Magic HC Jamahl Mosley Talks Banchero, Wagner, Kobe Bryant & More with Rich Eisen | Full Interview

Magic HC Jamahl Mosley Talks Banchero, Wagner, Kobe Bryant & More with Rich Eisen | Full Interview

His team has been on fire winners of five in a row 13 of 16 one of the best records in the NBA over the last couple of months now right there in the middle of the playoff hunt in the Eastern Conference the Orlando Magic head coach

Jamal Mosley here on the rich Asen show how you doing coach great how are you doing I was just wondering I don’t know if you were listening in to the TV audience if I ever called any of your Colorado Buffalo highlights when you were playing back in the day I just I

Heard that I don’t think I don’t think you did we didn’t get that we didn’t get the Monday games I think we had maybe one or two Monday games versus Kansas and those didn’t end up well I was going to say when you were playing college hoops who was the best

Player uh you played against Jamal uh my first year when I got there we were I played against Marcus fizer um then got a chance to play against Paul Pierce my freshman year uh when we were at Colorado we went to Kansas that was those were some of the first days um

Playing and then and so when did you know coaching was your path when did you realize that it it took a while uh I had played overas for about four or five years after after college um then my mom had gotten sick and that was the decision you know just come back State

Side uh be closer to family be closer to friends and you know when when George and his staff took over in in Denver you know coach Tim gergerich my mentor kind of put me to decide what I wanted to do he and Welch you know had a talk with me

Deciding you know do you want to keep playing going overseas make money or you can start your journey now and and through their mentorship and their their knowledge of the game and players and the way they did it it just kind of started to work its way out then it’s

When you referring to George you mean Carl is that who you’re refer to okay so what’ you learn from him Jamal ah there’s so many things taken away from him I mean he had a Poise we were I just actually was went back and watched our 2009 um playoff series versus the Lakers

And just watching the Poise that he had through games allowing players to play uh finding ways to put different wrinkles in the offense but also defensively helping guys understand you know big moments big timely stops what that means within a game but he just allowed the players just to kind of

Control what they did on the court so okay so you’re in the middle of obviously The Crucible of a playing season and you’re taking time out to pop a 2009 playoff game in like why why are you doing well a friend of mine one of our old

Coaches that was there is scouting now and he and he had some looks from the Denver years and and then I you know watching Carmelo play um there’s so many there’s some similarities to Paulo and what he does and how he plays the game and so just some looking at back at some

Of those clips of how he was Finding different ways to get get options on the floor with how teams were playing him uh and just finding open space or where double teams couldn’t come just looking at little situations like that but I also used reference to our group about

You know inbounds plays and the difference of what Kobe did in that Series against us and the the mindset and the mentality that you have to have okay I love this sort of stuff by the way Jamal I love this sort of stuff because I can’t get enough of it so your

Would your comp for pao Bon Carol be be Carmelo Anthony is that what you’re kind of intimating in a way right now there’s so many the thing about Paulo is like he’s so Dynamic uh to put you know him in in line with just one player is hard

To do because has the passing ability of of a LeBron the scoring ability of a Melo um you know the the basketball IQ he has is just something incredible uh then the other side of it is just his Poise and his demeanor in game uh for a

21-year-old to have that is very rare and very special so he’s got so many combinations that it’s hard to just say he’s like this one person I think he’s going to be his own when when it’s all said and done like his his uniqueness is is special to what we what we’re doing

So then how does he download that information that you give him hey I just saw this or I saw that or this uh wrinkle how does he assimilate what you’re coaching him well he and I have just tried to continue to do a great job of communicating I I lean into him and

What he sees on the floor uh how he’s getting guys involved um how he’s looking at opportunities to score uh and he sees the game it slows down for him and he’s seeing different coverages and how guys are guarding him and he’s recognizing that from the beginning of

The game to the end and so he communicates it you know I I I constantly am calling him over throughout the game because I you know you want to get these guys feel because they’re feeling it I can see certain things on the sideline but for me it’s

Their ability to recognize it with one another and communicate that to each other Jamal Mosley the head coach of the Orlando Magic five-game win streak and uh 11 games over 500 right now here on the Rich Eisen show uh I’m I’m also biased Jamal I’m I’m a wolverine um so uh clearly

What does that mean oh man what does that mean what does that it’s okay we we we we constantly have them coming through our our program it’s it’s have Mo we have France we had brazas we have K Houston we just we’ll keep the Wolverine coming through the pipeline

Well MO is one of my favorite players from the Run uh the beline run for sure uh I absolutely adore him and obviously frons um as well um what’s it like sure yeah what’s it like coaching the BR the brothers like what’s it like coaching Brothers it really is awesome I think

That plays such a big part into the dynamic we have as a team uh we talk about being together and guys rooting and pulling for each other they’re competitive they’re energetic they care about the game they’re smart um and they really do just love the way in which

This team plays but they also know it’s about the guys around them um they’re their their energy is different uh but the way in which they think and process the game is very similar similar and you also it’s like a United Nations on your your roster which is kind of fitting you

You know obviously with your International uh history um so H how does the the international game that you would obviously know so well um translate to what you’re attempting to do every single night and obviously quite successfully right now well I think it’s just being able to buy into

The bigger picture um that it’s something bigger than you and and doing it as a team I mean you have you have France you have Mo you just have different guys from different areas but every and Joe Eng Les and guys that have been part of different um

Organizations but it’s about winning uh it’s about the bigger picture and these guys can they buy into that they believe that and they they understand that the success of the you know the team um will help out each individual and that’s what we’re trying to do is help them Reach

Their Highest Potential Jamal Mosley here on the Rich Eisen show how do you keep it going I know that’s a very esoteric question but how seriously you know and and in a world where um you know players are plugged in to what everyone else is talking about I

Think more than ever and you you flip on any any screen talking about the NBA certainly in your conference uh Celtics bucks hiring you know doc middle of the season the Cavaliers are are taking off the Knicks are feeling good and then you know um eventually they’ll get get

Around you Jamal so how do you how do you how do you keep that fire burning for your team well this group has has been special from the summer and we’ve had discussions and conversations and and I think the best thing that happened to us was that early nine game Run um

When we ran nine straight off I thought that was a good thing because you know you’re not going to win all of them and so when we hit a patch of a couple losses some injuries you go back and and you’re not the main story and so trying

To help them understand that we have to do what we do um and you can’t control outside voices or sources you just have to focus on your body of work every single day uh through the highs and lows um and so I think that’s the been the

Message that the people in in our organization in our locker room those are the ones that are pouring into you the things that are going to help you be successful and then the other side of it is yeah take it one game at a time do you play that nobody believes in this

Card you do that uh not as no not as much I really do believe it’s just if you can just focus on what we do um and that will take care of itself because there’s so many things that you can’t control uh other than you know how hard

You play each every single night and how you’re pouring into each other on a regular basis Jamal Mosley Orlando Magic head coach few minutes left with him right here on the Rich Eisen show would you want more challenges in your back pocket for games uh

Yes have I’m with you so um wh why why I I think when you when you have the option to use it early uh getting it back later is always good because you’re not always going to you know sometimes they’re going to overturn them sometimes they’re not and so I think the ability

To um have those have a couple more would be good um just for the sake of the game a timeout a out of- bounds play out of- bounds call that you may not that they may have missed that they can’t review uh and I think those are

Opportunities for us to you know to gain another possession so how many so would you want it like the NFL where you get two and you get both of them right you get a third you get one right then you get a second like what what’s the right

Number like what would you if you could wave a wand and you and you make it happen what would it be for you I’d probably go the two plus one I think getting that third back is it would be good okay because right now I imagine

Have you ever used a challenge in the first half of a game I have and lost yes do you remember you must remember the circumstance what was it uh to avoid a third foul on somebody important what what were I I think it might have been a

Possession of out of bounds and low clock and we wanted to use a I think we had a two for one scenario uh and I wanted to get the ball back so I think that’s when we used it all right I’m fascinated by this sort of stuff as well

How does it work you have somebody behind the bench who’s who’s in like what’s the mechanism for you to figure this out if you know if you notice any NBA game when when something happens that a player doesn’t like the first thing they’re doing is going to yes all

The coaches so they’re looking at me we have someone behind our bench air who does a very a very good job he’s looking at the iPad to see it real time to see if it actually is a call the right call no call if we can get away with it and

They study the rules just the same way that the the referees do so trying to make sure that it’s the right thing by the exact call of the book and what about maybe having it like the NFL as well last two minutes all replays come from New Jersey for instance would you I

Like that I like that yeah I actually do so then why do you does um let me just ask this question uh do most of your colleagues in your position share this belief do you believe I think it goes back and forth I think everybody has

Their own way of of wanting to do it I I mean I think the challenge does help um and again you know you just want to make sure it’s it’s it’s always going to be the fair call I think that’s the biggest piece for me yeah I but and I understand

That there’s a a back you know uh and forth about well let’s not stop the game as much as because you could stop the game pretty much every possession to review something I imagine in the last two minutes of a game and then you you you

Might have a leg up on your opponent because your opponent doesn’t have many timeouts left and suddenly they’re stealing timeouts that for resting and things of that nature I I understand that but wouldn’t you think getting everything right as opposed to learning in the two-minute report afterwards that wasn’t gotten right I

Mean wouldn’t you rather it that way right I think every coach has been hit with that um and being able to have the timeouts and the challenges towards the end is is important um and it’s not an exact science and I think just as we’re going to you know continue to build and

And move forward we’ll have to figure out different ways to make it right for everybody can find a way to be happy in it all right last one for you Jamal Mosley I got to go back to what you told me before that you were looking at what

Was it a 2009 playoff game and you were on staff of Denver taking on the Lakers right um You 8 n yep okay uh and at one point during that part of the conversation you said um it was something about defending Kobe on inbounds passes or something like that

Or and what did you learn what do you learn from watching Kobe back in the day that you can download to your team right now I mean just his Poise his I mean you talk about the mentality he just wasn’t going to let that team that team lose um

And I what I had originally showed the guy was his mentality of when the reporter asked him when they actually played Orlando they said why aren’t you smiling you’re up 20 and he said the job’s not done and more than anything it was the mentality of like you haven’t

Accomplished anything yet and I think that’s what tries what resonates with our guys is that yes everyone’s saying where we are and what we’re doing and the streak is good but what have we done and I think trying to make that help our guys understand that is very important

And it keeps you humble enough to know that there’s still room to grow to get better and we still have things that we want to achieve to help each one of these guys become successful so you tell people in your video Department cut me that sound bite and and then play it for

The play it for the guys yes when when do you play it for them after practice or or something like that no I mean we we’ll do some before practice we did one the other day before before a Detroit game I think just little things little

You know Snippets that you can take from from anyone that has done it at a high level and it’s the mindset that you have to take going into these games um and part of it is as you make a playoff push you realize guys are going to be sore

You’re going to be beat up and and how do you respond to that especially with a young group continue to learn how to win uh taking advice and and you know the lead of guys who have been there and that have done it at a high level uh you

Can learn so much from that now do you watch their faces when you hit play on the Kobe sound bite or do you watch the sound bite what do you do I watch their faces I watch their faces and what did you see you recognize that

When when they see him on the screen eyes light up you know there’s a automatic respect factor and a care factor and just knowing what he has meant for to this game and each one of these young guys is you can’t put it into words so when they see him on the

Screen it’s like automatic you know just knowing who he is and how much he’s impacted their lives I really enjoyed this chat I hope hope you did as well coach thank you for the time congrats on the nice run here um and I I would have

Said you know tell Mo and fron go Blue for me but you said oh man when I mentioned Michigan so I don’t know if you’re really no I I no I love the guys I’m just it’s just we have we’ve had a lot of them come through with the

Orlando Magic it’s a good thing though great okay good we have Mo France Caleb jet we had braas we we’ve had a wolverine run it’s a it’s a it’s a nice run uh I I feel but I’m biased and congrats on the current run that you’re

On and best of luck continuing it and I hope we get to chat again shortly thanks for the call thank you I appreciate it great thank you you bet that’s Jamal Mosley head coach of the Orlando Magic right here on the rich eyes show I love talking process with head coaches and

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Magic Head Coach Jamahl Mosley and Rich Eisen discuss Orlando’s hot streak with rising stars Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner, the need for the NBA to expand coaching replay challenges, and how he uses Kobe Bryant as an example when coaching up his young squad.

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