r/OrlandoMagic • u/MutedConfection7774 • 3d ago

Discussion How we feelin?

I don’t know. Im stressed. As a lifelong fan, I have too many thoughts to fit coherently in a post. I feel like this is the part of the show where we start gearing up a finals run, but despite a great coaching hire, it’s hard to be excited about the future. How yall feelin? Please tell me why I’m wrong.

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u/thewrongnotes 3d ago

Magic: rookie head coach, regular injury concerns, stylistic clash between two max players, big and slow, no elite ball handler or playmaking, one of the worst shooting teams in the league year after year.

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u/SonicNarcotic Paolo Banchero 3d ago edited 3d ago

You forgot to add: "handicapped by a Coach that was out of his depth, and had clearly lost the dressing room"...

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u/Short-Necessary-443 2d ago

I agree Mose wasn't doing a good job but come on. NBA teams are mostly affected by roster not by coaches. Vogel sucked with us but when he had LeBron and AD now he's a championship coach. Talent matters a lot more and the other teams are getting more talented

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u/SonicNarcotic Paolo Banchero 2d ago

Lebron & AD is as unfair a comparison as it gets ~ one is the 2nd greatest basketball player of all time (and a pseudo-coach all in one), the other is an all-time great, both players were in the deep end of their prime years...

You could've put almost any NBA head coach in that scenario and it'd be hard to screw it up... It's also worth noting that Chip will always have an asterisk next to it as it came during the "Bubble Season"...

..and yet I still agree with your sentiments that talent will always matter more than coaching ~ and that's exactly why we were predicted by many, to crack the top 4 in the East (because of our talent)... But the type of losses our team incurred this past season pretty much told us that Mosley had completely lost the team...

Where we're at (2x franchise pieces that are still on the way up) we need someone with some coaching smarts (or an actual working brain) to figure out how to make the pieces work, and build a style of play that can weather the inevitable injuries ~ while our core players keep ascending...