Orlando Magic's Do-or-Die Strategy Against the Hawks

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00:00We'll start with Orlando and Magic head coach Jamal Mosley. Of course they faced the Hawks a

00:05lot this year. What's needed? It's one game. Winner go home. Here's Mosley. I think you just

00:11we've been saying it for the past two and a half weeks. One game at a time and this is

00:14the true definition of it. It's one game and that gives you the opportunity to go play in the

00:19playoffs and I think you just focus on taking care of the basketball, defending the right way,

00:23doing it without fouling, cleaning up all the little things within the details of the game

00:27because if you look at the three games without last night's game, it's been a difference

00:32of 6.3 points in average. So I think with that being said, it's the small details that will

00:37help you take care of home court. So he basically just told you the games land between three and

00:42six. So give me the point. That's what he just told you. It is Orlando minus the five and a half

00:51tonight in this game to 19 and a half is the total. Uh, now in games that matter this year,

00:58uh, if you care, cause I don't count Sunday, nobody played for either team. Uh, but magic did

01:03beat the Hawks, uh, two out of three times, uh, in the, I think they'll, I think they'll barely win.

01:10And you know what? I gotta be honest. Like I'm taking the points, but I'm very leery of it. I think

01:16it's, it's so obvious. Like we're all, you and I, Maranci, we're all taking the points because

01:22I think some of us are lured in by that, uh, game on Sunday that didn't matter. And it wasn't the

01:28guys that are playing in this game tonight. And I'm not, I don't care about the two of three.

01:33I don't care about their boring ass regular season matchups. I really don't. My bottom line on this

01:40game is I gotta be honest with you. I think the, the Hawks have, uh, uh, um, like a better lineup

01:48than bank Carol and Franz Wagner. To me, that's their whole team. I think the Hawks had four or

01:55five guys that can give you problems. And that reached your shades. One of them. I stray. Don't

02:01get me started. Capella. It goes on and on. So that's why I'm willing to take the points because

02:06I think they got a deeper team. I think they have a bit of a deeper team also. And I also

02:13think like, I know it's close when usually in a game like this, where it's winner take

02:18all, I like to lean to who's got the best player on the floor. Who's the best player in

02:24this game. Now I think it is kind of close. Is it Trey young or is it bank Carol? Who's

02:28the best player in this game? I do think it's tight, but I think because of all the big games

02:33he's played, I think it's Trey young by a nose. It's Trey. He scores and he dishes and

02:39makes buckets. And, and, and my view bank Carol is a better player based on his bang ability.

02:45He's bigger, stronger scores more, but, uh, ice trade doesn't care about scoring a lot.

02:51The way he creates buckets for everyone else, it's his passing, uh, and bucket making. He's

02:57a bucket maker. He makes plays and they put the ball in the hole and then he can score as well.

03:03He's got a, you know, dual trouble. He can put it in himself. He's got a great floater

03:10and he can pass and lob dunk pass like no other bank. Carol to me just gets the rock and scores.

03:17He bangs. I'm, uh, I'm taking the Hawks to win outright. I need the Hawks in Orlando. So,

03:25uh, I'll take the five and a half and I think they're going to win the game outright. So I'm

03:28going to go ATL. I'll give you that playoff series and they win them. Yeah. Um, so I'm

03:35going to go there and, uh, listen, and then they'll have a little fun with the Celtics,

03:38get their ass beat by the Celtics, uh, in the next round. But I think that they'll go

03:41and win tonight. Whoever wins is losing in short order. They're losing. Yes. Yes. Uh, I agree

03:49with that. No question.