Magic coaching camp countdown: Will anticipations, roles become clearer?

With the 2022-23 NBA year approaching, the Orlando Sentinel is unveiling a five-part sequence of Orlando Magic storylines to continue to keep an eye on heading into coaching camp, which ideas off Tuesday at their new condition-of-the-artwork AdventHealth Schooling Centre. Aspect a single resolved no matter if the Magic did more than enough to flip all-around their taking pictures woes, portion two focused on harm-relevant questions, portion three touched on the rookies and aspect four addressed lineup experimentation.

Part Five: Accountability

As a staff stocked with young expertise in the first whole year of a rebuild, the Magic were being in player-analysis method in 2021-22.

That’ll still be the case, with Orlando entering 2022-23 as the league’s 2nd-youngest workforce, only behind the Oklahoma Town Thunder.

But how the evaluations are made will be unique.

Fourteen of the Magic’s 16 gamers signed to conventional contracts ended up on final year’s crew. The other two, Paolo Banchero and Caleb Houstan, are rookies.

The continuity and familiarity allowed coach Jamahl Mosley and his staff to have a much better thought of every single player’s strengths and spots for enhancement.

Now, they can elevate the expectations.

“A lot of it was analysis last 12 months,” Mosley explained on the Magic’s official podcast, Pod Squad. “Observing what fellas had been capable of, not able of, the distinctive combos we place on the floor. It’s likely to be a minimal less difficult when you see the identical group of adult men who’ve been with you because very last yr. Now, I won’t have to say the identical point a few moments simply because you heard it all very last year.

“All the factors we did very last calendar year, there were some incredibly good components in that course of action the place fellas grew and got better. Now it is a issue of what are you truly grasping it and I can keep you to a distinctive typical because I instructed you all previous year what we’re anticipating.”

What that seems to be like: Reducing down on turnovers (14.4% turnover percentage for the league’s eighth-worst mark), using greater pictures and not settling for undesirable kinds and staying disciplined with the defensive gameplan.

Actively playing time — and roles — will be tied to who’s able to adhere with the Magic’s ideas far more than last period.

“There’s a distinct degree of accountability,” Mosley claimed. “They’re heading to carry on to understand. It is not automatically putting the foot on the gasoline. It’s, ‘Hey, this is what we’re anticipating.’ And now you have this person ideal next to you who understands it a minimal bit in different ways than you. So right up until you get that, let us put this individual in position and it may well pace it up for you for how speedy you understand it. I don’t want to skip any ways. It is all about the foundation currently being ongoing to be laid each and every working day.”

The to start with layer of the basis was laid past calendar year.

Now, it is time to create an additional degree — maybe far more. With that will come extra described roles.

The Magic’s youthful players will have likelihood to improve and take a look at their skillsets.

But they’ll be requested to target much more on regions in which they excel.

“What we’re continuing to try out to do is demonstrate them the examples of it in other teams that have done it,” Mosley said. “I get it: All people desires to be the initially kinds revealed or observed. We talk about undertaking it by committee. If we’re all productive, just about every individual productive in their very own right.

“You choose shots from what Golden Point out did and how they grew it, Milwaukee and how they grew it, Boston and how they grew it. They pushed each individual other and they all gained. For us to be prosperous, it has to be accomplished by committee.”

This posting to start with appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Khobi Value at khprice@orlandosentinel.com or stick to him on Twitter at @khobi_selling price.

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