Game Reaction from Mar. 23 Sacramento Kings at Orlando Magic

Game Reaction from Mar. 23 Sacramento Kings at Orlando Magic

Hey what’s up second cousins it’s Kyle and Peach here from a closet closet cousins coming out you a very nicely adorned closet I might say here we have the Jaylen Suggs autographed here very nice Peach is wearing the deuts land fron Vagner signed it’s a good thing get

The back okay okay I’ll get it oh there it is they thanks to Jay and Erica for getting me this when we went out today to game time cards yep you’re interested in them they’re there tell them the court cousins sent you tell them Jay sent you too so he can get a

Discount as well but we’re really here to react to the Kings game which we went to tonight as well okay all right we are you know wearing our net here you have a nice net necklace I have a net earring here necklace it’s a netlas yeah okay

And we cut down the Nets after a victory against Pelicans for core cousins night because the magic know not to lose on core cousins night they do they come they go harder yeah they know we’re in town but tonight unfortunately didn’t have the juice to finish the game the magic go

Hard yeah a little too hard maybe 109 to 107 to the Sacramento Kings a really good team from the West I think they’re in eighth place now or they were you know it’s so tight in the west that one game you go from three to eight it’s

It’s even crazier over there than it is in the Eastern Conference but I mean the lead for me is is the Jonathan Isaac game we just saw the Jonathan Isaac game p right that’s got to be a career high I don’t know if we have that Stat or not

But that was an impressive offensive game from him he also played well defensively but at this point you come to expect expect it you don’t expect 23 points 25 points on 10 of 13 shooting bananas and I wouldn’t expect that every night I don’t think either I mean know

You want to look I want to I really do because hey he’s he’s coming back where we’ve been seeing the stat floating around first 24 games he’s you know shooting under 30% from Beyond The Arc 45% or something like that these last 24 games he’s shooting over 40 40 over 40%

From three even better from the field and you saw it again tonight it’s beginning to look kind of real and and for Isaac Believers out there it was always this because it was that three years ago Isaac before he tore the ACL Euro stepping through the lane where he

Was adding those Euro steps he was adding that Baseline turnaround jumper which we saw multiple times tonight the offensive package was coming together along with a potential def Player of the Year candidate which was why guys like me at that time were like oh no we got Jonathan Isaac he’s the Giannis stopper

And and and we can do he’s our guy I never expected him to have any offensive game every time he shoots a three I’m like what are you doing out there stop it but he shooting well tonight so it’s flowing flow um yeah really just need

Him to do big man [ __ ] and he’s been doing that and splendidly and playing Back toback Games by the way so played both games we were here yeah well yeah back there’s a break in between but yes two games after each other he did play them I have seen three magic games in

Person he played them all I’m just saying so it’s a step in the right direction it’s where he want it to be right like he’s definitely a super Factor when he’s out there on the court he’s playing way better than than Wendell right now and and and look I’m

Not the only one that’s talked about it here on this program and other places you hear the scuttlebutt in the in the crowd especially when ji has a game like that yeah so um hopefully that that motivates Wendell to step up as well because you know if Isaac’s going like

This and it gets playoff time you gotta flip them yeah I mean what’s most important is who’s finishing the game and tonight ji was finishing the game was was Wendell out there no guess it wasn’t it was Cole ji Paulo Fran sugs but let’s

Talk I mean the end of the game it was back and forth throughout the game but the end of the game is really where we gave it up the last you know minute of the game we were up by one was it when Jaylen Suggs comes and oh that was bumps

Old boy with the the little hand check at the hip and dearen FX oh my goodness and then is gonna backourt the ball but the referee saves him not blowing the whistle at the time of the foul but blowing the whistle at the time of what would have been a back court

Violation which you know you you understand why the referee does that you hate it if it’s for us but it was a hand check yeah and Jaylen just has to be better you can’t hand check a guy literally the furthest away he can be from the net while still on the

Offensive side of the floor if they don’t call it if it’s not going to be a turnover no and that’s that motivates referees to make calls sometimes if it’s a turnover it results in Lost possession then then you got to call stuff but let’s be honest I think he was kind of

Losing his balance that little brush he was not a big deal but the course okay they called it right but we still had plenty of chances to answer in this one and it just wasn’t there the the wild three shot sequence was that before after the hand was right after no that

That was that was after because um because then we were yeah so we were up when the foul happen we had three looks at it that possession after dearon fox goes up he hits two free throws puts them up by two one damn that was the go-ahead yes that was what aggravating

About that little Ticky Tac foul and that’s why it feels bad although probably a foul at the end of the day it was a foul but opportunities you know some open shots were missed it was a wild sequence and then we fouled the young rookie who we learned about

Yesterday when we ran into one of the Sacramento Kings coaches at the bar we were watching the game at talked to him for a while he told us this Ellis kid was gonna be starting um and yeah he started he played well but he G opened

The door he left the door open by only hitting one free throw at the end because now it’s two-point game we got a timeout there’s two seconds left right and honestly I wish I had more to say about it because they didn’t run a play

I don’t know what the play was I don’t know if it got busted up you mean the play wasn’t problem fading away from the net right usually when you run a play it should be towards the basket or for an open shot that wasn’t neither

Um and uh it’s a weird play it’s a weird play we didn’t need a three either and it seemed like they were kind of just like settling for the three we could have just gone for the two and gone for tie if you get it for good bucket I said

It to many people I talked to after the game so I’ll say here on the show look Ji having a game right let’s run a lob throw the ball up sa bonus going to get up as high as him at The Rim I doubt it

You know what if it fails we all would have been like hey cool ji had a chance to play God go to the why not go to the hot hand but going to a fade away three and he he got it and it was almost like

He was like oh [ __ ] I gotta go now it’s like yeah man you just took a time out and it’s two seconds like it wasn’t just it wasn’t like they just made a basket and then had to go they had time to drop and play it was a timeout people sat

They they probably watched commercials at home yeah draw something up like draw up a backup play too if the first one doesn’t work I just I’m confused when basketball at this level what happened there like what and I don’t think we’re ever really going to get a true answer of like what went

Wrong but that can’t have been the Play Just Give It To Paulo and let him just try to do hit F moving away from the basket yeah I mean he wasn’t even a super hot hand so sort of like what what is that move like if he’s open great if

You make a play and he’s open give me that I just want someone to get an open shot and if the last that jeer was was okay I just give it to him and let him gun one up I’m not super satisfied with that yeah yeah and the uh the other

Thing that was coming under a lot of criticism was the play before that we referenced where we had three opportunities at it at one of those rebounds let’s call a timeout let’s get a play because it was just kind of chaotic I mean there wouldn’t had the

One at the end that’s fair that’s fair that’s fair you always do want to kind of leave yourself one especially when you get down I think that’s probably what they were thinking is just try to scramble for a bucket get it they’re only down one at that point so right but

As you said lots of opportunities looking at the the team box score we’ll finish this up because pich’s arm is getting tired holding this forgot our tripod you arm look at the guns oh yeah gun shows out in Florida baby they’re legal here I mean 28% from Beyond The Arc if

We had one of those you know 10 of 35 give us 11 to 35 we win that game looking at the free throw disparity they get to the line 2 one times hit it 18 we get to the line 18 times only hit 13 give us a couple of those get to The

Line Game that tight everything matters every POS everything matters yeah you’re right I can point to all this [ __ ] there’s a lot of stuff you can point to but you know like we were talking about with h yachi and we’ll get to all the people we caught up with in a minute

Before we close but um you know we need games like that said we need games like that uh we need to have some playoff atmosphere games like that before we get to the playoffs and that was one of them it didn’t go our way right but that’s

Good experience for the future to not do that play at the end of the game two seconds chance so you know absolutely every misstep just like in life you learn a lesson and you move on and hopefully you grow stronger from it and look our team’s done that every step of

The way I’ve been doing this podcast for three years now we’ve seen nothing but growth going forward they’ve learned from mistakes they’ve gotten the right guys in there guys have gotten better there’s no reason to believe that it won’t continue magic fan so do not be disappointed about this loss um it’s

It’s G to be you know a small part of the journey to where we want to be so sleep well well said well said about to sleep so yeah I got my sleeping cap on my my my C my gat which is a net hat since you have okay necklace anyways but

Yeah look we we came to Orlando we do what we came to do we cut down Nets you know I got a souvenir cup we got jerseys we we met new people we saw people we saw last year I mean it ended with a loss but it was a victory for the court

Cousins out here tonight thank you everyone who stopped us at the arena and said hey thank you for doing what you’re doing uh it it’s a great affirmation we really appreciate it and it was really nice to hear um JT coming over and and talking to me about the check-ins the

Psychological check-ins and and Brian who hooked us up with the drink last year seeing us out there and just you know Jay and Erica and Raph and Megan and Al and Katherine and all the guy you know um yachi of course Cortez everyone that showed us some of what Florida has

To offer in the way of hospitality thank you so much yeah the I mean the it’s it’s hard to put it into words you know sometimes it’s it you got a lot going on in your life and it’s hard to think about you know does it matter and you

Know when I’m walking around Dallas in a ice rank no nobody gives a [ __ ] and I don’t think many people give a [ __ ] when you’re teaching in Connecticut few kids on well the students are on a little bit it’s weird that like no one knows about

This part of our life so it’s cool when we come here and actually like get recognized a little bit for at least what we’re doing and so I really appreciate that it it helps put fuel in the tank to to keep it going and keep

Keep it going in a good way and I’m glad that to finally meet Jay while we’re here we hang out hung out with him quite a bit first Puerto Rican food I’ve ever had today thanks to to him and Erica that was excellent as well is opening

Doors and you know he’s going to be kind of joining the team a little bit doing RS more with Kyle and it’s good you know a lot of people ask me they’re like you guys don’t do wrap-ups anymore and I’m like well we do here’s one and there’s

Some other ones back there it’s not always me but he’s always here and you know we’re trying our best and we appreciate yall so much love thank you so much Florida thank you Orlando peace out for me thanks for coming thanks for having us thanks for having us f

Court Cousins final night in Orlando and the guys talk about the tight game with the Kings and wrap-up the journey to Florida!