Orlando Magic Summer Vibe Check: Orlando’s Front Office DOUBLES Down on Win-Now Strategy

We are continuing the summer vibes looking at where the Orlando Magic could go wrong and the questions they still have to answer. Jason Bey of the Orlando Sandal back on the show today on Locked on Magic. You are Locked on Magic. Your daily Orlando Magic podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. And you are indeed locked on Magic. Today is July 29th, 2025. My name is Philip Rosenrike. I’m the senior writer over at Orlando Magicaily.com, credentialed member of the Orlando Magic media since the 2012 season. On today’s episode of Lockdown Magic, we’re going to continue talking with Jason Beanie of the Orlando Sentinel as we continue our summer vibe check as Orlando Magic enter this new phase where everything is heightened, all the expectations are present and where the Magic still have questions to answer. We’re going to get to all of that on what might be our last part. Again, I I record this before I do the editing. 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Find out that wherever you find out wherever you download podcasts, the Lockdown Podcast Network. It’s your team every day. I don’t want to take up too much time because the longer I take here, the less of the interview I give you and then we have to save some of it for later. Let’s get back to it with Jason Bey of the Orlando Center. And and like to to that point, I want to kind of dive into that a little bit more here. To that point, it it it feels like people forget how good this Magic team can be. Like, like they were 41 and 41 last year, and it honestly feels like a minor miracle that they got there. Not not just because they had the great finish of the season. They finished 12 and six over the last 18 games, you know, after that that terrible home stand. They really kind of galvanized and figured themselves out and and you got to give them credit for that. And winning the division, getting the seven seed, winning that playin tournament game, like that’s a that was a high pressure game. That was a big deal. That was a big deal. Big win. Um but like it it feels like people forget how injured they were last year. Um like even some of the conversations about Paulo if you take out that month like after he came back from the injury right like he shot 46 47 48% from the floor was like 29 you know 29 points per game on 48% shooting. You could quibble with maybe some of the shot selection and some of the decision- making, but like I I find, you know, he shot 45% from the floor, was a little bit worse than he was in 2024 last 2024 during the 2025 season. And that includes a January where he was just shooting low 40s and and couldn’t do anything because it was just clear he wasn’t quite in in playing shape yet. Yeah. So, I I I I get the feeling that like either people feel like Paulo and Fron are somehow like very injuryprone, which is silly because like Fran missed 15 games in his first three seasons and Paulo missed 12 in his first two. Like they don’t miss games. Those guys those guys don’t miss games. I’m not worried about them playing like 75 games. Like Paulo’s gonna be eligible back and looked like he hadn’t like nothing happened by the way. Like where Paulo was a little bit slower to got back. Fon’s at back and you know minus his three-point shooting which is another issue entirely but but like like very like I almost feel like and so like this is I think where to start I almost feel like the Magic looked at their playoff performance and said okay allowing for the injuries we faced and everything else we faced. We’re not good enough right now to compete with a championship level team like Boston. Like I mean let’s let’s be real. Like I don’t know how you feel about this. This is how I feel. If Drew Holiday doesn’t miss games three, four, and five. If he doesn’t miss game three, that’s a sweep. Like like Orlando wasn’t getting a win. And like games three and four were both very very competitive, very close games. Jason Tatum is clearly like a maturity level above where Paulo is. And Paulo is going to probably watch game four a million times and say like, “I made this mistake, this mistake, this mistake. Tatum did this, this, and this. that’s where I need to get and that’s good for him. Um, Boston was just Boston made all the shots in in that in the Magic series that they missed in the New York series. So, like I’m not even like them losing in the second round is like not some crazy thing. It’s like that they made the shots Orlando wanted them to take. Orlando’s defense despite the numbers I thought held up very very well. But I feel like the Magic looked at that series and was like, we are not good enough to compete for a championship and that’s where we need to get because we are much closer than our record indicates because of all the injuries we faced. We’ve got the defense. If we’re just a little bit better on offense, if we’re just league average on offense, we we could compete. I don’t know if you’ve seen I I know I showed you this stat at various points during the season. I think the the I think what was the athletic NBA show noted this too. The Magic were like 27 and 10 when they shot 33% from three. And that’s not even league average. That No, that still would be worse in the league. Like 33 like Washington was like 337 at 29th. Like they still they could they could be the worst freewood shooting team in the league and it would have been enough. They were just so bad. Yeah. I think I think when you I think that’s the other thing where from a national perspective for people who don’t watch every single game or or or watch the Magic and have watched the Magic for multiple years like we have it’s wow Desmond Bane and Taius Jones that doesn’t seem like a Kevin Durant or or you know a major addition like that but when you actually look at the numbers like you said this year and the year before they were so good when they shot not league average from three, just a little bit better than what they were shooting. So, let alone league average. Like, I think people don’t realize just how bad like the average casual fan nationally might not realize how bad Orlando’s offense was, but also just a little like little shifts here and there. Some nights were better than others. just how much a little bit better can really unlock the offense for them and help Powell and France and Jaylen out. Um, and I think when you just need a little bit and you add major additions like Desmond Bane and Taius Jones, um, it really can it can really be a I don’t want to say explosive, but it can be an improved offense, which you know, I don’t think you you you necessarily Yes, KCP was important on defense, but you didn’t give up a lot of defense. um and you’re adding a player like Desmond Bane who can hold his own, but when you get back Jaylen Suggs and France and Paulo, you know, after a healthy off season, um you know, it can be a really dangerous defense as well. And you know, just natural improvement, natural growth and stuff. So, um, yeah, I think, um, it’s it’s going to be interesting to see how it how it works, but you’re right, the bar is extremely low. And I think when you look at that Celtics series, you know, if Jaylen and Paulo and Fron were healthier or had missed fewer games and Jaylen had come back or whatever, they wouldn’t have been in that series anyways. Like, they would have been maybe the fifth or the six, a little bit higher. Um because I still think even if they had missed fewer games or let’s say Paulo came back and was in shape and and they won some of those games, they didn’t have that awful trip out west and they didn’t have that the home pitiful pitiful home stretch where they, you know, just dropped some really bad games. They I mean they lost three games that home stand by five total points I think it was. But still like they were losses to the Raptors. So they wouldn’t so they wouldn’t have been in that position, right? And this is all hypothetical. That’s point. Yeah. What we saw in that Boston series was even if Jaylen was in that series, they needed more. They needed more on offense. And and you know, sure, Paulo proved that he’s a playoff riser um and should garner more respect nationally. He’s getting some of that this summer. And I think they just realized this team is not good enough right now. And you know, who knows what the next team’s going to look like, but um you know, the regular season and stuff, it kind of reminds me of even a couple years ago when they played Cleveland, that weird how they closed the regular season with those losses on the road. It was it came down to that last game. If that team was a little bit more mature and a little bit older, maybe they would have been the four seed and hosted and who knows what and now we’re if they were if they were a little bit more mature and a little older, they would have done what Houston did this season and would have been the the two the two or the three seed because remember they were after they beat the Bulls that Sunday, they were the two seed in the East if I’m not mistaken. They were they were at least a three seed in the East at that point. And it was like and like look when the schedule came out in August that we knew that we knew that Houston Milwaukee back toback was going to be tough. Like I think we all marked that Milwaukee game as a loss from just the get-go. Philadelphia was always going to be tough and that was before they got super hot which they were at the end of that season. And then we looked at that Milwaukee closing you know final game of the regular season was like that’s you know unless Milwaukee’s clinched the two seed or the one seed or whatever that’s going to be really really tough. So we knew when you look at when you look at that stretch right a couple years ago. Yeah. And then you look at some of those games where maybe if they hadn’t been as hurt as they would have been and you talk about people not realizing or maybe even forgetting how good this team can be. Um I think when you combine that with the fact that the front office realized this team is not good enough. The pieces around Paulo France and Jaylen are not good enough. Um, and then you look at the pieces they added in Desmond Bane, Taius Jones. 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Order transfusion flavored 5-hour energy shots today. to to that point then the magic have not been hiding what their ambitions are like you know Jeff Welman has who you know very rarely speaks publicly has been we’re not we’re not interested in just winning the east we want to win the whole thing we want to win the like he said it we want to win the NBA um they’re obviously again we’re not going to dive into cap stuff but they’re going to be a second apron team in 2027 if the Magic’s accountants if if Pete Disandre is not calculating the magic as giving Paulo that 30% rose rule max. They’re they’re idiots. Like I’m sorry. I I’ll flat out and say that if they’re not if if they do not I think they are. I think we can give I think they are. I think it’s pretty safe to say they are. Um but like again if if look the I think I would argue and I don’t know how you feel about this. I don’t think they would have given Fron the full max if they knew that the cap was only going to projected to be to rise by 7% next year. Yeah, I was I am personally I am not convinced I I’m convinced that that number is a low pro as a low ball projection. I think the NBA is covering themselves because they don’t know what’s going to happen with some of these these revenue things. But we’re not here to talk about cap stuff. Um we’ll save cap stuff for another day. Um uh it’s important. You need to know it, but we’ll save it for another day. Um, how how do you think this team is going to handle now this added pressure, these these expectations? I mean, and look, I don’t think anyone’s expecting the Magic go out and win a championship this year. But very very clearly, the Magic are telegraphing and and saying publicly in a way that they haven’t said publicly, this is where we want to go. And now they’re paying this team like they’re going to do it. They’re going to do it. like how do they handle these expectations now? Because frankly, if this team loses in the first round in 2026, that is a that feels like a massive failure. You know, barring circumstances like what happened, but barring context, like that feels like that would be a massive failure. I think I think Paulo said the same thing. I think I think Paulo literally said that if they exit again out of the first round, that would be really disappointing. Um, I will say this, there are a lot of fans on social media and some of the national media as well that think this team has a easy route to the Eastern Conference Finals. I don’t think that exists. I don’t think for any team there’s easy in the playoffs. Like that’s thought that that’s why they’re in the playoffs, right? Cleveland thought that, Houston thought that. Like there’s no such thing as easy in the playoffs. So, it’s interesting how you have on one hand all these roster improvements and and internal growth and health and uh coaching staff improvements. Like on paper, they they they upgraded their roster and their staff, right? On the other hand, this is a team outside of Desmond and Tai. You look at the core pieces that are returning, the guys that are coming back and the coach that’s coming back and his staff. Not only have they not won a playoff series yet under Jamal Mosley, they also haven’t even won a playoff game on the road, right? So, I’m not saying we should lower the expectations for this team, right? Especially when you consider Hallebertton and Tatum and and the rest of the East and what the Bucks are doing and and and no more Lillard and and and you know, the rest of the East and whatnot. And, you know, Atlanta got better, too. Um, I’m not saying you necessarily have to uh lower the expectations, but I think maybe be a little bit more realistic. And I’m not also saying on the other hand, if they win a first round series, it should be celebrated as if they just got over a huge mountain, right? My point is it’s still on the checklist of things that are unchecked. They still haven’t won a playoff game on the road, which is not easy. And in order to win a series, unless you’re the home team, your home home court advantage, you’re in a seven game series. You go best of seven. You never have to win on the road, which is what we we saw Cleveland do to Orlando a couple years ago. Um you’re going to have to win one on the road to win a series, right? Most most of the time. That’s what good teams, great teams do. They win on the road and we haven’t seen that, let alone a series. So nothing comes easy in the playoffs. I think on the other hand though is we all agree another first round exit. You’re looking at some serious decisions that have to be made both financially and on the coaching perspective. Um I’m not saying this team should be in the finals this upcoming year, but they should definitely be within reach of the Eastern Conference Finals. They should be out of the first round and depending on the matchup in the second round and the health and and all those other extenduating circumstances. Um, absolutely. This this team on paper, the improvements both internally as as guys get older and grow closer to their prime and then you look at the additions that they made. It’s it’s one of those things where it’s interesting to see how those improvements are going to help guys like Apollo and France and Jaylen win their first playoff series, win their first playoff game on the road, which again is something this team, the score has not done yet. Um, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It’s it’s it’s things they have to check off. Like I like I always say this, you don’t know you can do something until you do it. Um and and like you know I I’ve been very much of the like of the opinion like getting to the playoffs against Cleveland in 2024 was okay, go through a playoff race, get your taste of the playoffs. Getting to a game seven and going through the ups and downs of that series. That felt like gravy for that team. That felt like oh this team is a little bit better than we maybe thought and gave them credit for. Like a criticism that I’ve had of Jeff Waltman is I think he’s been so patient that he doesn’t realize how good the team he has is and has didn’t maximize some of those years perhaps and again if you do any of that you don’t get Desmond Bane and maybe that’s maybe that proves history right that being patient was the right call. Um you know yeah exact exactly who knows it I’m not complaining it was a great season and and did everything they needed to do. Last season to me was about, okay, win a playoff series, get to play a team like the Boston Celtics and see what you actually need to to win a championship, to get to the next level. And so Orlando obviously didn’t win the playoff series, but they got into the series with the Celtics and learned precisely what they needed to learn. Um, and so, you know, expectations rightfully raise every single season, every single time through the playoffs. And now you’re just you want to be hungry for more. You don’t want to be satisfied with where you’re at. And I think and I think the team showed that when they made that playoffs the first year when they were facing Cleveland, we all went in the locker room, they had beers and hats and shirts and it was it was a party in there. And then when they got to the playoffs this year, obviously the circumstances were a little bit different with all the injuries and they had to go through the play. It felt like this is exciting, but we’ve done this before. There was nothing like you know I remember even after they won at home to to extend the series at least the game Jamal Mosley said you know this isn’t you know yeah we’re happy obviously but this isn’t worth celebrating because we this isn’t something we haven’t done yet. He said he I mean he said it plainly like we did what we were expected to do like start a road team win we defended our home court they defended theirs like Right. Right. And and I think you know again to your point if the year before was about making the playoffs this past year was about winning a first round series obviously once those injuries were happened what you know the way things went down with Jaylen and then Mo as well that was just about let’s see like that that perspective changed from let’s win a first round series this season to let’s see how much fight and grit this team has and they show that down the stretch that there is still you know heart and hustle in this team this core that that they did, you know, they didn’t just quit on the season, right? Um, even though they dealt with serious injuries that I think to your point, a lot of people do forget just how hurt they were. Um, and not saying that makes excuses because even if they were healthy, I think we’ve said this before, those roster issues still existed. Hurt or healthy still existed. And that’s why they went out and did what they did because they knew even with Jaylen, it’s not like they were getting another game or let alone winning the series against Boston. If like the way the way I would put it is if the Magic were healthy, they would have been in the fight for four, five, six. I’m not I’m not saying they would have they could have still ended up seventh. Detroit was very good. Like like like give Detroit their flowers. They were very very good. Um they might beat Milwaukee if they’re the four or five seed. They might beat New York. I’m skeptical of that with with the way their offense runs, but they would have run into a team that would have taught them like, “Oh, this is what a winning team does.” Like, you know, the only of those group of those group of teams, the only team I would say Orlando 100% should beat this team in a playoff series is Detroit. Again, no offense to Detroit. Love them. They were great. No, but they were young and they weren’t young. They were like Orlando a year before. Exactly. Exactly. And and and and all that. Like I would expect Orlando to, you know, give a competitive series to Milwaukee. Maybe they win, maybe they don’t. Indiana, like Orlando seems to be Indiana’s kryptonite. I don’t think people necessarily realize that. Like Orlando defends Indiana better than any team in the league, but playoff Indiana is a different animal. And I would have loved to I I would still love to see that series, you know. I I think that’s that would be a fun rivalry. Um let’s move then to the other big move that that we haven’t discussed in full yet. Uh you know with the front office doing this doing all these things. I I do think the pressure now shifts fairly or unfairly to Jamal Mosley and I thought Mike Bianke uh uh wrote a really good column in the Orlando Senate. Your colleague Mike Bianke wrote a really good column about this. I know I have commented on this as well and it’s not like the seat is blazing hot for Jamal Mosley, but now he has to kind of prove himself a little bit and prove that he can maximize the tools that he’s been given by Jeff Welman, by ownership with all the money that they’re spending. Now, he went out and added two new coaches in God Sham God and Joe Prunty. Um, you’ve you’ve talked to you’ve talked to him more directly about about both of these hires. What do what do they hope that they’ve added in these two coaches and and how much of an impact can a little bit of coaching, you know, coaching staff shakeup? It’s not like huge obviously like Jesse Mermis left for for Phoenix obviously, but how much can that change the direction the Magic go? Yeah, I think it it shows that Jamal looked in the mirror and he realizes that he needed to improve himself. And you talk about God Sham God and his player development and everybody immediately went to this is gonna help Anthony Black so much. This is gonna help Jaylen Sug so much. I think he’s gonna help Paulo Bankro so much. His handle at times, especially when he first came back uh from injury, we saw the turnovers just just the ball bouncing off his foot, you know, lost loss of the lost lost control of the ball. I think that’s going to help him a lot even though he’s obviously is a highlevel old NBA caliber type player. Um, and then I think from an offensive standpoint with Joe Prunty, like he’s he’s won championships. He’s he’s been an inter room head coach. Like he knows what it takes. And when I talk with Jamal about their roles, he wasn’t too specific, right? But he also basically said, “These are both offensive guys and they’re both offensive mind coaches.” You know, it seemed like to me that uh God Sham God is going to be helping more on the scouting side and the player development side where Joe I think is going to be more involved in what they’re actually running on the court offensively which I think you know I wasn’t around when Nate Tibbitz was here. I was right when I that first season the first couple weeks when we got into it uh was when Tibbitz left. So I I I can’t speak to what that relationship was like. Um, but what I do know is that he didn’t replace him. And we saw time and time again, whether it was timeouts, lateg game situations, some of the offensive play calls. You know, a lot of people like to say they don’t call plays. They do. They’re just not very creative. They’re not very uh, you know, they’re very, it kind of reminds me of like RPO offensive football, like very if this, then that, then this, then that. It’s read based. It’s not It’s not very Yeah. Very read based. It’s not very, you know, here’s here’s this really complicated play and they and on occasion we would see that of course, but um I think adding you add two things. You add elite experience in Joe Bronte and that was something that Jamal was lacking. I mean obviously he had been an assistant for so long, but in terms of head coaching experience, he hasn’t done this very long. And I think um his staff was lacking that, right? You look at you look at staffs around the league and how many times did they face teams where it was like the head coach was the head coach and then you had such a familiar name on that staff. It was like wow that that guy’s an assistant for him. That’s a big time hire. And they didn’t I mean all due respect to the assistant coaches I I you know they’re all great guys. We know them. Um, you know, Coach Oz is great and and and Jesse’s gonna be missed and um, Amir got a great opportunity at summer league and um, you know, you go down the list, but I think adding Joe Prunty on there with his experience, I think it says a lot about Jamal and I think it says a lot about his staff and the reality was they needed someone like that. And then when you talk about from a player development standpoint, you know, internal growth only happens if you’re if you’re dedicated to it. And I think the players themselves, um, you know, they all put in the work in the gym. they all, you know, we’ve seen Jonathan Isaac, we’ve seen Anthony Black, we’ve seen Jaylen Suggs, and on and on in the gym this summer, whether in Orlando or in Vegas. Um, I think adding a guy like him, you know, I got to watch him work with Jace Richardson on the campus of UNLV during a couple of the practices, it seemed like, um, you know, he really he really is into it as a player development coach. You look at the guys he’s worked with from Luca to Kyrie, like they really got a big- time hire away from Dallas, like you talk about all these things that the Magic have done this off season that’s like, wow, they they’re really going for it. And I think um again, it’s it’s all on paper, but um it really says a lot about the self-reflection for Jamal Mosley. And I think rightfully so, to Biankey’s point, you know, there only are 30 of these jobs, right, as an NBA head coach. So Bianke was making the point that they’re all in the hot seat to some degree as we’ve seen. Coach of the year, okay, you’re out within two years. Um, and I think we’ve joked that maybe Jamal didn’t want to, you know, he got second or third place a couple years ago. Maybe he dodged a winning, but uh I think absolutely if as we said before, they’re in a first round exit again, you know, and that’s going to be the call. But I think maybe his seat is warm right now where next season it could be blazing hot. and and when you talk about ownership spending money and diving into that, you talk about the aprons and and and what they’re going to be going into, what they’re heading towards. Um, yeah, absolutely. I think, you know, I don’t want to say the clock is ticking, but it’s certainly starting to tick a little bit for Jamal Mosley because I think they have all the pieces, right? I think Jeff Waltman even said it when they introduced uh Taius Jones. When we talked to Jeff for the fourth time that summer, you talked about a guy who’s not in front of the mic a lot. We spoke to Jeff a lot, which you don’t see a lot, which I, you know, you gotta uh appreciate his openness to talk with us, but I think he said it himself. He’s done his part. It’s up to the players and the coaches now. He’s given them the resources. The ownership has given them the resources. Um, and now it’s up to the team and the coaching staff to say and go out and do this and and what that looks like, we’ll see. But um I think the additions, the type of additions, not just the fact that they made an addition, but they got an experienced coach in Prunty and they got a really well-known player development coach and God Sham God, uh who has an awesome name, by the way. I think it says a lot about what they actually want to do and how everybody is involved. Uh everybody involved is aligned on doing it to the best of their ability. Yeah. And like look, Mo is not hiding from it either. like he said it several times over the course of the offseason, pressure is a privilege. Like you you you you feel that pressure because you’ve earned it. There’s expectations team believes it needs to accomplish goals and look whether Yeah, this is as much as the Magic are a friendship team and and all about and all about the vibes. um this is results business. Like it’s there’s a winner and loser every night in this league and you know you’re judged on your wins and blamed for your losses and so like yes like that pressure is there. I want to thank Jason Bey once again for coming on the show. I am pretty sure again I record this beforehand so if the interview isn’t over yet we’ll finish that up on tomorrow on our next episode of Locked on Magic. But I want to thank JCB once again for coming on the show. You can again check him out on Twitter at therealbe. You can check him out on blue sky blueblue. That’s also there bey. You can also check out all of his great work at the Orlando Sentinel. Always the always the first place to go for Orlando Magic information and breaking news as I am not much of a news breaker. That’s going to do it for me today though. I want to thank you all again for listening to today’s episode of Locked on Magic. You can of course find me on Twitter at philipr_omd and on blue sky philipr. 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The Orlando Magic’s playoff dreams have taken shape after an active offseason. Do they have enough to make a deep postseason run?

Jason Beede of the Orlando Sentinel joins the show for part two of our conversation to discuss how the Magic succeed this season, the team’s new coaching hires and what they have done to push the team into contention.

The Magic are facing real expectations and pressure for the first time as they look ahead to a big season. Will the Magic be able to step up and deliver this season?

0:00 Intro: Summer vibes and Magic’s potential
5:57 Magic’s offensive struggles and room for improvement
14:00 Handling increased expectations and pressure
19:40 Lessons learned from playoff experiences
22:06 Coaching staff additions and their potential impact
28:42 Pressure as a privilege for Jamahl Mosley

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