Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor and John Fanta explain that Orlando’s plan to reshape the team can’t stop at just changing the coach. Check out the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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But, they, they have reassessing to do.
It’s very– They are a square peg, round hole team right now, and it’s, it’s a combination of coaching, but their personnel.
You– I will say this, I think teams in the NBA do this a lot.
They say a coaching change will solve a lot.
Kevin, we have subject matter that says coaching changes can solve things, but if things don’t match in the shot-making department, no coach can start to put the ball into the hoop for certain players.
Jalen Suggs is one of those players.
Yes.
There, there’s nothing Mosley could have done in that situation.
The Pistons are, are funneling the ball to Jalen Suggs, and Jalen Suggs just did not come through.
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He did not make them pay for their defensive choices to leave him open in so many of those instances.
You can’t blame Mosley there.
I think he lacked imagination with Desmond Bane all season long.
The fact Desmond Bane had– was, was second on the team behind guess who?
Jalen Suggs on three-pointers per game on the full season, is a joke.
It’s an utter joke.
I interviewed Bane before the season.
Bane, came on my podcast and we talked about, oh my God, two-man action between you and Paolo Banchero, two-man game between you and Wendell Carter.
It didn’t happen.
It wasn’t a thing.
He, he I asked him about, “Oh, like your three-point rate has wavered each season in your career.
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I’d imagine this year you’re gonna hit a career high in three, threes.”
And he’s like, “Yeah, I think so.
With this offense, the way we’re playing a- and war- and warmups and practices and all that.”
Well, it didn’t happen.
It, it didn’t happen.
He took five per game.
They gave up five picks for a guy to take five three-pointers per game, and that’s in part on Mosley, I think.
So, I, I think for the Magic there, there is You do wanna look in the mirror and say, “Hey, Franz hasn’t stayed healthy.
Does Banchero have too many flaws?
Should we move one of those guys?”
But at the same time, I’d be very interested to see those two with a new coach before I trade either Paolo or Franz, ’cause they’re-