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Speaker 1: the four o'clock hour fun day out at the Advent
Speaker 1: Health Training Center saw the introduction of two rookies for
Speaker 1: the Orlando Magic, Jase Richardson and Noah Penda. And we
Speaker 1: will key you in on that momentarily. But first and
Speaker 1: foremost what happened after is the perhaps the most important thing, because.
Speaker 2: I got lunch.
Speaker 1: Okay, so a roll through Zaxby's, which was these are
Speaker 1: my old stomping grounds. Is Zaxby's right by my old
Speaker 1: house that I no longer live in, but is on
Speaker 1: the way back from the training facility. I pass it
Speaker 1: to get to the studio. So I roll in the
Speaker 1: drive through, and I don't want to overeat before I
Speaker 1: do the show. I try and eat a light lunch
Speaker 1: show that I have peak energy for all of you
Speaker 1: for three hours. And if I overeat, like you can
Speaker 1: very easily do when you roll through a drive through,
Speaker 1: if you're getting food out of your window, chances are
Speaker 1: you've got the capability to overeat some very greasy food
Speaker 1: that could bog you down. We don't want low energy levels.
Speaker 1: So I told the person in the intercom, could I
Speaker 1: just get chicken tenders and French fries?
Speaker 2: That's all I want?
Speaker 1: Tyler, you would have thought that I was explaining how
Speaker 1: to perform brain surgery. The people that work at fast
Speaker 1: food restaurants are so locked in on the menu, the numbers,
Speaker 1: and what comes with all of the meals, and so
Speaker 1: I said, can I just get Can I just get
Speaker 1: chicken fingers and French fries? He goes, yeah, we have
Speaker 1: an option for that. It's called the chicken tender plate.
Speaker 1: I said, I know, but I don't want the bread
Speaker 1: or the coal slaw. Don't need a drink. And he
Speaker 1: was like, so, so you want it grilled. Then I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is exactly how the conversation went. I said, no,
Speaker 1: if I could just get the chicken tenders and the fries,
Speaker 1: he goes, oh, like you want me to double up
Speaker 1: the fries and take the coal slaw out. At this point,
Speaker 1: now we've gone back and forth three times via the intercom,
Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, I'll just take it
Speaker 1: the way it comes. And I said, I just paid
Speaker 1: for the stuff that I wasn't going to eat because
Speaker 1: I couldn't continue to go back and forth with this
Speaker 1: guy I was. I was still very chummy with him.
Speaker 1: He seemed like a nice guy. We were just we
Speaker 1: were not on the same wavelength. And I usually don't modify.
Speaker 1: Usually if I roll through, even if I don't want something,
Speaker 1: I just order it the way it comes and I'll
Speaker 1: deal with it. I just I knew that if they
Speaker 1: gave me the delicious bread and that coal slaw and
Speaker 1: a drink, I was gonna eat all of it.
Speaker 2: So what do you think happened? They gave me all
Speaker 2: of it, and I hate the whole damn thing. I
Speaker 2: know myself.
Speaker 1: This is why I don't want it in my presence,
Speaker 1: because then I'm gonna consume it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we are two of the same.
Speaker 3: You cannot put food in front of either of us
Speaker 3: and we just say, yeah, I know, We'll pass.
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
Speaker 3: There was the other slap in the face to you
Speaker 3: on this was when you got in studio. There was
Speaker 3: pizza in our breakroom. That was the worst part. That
Speaker 3: was the worst part is then I didn't even need
Speaker 3: to get the.
Speaker 1: Zaxby's was delicious, But I regret it because there was
Speaker 1: very good looking pizza.
Speaker 2: That was a that looked like a rock solid pizza.
Speaker 1: And by the time I saw it, had I eaten
Speaker 1: that slice, that would have really tipped me over to
Speaker 1: where this would have been a really sluggish three hours.
Speaker 2: So I skipped it. Not me, I went I wasn't
Speaker 2: even hungry, you know.
Speaker 3: And I figured, at some point throughout the show, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna want a little slice of pizza, so pro move.
Speaker 3: I go into the breakroom about fifteen minutes ago. Let
Speaker 3: me just see what's in the box. Let me just
Speaker 3: see what we're working with, and there was one half
Speaker 3: of a slice of a pizza pizza left, and I went, yep,
Speaker 3: all right, the duty calls. I can't I can't just
Speaker 3: save this for two hours. This has to go down now.
Speaker 3: So had that had a little half of a canoli
Speaker 3: and what a rain.
Speaker 1: Or roll man, You're living the life. This is nothing
Speaker 1: against you, Zax, because you made some great chicken. The
Speaker 1: chicken tenders were really good. So we had a texture
Speaker 1: yesterday asking for aggressiveness from the Orlando Magic. Well, my friend,
Speaker 1: you got it, and it came in the form of
Speaker 1: the second round pick known as no Appenda. The Magic
Speaker 1: traded from their war chest of second round picks to
Speaker 1: move up from forty six to thirty two, and I
Speaker 1: absolutely love this. I am so used to seeing this
Speaker 1: team completely punt on the second round. I feel like,
Speaker 1: not only is this the time to trade up given
Speaker 1: where this team is in their trajectory, but also this
Speaker 1: is the draft to do it. This is the draft
Speaker 1: where you have first round talent that was slipping to
Speaker 1: the second round. This is a deep NBA draft and
Speaker 1: you should be over the moon with the aggressiveness that
Speaker 1: this team showed to move up, get a guy that
Speaker 1: they likely had a first round great on and make
Speaker 1: sure that he's part of the roster. No Apenda six
Speaker 1: seven two forty two, twenty years old. Played thirty games
Speaker 1: last season for Les mont Sarth in the Elite France League,
Speaker 1: averaging ten and a half points, five point three rebounds,
Speaker 1: two point eight assists, and nearly two steals per game.
Speaker 1: This is a defensive force. He ranked fourth during the
Speaker 1: regular season in steals, thirteenth in rebounding, and was named
Speaker 1: an All Star and participated in the league's Young Player
Speaker 1: All Star Game, where he was named the MVP of
Speaker 1: that game. As I mentioned, he's twenty years old, but
Speaker 1: the fact that he is already a pro means that
Speaker 1: he can probably step in and help this team right
Speaker 1: now if they need him to. To me, this is
Speaker 1: what about the luxury tax. This is why I think
Speaker 1: the second round going forward is going to be even
Speaker 1: more valuable for all teams than it has been in
Speaker 1: the past because of how punitive that second apron is.
Speaker 1: You need cheap talent on your roster, and there's nothing
Speaker 1: cheaper than getting guys in the second round.
Speaker 2: So I adore this move. This was not a guy
Speaker 2: that I was overly.
Speaker 1: Familiar with other than having heard his name prior to
Speaker 1: the draft, but just based on everything that I saw,
Speaker 1: getting a chance to meet with him today and seeing
Speaker 1: the aggressiveness.
Speaker 2: To me, that's the biggest thing is.
Speaker 1: A team will tell you how much they like a
Speaker 1: guy by how aggressive they are and going to get him.
Speaker 1: A couple of teams did that throughout the draft, and
Speaker 1: the Magic did it with Penda.
Speaker 3: Yeah, going back to those picks, because I'm totally with you,
Speaker 3: I think that this was a deep draft and there
Speaker 3: are going to be second round gems that we'll discuss
Speaker 3: throughout the show. That are going to be able to
Speaker 3: make an impact down the line for NBA franchises, and
Speaker 3: I think even some that will make an impact for
Speaker 3: some shorter depth teams in the NBA next season that
Speaker 3: you get out of.
Speaker 2: This second round. That's why I like the move. I
Speaker 2: like the aggressiveness.
Speaker 3: I would have loved if it landed with Rashier Fleming,
Speaker 3: who was taken with the first selection in the second round.
Speaker 3: The Magic had the second pick of the second round.
Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken, though, was it four second round
Speaker 3: picks that the Magic gave up in order to get
Speaker 3: this thirty second pick that essentially, you know, you look
Speaker 3: at it the right way, you squint your eyes, and
Speaker 3: it's a first round pick at thirty two, four second
Speaker 3: rounders if I'm not mistaken too this year, and then two.
Speaker 2: Down the line, that's correct.
Speaker 3: The Magic aren't going to need all those second round selections,
Speaker 3: and it's a way that you can justify the move.
Speaker 3: It's like the first round picks and all the picks
Speaker 3: that went into getting Desmond Baane and the loading off
Speaker 3: of Kntavis Cattable Pope in that contract. Even if the
Speaker 3: Magic may be overpaid with the picks in some fans' eyes,
Speaker 3: they could afford to do it because they put themselves
Speaker 3: in a good position with draft capital that they were
Speaker 3: able to do so. The same can be said for
Speaker 3: second round picks. The Magic can't make all those second
Speaker 3: nd on selections that they gave up in order to
Speaker 3: get Penda. But the flip side of that is, Okay,
Speaker 3: you're trading potentially those future assets, which at the end
Speaker 3: of the day we're talking about second round picks are
Speaker 3: most likely not going to hit down the line, but
Speaker 3: you're build that you're putting all of those assets into, saying, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is the second rounder that we want right here,
Speaker 3: right now. This is the guy that we are going
Speaker 3: to buy into. Forget about the other seconds that we
Speaker 3: could get this year or down the line. We believe
Speaker 3: in this guy to the point that we're willing to
Speaker 3: give up four potential players in order to get him.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can overpay in the second round.
Speaker 1: You can overpay in the first round because first round
Speaker 1: picks are they can be used as gold.
Speaker 2: In the NBA I view.
Speaker 1: Second round picks, even though they are growing in value
Speaker 1: because we're seeing more international players come over the drafts,
Speaker 1: you're seeing players stick around in college, so you're getting
Speaker 1: more seasoned players that are coming into the league, more
Speaker 1: proven talent. I think you're seeing there's a reason why
Speaker 1: part of the reason they split this thing into two
Speaker 1: nights is that you have more valuable players that are
Speaker 1: being drafted in the NBA Draft. I think at some
Speaker 1: point they're probably even going to expand the draft from
Speaker 1: two to three rounds because there's so much talent that
Speaker 1: is coming into this league. So I do think they're
Speaker 1: getting more valuable. But I would compare, if I'm comparing
Speaker 1: first round picks to gold second round picks are like
Speaker 1: tickets at daven Busters or at the end of your
Speaker 1: day at Dave and Busters.
Speaker 2: You go to that toy store.
Speaker 1: And it's like this hammer costs fifty thousand tickets. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what it costs. That's what I'll pay for it.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that you really want. You just it's
Speaker 1: like it doesn't even matter. It's like it's not even
Speaker 1: real money. So, because like you said, second round picks
Speaker 1: have value, but you can't use all of them because
Speaker 1: then you you just end up with a surplus of players.
Speaker 3: And it's why, what to my very quick count of
Speaker 3: the thirty picks in the second round, I think twenty
Speaker 3: one of them were involved in deals last night that
Speaker 3: the teams who owned the picks originally did not make
Speaker 3: the selections.
Speaker 2: That's why they get traded like candy around the league.
Speaker 3: We'll hear from Noa Penda in just a moment as
Speaker 3: well as Jamal Moseley and his thoughts on what he
Speaker 3: can bring to the team.
Speaker 2: But what we know about this guy. You mentioned the stats.
Speaker 3: He's been a professional overseas going back to the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty season, where he would have been about sixteen years old.
Speaker 2: He's a twitchy defender. He can guard both of the
Speaker 2: forward spots.
Speaker 3: He's really versatile offensively on finding open space on the ball.
Speaker 3: Off of the ball, He's going to be able to
Speaker 3: bring some valuable things for the Magic. You hope the
Speaker 3: shot mechanics and the shot success can come along. He
Speaker 3: hasn't been a great shooter so far through his young
Speaker 3: European career, but that's something that you can change. The
Speaker 3: Magic have the ability to mold this player into exactly
Speaker 3: what they want him to be and what they want
Speaker 3: him to provide. So all in all, this guy was
Speaker 3: projected in the first round in a decent amount of
Speaker 3: drafts top thirty five on a lot of big boards,
Speaker 3: so you can't consider this a move that is a
Speaker 3: bad one for the Magic.
Speaker 2: Well head to the audio that we picked up today.
Speaker 1: We were out there at the press conference for Jace
Speaker 1: Richardson and Noah Penda and Philip Rossman. Reich asked, how
Speaker 1: do these two fit the Magic DNA.
Speaker 4: Think it's just me and just coming in and working
Speaker 4: as hard as you can. I think me and Know
Speaker 4: when we came in, we worked out together, so we
Speaker 4: really came in worked as hard as we possibly could.
Speaker 4: And I think that's one thing they really liked about us,
Speaker 4: is that we're going to powerful effort out there.
Speaker 5: We also taking care of each other. I felt like
Speaker 5: the organization was really big on family, having all of
Speaker 5: their players connected to each other, So I think it's
Speaker 5: a big part of the JENNA.
Speaker 2: There's definitely a type that the Magic have.
Speaker 1: They want good people that fit the DNA, and it
Speaker 1: looks like they got a pair of them now. They
Speaker 1: were asked, how does it feel to be added to
Speaker 1: a team that's in win now mode, which is a
Speaker 1: different territory for this Magic team.
Speaker 5: This is how they responded, I think it shows that
Speaker 5: people in the organization not trusting us to be ready
Speaker 5: for day one, and at the same time they all
Speaker 5: away to make mistake and develop ourselves as the player
Speaker 5: we both are. So again, he's just good to have
Speaker 5: that confidence around you.
Speaker 4: Almost definitely, I think just having a group of guys
Speaker 4: that are really confident in how their team already is
Speaker 4: and you know, joining that and just trying to learn
Speaker 4: from guys like that, So stepping up with guys and
Speaker 4: just learning from them.
Speaker 1: If you can't tell the difference, the French one is
Speaker 1: no appenda, the other one is Jace Richardson. Jamal Mosley
Speaker 1: was asked about no appenda and the defense and the
Speaker 1: identity that he brings with him.
Speaker 6: You know, just watching him and seeing how he plays
Speaker 6: this physical stature, the IQ, the ability to guard multiple positions.
Speaker 6: I think just sitting in that realm for us right now,
Speaker 6: switch the switch ability, I think that's you know, sits
Speaker 6: a lot on the forefront for us.
Speaker 1: I think Jamal Mosley was very excited to add a
Speaker 1: couple of shooters in the off season, has been banging
Speaker 1: Jace Richardson, but also it all starts on defense with
Speaker 1: Mosley and to add to that anchor, I think was
Speaker 1: a positive for Moseley and for the group. Now I
Speaker 1: got a chance to wrap up the press conference asking
Speaker 1: a question to Jace Richardson about what it is he
Speaker 1: picked up from the college basketball coaching legend known as
Speaker 1: Tom Izzo.
Speaker 4: I think one of the biggest things was film. He
Speaker 4: loves film. He watches it right after we win, right
Speaker 4: after we lose. Any single time we're on the bus,
Speaker 4: he's got the game popped up. He's watching the clip
Speaker 4: ten times on one play. So I think I just
Speaker 4: became a lot better film watcher with him. We broke
Speaker 4: down a lot of film together. Days where I wouldn't
Speaker 4: have class, I will go go into his office and
Speaker 4: we just watch film together for like two hours.
Speaker 1: Well you couldn't see in that clip is Jamal Moseley's
Speaker 1: eyes lighting up when he heard that Jace Richardson was
Speaker 1: a film junkie at such a young age. That right
Speaker 1: there is our experience at the Magic press conference today.
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