up on Atlanta. Okay,
Atlanta has six games left, Orlando four, so they will
play twice before we see them on Tuesday. So those
are big games coming up for the Atlanta Hawks. And
and what's important is and we'll all be watching this
here down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
The Atlanta Hawks next have the New York Knicks. That'll
be tomorrow, So at tomorrow afternoon game at home against
New York. Then they have Utah, They're at Orlando, They're
at Brooklyn, they're at Philly and then Orlando again. So
this is it. You have two games against Orlando which
are gonna be everything. We need that k next game.
We need the Knicks to come through and find a
way to win that game. We know Troy Young plays
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against New York, but we need the Knicks to muster
something and get that victory because the Hawks have lost
two in a row. They've lost four of five and
that has been huge. We're getting help that we need
here down the stretch. And then you look at the
So then you have the Atlanta Hawks that are eighth,
and then you go back and look at the Miami
Heat now or ninth. So the Miami Heat now a night,
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they're two and a half games behind you, and the
Chicago Bulls are tenth, three games behind you, so you
can finally get to a point. I think one loss,
certainly two will make it so Chicago can't catch you,
which is huge. You can take some pressure off of that.
You're still two or three losses from Miami away, or
two or three combination of two or three Magic wins
and Miami Heat losses where they can't catch you, where
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you can lock in that seventh or eighth spot, which
is huge. And now you look at the division, jack
that win last night, the division, with the division. With
the win last night against Washington, you're now eleven and
three in the division. Atlanta is nine and five. So
if you win that game on Tuesday, you win the
tiebreaker with Atlanta should you finish.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Time, yep, which is huge. It's huge.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
That's why the Washington's and the Charlotte games where they
feel like they might not mean as much, it does.
And we were we sort of had our eye on
this in regards to Miami earlier in the season, and
now with Atlanta it could be absolutely crucial.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
And so yeah, keep an eye over the weekend on
the Atlanta Hawks. We're gonna be kicking our kicking our.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Feet up and uh and getting treatment at the facility
and making the breakfast gym, trying to work work some
kinks out. But I like the way we're playing right now.
We know we still have our fastball. Defensively, we've seen
we're building, we're sort of ascending on the offensive end,
and we got I won't say just one guy, we've
got two guys that are playing about our anybody in
(21:50):
the league, and it's you know, Franz is he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Need it, He didn't need the credit or the shine,
but he is. He's he's about a couple of buckets
off Poulow's.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Pace night in and night out, and he's his usage
is still like top fifteen, top twenty in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I mean, the ball is in his hands.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
But both those guys are just are on another level
right now, and that's a good place to start when
you're trying to build an offense.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Is late in the season.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
If we didn't have what we're seeing with Polo ban Caro,
we'd be talking about the meteoric rise of Franz Vagner.
And we are, and we do, and we have been
the entire year. But you're right, he's right there with
him and he gets you another twenty seven last night,
five rebounds, five assists, coming off a seven assist performance
in San Antonio. So he has been otherworldly. And we'll
take a look at that on Monday with Fronz Vagner.
And before we get out of here, real quick, Jay,
(22:37):
congrats to the Ostiola Magic who win last night. They
take down the Indiana mad Ants, so they have now
advanced to the Eastern Conference. Finals, a one game on
Sunday against the Main Main Red Clause and see if
they can find a way to win that. You win that,
you're going to the g League Finals and another huge
performance for Mac McClung, who has been terrific. And now
(22:58):
if you get a chance at Osceola Magic dot com,
Oscioomagic dot com and you can get your tickets for
that one the Magic, OSCIOO Magic in the Main Red
claus If.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
They were mad, if they were mad before the game,
there must be some sad adds after the game.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
So boy with that. That'll do it for this edition
of Magic Insiders, by the way, live edition on Monday,
live stream on the Orlando Magic YouTube channel. Yeah, Monday
at ten thirty, make sure you tune in. We are
giving away a pair of tickets for the Magic and
the Celtics. Do not want to miss that Monday at
ten thirty on the Orlando Magic YouTube channel. You do
(23:33):
not want to miss that. Have a great weekend, everybody,
enjoy this playoff race. Cheer for whoever is playing against Atlanta, Miami, Chicago,
and we'll talk to you on Monday at ten thirty
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