October 29, 2024 • 20 mins
Jake and Dante reflect on Paolo Banchero's historic performance against the Pacers. The forward finished with 50 points, 13 rebounds, and nine assists in a 119-115 win over Indiana.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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We're brought to you by International Diamond Center, Jake Chaman,
Dante Marcatelly, Live with the Hero on ninety six nine
the Game and I don't know what's to talk about
this afternoon to te Mark Telly, what in epic historic
performance we saw last night at the Kia Center. Thirty
seven points and a half a fifty piece for Polo Bancaro.
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We're gonna dive into the numbers. He also had thirteen
rebounds nine assists, just one assist short of a fifty
point triple double. It was historic. He's just the fourth
player in Magic history to score fifty points. It's easily
the best performance by a Magic player I've seen in
that building inside the Kia Center. Every time I see
somebody getting off like that in the last couple of years,
it seemed to be a Kyrie Irving or somebody not
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wearing a Magic jersey. So that was refreshing and the
most important part. Even if he asked Polo ban Caro
himself a win one nineteen one fifteen over the Indiana Pacers,
Paulo could not do it himself. Big shots in the
fourth quarter both from the three point line and the
free throw line from Anthony Black. Jalen Suggs had what
was one of his best performances. It will unfortunately be
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overshadowed with all of a sudden done, but twenty five
points for him. He was fantastic as well well, and
the Magic moved to three and one on the season.
A big win against it Indiana team that just would
not go away. I got a feeling we're gonna be
looking at the standings in Indian It's gonna be right
there with us coming down to stretch in a couple
months here, but Orlando three and one, now two and
zero at home and out on the road for a
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five game road trip early in the season that begins
tomorrow night with the Chicago Bulls in Chicago and eight
o'clock tip pregame at seven thirty. Both on the radio
side here in ninety six to ninety game and on
the television side Fando Sports with this man right here,
Dante Marctelli. He'll be on the call tomorrow night and
for these next five out on the road. He is
headed to the hanger right now, getting set to fly
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to Illinois.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Dante.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
We are still vibing and still buzzing because of what
we saw last night from one Pollo Napoleon James bn Heero.
I know you appreciated the I know you appreciate all
four names. You know they're doing something historic when you
bust out the middle names. But the you know, when
we're talking about the sixty two point game from Tracy
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McGrady and we're talking about Shaq and Nick Anderson, the
only three other magic players in history to put fifty
points on the board. I know you just start smiling,
because d We're back. We're back. We got a superstar.
He is a superstar. We can stop calling him a
star in an All Star. He is a superstar. Last night,
he becomes the seventh player in NBA history with that
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stat line fifty points, thirteen boards and nine assists, joining
the likes of Wilt Russell Westbrook, Kareem Elgin Baylor, James Harden,
and Luka Doncic, the only other men in NBA history
to put up a stat line like that. And then
when you throw in the two block shots, and this
is great research by our buddy Josh Cohen, you throw
into two blocks that he had last night as well,
Kareem abdul Jabar, the only other player in NBA history
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to put up a line of fifty thirteen, nine and
two block shots. And Jake, I'm I'm gonna throw one
more at you add into three threes. Never been done
in the never been done. You're right, absolutely historic performance.
It was incredible. He had thirty seven in the first half.
So I just want to pretend like the third quarter
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did not happen last night, not just because it was
thirty nine to twenty two Indiana. I don't have my
notes in front of me. There were just like twenty
five personal files called in that quarter.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It was crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
It was just a march to eigh the free throw line.
I was getting frustrated when files were getting called on them,
just because the pace of the game was broken up,
and it was like the perfect way to cool off
follow it felt like. But he came through in the
fourth quarter and the Magic got the win, which I
guess is the most important thing. But your reaction to
what we saw from Polo last night and the idea
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that d he left some points to free throw line
right easily been sixty points. He was fifteen of twenty
two at the stripe. Just an epic performance. He's so good,
he's so young, and at times he's undeniable. And with
Franz Wagner ailing last night, he had an illness, didn't
come back after halftime. It was Pollo's night and he
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was absolutely remarkable.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Jacob be doing this twenty seven years right, You're coming
up on twenty yourself if you're not at it already.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And I have never.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Seen a performance like what I saw in the first
half from anybody. Thirty seven points, but it was what
thirteen of seventeen, I mean it was it was so efficient.
He only missed four shots. He was at that point
he hadn't missed I think but one free throw. I
think it was eight of nine at the free throw live,
so he had missed a free throw. But he was defending,
he was he had blocked some shots, he had some steals,
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he was rebounding, He had almost a double double in
the first half. He was every and then he assist.
I mean, it seemed like it was going to be
a triple double in the first half. I mean, it
was absolutely incredible. And then you throw in the fact
that thirty seven points ties a Magic Franchise.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Record for a half.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
So that is you know, if you look at Tracy McGrady,
you could only argue that would be the only other
one close that I've seen. You know, I'm talking to
Magic history, and I don't know that it might not
be anybody any game that I've seen covering anyone. And
and then but just how effishent it was, and how
see how effort list it was, and how dominant was
he was how much he was attacking.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It was.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
It was unlike anything I'd ever seen, especially for someone
twenty one years old. The best part of the whole
night to me was the text message George Galante got
from TMAC at halftime, say and tell tell.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Your boy to slow down a little bit. It was nervous,
He goes, I need to keep my records as long
as like Damn, that's the most t MAC text ever
I know, right a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
He was nervous that that sixty two was gonna fall. Yeah,
you know, in the thirty seven was tied and that
almost fell. So it just it was the historic night.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It was a magical night.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
But it would have been for not we still would
have seen greatness that it still would be a game
we're talking about forever, but it would have been It
would have left that just that gut punch.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Had they not been able to pull it out.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
And you know, you look at Anthony Black's big threes,
a couple of big free throws, steps a line makes
a couple of big free throws, a number of guys
got dug out some big offense, the rebounds and then oh, by.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
The way, the guy that hit six threes and had
twenty five points.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Jalen Sugs I mean, on any other night we would
be raving about the performance of Jalen Suggs, but allow
was just epic and Anthony Black was still clutch. But
you don't have that without Jalen Suggs either. So what
a night for everybody that was at Kia Center last night.
And kudos took pollow Bank Caero And if anybody at
all ever questioned the greatness and the stardom and the
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superstardom of Polo ban Caro, it was on full display
last night.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
No, and I don't think anybody certainly will be moving forward.
One man who we know has seen that greatness from
the get go in Polo ban Cao is his head coach,
Jamal Mosley.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
This is his reaction after the game.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
He's one of the best basketball players I've been around.
I mean, the way he conducts himself, the way he
pushes himself to be great, the way in which he
makes other people around him great, because you got to
understand a lot of those open shots are because he's
drawing two and three defenders has been He's making the
right play and so that's what great players do.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
They make those around them great, Dade.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
The postgame presser was almost as entertaining. I shouldn't say
that it was very entertaining though. Also Jalen Suggs pulls
Anthony Black out.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
To address the media.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
It's just the vives are so and you're right, like,
I don't think we could have even remotely been celebrating
the way we did if you don't win that game.
Tyrese Haliburton hits a huge three. That guy's awesome. They
had a few guys who played well. We didn't have
an answer for Isaiah Jackson off the bench. His offensive
rebounds I thought really changed the game. Had seven of those.
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That Pacers team does not go away and and so
that's you know, you gotta tip your cap to them.
They did everything they could. Seakham was fantastic. It was
a hell of a basketball game. But it took Anthony
Black knocking down big shots in the fourth quarter, two
huge threes at a couple free throws. It took Jalen
Suggs making the extra pass each time. As you mentioned,
Jalen started four to four from three point range at
six of them. When all was said and done, he's
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got twenty five points Mo Wagner in the third Corps
brought that juice things were going sideways, got a little
rhythm and a little energy back into the building. So
everybody played their role last night, certainly, But you just
get when you hear them talking postgame and AB's thanking
Jalen for the past, and Jalen's calling Anthony out, and
Polo is always the way he is, you know, you know,
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talking about the win and his teammates.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's just it.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
It makes you appreciate the group you have. And it's
not always like this, and we've said this before, but
you know, everybody could celebrate that performance because you ended
up making those plays late in the game and it
took a team effort to knock that team off.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
And you know, and just to piggyback on that, you
know that I was standing there getting ready to do
the interview with bollow Banko and then he sees Anthony
blackwalk by and he and he can't let him go
by without wrapping him up and thanking him for hitting
that shot. And then he said in the post game show,
you know, we don't win that game without without Anthony Black.
We don't win that game without that shot. That he Yeah,
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I mean, this.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Is his night. This the knight belonged to him.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
He had the fifty point performance, and it could have
easily been all about him, But it's all the things
you just said.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
He thanked everybody. He went out of his.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Way to thank every each and every person in their contribution.
And that's what we've got here, guys, that's what we've got.
And I you know, I love Lebron James. But if
there is a fault of his Lebron James loves Lebron
James as much as everyone else loves Lebron James, and
then all of those postgame press conferences could just go
a little bit differently. Well, you know, I I just
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you know, I'm this is what great players do.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I'm great.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
You know this and that, and it just he doesn't
exude that and and and you know, Lebron's fine to
do his however he wants. But hey, listen, in no
way am I putting those two. I'm trying to compare
those two, but you know, just talking as far as
the post game.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Reaction, so you can't compare him. Lebron's never put up
a stat line like that.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
That's a great point that's a great point. He's never
done that, and he's about he's about thirty eight thousand
points behind him. But yeah, correct.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
But I just think it's all that to point out,
not trying to take away from Lebron, but just to
point out the humility that this guy has while he's
figuring everything out, and he has every right to have
gone off and and said, hey, you know, that was unbelievable.
I don't know how I did that. You know, I'm
still blown away what just happened. And he did, he
thanked all of his teammates and he's right, you know,
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he needed contributions from everybody. But it was just one
of those special nights. And listen, Indiana is a good team.
I would say ninety five out of one hundred times
that performance last night from Indiana gets them a win. There.
There are not many games they would look lost playing
like that, shooting the basketball like that, right, So so
you have to factor that and that they were and
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they were hungry, and they were upset, and they were
disappointed from the way they lost their old opener the
day before, and you know, they they just shot the
lights out of the basketball. I mean, they just keep
coming and ye know, twenty one to three run and
then they're up by ten in the fourth quarter. So
the Magic had to fight. They had to dig and fight.
And I think it happened in the TMAT game when
he scored sixty two as well. You know, fans are watching,
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broadcasters are watching, teammates are watching, everybody's everybody's standing there watching, right,
and then and then he goes through a little bit
of a cold spelt because he was freaking exhausted from
scoring thirty seven in.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
The first half.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
So now someone else has got to step up. And
they're like, oh, yeah, that's right, I'm playing in this
game too. It was so easy to look at it
and say I have a front row seat to this performance.
But they dug it out, they found a way to
win it, and now you start a very important road trip.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Follow did a diary with Anscape. I don't know if
you saw that last week. I think he did with
our buddy Mark Spears did a fantastic job. Is one
of these players diaries. He's going to do it throughout
the season. And he emphasized all the guys that Jamal
Crawford's and Aaron Brooks and Spencer Hawes coming up in Seattle,
who had the camps and gave back and spent the
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whole summer in Seattle and at his first camp, and
how important it was, and when when you read and
listen to his words, you can just tell that it
is different. And look, five years from now, maybe he
does it is I did this. I can't believe I
did this. He's still young, right, and and and when
you get to this level, it can change you a
little bit. But he is still so pure, and he's
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still so appreciative of everything that was given to him
on his way up. That that's what you get after
the games. You get Paulo Bancero banking his teammates after
he scored fifty points in an NBA game. It's it's
like you said, we got to appreciate what we have here,
because he is absolutely special and and and getting the
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win was the most important thing to him and is
the most important thing to everybody else within that locker room.
Special kudos by the way, too, to Wendell Carter Junior
double double eleven and ten. He was a game high
plus eleven on the floor for the magic. So we
will turn the page. We'll talk a little bit more
about this performance on the other side, but the Magic
with a big road trip coming up and some difficult
teams on this road trip, Scott was playing pretty well also,
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so it'll be a good win tomorrow. We'll see our
old buddy Vooch obviously, but still asking in the after
globe of that performance last night from Paulo Bancaro in
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Speaker 5 (14:24):
More Magic Insiders when we come back right here.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Ninety six to nine a game.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
I just wanted to come out and like I said,
be aggressive. I felt like I put up two subpar
performances in the last two games. I wasn't happy after
the Memphis game, and I knew that this was a
big game.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well the back it's Magic Insiders.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
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awesome talking to MCW and I.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
How do you beat that?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Like his first game doing radio play by play atalysis
with me and Poulo puts up fifty points. It's a
good way to kind of dive in. But Terrence at
MCW alongside me on these broadcasts this year. Brandan Kravitz
of course, as well, Tyler Ben. We had the whole
squad up there last night enjoying the performance. We were
watching and at times he and I were sitting there
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just watching. But I don't know how you're supposed to
call that. You're watching something you've never seen before, and
it just looks so effortless. And I was sitting there,
you know, Indian, and we're gonna see this all season long.
Indiana's throwing aaron Ne Smith and and they're trying to
track the ball out of his hands. Brooklyn tried to
junk it up. Certainly Memphis did a pretty good job
of it, I think with Polo, and but he's so
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big and he moves so well, and this is what
Mike was talking about. They just don't make humans like
that anymore. And I just I don't know what you're
supposed if you're Rick Carlisle or not anymore. They never
have if you're Rick Carlisle. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I don't know what to do in that situation.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I mean, he's he's just shooting over defenders and then
you try to put a bigger guy on him and
he's gonna blow right by.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
You you mentioned Lebron. I'll throw another old timer in there.
Their games are very different. Their bodies are obviously very different.
Their games are sometimes similar. It's it's almost like Kevin Durant, like, like,
what do you do defensively against a six to ten
guy who can either shoot right over you from the
mid range or can blow right past you if you
put a bigger guy on him. When you're that big
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and you're that fast, there's just nothing opposing head coaches
can devise to slow that down.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
So canny how.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Quickly he moves, you're right, how quickly he can shift
the elevation that he gets on his shot, and now
that three point shot seems to be coming around right.
The free throw things he's got, he's got to figure out.
But then he is ability to handle right, so he's
able to spit in the way. You know, he loves
playing in that high post. He can get the basketball
and go to work, then he can spin to the baasket.
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He's just knocking guys off of them. I know Nei
Smith was one of them, but at times there was
the acum. I mean everybody that they threw him bat him.
They're just bouncing off of them and he's just standing there,
standing there like it never happened.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, and then he just lays it in.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Man he had some he had some man one opportunities.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And he goes up and grabs big rebounds.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
He's defending like he didn't defend last year, better than
he defended last year, I should say. Uh. And and
passing out of the double teams is absolutely uh something
that he's.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Improved on as well.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
But I well, what I love is that he was
so upset about how he played in Memphis and his
last two games that he wasn't able to kind of
kind of figure out these double teams and figure out
what teams were doing to him that he just came
here with angry. He just came in angry and said,
I'm going to impose my will. And if that's what's
going to happen when he decides I'm going to impose
my will, how scary is that because we saw it
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in the playoffs. He didn't want to go hold, right,
so he puts up thirty eight points in Game seven.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
He didn't want to go hold.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
And when he puts his mind to something and does
not want to lose, that is an unbelievable thing.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It's an absolute clinic that he put on last night.
And then it was so comfortable.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You're talking under a minute to go and he does
it behind the back pass to Jalen Suggs with under
a minute to go right, and then Suggs does the
pump fake and then finds Anthony Black in the corner.
So that's the kind of you know, And he told
me in the postgame show, I'm not gonna lie to
it felt like it was in an open gym there
for much of that first half, it looked like it
looked like he was in an open gym, you know.
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So he's just with his size, with his ability to shoot,
with how hard he works, with how humble he is,
with how much he respects his teammates, with how happy
he is for his teammates what they produced, Like all
of those things.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's the complete package. Shake, it is the complete package.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
We are lucky and blessed to have this guy here
in Central Florida. He's going to be a perennial All
Star for years to come. He will be in the
MVP conversation sooner rather than later. And you listen, you
don't overreact to one game because the two games before it,
you know, they kind of seemed to figure a little
something out. But Rick Carlisle did absolutely nothing of the
first half. He made zero adjustments, and everybody that they
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threw at him, he just torched him. And then he
kind of just got tired. It kind of took himself
out of it a little bit in that third quarter.
But he is a star, jac and he's our star.
He's here in Orlando, not going anywhere for quite some time.
And now you start thinking, okay, once these guys emerged,
just just a little bit more, and then maybe you
add just that one more piece. You're a championship contending
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team real quick.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I'm gonna do my call of the game because you
mentioned Nie Smith and came last night.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Is me with Michael Carter Williams.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
One are those plays where aaron Ne Smith ended up
in the third row and Paul Bankroll ended up at
the pre throw and.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Here comes to Orlando Paula picked up by Nie Smith
centers it got right into the lane, take a roll.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Up and down.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
He's too. Four four.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, that's a big boy move right there.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Four thirty four to go, and we're gonna get a
time out. Rick Carli Wow, excuse me? Forty six and
counting for Bank Carrol.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Follow Ban Carrol last night.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
That will be our We'll lead you with that our
lasting impression.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
That's my call the game. Yeah, you guys know that.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
That is that's the grown man going to work right.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
He was phenomenal and and the bottom line is he
ain't grown yet. He's twenty one years old. For for
another couple of weeks. Follow Bank Carol and epic performance
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Step back over, durrant shot.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Us up, Carrol drills it and a foul.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Chance for a three point play, Big time big Carrol
tort headed.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Back the way, but still by Franz Fonner. Run out
the fog and get life to it Froz Foker and
the fourth quarter not.
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yet over to win down Now back to Kailin. He's
gonna try another three.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
They got another one forty seconds man, Carol Jumper. Whoo.
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Dante Marcatelly, Live with the Hero on ninety six nine
the Game and I don't know what's to talk about
this afternoon to te Mark Telly, what in epic historic
performance we saw last night at the Kia Center. Thirty
seven points and a half a fifty piece for Polo Bancaro.
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We're gonna dive into the numbers. He also had thirteen
rebounds nine assists, just one assist short of a fifty
point triple double. It was historic. He's just the fourth
player in Magic history to score fifty points. It's easily
the best performance by a Magic player I've seen in
that building inside the Kia Center. Every time I see
somebody getting off like that in the last couple of years,
it seemed to be a Kyrie Irving or somebody not
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wearing a Magic jersey. So that was refreshing and the
most important part. Even if he asked Polo ban Caro
himself a win one nineteen one fifteen over the Indiana Pacers,
Paulo could not do it himself. Big shots in the
fourth quarter both from the three point line and the
free throw line from Anthony Black. Jalen Suggs had what
was one of his best performances. It will unfortunately be
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overshadowed with all of a sudden done, but twenty five
points for him. He was fantastic as well well, and
the Magic moved to three and one on the season.
A big win against it Indiana team that just would
not go away. I got a feeling we're gonna be
looking at the standings in Indian It's gonna be right
there with us coming down to stretch in a couple
months here, but Orlando three and one, now two and
zero at home and out on the road for a
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five game road trip early in the season that begins
tomorrow night with the Chicago Bulls in Chicago and eight
o'clock tip pregame at seven thirty. Both on the radio
side here in ninety six to ninety game and on
the television side Fando Sports with this man right here,
Dante Marctelli. He'll be on the call tomorrow night and
for these next five out on the road. He is
headed to the hanger right now, getting set to fly
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to Illinois.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Dante.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
We are still vibing and still buzzing because of what
we saw last night from one Pollo Napoleon James bn Heero.
I know you appreciated the I know you appreciate all
four names. You know they're doing something historic when you
bust out the middle names. But the you know, when
we're talking about the sixty two point game from Tracy
(03:00):
McGrady and we're talking about Shaq and Nick Anderson, the
only three other magic players in history to put fifty
points on the board. I know you just start smiling,
because d We're back. We're back. We got a superstar.
He is a superstar. We can stop calling him a
star in an All Star. He is a superstar. Last night,
he becomes the seventh player in NBA history with that
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stat line fifty points, thirteen boards and nine assists, joining
the likes of Wilt Russell Westbrook, Kareem Elgin Baylor, James Harden,
and Luka Doncic, the only other men in NBA history
to put up a stat line like that. And then
when you throw in the two block shots, and this
is great research by our buddy Josh Cohen, you throw
into two blocks that he had last night as well,
Kareem abdul Jabar, the only other player in NBA history
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to put up a line of fifty thirteen, nine and
two block shots. And Jake, I'm I'm gonna throw one
more at you add into three threes. Never been done
in the never been done. You're right, absolutely historic performance.
It was incredible. He had thirty seven in the first half.
So I just want to pretend like the third quarter
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did not happen last night, not just because it was
thirty nine to twenty two Indiana. I don't have my
notes in front of me. There were just like twenty
five personal files called in that quarter.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It was crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
It was just a march to eigh the free throw line.
I was getting frustrated when files were getting called on them,
just because the pace of the game was broken up,
and it was like the perfect way to cool off
follow it felt like. But he came through in the
fourth quarter and the Magic got the win, which I
guess is the most important thing. But your reaction to
what we saw from Polo last night and the idea
(04:35):
that d he left some points to free throw line
right easily been sixty points. He was fifteen of twenty
two at the stripe. Just an epic performance. He's so good,
he's so young, and at times he's undeniable. And with
Franz Wagner ailing last night, he had an illness, didn't
come back after halftime. It was Pollo's night and he
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was absolutely remarkable.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Jacob be doing this twenty seven years right, You're coming
up on twenty yourself if you're not at it already.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And I have never.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Seen a performance like what I saw in the first
half from anybody. Thirty seven points, but it was what
thirteen of seventeen, I mean it was it was so efficient.
He only missed four shots. He was at that point
he hadn't missed I think but one free throw. I
think it was eight of nine at the free throw live,
so he had missed a free throw. But he was defending,
he was he had blocked some shots, he had some steals,
(05:26):
he was rebounding, He had almost a double double in
the first half. He was every and then he assist.
I mean, it seemed like it was going to be
a triple double in the first half. I mean, it
was absolutely incredible. And then you throw in the fact
that thirty seven points ties a Magic Franchise.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Record for a half.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
So that is you know, if you look at Tracy McGrady,
you could only argue that would be the only other
one close that I've seen. You know, I'm talking to
Magic history, and I don't know that it might not
be anybody any game that I've seen covering anyone. And
and then but just how effishent it was, and how
see how effort list it was, and how dominant was
he was how much he was attacking.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It was.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
It was unlike anything I'd ever seen, especially for someone
twenty one years old. The best part of the whole
night to me was the text message George Galante got
from TMAC at halftime, say and tell tell.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Your boy to slow down a little bit. It was nervous,
He goes, I need to keep my records as long
as like Damn, that's the most t MAC text ever
I know, right a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
He was nervous that that sixty two was gonna fall. Yeah,
you know, in the thirty seven was tied and that
almost fell. So it just it was the historic night.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It was a magical night.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
But it would have been for not we still would
have seen greatness that it still would be a game
we're talking about forever, but it would have been It
would have left that just that gut punch.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Had they not been able to pull it out.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
And you know, you look at Anthony Black's big threes,
a couple of big free throws, steps a line makes
a couple of big free throws, a number of guys
got dug out some big offense, the rebounds and then oh, by.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
The way, the guy that hit six threes and had
twenty five points.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Jalen Sugs I mean, on any other night we would
be raving about the performance of Jalen Suggs, but allow
was just epic and Anthony Black was still clutch. But
you don't have that without Jalen Suggs either. So what
a night for everybody that was at Kia Center last night.
And kudos took pollow Bank Caero And if anybody at
all ever questioned the greatness and the stardom and the
(07:28):
superstardom of Polo ban Caro, it was on full display
last night.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
No, and I don't think anybody certainly will be moving forward.
One man who we know has seen that greatness from
the get go in Polo ban Cao is his head coach,
Jamal Mosley.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
This is his reaction after the game.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
He's one of the best basketball players I've been around.
I mean, the way he conducts himself, the way he
pushes himself to be great, the way in which he
makes other people around him great, because you got to
understand a lot of those open shots are because he's
drawing two and three defenders has been He's making the
right play and so that's what great players do.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
They make those around them great, Dade.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
The postgame presser was almost as entertaining. I shouldn't say
that it was very entertaining though. Also Jalen Suggs pulls
Anthony Black out.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
To address the media.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
It's just the vives are so and you're right, like,
I don't think we could have even remotely been celebrating
the way we did if you don't win that game.
Tyrese Haliburton hits a huge three. That guy's awesome. They
had a few guys who played well. We didn't have
an answer for Isaiah Jackson off the bench. His offensive
rebounds I thought really changed the game. Had seven of those.
(08:35):
That Pacers team does not go away and and so
that's you know, you gotta tip your cap to them.
They did everything they could. Seakham was fantastic. It was
a hell of a basketball game. But it took Anthony
Black knocking down big shots in the fourth quarter, two
huge threes at a couple free throws. It took Jalen
Suggs making the extra pass each time. As you mentioned,
Jalen started four to four from three point range at
six of them. When all was said and done, he's
(08:57):
got twenty five points Mo Wagner in the third Corps
brought that juice things were going sideways, got a little
rhythm and a little energy back into the building. So
everybody played their role last night, certainly, But you just
get when you hear them talking postgame and AB's thanking
Jalen for the past, and Jalen's calling Anthony out, and
Polo is always the way he is, you know, you know,
(09:19):
talking about the win and his teammates.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's just it.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
It makes you appreciate the group you have. And it's
not always like this, and we've said this before, but
you know, everybody could celebrate that performance because you ended
up making those plays late in the game and it
took a team effort to knock that team off.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
And you know, and just to piggyback on that, you
know that I was standing there getting ready to do
the interview with bollow Banko and then he sees Anthony
blackwalk by and he and he can't let him go
by without wrapping him up and thanking him for hitting
that shot. And then he said in the post game show,
you know, we don't win that game without without Anthony Black.
We don't win that game without that shot. That he Yeah,
(10:00):
I mean, this.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Is his night. This the knight belonged to him.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
He had the fifty point performance, and it could have
easily been all about him, But it's all the things
you just said.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
He thanked everybody. He went out of his.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Way to thank every each and every person in their contribution.
And that's what we've got here, guys, that's what we've got.
And I you know, I love Lebron James. But if
there is a fault of his Lebron James loves Lebron
James as much as everyone else loves Lebron James, and
then all of those postgame press conferences could just go
a little bit differently. Well, you know, I I just
(10:31):
you know, I'm this is what great players do.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I'm great.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
You know this and that, and it just he doesn't
exude that and and and you know, Lebron's fine to
do his however he wants. But hey, listen, in no
way am I putting those two. I'm trying to compare
those two, but you know, just talking as far as
the post game.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Reaction, so you can't compare him. Lebron's never put up
a stat line like that.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
That's a great point that's a great point. He's never
done that, and he's about he's about thirty eight thousand
points behind him. But yeah, correct.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
But I just think it's all that to point out,
not trying to take away from Lebron, but just to
point out the humility that this guy has while he's
figuring everything out, and he has every right to have
gone off and and said, hey, you know, that was unbelievable.
I don't know how I did that. You know, I'm
still blown away what just happened. And he did, he
thanked all of his teammates and he's right, you know,
(11:17):
he needed contributions from everybody. But it was just one
of those special nights. And listen, Indiana is a good team.
I would say ninety five out of one hundred times
that performance last night from Indiana gets them a win. There.
There are not many games they would look lost playing
like that, shooting the basketball like that, right, So so
you have to factor that and that they were and
(11:38):
they were hungry, and they were upset, and they were
disappointed from the way they lost their old opener the
day before, and you know, they they just shot the
lights out of the basketball. I mean, they just keep
coming and ye know, twenty one to three run and
then they're up by ten in the fourth quarter. So
the Magic had to fight. They had to dig and fight.
And I think it happened in the TMAT game when
he scored sixty two as well. You know, fans are watching,
(12:01):
broadcasters are watching, teammates are watching, everybody's everybody's standing there watching, right,
and then and then he goes through a little bit
of a cold spelt because he was freaking exhausted from
scoring thirty seven in.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
The first half.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
So now someone else has got to step up. And
they're like, oh, yeah, that's right, I'm playing in this
game too. It was so easy to look at it
and say I have a front row seat to this performance.
But they dug it out, they found a way to
win it, and now you start a very important road trip.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Follow did a diary with Anscape. I don't know if
you saw that last week. I think he did with
our buddy Mark Spears did a fantastic job. Is one
of these players diaries. He's going to do it throughout
the season. And he emphasized all the guys that Jamal
Crawford's and Aaron Brooks and Spencer Hawes coming up in Seattle,
who had the camps and gave back and spent the
(12:48):
whole summer in Seattle and at his first camp, and
how important it was, and when when you read and
listen to his words, you can just tell that it
is different. And look, five years from now, maybe he
does it is I did this. I can't believe I
did this. He's still young, right, and and and when
you get to this level, it can change you a
little bit. But he is still so pure, and he's
(13:10):
still so appreciative of everything that was given to him
on his way up. That that's what you get after
the games. You get Paulo Bancero banking his teammates after
he scored fifty points in an NBA game. It's it's
like you said, we got to appreciate what we have here,
because he is absolutely special and and and getting the
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win was the most important thing to him and is
the most important thing to everybody else within that locker room.
Special kudos by the way, too, to Wendell Carter Junior
double double eleven and ten. He was a game high
plus eleven on the floor for the magic. So we
will turn the page. We'll talk a little bit more
about this performance on the other side, but the Magic
with a big road trip coming up and some difficult
teams on this road trip, Scott was playing pretty well also,
(13:54):
so it'll be a good win tomorrow. We'll see our
old buddy Vooch obviously, but still asking in the after
globe of that performance last night from Paulo Bancaro in
epic fifty point performance at the Kia Center. Hey, Magic Fans,
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Speaker 2 (14:23):
See at the polls.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
More Magic Insiders when we come back right here.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Ninety six to nine a game.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
I just wanted to come out and like I said,
be aggressive. I felt like I put up two subpar
performances in the last two games. I wasn't happy after
the Memphis game, and I knew that this was a
big game.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well the back it's Magic Insiders.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Jake Javin Dote Marcatelli here with you Magic Winners last night,
and that means you win to get fifty percent off
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with the promo code magic win. We had Michel Carter
Williams with us on the broadcast last night. It was
awesome talking to MCW and I.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
How do you beat that?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Like his first game doing radio play by play atalysis
with me and Poulo puts up fifty points. It's a
good way to kind of dive in. But Terrence at
MCW alongside me on these broadcasts this year. Brandan Kravitz
of course, as well, Tyler Ben. We had the whole
squad up there last night enjoying the performance. We were
watching and at times he and I were sitting there
(15:31):
just watching. But I don't know how you're supposed to
call that. You're watching something you've never seen before, and
it just looks so effortless. And I was sitting there,
you know, Indian, and we're gonna see this all season long.
Indiana's throwing aaron Ne Smith and and they're trying to
track the ball out of his hands. Brooklyn tried to
junk it up. Certainly Memphis did a pretty good job
of it, I think with Polo, and but he's so
(15:54):
big and he moves so well, and this is what
Mike was talking about. They just don't make humans like
that anymore. And I just I don't know what you're
supposed if you're Rick Carlisle or not anymore. They never
have if you're Rick Carlisle. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I don't know what to do in that situation.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I mean, he's he's just shooting over defenders and then
you try to put a bigger guy on him and
he's gonna blow right by.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
You you mentioned Lebron. I'll throw another old timer in there.
Their games are very different. Their bodies are obviously very different.
Their games are sometimes similar. It's it's almost like Kevin Durant, like, like,
what do you do defensively against a six to ten
guy who can either shoot right over you from the
mid range or can blow right past you if you
put a bigger guy on him. When you're that big
(16:38):
and you're that fast, there's just nothing opposing head coaches
can devise to slow that down.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
So canny how.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Quickly he moves, you're right, how quickly he can shift
the elevation that he gets on his shot, and now
that three point shot seems to be coming around right.
The free throw things he's got, he's got to figure out.
But then he is ability to handle right, so he's
able to spit in the way. You know, he loves
playing in that high post. He can get the basketball
and go to work, then he can spin to the baasket.
(17:04):
He's just knocking guys off of them. I know Nei
Smith was one of them, but at times there was
the acum. I mean everybody that they threw him bat him.
They're just bouncing off of them and he's just standing there,
standing there like it never happened.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, and then he just lays it in.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Man he had some he had some man one opportunities.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And he goes up and grabs big rebounds.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
He's defending like he didn't defend last year, better than
he defended last year, I should say. Uh. And and
passing out of the double teams is absolutely uh something
that he's.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Improved on as well.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
But I well, what I love is that he was
so upset about how he played in Memphis and his
last two games that he wasn't able to kind of
kind of figure out these double teams and figure out
what teams were doing to him that he just came
here with angry. He just came in angry and said,
I'm going to impose my will. And if that's what's
going to happen when he decides I'm going to impose
my will, how scary is that because we saw it
(17:54):
in the playoffs. He didn't want to go hold, right,
so he puts up thirty eight points in Game seven.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
He didn't want to go hold.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
And when he puts his mind to something and does
not want to lose, that is an unbelievable thing.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It's an absolute clinic that he put on last night.
And then it was so comfortable.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You're talking under a minute to go and he does
it behind the back pass to Jalen Suggs with under
a minute to go right, and then Suggs does the
pump fake and then finds Anthony Black in the corner.
So that's the kind of you know, And he told
me in the postgame show, I'm not gonna lie to
it felt like it was in an open gym there
for much of that first half, it looked like it
looked like he was in an open gym, you know.
(18:31):
So he's just with his size, with his ability to shoot,
with how hard he works, with how humble he is,
with how much he respects his teammates, with how happy
he is for his teammates what they produced, Like all
of those things.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's the complete package. Shake, it is the complete package.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
We are lucky and blessed to have this guy here
in Central Florida. He's going to be a perennial All
Star for years to come. He will be in the
MVP conversation sooner rather than later. And you listen, you
don't overreact to one game because the two games before it,
you know, they kind of seemed to figure a little
something out. But Rick Carlisle did absolutely nothing of the
first half. He made zero adjustments, and everybody that they
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threw at him, he just torched him. And then he
kind of just got tired. It kind of took himself
out of it a little bit in that third quarter.
But he is a star, jac and he's our star.
He's here in Orlando, not going anywhere for quite some time.
And now you start thinking, okay, once these guys emerged,
just just a little bit more, and then maybe you
add just that one more piece. You're a championship contending
(19:30):
team real quick.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I'm gonna do my call of the game because you
mentioned Nie Smith and came last night.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Is me with Michael Carter Williams.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
One are those plays where aaron Ne Smith ended up
in the third row and Paul Bankroll ended up at
the pre throw and.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Here comes to Orlando Paula picked up by Nie Smith
centers it got right into the lane, take a roll.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Up and down.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
He's too. Four four.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, that's a big boy move right there.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Four thirty four to go, and we're gonna get a
time out. Rick Carli Wow, excuse me? Forty six and
counting for Bank Carrol.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Follow Ban Carrol last night.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
That will be our We'll lead you with that our
lasting impression.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
That's my call the game. Yeah, you guys know that.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
That is that's the grown man going to work right.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
He was phenomenal and and the bottom line is he
ain't grown yet. He's twenty one years old. For for
another couple of weeks. Follow Bank Carol and epic performance
last night. Our call the game brought to you by
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(20:41):
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Speaker 2 (20:51):
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