TORONTO — After watching his team give up a historic run in a historic loss, Orlando Magic head coach Jamahl Mosley pointed the finger squarely at himself.

“I’ve got to be able to do a better job of preparing them for what they were going to see tonight,” Mosley said after the Magic lost 139-87 to the Toronto Raptors, the most lopsided loss in franchise history. Bridging the first and second quarters, the Magic gave up a 31-0 run, covering 7 minutes, 47 seconds, the longest unanswered scoring surge in the NBA’s play-by-play era dating back to the 1990s, surpassing a Dallas Mavericks 30-0 run against the Oklahoma City Thunder in December 2023, according to the NBA.

“We talked a little bit about it, but probably not enough. We’ve got to have them prepared for the physicality of the game, prepared for how much they were going to grab, hold and get them off their spots. That’s on me.”

The Magic (39-35) have now lost seven of eight games, including a loss at home to the league-worst Indiana Pacers and a blowout defeat against another team they are competing against for seeding in the middle of the Eastern Conference: the Charlotte Hornets. Still, despite the loss in a meaningful game for his team, Mosley said he still felt his message was getting through to his players.

“Yes. Yes. You get hit in the mouth by (52) points, you understand exactly what you need to do,” said Mosley, who has been under fire recently for the Magic’s disappointing season. “You’re not as bad as you think you are in your losses, and you’re not as great as you think you are in your wins. We’re somewhere in between. We’ve got to make sure we get on the right mentality coming down to these last eight games.”

The eighth-place Magic entered the game just two games behind the Raptors (42-32), who are in fifth in the jumbled Eastern Conference. It seemed like a huge opportunity for the Magic to gain ground in their attempt to avoid the Play-In Tournament. The Raptors were without starting guard Immanuel Quickley, leading scorer Brandon Ingram and rotation reserves Collin Murray-Boyles and Jamison Battle.

“I’ve got to do a better job there with this group to make sure they’re prepared in the right way and to know exactly the sense of urgency that Toronto was going to play with having guys out, a sense of urgency that they were going to play with knowing (about) the playoff positioning,” Mosley said. “I’ve got to do a better job for this group there.”

Asked if it was fair that Mosley take the blame for the defeat, Magic star Paolo Banchero said, “It’s all a collective.”

“Gotta find ways to stop runs like that. We didn’t,” Banchero said. “If you want to be a good team, you can’t give up runs like that.”

The Raptors ran the ball down the Magic’s throat, with Orlando contributing 10 turnovers to the cause during the run. The Magic finished with 28 miscues, leading to 37 Raptors points. The Raptors’ half-court offense is their biggest weakness. Nearly every coach speaks about the importance of taking care of the ball before playing the Raptors, trying to keep their offensive pace down. Mosley was no exception.

However, the Magic were doing a lot of it to themselves: There were single-minded drives into traffic, targets for passes not looking at the ball and weak takes in transition. The Magic turned the ball over 12 times in the first quarter, tying a team record for most in any period. They turned the ball over 19 times in the first half, after which they trailed 70-43. Since March 16th, the Magic ranked 26th in defensive rating and 21st in net rating entering Sunday’s game.

“I called three timeouts in that moment to try to stop that bleeding,” Mosley said.

“It’s hard to explain,” Orlando guard Desmond Bane said. “It’s hard to swallow.”

The Raptors made them pay, with Sandro Mamukelashvili scoring 11 points, including two of the Raptors’ four 3s during the spurt. The Raptors went 9 of 13 from the field and 7 of 7 from the free-throw line. They also outscored the Magic 39-7 in fast-break points as the latter finished with 28 turnovers.

“I think it was so fun playing like you just don’t realize anything like that,”  Mamukelashvili said of being on the run. “You just keep going. I feel like everybody enjoyed it. And we were so physical. We were trying to … trap and hit and just to do some stuff we usually do during practices.”

The Magic, meanwhile, have eight games left. They are guaranteed a spot in the Play-In at least, but are in danger of falling out of the eighth seed that would give them two chances to win one game to make the playoffs.

“We’ve had it in stretches,” Bane said, talking about the confidence necessary to withstand a long regular season. “But we definitely don’t have it right now.”