November 21, 2024 • 24 mins
Anthony Black joins Dante, George, and Jake to discuss his season so far, break down his style of play, and talk about his understanding of the game from year one to year two in the NBA.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And welcome everyone to another episode of Orlando Magic Pod Squad,
this one featuring Magic second year Guard Anthony Black and
Magic fans. The Florida Department of Transportation reminds you that
fans don't let fans drive drunk.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
If you've been drinking, don't.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Get behind the wheel. Instead, find a sober driver or
catch a ride service. Remember, drive sober or get pulled over.
Have a great night, and drive safe. We catch up
with Magic second year man Anthony Black, and he discusses
how much he's grown from his rookie season till now
year number two.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
What are the.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Areas that he's improved. What is his mindset when he's.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Out there on the floor, especially getting into the paint
and wreaking havoc on opposing defenses and then on the
defensive end. He is a one man wrecking crew. And
we get into his career assists Night nine assists against
the Phoenix Suns the other night. How good can this
Magic team be? We break it all down with Magic
Guard Anthony Black on this edition of Magic Pod Squad.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Those fawns long enough, they're Orlando Magic.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
This is Cole Anthony, Missus Jennings Suggs This is Paulo
Man Carroll the Orlando Magic and you're listening to the
Pod Squad.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And welcome Ember one to another episode of Orlando Magic
Pod Squad. Dante Marcatelli, Jake Chapman, George Gallante, and Magic's
second year man Anthony Black kind enough to join us
and ab I already got a start. We've done a
lot of these things over the last ten or twelve years,
and normally the camera, the phone is sideways, there's no light.
(01:30):
Look at your setup. You got it right, you got
to you got your own laptop. It looks like you
got a great setup there.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, man, trying to be professional, trying to be well.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Looks good. We appreciate that. So, first of all, how
are you feeling here? We go into just just getting
started into the season, but it feels like we've just
finished a five game road trip right back out on
the road. You is it the time of year? Do
you know what time zone you're in? Do you know
what day it is? Any of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I was definitely feeling like, I don't know they answered
any of those questions, But uh, feeling good man. You know,
we're playing good balls, so it's always fun. Going on
the road, you know, on the streak. So yes, it's good,
good trip, good home stands, So definitely feeling good.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well, let's start about Let's start with how your team
is playing right now. Maybe we'll get into last night
and everything that you guys did, but six consecutive wins
when you think back to to Pollo going down and
you guys were trying to know a couple of games
it took, which is natural to kind of figure things out.
Would you have thought you'd get on a roll like this?
What what what do you explain for for how great
you guys are playing right now?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yeah, I mean that's just obviously that's a big adjustment
to make, especially so alien the season. Why everybody's trying
to find a rhythm as it is, so uh, I mean,
tell you guys a couple of games to adjust to that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
But you know, I think I think we did a
good job of.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Finding our rhythm and kind of disidentifying what we wanted
to do. And then also you got to add into
just the last six games, we hold our teams under
one hundred points our opponents, So just a mixture of
us finding our rhythm and flow kind of settling down
a little bit and then just just getting stopped on
an elite level I think is what's powering our run
(03:12):
right now.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yeah, you're definitely getting stops in at elite level. Dante
found the stat after the Phoenix Sam last night. He
sent it to me and he says, is this right
that we have? We're the first team since twenty eighteen
in the entire NBA to hold their team hold the
opponent six games in a row under one hundred points,
which is which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I didn't think it would be.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I knew it was the first Orlando team hasn't done
it in a while, but to do it, to be
the first team in the whole league for six years,
what does.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That mean to you guys?
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Is that something you really hang your hat on?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, I mean it's just just shows how special we
are defensively when we're one hundred percent bought in and
just getting stops and then, you know, I think it's
just a testament to just our pressure on the ball
mixed in with our mports. So I think just makes
it tough on opposing teams to.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Just kind of do what they do. So yeah, so far,
we've done a good job disrupting teams for sure.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Maybe your pressure on the ball is something that's been
a key to all of that team wide defensive success.
How would you describe your approach defensively? How does Anthony
Black describe Anthony Black the defender? Are there like a
few buzzwords you try to keep in mind as you're
out there? Probably just I'll say, really just a playmaker
on that end of the ball. No, I don't think
(04:33):
a lot of people use really that word too much
on defense. But just like I said, having just rim
protection behind me allows me j sucks Kenny. It just
allows us to play a little bit more into the
ball and we just were allowed to try to make
plays just knowing that those guys got a back.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
At the rim.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
So personally, that's knowing I have Ji and Mo behind
me protecting the rim.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I'm just trying to make plays and get into the
ball and just get us run out of layups. Sorry,
our momentum phase, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Coming off a game. At the time of this recording,
we're in Los Angeles, so you're coming off a career
high nine assists. I know I heard you say last
week A big goal for you this year was to
you know, to be more of a playmaker, to get
in the paint, to spend time in the paint, which
you're very comfortable doing. Uh take us through that. Last night.
I think you tied your career high in the first half.
(05:26):
He's Brian, that's the first step, right, So how what
have you found? What what is your goal? What do
you have to basketball? And how has this playmaking ability
continued to develop? Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, I mean I think, uh it's been simplified for me,
for the coaches really a lot of the time when
I'm coming off my screens or.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Whatever, obviously I have Mo rolling, our go go rolling.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
But also is is Jonathan Iiser kind of came down
around the rim, So uh, it just makes it. It
just makes it not simple, but a lot more simple,
uh for me making reads. You know, I could just
think score first and then Uh. Those two dudes are
great outlets, and they're always in position to make the
right Uh They're just in the right position. So uh yeah,
(06:13):
I'm just gonna I don't know till I keep getting
to the paint.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Do we need to update the You guys were Green
Goblins last year because you were part of the third team.
I think we need to update that now, right.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
what's going on with that this year, man, I don't know.
We got split up a little bit, our group got
split up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
The Green Goblins is definitely I think that's a year
that's in the past, right, We're moving We're moving past
the Green Goblins, I think, Abe, what about what about
your transition just from last year to this year? What
what did what have you learned? What have you incorporated
into your game? You can definitely see the progression from
you know, rookie year, even even rookie year to Summer
(06:52):
League to now, like the steps what have you learned
along the way?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Really just how to pick my spots and and be aggressive.
That's still what I'm trying to learn and figure out,
you know as the game flows on. But uh, I
don't know. I think just my mentality changed, uh, and
I just started thinking a.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Lot more about getting downhill.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
So uh, that's definitely where I guess the progress and
steps forward are coming. Just just working on physicality, reading
bossing coverages, and just and just playing from there using instincts.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
After that is anybody in your year though, telling you
telling you these things as we go. I mean, is
there is there one coach or a group of coaches.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Or I mean me and Randy we work a lot
on uh just manipulation inside the three point line, uh,
and then just touch shots angles and then passing. So uh,
definitely we've been working on that a lot. It's definitely
a big focal point throughout the summer with Randy. So yeah,
(07:54):
I mean it's just testament to m for sure, helping
me out with that kind.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Of along tho the same lines mostly always talks about
the game slowing down for guys who are about your age.
It seems to all of us that we're watching that
happen for you. What are some like examples of that?
Is it the snapshot when you sort of get into
the teeth of the defense, you got to make that
quick decision.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Can you kind of describe that a little bit?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Uh? Yeah, I mean really just as a point guys
who all have to make the right player every time.
So uh, what I'm trying to keep continuing to do,
and what you know some of my players and coaches
have been helping me do is just things score first.
So that's making it that's making it easier to make
my reads off of that. You know, I'm just attacking,
(08:40):
just thinking about getting to my floater all the way
to the rim and then once the defense commands, just
to read from there. So, uh, just just that mentality
and just kind of the way I've been playing, I think,
is what was doing that?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
And is that is that an adjustment for you to
think score first? Because you come off your game is
so unselfish, it's sort of naturally do you kind of
have to flip a switch and say I need to
get I'm gonna try to get mine, and then I'm
gona adjust from there.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I mean, honestly, it's just kind of based upon like
what I'm being asked to do, or you know, I
feel like the team kind of wants me to do,
because if you look at it in college, it was
I guess I was probably scored first, honestly, but I mean, yeah,
it's just kind of just finding my.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Spots and just slowly slowly figuring out as we go
on game by game.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's interesting, Anthony, I'm looking at this for sophomores. So second,
your players in the league, your third among them all
sophomores and assists four point three assists per games, your
fourth in blocks per game among softomores, and the first
three are Wemby Chet and Derek Lively. Those are the
first three being then it's you, Anthony Black, who plays
(09:56):
the guard position. I mean, that's crazy among guards in
overall the entire NBA. Your eighth in blocks. So tell
us what goes into to your bill. Obviously you have
great length and height and the ability to the agility
to move. For what goes into the way you size
people up for blocks?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I think I think just trying not to honestly, just
playing with my hands up. I think I fall into
a lot of blocks on the defensive end, you know,
I try to. I try to body up a lot
with my body so I can keep my hands in
the way to deflect passes, our block shots.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So, uh, I guess those are where some of those come.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Uh There's been a couple I guess off of like
screens and stuff like that, just chasing shooters. So uh,
I think for the most part it is like the
small every place, UH make sandwiches using my length inside
the dupotline.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Dude, you're saying, just do everything you were told, Like
when you were seven, put up, get your.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Told you when you were seven? Anyone else's fundamental anth Nobody,
nobody in the NBA wants to defend anymore, right, Nobody
wants to defense a lost art except for this team.
I think we have everybody in the NBA that wants
to defend.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
What?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
What?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
How unique is that? And how fun is that to
be a.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Part of It's super unique, you know, And it's super fun.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
That's a fun brand of basketball, just getting steals, running out,
dunking the ball, getting open looks and just getting to
the rim and chains this and that's a fun brand.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And uh, I think it's rare.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
To have a group just across the board that's so
built in that are so bought into defense, even at
the top when it starts with Pie and Franz, like,
you know, they're guarding the other team's best wings, sending down,
accepting the challenge. So I think those two playing defense
kind of just instills everybody to play defense.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
So it's like, if they're playing defense, we all.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Got a guard and and uh yeah, that's just that's
what we're doing and we have fun doing it, honestly.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
So it's definitely been great playing defense with the team.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Well, Franz is playing a lot of offense too, right now,
ab what what have you seen from him over the
last you know, ever since basically Powell has been out,
he has seemed to hit a different gear.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, just Franz was singing a step up, you know. Uh,
we're losing out a lot of points obviously with two
players two starts meeting out, and he's just he's accepting
the challenge leading the team and he's just being super aggressive.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You know, he's getting again into the rim like he.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Always does, but hitting his outside shots, shooting him shooting
some good shots off the dribble that we need him
to shoot him make.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So uh, yeah, he's just he's playing.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
A really good ball for us, and he's doing everything
at a really efficient pace. So I think that's a
big reason why we were six wins in a row.
Now after having played the way we were.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Maybe tell me about your later.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
What is coach Moseley meant to you or in your
career and especially this season with things going kind of sideways.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Keeping the group together I mean a lot. You know,
he does a good job of keeping us together.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Like you said, again, that's to buy into kind of
what our core values are as a team.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
So definitely been big for me, super helpul for me.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
It was a good summer of me and him kind
of having real conversations and just talking about this year
and what he wanted to see me get better at.
So h you know, I appreciate him for keeping it
real always, and uh yeah, he's just he's just a
good coach, good leader, and uh yeah, we were ready
to go to war for him.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I asked you a couple of days ago, a couple
of games ago on the road, did you have any
other nicknames? Obviously everybody calls you a B but no nicknames, right,
not nothing that nobody tried anything out your whole childhood.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
No, just ab kind of stuck. Honestly, that was my nickname.
First team I really played for. It was a little
A baseball team, So my coaches started calling me that,
and I guess it's stuck.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well, yea, they make Goga Bitase calls himself the Georgian Beast.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Hey, I second that.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Right, I think there's nothing wrong with that. What went
through your mind last night when you saw the Georgian
Beast get thrown to the ground and he immediately started
doing push ups.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Uh, I was glad. I was this guy who didn't
get up and do something else.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Runs hot, right, right, Abe, Goga runs hot sometimes when
when that ball gets thrown up there.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, every once in a while. He's just a competitor.
He's competing.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
So I think it's actually a good aspect for our team. So,
uh yeah, that was That was funny to see, though.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
I think my favorite, my favorite Goga moment so far
of the year was when he tried, you know, I
don't know if you guys know this either. He Goga
has ripped a bunch of jerseys in the past, like
in the back he will uh yeah. And then so
one of the home games, he tried to pick that
head band off, which is not a cloth headband.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's now made out of some type of.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Like uh elastic, And he was pulling and pulling and
full and would wouldn't go.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I said, you gotta rip the headband if you're gonna
make that.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Move right, be like that sometimes though, sometimes you just
gotta let it out. Sometimes you gotta let it out.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
What is what is? He added? Though you've seen it,
you've played with him now for a couple of years.
I mean, you love to have a guy like that
on your team. What is the dimension that a Goga
Batase can add to this group?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Uh, just on the basketball side of things, this offensive rebounding,
protecting the rim, you know, setting good screens and rolling, being.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
A great lot threat.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Uh, just having that ass to him, kind of just
that physicality or I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's just kind of like an ass.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
He has that, uh that you kind of just understand,
and you know he brings energy. So uh, he's just
he's been huge to our success, you know. And uh,
he's just a good brother to have in the locker
room for.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Sere and Jacob Diamond. He's eating into that Jacob Diamond budget.
I didn't realize that with the Jerseys. Let's yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
He to get told every now and again to pull
it back, you get He's like, I only got so
many thirty five's in the closet back near you.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We can throw it real quick at or one more
thought and then like I kind of want to go.
We're gonna have some fun going outside of your outside
of this team here, and uh, be mindful of your
time here. But I'm watching the game last night, and
I'm seeing you had to get a stop, right, I
think the lead got down to seven, and I'm looking
at you Jalen Suggs, KCP, Jonathan Isaac and Franz Vager
(16:38):
and I'm and I'm we're making the comment on air,
where where is there a weakness?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Where is the other?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Where is Phoenix supposed to go to get a bucket?
With you guys out there? All right? Did you feel
that way? And how much pride did you feel when
you're out there on the four with with that group
is so dangerous?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah, I mean you definitely feel it, you know.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Uh, just mean for me personally, I feel it just
being guarding, being used to guarding just the certain one
or two players and then just being stuck in the corner.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Which because of how bid they are defensively, it's just
a tooth like. Uh. But no, we definitely, we definitely
head it up and talk about it out.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
There, like, come on, y'all, let's go on a run,
Let's try to get three four stops in a row,
go get some easy layups. We definitely we definitely see
it as that and we know we kind of know that, uh,
that's just a strong defensive group, so we definitely lean
into that.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
And uh yeah, I mean, like I said, we have
a lot of fun on defense and we're just gonna
keep getting.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Better cleaning at home, Anthony, how much fun is that?
You're seven? And oh we ever lost at home since March?
For crying out loud? Yeah, Like, what is what goes
into playing that other than the chicken sandwiches? What crows
into playing so well in that building?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I mean just the fans bring a great energy.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
That's uh it's just like a contagious energy flowing around
the building. So uh, it's a lot of fun to
play in that bude, and we're really comfortable in there.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
It's easy to get on the run, easy to game.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
And then I'm playing in front of your home crowds,
so uh, you know, I think all those things buy
into it. This added with our with our kind of
value of home court, and uh yeah, that's just something
we take pride in his winning games at home. So
uh decided to do a good job and and uh
let's take care of that for sin.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Go ahead, I'll just say, Jake, tell Anthony what you
go back to draft night, I get a text from
Jake Chapman who watches Arkansas games, right, so you have
to give us an update on Arkansas. And he texted
me as soon as the pick was in. We got
a good one. I don't know why he didn't know
we were going there, but he texted me as soon
as the pickers. He goes, oh, wait till you see
this guy play. I mean, he followed you at Arkansas.
(18:51):
So Jake, go ahead, I'll let you tell him what
you appreciated. But you called it. You called it right
from the get go.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Last year, well, I watched a lot of Arkansas that year,
not just for you, Anthony, because of your teammates, as
the team was loaded with NBA talent. And what I
loved about the way you played your freshman year was
you accentuated them. And it's the way you play with
Franz and Polo. You make your teammates better and the
basketball like you. And what I love about what you
(19:17):
just told us is you love getting out and running
and getting easy buckets, but you understand that you can't
just do that right, that's the fun part, but you
got to get the stop first in order to get
the runout. I just I mean, Abe, you're twenty years old,
and typically it takes guys years and years in the
league to understand that it's got to start on that end.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
So I think that's also what coach Moseley loves about you.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
But we talked about it a little bit, just the
defensive mentality of this group. Bringing in a guy like
KCP who's.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Seen it all.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
How much does he help you on that end, knowing
where the screens are coming from, how to fight over them,
all the little intricacies that come into defending the ball.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Oh yeah, he's been huge for us, you know, on
the defensive end. Obviously, he's just a phrase team level
guy out there. Uh, he just gets stops. He's a
good presence out there, he talks a lot, he communicates. Uh,
we always feel like we know where we're in defensively
with him out there on the floor. So, uh, he's
(20:15):
just been a great leader for the whole group. You know,
I haven't won two championships. He knows what it takes
and uh, just the type of sacrifice you have to
make to get there. So uh, we're definitely listening to
everything he says and he's been He's been a big
help for us for sure.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What can you tell us about your friend Jared McCain.
You guys played on that UA team team in Tijuana.
He's he won the gold medal. He is on some
kind of a role right now. Did you see this
coming this early for him? What can you tell us
about Jared?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Yeah, I mean, uh, even before that, I played Jared
in high school and he got he had a pretty
good game.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
So I like this game from then on.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
You know, I've been a big believer in Jared McCain
since ever since that game. But uh, this is shot
making is what kind of say rates him. You know,
he's able to shoot in the midder ange, shoot the three,
get to the rim, and he's just a competitor. He competes.
You know a lot of people might not see it
just from the outside looking in, but once they're around
(21:13):
him enough, maybe.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Play with him like he's he's a dog. So uh,
I'm super happy for him.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Uh. I didn't know what was gonna look like coming
into Philly. You know, he's playing with with a lot
of grins, so uh, I don't know, it's just I
guess I'm glad you got his opportunity.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
And he's just making the most out of it. So
he does it with a smile on his face. He's
a killer with a smile on his face the entire time. Yeah,
that's that's him. That's just him.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I think that's part of what makes him just such
a good players, just his personality and uh yeah, just
he doesn't care. He's just he's happy to be out
there and and he's getting me buckets too, So yeah,
he's good.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Arkansas is three and one. Ab Okay, you got coach Cal?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
All right?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Did you have you met coach Cal? I'm sure he
tried to recruit you somewhere along the way. Do you
know much about him? And what's the word having him
on campus?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Now?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
We've had conversations, but obviously he's very busy obviously option Steward,
but a lot of excitement around campus from everything I've
seen and heard. You know, obviously, they're three and one,
so off to a good start, and it looks like
it's just gonna keep going, you know, for years and years.
(22:25):
That comes is the recruits are committing. The whole state
of Arkansas is watching. So I don't know, it's just
it looks like a good thing for Arkansas basketball for straight.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
All right, could deal.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, we'll leave it with this. Ay, be let every
let Magic fans know what they can expect here. You
guys have rattled off six in a row. I imagine
you go game by game, right, you're not looking at
the whole schedule, but sixty six in a row.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, just sixty sixth straight, seventy record.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Just let everybody know what the mentality is right now.
Game in, game out, you guys feel your you guys
feel you can win every night. And and then when
you add Powlo to this mix, what is it going
to look like? Uh?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, I mean, first and foremost, we feel like we
go win every game.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
You know, we played in big games with the best
down to the wire, one closed games, lost close games,
so we're always confident in that. But you know, uh,
I think now it's just a good time for us
to grow, and uh you know that's what we're.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Doing right now. We're growing, we're winning games throughout the process.
So uh, it's just been great.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
And you know, when Pete comes back, we'll be we'll
be flowing in rhythm and adding him should just be seamless.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Uh with a player like that, So uh yeah, we're.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Gonna try to get it going and just keeps stringing
off wins until that time and go from there.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
It's been a lot of fun. Now, George, now you
can tell us when piece coming back. That was the
time where you can give us the dick. No, no,
we don't have that.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
No weight.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You guys got that one cutting out and I cut
out there.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
We'll be trying again to that.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Anthony, Thank you very much. It's always great to catch up.
I appreciate you giving up some of your valuable time here.
Let's keep this thing rolling. Let's go get one in
the new into it dome and take down the clippers tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, please do it. Man, appreciate you. I having all right,
you got it. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That'll do it for this edition of Magic Pod Squad
with Anthony Black
And welcome everyone to another episode of Orlando Magic Pod Squad,
this one featuring Magic second year Guard Anthony Black and
Magic fans. The Florida Department of Transportation reminds you that
fans don't let fans drive drunk.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
If you've been drinking, don't.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Get behind the wheel. Instead, find a sober driver or
catch a ride service. Remember, drive sober or get pulled over.
Have a great night, and drive safe. We catch up
with Magic second year man Anthony Black, and he discusses
how much he's grown from his rookie season till now
year number two.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
What are the.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Areas that he's improved. What is his mindset when he's.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Out there on the floor, especially getting into the paint
and wreaking havoc on opposing defenses and then on the
defensive end. He is a one man wrecking crew. And
we get into his career assists Night nine assists against
the Phoenix Suns the other night. How good can this
Magic team be? We break it all down with Magic
Guard Anthony Black on this edition of Magic Pod Squad.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Those fawns long enough, they're Orlando Magic.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
This is Cole Anthony, Missus Jennings Suggs This is Paulo
Man Carroll the Orlando Magic and you're listening to the
Pod Squad.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And welcome Ember one to another episode of Orlando Magic
Pod Squad. Dante Marcatelli, Jake Chapman, George Gallante, and Magic's
second year man Anthony Black kind enough to join us
and ab I already got a start. We've done a
lot of these things over the last ten or twelve years,
and normally the camera, the phone is sideways, there's no light.
(01:30):
Look at your setup. You got it right, you got
to you got your own laptop. It looks like you
got a great setup there.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, man, trying to be professional, trying to be well.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Looks good. We appreciate that. So, first of all, how
are you feeling here? We go into just just getting
started into the season, but it feels like we've just
finished a five game road trip right back out on
the road. You is it the time of year? Do
you know what time zone you're in? Do you know
what day it is? Any of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I was definitely feeling like, I don't know they answered
any of those questions, But uh, feeling good man. You know,
we're playing good balls, so it's always fun. Going on
the road, you know, on the streak. So yes, it's good,
good trip, good home stands, So definitely feeling good.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well, let's start about Let's start with how your team
is playing right now. Maybe we'll get into last night
and everything that you guys did, but six consecutive wins
when you think back to to Pollo going down and
you guys were trying to know a couple of games
it took, which is natural to kind of figure things out.
Would you have thought you'd get on a roll like this?
What what what do you explain for for how great
you guys are playing right now?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yeah, I mean that's just obviously that's a big adjustment
to make, especially so alien the season. Why everybody's trying
to find a rhythm as it is, so uh, I mean,
tell you guys a couple of games to adjust to that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
But you know, I think I think we did a
good job of.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Finding our rhythm and kind of disidentifying what we wanted
to do. And then also you got to add into
just the last six games, we hold our teams under
one hundred points our opponents, So just a mixture of
us finding our rhythm and flow kind of settling down
a little bit and then just just getting stopped on
an elite level I think is what's powering our run
(03:12):
right now.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yeah, you're definitely getting stops in at elite level. Dante
found the stat after the Phoenix Sam last night. He
sent it to me and he says, is this right
that we have? We're the first team since twenty eighteen
in the entire NBA to hold their team hold the
opponent six games in a row under one hundred points,
which is which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I didn't think it would be.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I knew it was the first Orlando team hasn't done
it in a while, but to do it, to be
the first team in the whole league for six years,
what does.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That mean to you guys?
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Is that something you really hang your hat on?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, I mean it's just just shows how special we
are defensively when we're one hundred percent bought in and
just getting stops and then, you know, I think it's
just a testament to just our pressure on the ball
mixed in with our mports. So I think just makes
it tough on opposing teams to.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Just kind of do what they do. So yeah, so far,
we've done a good job disrupting teams for sure.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Maybe your pressure on the ball is something that's been
a key to all of that team wide defensive success.
How would you describe your approach defensively? How does Anthony
Black describe Anthony Black the defender? Are there like a
few buzzwords you try to keep in mind as you're
out there? Probably just I'll say, really just a playmaker
on that end of the ball. No, I don't think
(04:33):
a lot of people use really that word too much
on defense. But just like I said, having just rim
protection behind me allows me j sucks Kenny. It just
allows us to play a little bit more into the
ball and we just were allowed to try to make
plays just knowing that those guys got a back.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
At the rim.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
So personally, that's knowing I have Ji and Mo behind
me protecting the rim.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I'm just trying to make plays and get into the
ball and just get us run out of layups. Sorry,
our momentum phase, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Coming off a game. At the time of this recording,
we're in Los Angeles, so you're coming off a career
high nine assists. I know I heard you say last
week A big goal for you this year was to
you know, to be more of a playmaker, to get
in the paint, to spend time in the paint, which
you're very comfortable doing. Uh take us through that. Last night.
I think you tied your career high in the first half.
(05:26):
He's Brian, that's the first step, right, So how what
have you found? What what is your goal? What do
you have to basketball? And how has this playmaking ability
continued to develop? Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, I mean I think, uh it's been simplified for me,
for the coaches really a lot of the time when
I'm coming off my screens or.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Whatever, obviously I have Mo rolling, our go go rolling.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
But also is is Jonathan Iiser kind of came down
around the rim, So uh, it just makes it. It
just makes it not simple, but a lot more simple,
uh for me making reads. You know, I could just
think score first and then Uh. Those two dudes are
great outlets, and they're always in position to make the
right Uh They're just in the right position. So uh yeah,
(06:13):
I'm just gonna I don't know till I keep getting
to the paint.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Do we need to update the You guys were Green
Goblins last year because you were part of the third team.
I think we need to update that now, right.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
what's going on with that this year, man, I don't know.
We got split up a little bit, our group got
split up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
The Green Goblins is definitely I think that's a year
that's in the past, right, We're moving We're moving past
the Green Goblins, I think, Abe, what about what about
your transition just from last year to this year? What
what did what have you learned? What have you incorporated
into your game? You can definitely see the progression from
you know, rookie year, even even rookie year to Summer
(06:52):
League to now, like the steps what have you learned
along the way?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Really just how to pick my spots and and be aggressive.
That's still what I'm trying to learn and figure out,
you know as the game flows on. But uh, I
don't know. I think just my mentality changed, uh, and
I just started thinking a.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Lot more about getting downhill.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
So uh, that's definitely where I guess the progress and
steps forward are coming. Just just working on physicality, reading
bossing coverages, and just and just playing from there using instincts.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
After that is anybody in your year though, telling you
telling you these things as we go. I mean, is
there is there one coach or a group of coaches.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Or I mean me and Randy we work a lot
on uh just manipulation inside the three point line, uh,
and then just touch shots angles and then passing. So uh,
definitely we've been working on that a lot. It's definitely
a big focal point throughout the summer with Randy. So yeah,
(07:54):
I mean it's just testament to m for sure, helping
me out with that kind.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Of along tho the same lines mostly always talks about
the game slowing down for guys who are about your age.
It seems to all of us that we're watching that
happen for you. What are some like examples of that?
Is it the snapshot when you sort of get into
the teeth of the defense, you got to make that
quick decision.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Can you kind of describe that a little bit?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Uh? Yeah, I mean really just as a point guys
who all have to make the right player every time.
So uh, what I'm trying to keep continuing to do,
and what you know some of my players and coaches
have been helping me do is just things score first.
So that's making it that's making it easier to make
my reads off of that. You know, I'm just attacking,
(08:40):
just thinking about getting to my floater all the way
to the rim and then once the defense commands, just
to read from there. So, uh, just just that mentality
and just kind of the way I've been playing, I think,
is what was doing that?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
And is that is that an adjustment for you to
think score first? Because you come off your game is
so unselfish, it's sort of naturally do you kind of
have to flip a switch and say I need to
get I'm gonna try to get mine, and then I'm
gona adjust from there.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I mean, honestly, it's just kind of based upon like
what I'm being asked to do, or you know, I
feel like the team kind of wants me to do,
because if you look at it in college, it was
I guess I was probably scored first, honestly, but I mean, yeah,
it's just kind of just finding my.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Spots and just slowly slowly figuring out as we go
on game by game.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's interesting, Anthony, I'm looking at this for sophomores. So second,
your players in the league, your third among them all
sophomores and assists four point three assists per games, your
fourth in blocks per game among softomores, and the first
three are Wemby Chet and Derek Lively. Those are the
first three being then it's you, Anthony Black, who plays
(09:56):
the guard position. I mean, that's crazy among guards in
overall the entire NBA. Your eighth in blocks. So tell
us what goes into to your bill. Obviously you have
great length and height and the ability to the agility
to move. For what goes into the way you size
people up for blocks?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I think I think just trying not to honestly, just
playing with my hands up. I think I fall into
a lot of blocks on the defensive end, you know,
I try to. I try to body up a lot
with my body so I can keep my hands in
the way to deflect passes, our block shots.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So, uh, I guess those are where some of those come.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Uh There's been a couple I guess off of like
screens and stuff like that, just chasing shooters. So uh,
I think for the most part it is like the
small every place, UH make sandwiches using my length inside
the dupotline.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Dude, you're saying, just do everything you were told, Like
when you were seven, put up, get your.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Told you when you were seven? Anyone else's fundamental anth Nobody,
nobody in the NBA wants to defend anymore, right, Nobody
wants to defense a lost art except for this team.
I think we have everybody in the NBA that wants
to defend.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
What?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
What?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
How unique is that? And how fun is that to
be a.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Part of It's super unique, you know, And it's super fun.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
That's a fun brand of basketball, just getting steals, running out,
dunking the ball, getting open looks and just getting to
the rim and chains this and that's a fun brand.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And uh, I think it's rare.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
To have a group just across the board that's so
built in that are so bought into defense, even at
the top when it starts with Pie and Franz, like,
you know, they're guarding the other team's best wings, sending down,
accepting the challenge. So I think those two playing defense
kind of just instills everybody to play defense.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
So it's like, if they're playing defense, we all.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Got a guard and and uh yeah, that's just that's
what we're doing and we have fun doing it, honestly.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
So it's definitely been great playing defense with the team.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Well, Franz is playing a lot of offense too, right now,
ab what what have you seen from him over the
last you know, ever since basically Powell has been out,
he has seemed to hit a different gear.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, just Franz was singing a step up, you know. Uh,
we're losing out a lot of points obviously with two
players two starts meeting out, and he's just he's accepting
the challenge leading the team and he's just being super aggressive.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You know, he's getting again into the rim like he.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Always does, but hitting his outside shots, shooting him shooting
some good shots off the dribble that we need him
to shoot him make.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So uh, yeah, he's just he's playing.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
A really good ball for us, and he's doing everything
at a really efficient pace. So I think that's a
big reason why we were six wins in a row.
Now after having played the way we were.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Maybe tell me about your later.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
What is coach Moseley meant to you or in your
career and especially this season with things going kind of sideways.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Keeping the group together I mean a lot. You know,
he does a good job of keeping us together.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Like you said, again, that's to buy into kind of
what our core values are as a team.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
So definitely been big for me, super helpul for me.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
It was a good summer of me and him kind
of having real conversations and just talking about this year
and what he wanted to see me get better at.
So h you know, I appreciate him for keeping it
real always, and uh yeah, he's just he's just a
good coach, good leader, and uh yeah, we were ready
to go to war for him.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I asked you a couple of days ago, a couple
of games ago on the road, did you have any
other nicknames? Obviously everybody calls you a B but no nicknames, right,
not nothing that nobody tried anything out your whole childhood.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
No, just ab kind of stuck. Honestly, that was my nickname.
First team I really played for. It was a little
A baseball team, So my coaches started calling me that,
and I guess it's stuck.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well, yea, they make Goga Bitase calls himself the Georgian Beast.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Hey, I second that.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Right, I think there's nothing wrong with that. What went
through your mind last night when you saw the Georgian
Beast get thrown to the ground and he immediately started
doing push ups.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Uh, I was glad. I was this guy who didn't
get up and do something else.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Runs hot, right, right, Abe, Goga runs hot sometimes when
when that ball gets thrown up there.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, every once in a while. He's just a competitor.
He's competing.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
So I think it's actually a good aspect for our team. So,
uh yeah, that was That was funny to see, though.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
I think my favorite, my favorite Goga moment so far
of the year was when he tried, you know, I
don't know if you guys know this either. He Goga
has ripped a bunch of jerseys in the past, like
in the back he will uh yeah. And then so
one of the home games, he tried to pick that
head band off, which is not a cloth headband.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's now made out of some type of.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Like uh elastic, And he was pulling and pulling and
full and would wouldn't go.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I said, you gotta rip the headband if you're gonna
make that.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Move right, be like that sometimes though, sometimes you just
gotta let it out. Sometimes you gotta let it out.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
What is what is? He added? Though you've seen it,
you've played with him now for a couple of years.
I mean, you love to have a guy like that
on your team. What is the dimension that a Goga
Batase can add to this group?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Uh, just on the basketball side of things, this offensive rebounding,
protecting the rim, you know, setting good screens and rolling, being.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
A great lot threat.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Uh, just having that ass to him, kind of just
that physicality or I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's just kind of like an ass.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
He has that, uh that you kind of just understand,
and you know he brings energy. So uh, he's just
he's been huge to our success, you know. And uh,
he's just a good brother to have in the locker
room for.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Sere and Jacob Diamond. He's eating into that Jacob Diamond budget.
I didn't realize that with the Jerseys. Let's yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
He to get told every now and again to pull
it back, you get He's like, I only got so
many thirty five's in the closet back near you.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We can throw it real quick at or one more
thought and then like I kind of want to go.
We're gonna have some fun going outside of your outside
of this team here, and uh, be mindful of your
time here. But I'm watching the game last night, and
I'm seeing you had to get a stop, right, I
think the lead got down to seven, and I'm looking
at you Jalen Suggs, KCP, Jonathan Isaac and Franz Vager
(16:38):
and I'm and I'm we're making the comment on air,
where where is there a weakness?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Where is the other?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Where is Phoenix supposed to go to get a bucket?
With you guys out there? All right? Did you feel
that way? And how much pride did you feel when
you're out there on the four with with that group
is so dangerous?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah, I mean you definitely feel it, you know.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Uh, just mean for me personally, I feel it just
being guarding, being used to guarding just the certain one
or two players and then just being stuck in the corner.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Which because of how bid they are defensively, it's just
a tooth like. Uh. But no, we definitely, we definitely
head it up and talk about it out.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
There, like, come on, y'all, let's go on a run,
Let's try to get three four stops in a row,
go get some easy layups. We definitely we definitely see
it as that and we know we kind of know that, uh,
that's just a strong defensive group, so we definitely lean
into that.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
And uh yeah, I mean, like I said, we have
a lot of fun on defense and we're just gonna
keep getting.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Better cleaning at home, Anthony, how much fun is that?
You're seven? And oh we ever lost at home since March?
For crying out loud? Yeah, Like, what is what goes
into playing that other than the chicken sandwiches? What crows
into playing so well in that building?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I mean just the fans bring a great energy.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
That's uh it's just like a contagious energy flowing around
the building. So uh, it's a lot of fun to
play in that bude, and we're really comfortable in there.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
It's easy to get on the run, easy to game.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
And then I'm playing in front of your home crowds,
so uh, you know, I think all those things buy
into it. This added with our with our kind of
value of home court, and uh yeah, that's just something
we take pride in his winning games at home. So
uh decided to do a good job and and uh
let's take care of that for sin.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Go ahead, I'll just say, Jake, tell Anthony what you
go back to draft night, I get a text from
Jake Chapman who watches Arkansas games, right, so you have
to give us an update on Arkansas. And he texted
me as soon as the pick was in. We got
a good one. I don't know why he didn't know
we were going there, but he texted me as soon
as the pickers. He goes, oh, wait till you see
this guy play. I mean, he followed you at Arkansas.
(18:51):
So Jake, go ahead, I'll let you tell him what
you appreciated. But you called it. You called it right
from the get go.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Last year, well, I watched a lot of Arkansas that year,
not just for you, Anthony, because of your teammates, as
the team was loaded with NBA talent. And what I
loved about the way you played your freshman year was
you accentuated them. And it's the way you play with
Franz and Polo. You make your teammates better and the
basketball like you. And what I love about what you
(19:17):
just told us is you love getting out and running
and getting easy buckets, but you understand that you can't
just do that right, that's the fun part, but you
got to get the stop first in order to get
the runout. I just I mean, Abe, you're twenty years old,
and typically it takes guys years and years in the
league to understand that it's got to start on that end.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
So I think that's also what coach Moseley loves about you.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
But we talked about it a little bit, just the
defensive mentality of this group. Bringing in a guy like
KCP who's.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Seen it all.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
How much does he help you on that end, knowing
where the screens are coming from, how to fight over them,
all the little intricacies that come into defending the ball.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Oh yeah, he's been huge for us, you know, on
the defensive end. Obviously, he's just a phrase team level
guy out there. Uh, he just gets stops. He's a
good presence out there, he talks a lot, he communicates. Uh,
we always feel like we know where we're in defensively
with him out there on the floor. So, uh, he's
(20:15):
just been a great leader for the whole group. You know,
I haven't won two championships. He knows what it takes
and uh, just the type of sacrifice you have to
make to get there. So uh, we're definitely listening to
everything he says and he's been He's been a big
help for us for sure.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What can you tell us about your friend Jared McCain.
You guys played on that UA team team in Tijuana.
He's he won the gold medal. He is on some
kind of a role right now. Did you see this
coming this early for him? What can you tell us
about Jared?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Yeah, I mean, uh, even before that, I played Jared
in high school and he got he had a pretty
good game.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
So I like this game from then on.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
You know, I've been a big believer in Jared McCain
since ever since that game. But uh, this is shot
making is what kind of say rates him. You know,
he's able to shoot in the midder ange, shoot the three,
get to the rim, and he's just a competitor. He competes.
You know a lot of people might not see it
just from the outside looking in, but once they're around
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him enough, maybe.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Play with him like he's he's a dog. So uh,
I'm super happy for him.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Uh. I didn't know what was gonna look like coming
into Philly. You know, he's playing with with a lot
of grins, so uh, I don't know, it's just I
guess I'm glad you got his opportunity.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
And he's just making the most out of it. So
he does it with a smile on his face. He's
a killer with a smile on his face the entire time. Yeah,
that's that's him. That's just him.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I think that's part of what makes him just such
a good players, just his personality and uh yeah, just
he doesn't care. He's just he's happy to be out
there and and he's getting me buckets too, So yeah,
he's good.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Arkansas is three and one. Ab Okay, you got coach Cal?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
All right?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Did you have you met coach Cal? I'm sure he
tried to recruit you somewhere along the way. Do you
know much about him? And what's the word having him
on campus?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Now?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
We've had conversations, but obviously he's very busy obviously option Steward,
but a lot of excitement around campus from everything I've
seen and heard. You know, obviously, they're three and one,
so off to a good start, and it looks like
it's just gonna keep going, you know, for years and years.
(22:25):
That comes is the recruits are committing. The whole state
of Arkansas is watching. So I don't know, it's just
it looks like a good thing for Arkansas basketball for straight.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
All right, could deal.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, we'll leave it with this. Ay, be let every
let Magic fans know what they can expect here. You
guys have rattled off six in a row. I imagine
you go game by game, right, you're not looking at
the whole schedule, but sixty six in a row.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, just sixty sixth straight, seventy record.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Just let everybody know what the mentality is right now.
Game in, game out, you guys feel your you guys
feel you can win every night. And and then when
you add Powlo to this mix, what is it going
to look like? Uh?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, I mean, first and foremost, we feel like we
go win every game.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
You know, we played in big games with the best
down to the wire, one closed games, lost close games,
so we're always confident in that. But you know, uh,
I think now it's just a good time for us
to grow, and uh you know that's what we're.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Doing right now. We're growing, we're winning games throughout the process.
So uh, it's just been great.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
And you know, when Pete comes back, we'll be we'll
be flowing in rhythm and adding him should just be seamless.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Uh with a player like that, So uh yeah, we're.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Gonna try to get it going and just keeps stringing
off wins until that time and go from there.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
It's been a lot of fun. Now, George, now you
can tell us when piece coming back. That was the
time where you can give us the dick. No, no,
we don't have that.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
No weight.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You guys got that one cutting out and I cut
out there.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
We'll be trying again to that.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Anthony, Thank you very much. It's always great to catch up.
I appreciate you giving up some of your valuable time here.
Let's keep this thing rolling. Let's go get one in
the new into it dome and take down the clippers tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, please do it. Man, appreciate you. I having all right,
you got it. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That'll do it for this edition of Magic Pod Squad
with Anthony Black
Host
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