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Today on the big three in 30, the hornets get a win over the nicks.

They move back into a tie for eighth place in the Eastern Conference.

The magic snap a six game losing streak.

Do let no magic have been in this tricky situation a lot over the last two weeks.

And the pistons blow out the pelicans.

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Khan Kanipa led the way for the hornets last night with 26 points in a win over the nicks.

The W marks five in a row for Charlotte and Doug Branson has the recap on locked on hornets.

We're going to just sit in celebration, sicko celebration, if you will, of the Charlotte Hornets who win their fifth straight game.

They move back into a tie for eighth place in the Eastern Conference.

And they take down a New York Knicks team with one of the best offenses in the league.

They take down a New York Knicks team that came into this game with the same record as the Charlotte Hornets

over the past 30 games, 23 and seven.

They take down a nicks team that had come into this game on a seven game winning streak.

Now the Charlotte Hornets were in a four game winning streak, but seven greater than four nicks a little bit hotter than the hornets,

but the Hornets were at home.

They were favored by about a point and a half, two points, depending on where you were putting your bets down.

And the Hornets, they took that.

They said, we're the favorite.

We're not going to act like it.

We are going to use dogged physicality.

They brought the right energy from the jump and were scoring points and bunches and taking the nicks punches and punching right back.

And then making adjustments all throughout this game.

The Hornets so impressive in this one.

They put on a defensive hustle led stranglehold on one of the best offenses in the league.

And Khan said after the game that they stuck to their identity.

Well, let's pause here and just say the Hornets have an identity.

The Hornets do have a DNA and it's con racing to save a possession jumping out of bounds to save one possession.

It's Musa Diabate.

I think Conkinipal Musa Diabate have to share the game ball.

Con 26 points, 11 rebounds and eight assist.

That to me, this entire game for Khan was a dagger in the rookie of the year race, which was probably already over anyway.

But the fact that Khan is your game score leader is your Hornets leader for this game, where they beat the New York Knicks,

who are the third best team in the Eastern Conference.

This was a statement game for the Hornets.

I look, I said before this game on an episode earlier this week that I thought this was a measuring stick game.

My co-host Walker male who you'll hear much more from tomorrow.

He was at the game.

He had the pleasure of being at the game to hear all of those Knicks fans be overwhelmed by the Charlotte Hornets faithful.

The sick goes in there, eventually overwhelming to baby taking a shirt off.

That's like the, I'm sorry, Hugo, move over Hugo.

You're no longer the mascot.

I'm sorry, maybe next year, this year, it's the baby taking a shirt off and beating a jersey with a belt.

That is the new mascot of the Charlotte Hornets.

I don't make the rules.

Those are just the rules, okay?

And so he had the, so Walker had the pleasure of being in the building.

I have the pleasure of being with you, sick goes here one on one to celebrate this incredible win by the Hornets.

But Khan, player of the game, Moussa, player of the game, dominant on the offensive boards.

Incredible perimeter defense on Jalen Bronson.

This was the very first thing that I wrote in my notebook for every Hornets box score.

Very first thing, first quarter, first few minutes.

Being able to have Moussa guard Jalen Bronson 1v1 on the perimeter is such a cheat code

for the switching defense that the Hornets were putting on the, particularly the cat Bronson pick and roll,

which is one of if not the most effective pick and roll combo in the entire lead.

You have to have an answer for it.

And the Charlotte Hornets answer was we're not afraid to lead to lead Moussa Diabate out on an island against Jalen Bronson.

And it worked and they were honestly they weren't afraid to put Khan 1v1 on Jalen Bronson.

They weren't sacrificing the rest of their defense.

They were saying, look, we're going to trust these matchups.

We're going to trust you not to foul to make the adjustment because they did foul Jalen Bronson too much in the first quarter.

I think he had 14 or 15 points in the first quarter.

The Nick shot about a billion free throws and then the Hornets proceeded to adjust, adjust, adjust,

second quarter, zero free throws for the, for the New York Knicks.

Third quarter, zero free throws for the New York Knicks.

Moussa Diabate was a python that just went around the neck of the New York Knicks and slowly put them to sleep.

That's what he did.

And it was, it was, it was offensive rebounds, but it was also like, I think he only recorded one rebound in the box score in the fourth quarter.

But he led the team in game score in the fourth quarter and he led the team in just saving possessions,

giving the Hornets another opportunity because some of those plays that weren't recorded as rebounds were him fighting off two or three Nick's defensive rebounders.

And either the ball would go out of bounds off of one of those defensive rebounders or he would draw a foul.

And on top of that, he gets that amazing steal on the cat Bronson pick and roll.

I don't know what cat was doing, but he was holding just exposing the ball in the five hole, just holding it down low.

And Moussa was like, okay, I'll take that. Thanks. Thanks. Blunder. I'll take it.

And then Brandon took it and yammed it down. Miles Bridges, yammed it down.

Con Caniple showing off all of his offensive versatility, Lamello ball hitting deep three after deep three Kobe White patients with his passing dominant as an ISO score, the ISO score that the profits for told that they've needed for years.

Kobe White is finally answering that call.

The Hornets are answering the call to be a more physical team to establish an identity as a team not to be trifled with you.

It doesn't matter that this is March. It doesn't matter that this is the end of the regular season.

The Hornets are forcing every single team. They already did it on they already proved it out on the road.

And now they're bringing the show back to spectrum center and set and they're saying to teams, if you come into this house, you better be ready to play.

I'm not sure the nicks were entirely ready for everything that the Hornets were throwing at them in that first quarter.

They were ready for the physical play and they kept their composure despite despite the fact that I thought the officials were calling a playoff whistle at the rim, meaning they weren't calling contact at the rim.

Hornets started to get into that a little bit of back and forth with the refs, but they, but they reigned it in.

Charles Lee got the boys focused on doing what they needed to do to beat the nicks, doing what they needed to do to keep Jalen Brunson from scoring in double digits in another quarter and burying them.

They were the better team. And I think they made a case, not just that they were a better team tonight, but I think they are establishing the case now that they have to be taken seriously as potentially a better team in some of these playoff series that they can be a part of if it's six three against the next.

Yeah, I mean, honestly, depending on Cade's availability and his once he comes back, what state he is in, if it's an eight one matchup out of the play.

I think the Hornets have to be taken seriously as, you know, a real threat in the first round. I don't think I mean, not even the Celtics. I don't know that there's a single team in the Eastern Conference that wants to see this offense the way it's playing right now.

Because there will be, there will be a game in the seven game series that the Hornets don't shoot the basketball particularly well and fall apart. They might, they might get beaten.

But I think the Hornets have been proving over the past. I mean, really, since the all star break that they can string enough games together that they're not one off one on that they have an attitude and his concept.

That an identity that they're able to establish early in a game and stick with now the team is still young. The team is still inexperienced. The team has not gone through the fires of playoff basketball where you're down sometimes or where you have a lead and you have to hold on to it and the other team is fighting for their lives and they're fighting you for their lives.

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Welcome back to the big 3 in 30 NBA. The magic have stumbled through the last part of the regular season losing six in a row before finally getting back in the win column against the Kings yesterday.

Philip Rosman Wright gives us his thoughts live from the arena post game unlocked on magic.

The Orlando magic have been in this tricky situation a lot over the last two weeks during this six game losing streak. They have had these moments where they don't look quite right where they're just not on in sync, not on the same page where the magic get to these close games and just aren't able to finish.

The magic will tell you they are a few bounces of the basketball away from being three and three in their last six maybe even form two that might be pushing it.

But the difference between winning and losing for this team has not been as far as it seems that part might be true.

And so it's not surprising even against an opponent struggling like the Sacramento case.

It is not surprising that the magic to break their six game losing streak was going to have to earn it.

It was not going to be easy tonight. It was not going to be simple. It was not going to be just a checklist of okay do this that in the other the Kings are going to roll over let you win.

Sacramento like Indiana on Monday is going to make mistakes that all bad teams do.

Losses seem to find you when you're in a rut.

And so this was not going to be some takeaway game because the magic right now aren't a team playing to its standard.

The magic right now aren't a team in rhythm in sync.

This is a team searching for itself.

And so the first step to your line of magic breaking this losing streak is to actually break a losing streak.

They actually have to win the game and they have to go out and take it.

And that's what the magic didn't do for most of this game.

Yes, Orlando led almost the entire game.

They built as much as a 12 point lead they look like at various points like they were about to pull away and then Sacramento made some shots Orlando didn't answer.

And suddenly the game was back within that six to eight point range or back into that four point range sometimes down to three or two points.

Tied at 95 early in the fourth quarter.

And yes, I did say early in the fourth quarter.

This was the gut check moment for the Orlando magic.

This was the moment when this team was either going to find the will to go out and take this game and end this.

Horrid losing streak.

Or they were going to proceed and crumble as they frankly have throughout various pockets of the season.

What the magic did at 95 95.

And you can see the score your listeners. I told you the magic one.

What the magic did was they put together a ten oh run.

Started to look and move and play like the team can at its best.

Getting rebounds getting stops using that in transition getting the ball to Palo Vane.

Where he could create an advantage letting their stars dominate the game letting their star lead the way and I'm going to talk more about Palo's leadership.

Coming up in our second segment.

Orlando went on a ten oh run.

To take a ten point lead and do what might have felt like.

What this team should have done all along.

Build the run, build a lead, create some distance, coast to the finish.

Like I said, when you're losing, when you're a bad team, losses find you.

It's not so simple.

After that ten oh run, Dayquan plow and hit a three.

Tough three at that.

Magic couldn't answer Dayquan plow.

It's another three. That's six point lead down to four.

Very, very late in the game after so much back and forth.

Plow another three.

Three of his six threes came in that stretch in the fourth quarter.

And all of a sudden the magic found themselves only up one.

Desmond Bain missed an open shot that would have made it a seven point game.

Plow made the three that made it one.

And so the magic had to dig deep.

They had to find the play to simply find a way to win.

And they did Palo Bain, Carol driving to the lane.

Passing to Desmond Bain.

He drives passes again out to the perimeter, swing swing.

Jalen Suggs who struggled all night, very much looked sick.

Very much sounded sick in the locker room after the game.

Drain to three made it a four point game with like 13 seconds left.

And finally everyone could exhale the magic we're going to win.

As Jamal mostly put it after the game.

This isn't Orlando Magic basketball.

They didn't defend at all.

And if they did it was super inconsistent.

A 123.2 defense of writing for the Orlando magic.

This was a.

This was about as bad.

As the magic have this is the worst stretch of defense magic played in a while.

That's three straight games.

We have more than 120 points for one on possessions.

They frankly are lucky.

That the Sacramento Kings are not a good team.

Credit to Demarderosa.

Credit to Monique Monk.

Credit to Dayquan Plow in the former Oceola Magic player.

Credit to that whole starting line at precious to Chua had good minutes.

Maximum ring no had good minutes.

Credit to the Kings.

They did not quit on this game.

It's a team that wanted to make a statement after scoring only 90 points against Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday.

This was a team that was still playing with a little bit of pride injured as they might be.

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Sacramento wasn't rolling over and frankly I don't want teams to roll over.

Magic need to earn everyone right now.

They need the reps.

They need the practice and they need to see if they need to recognize.

They did not play to their standard.

The message from Jamal Mosley after Tuesday's game was that we are doing a lot of the right things and maybe shots aren't falling.

But we're not going anywhere if we don't get back to our defensive identity.

That's been the message for the last two days.

And the magic did not do that again tonight.

They did not defend with much intensity.

They let guys get to their spots.

They lost track of cutters and players off ball.

They struggled on the offensive glass.

There are a lot of weird bounces in this game.

They let guys get comfortable.

And into rhythm.

And that's something you cannot do.

Certainly against elite competition, but even against taking teams.

If you let them gain a little bit of confidence.

They're going to try and go for the win players are always going to try and go for the win.

And if you let them hang around if you let them gain confidence if you don't kind of assert your will.

Open yourself to the chance to lose.

And so the magic.

Absolutely have work to do.

The magic absolutely should not be satisfied with this win.

There are things they should be satisfied with their offense was excellent tonight.

Another game over 120 points for whatever such as suddenly an offensive team that can't stop anybody.

They shot 54.1%.

13 for 27 from three.

28 of 32 from line.

Palo had another 30 point game.

Desmond Bain had 28 points.

There's still at 18.

Another big game from Jamal came.

The magic are scoring plenty.

But if this team wants to go where it needs to go.

They're not outscoring the elite teams.

They're not outscoring teams that can actually get stops.

And they're going to face one of those teams.

On Sunday in this in this huge game against the Toronto Raptors, which we'll talk a little bit about at the end of the show.

But for now for today for this moment.

Ending a six game losing streak.

You just got to find a way.

You just got to get the win.

And while the magic are hoping to build momentum and do the right things and put themselves in the best position they can.

Heading into the playoffs building momentum so that they can win a play in game, which it does seem like we're destined to be heading toward.

Not for sure.

Magic are still two losses back of the Hawks and Raptors in fifth and sixth.

So again, you beat Toronto on Sunday.

You beat Atlanta on Wednesday, not easy tasks.

But if you do, not really the loss behind them in lots of crazy things going to happen.

I haven't run the four way tiebreaker yet, but I do imagine Orlando comes out okay on that.

I will make a note to do that.

They don't win three way tiebreaker with Atlanta and Charlotte.

I know that the magic have work to do.

But tonight.

They did exactly what they needed to do, even if it was the bare minimum of what they needed to do.

They got the win.

And so now we can start thinking and talking.

And maybe relax just just exhaling a little bit that the losing streak is over.

To say, okay, how do we get the next one?

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The Pistons got an expected win over the Pelicans last night with Jalen Duran dropping in 30 points in a 21 point victory.

Kukulele goes into the details, unlocked on Pistons.

I am...

And it's not like they've went through a murderous row, right?

It's not like they're playing contenders back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back.

But it doesn't have to be that.

I am incredibly pleased, incredibly happy with, and not shocked, but impressed by how this team has played without K-Cunningham.

As after the All-Star break, man, we gotta remember how they looked after the All-Star break and what we were talking about since the All-Star break.

Some of the games they had played, even with Kate Healthy, and then you watch Kate go down and it's like, man, they haven't looked their best since All-Star break.

We've already been talking about some concerns, and now the best player goes down.

This is a rest of people disaster.

Like, it was not good, and obviously it's still not good.

That case out.

But when it happened, it was like, man, this is...

I'm worried.

And since Kate went down, in the five games since Kate went down, or I'm including the Washington game that he barely played and got hurt and...

They're four in one, and they got their defensive rating.

Fifth best in the NBA, they're up to 1-7.9.

Now, it's very small sample sizes, or some teams are ahead of them because they have some crazy defensive games.

But 1-07.9 is what they've been at the last five games, right?

The defensive rating sense, the All-Star break, before Kate went down, was at 1-13.1 over a 15-game sample size.

Why isn't the defense looking like it usually has?

Can't it get back to that?

Like, what's going on?

Why is there slippage?

And as soon as Kate went down, we have seen this team completely lock in.

We have seen this team realize, look, we're not going to win with offense like that in the half court, but we can win with our defense.

We are a defensive-founded team.

This is our identity, and we are going to get back to that.

And they absolutely have gotten back to that in these five games since Kate went down.

And maybe, just maybe, like I said, this could be a silver lining of having to do with Kate going down, making everyone else relock in, focus, and realize what this team's identity is, and get back to that heading into the playoffs.

So I just wanted to hit on, I am very impressed with how they play.

I don't care if it was the Pelican, the Wizards, it's the Warriors, they beat the Lakers, like, I'm impressed with how they play.

But let's get back to the Pelicans game.

Jalen Duren absolutely led the way in this one.

We'll talk about Herder a little bit later, who was very impressive in this game.

He had 22 points, but Jalen Duren, he's putting up some video game type numbers since all side break.

It's been, he has been, he has been insane.

If you go just like the last two weeks, let's go over the last 11 games, 25 points a game, 10 rebounds a game, two assists on 77 true shooting.

He is scoring 25 a game over a loving game stretch on 77.4 true shooting.

That is utterly ridiculous.

He is scoring such a high amount of points on absurd efficiency.

And it's not all just being given to him.

It's not all just off of dump offs.

It's not all off of, oops, especially with Kate out.

A lot of it has just simply been him attacking downhill, getting into the basket and creating his own shot, which you saw a ton tonight against the Pelicans.

The Pelicans had no, no answer for him.

This game, he scores 30 on 10 to 12 shooting, misses two shots.

He gets to the free throw line again, 12 times, and he makes 10 free throws in this one against the Pelicans.

Over the last few games, this one hits free throw, numbers look like.

10 of 11 against Washington, 6 of 8 against Washington, 7 of 9 against the Warriors, 10 of 10 against the Lakers, 8 of 9 against Atlanta, 10 to 12 against New Orleans.

If you go over the last eight games, he is drawing nine and a half free throws per game.

Nine and a half free throws a game.

Lost going 26.1 points again over that same eight game stretch.

He is, he is absolutely playing incredible offensively.

He has been, the jump, we've talked about, but like the jump that he's made is just an unreal man.

To be able to score this efficiently on this time of value, with Kate or without Kate, either or he's been uber efficient.

Since Kate went down, he's been efficient, before Kate went down, he's been efficient, he's been scoring all, he's been fantastic.

And probably like even a bigger point or a bigger takeaway I have from Jalen Durham's recent stretch.

Like, forget the scoring for a second, which is hard to do.

I get it, hard to do when someone's scoring 30 on this type of efficient.

I mean, 30 points in 86 shooting, my god, man.

That's just crazy.

But just put the shooting away for a minute.

All season, I have sat here and said, the scoring improvement is great.

But I'd love to see him get some of that passing back, and I think that could hurt them in the playoffs if he's not able to make some reads.

And over the last three games, we've seen him have three assists against Lakers, three cents against the Hawks.

And this game against the Pelicans, he has seven assists in this game.

He was on triple double watch.

And the three assists numbers against the Lakers and the Hawks, don't do them justice because I obviously I watched all these games.

He is back at least over these three, this three game stretch, which gives me so much more confidence going into the playoffs that one he'll be able to do this into the pistols will be much harder to stop.

We are seeing him consistently make short roll reads.

We are consistently seeing him or we are seeing him more often make short roll reads as a passer.

We are seeing him more often make passes off the dribble on his drives.

He's still going up with a lot of his drive and spend insanely efficient keep doing your thing.

But along with that, we are now seeing him the last few games.

Keep the scoring, keep the aggression as a score, while also unlocking some of that passing and looking for guys.

And when defense is put too much pressure on you to put multiple guys on you, he's been making these reads, which has been absolutely incredible for me to see that.

I guess I've kind of, which is absurd to say, and it probably does him a disservice.

I completely, I'll admit that I've somewhat become numb to his scoring because of how consistent it's been.

I try every now and then to remind myself like, man, no, what he's doing is insane.

And this was nowhere near where he was last year. I try to give him that credit.

But my mind has been so focused on man, if we get to the playoffs and teams, there's realized he's not going to make these passes.

We can just throw doubles at him. He's going to turn the ball over.

We can make him inefficient. If we just throw multiple buys at him and he doesn't, he hasn't shown us that he'll beat us with his passing.

I've been so concerned about that potential becoming an issue that seeing him show us that, hey, yeah, it's still in there.

I can still do this. And if it, it just took, you know, it took some development throughout the year.

I'm getting, I'm getting better as the year goes on.

I'm getting more comfortable with where I'm at offensively.

And now with Kate out, I'm really going to unlock this and the team needs me to unlock all of this.

And we are now seeing literally just last week we were talking about how I want to see him get to a point maybe next year that you keep this level of scoring without having to turn off the score mode to activate the passing.

Be in a mode where you can be a score and a passer at the same time.

Not okay and why I have passing mode turned on now scoring most turned off or I have scoring mode turned on now passing most turned off over the last three games.

And it's been incredibly encouraging to see it's it's been insane for me to see that he is in real time.

I feel like figuring out I don't have to leave score mode to be in pass mode.

I can be in score and pass mode and that just makes me incredibly difficult to stop at all.

It makes it incredibly difficult for any type of defense to really stop me.

If they think that any given moment I can run over this guy.

I can bully this guy.

I can hit him with a finesse move. I can go to a euro step.

I can power through. I can dunk on you. I can get to the bat. I'll draw free throws. I can do that.

And as soon as you show me an extra body.

Yeah, I can also then make that cross court skip pass to Kevin Herder in the corner.

I can also make that skip pass to Javante Green in the corner.

And he'll hit a three. I can also make this dump off pass to a star cutting down the baseline.

And he'll make you pay. Pick your poison.

And that's what he's been doing.

The last three games that if he's if we are watching him in real time.

Put that all together at once.

He is going to be the ceiling if Kaye can come back healthy.

We're the pisses in the playoffs.

And what we're seeing from Darren over the last few games is real.

That he is figuring out in real time how to be in both modes at the same time.

And as a 22 year old, that probably wouldn't be crazy to think that he's just learning as time goes on.

If that's happened, the ceiling of the Detroit Pistons in the playoffs just went way higher.

Just went way higher.

What he's doing without Kaye as a primary creator.

And now I look, Dan, Danis has been good.

So I don't want to make it seem like he's just playing with no point guard.

Danis has been good.

But despite that, he has has a ball in his hands, a turn.

And he's making these plays.

And he's making these reads.

And he's just he's been incredible, man.

He's just been absolutely incredible.

We're wrapping up here the last three games for Jalen Darren.

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