Evaluation of Jamahl Mosley ( did we miss a chance )

[MagicFan101]

If you have a Ferrari ( Paolo ) are you going to trust your Ferrari being worked on and tuned by a Ford dealership or your mom and pop corner garage? No you want a Ferrari dealership or someone that has definitely worked on Ferrari’s before. There was coaches out there that could have helped tune Paolo and develop him.

Name these available coaches you feel are “Ferrari Dealerships” in comparison to Moseley’s “Ford Dealership”.

I would have liked to see Mike Budenholzer.

Is your argument that we need to fire Mosley and hire Mike?

Your phrasing of “would have liked” suggests you think we should have hired him instead of Mosley which is baffling … much like this entire thread.

[SOUL]

Coaching is a fickle job. Most COY get fired. Nuggets fans were no different calling for Malone's head every time they didn't get as far as they wanted.

The players love him and we improved under him. No reason to think about changing coaches for a franchise that goes through them like chewing gum.

[drsd]

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[drsd]

So you believe Mosely is the type of coach that’s going to lead us to the Finals?

I believe Coach Mosely is the type of coach to take Orlando to the playoffs. That's is the step Orlando needs next. No one should be looking beyond that developmentally. This team needs to be consistently mediocre this year. Then we can imagine goodness and then (hopefully) greatness.

Baby steps!

[jonbob17]

Might be an over reaction to recent events, but the only coach I really see impacting outcomes is Spoelstra. Outside of him good coaches just seem like the hand that gets teams back on track. Mike Malone is a fine coach, and he did a good job getting Denver over that game 2 stinker, but pretty sure Denver gets to the finals under any coach. Now coaches can lose games. Celtics's, Mazulla, seems like he got outcoach in the Heat series. Clifford, Thibs, Nurse, and those guys will get max effort out their guys until they don't, get a few extra season wins, and grind in playoffs

Mose is fine. When we are ready to be a contender in a couple/few years and are a top 4 seed and the core guys don't live up to the moment...then it's going to be time to hit the eject button. We won't know before that moment. Have a feeling these guys will be ready to go to war for him by that point.

[RichCollab]

Mosley is a key driver for this team and phase of the rebuild. Replacing him would be a blow to the trust of the players at this point in time.

0% chance this was the right time to find a new coach.

[MasterGMer]

Coach Mosley has done a terrific job in instilling the culture and competitiveness in this young team. They love to work for him. That is what we want from this stage of our development. But once we are a playoff contending team, things could change. But that is too early to say

[drsd]

Coach Mosley has done a terrific job in instilling the culture and competitiveness in this young team. They love to work for him. That is what we want from this stage of our development. But once we are a playoff contending team, things could change. But that is too early to say

Where is the And-2 button?


Preach it preacher!

[davey_wavy]

Mosley is that parent that wants to be his kids best friend rather than the disciplinary

[SOUL]

Mosley is that parent that wants to be his kids best friend rather than the disciplinary

Are there examples of this or are we just throwing out some random stuff because he's not a Scott Skiles level hardass?

Mike Malone is showing what NBA players respect - coaches that are relatable, encouraging, helpful, but will hold you accountable and coach you up when you're messing up. Seems like a straight shooter, like Mosley. Dude benched the starters plenty of times during the year, to the point where fans were annoyed we won or lost with the bench. We saw him coaching up Suggs and Banchero plenty of times as they went to the bench, showing them what they should be doing.

Too many NBA fans have some weird fetishization of straight up disciplinarian coaches, and those guys burn out very quickly.

[RichCollab]

Mosley is that parent that wants to be his kids best friend rather than the disciplinary

Did you see how hard our players played last season? I would say he is more inspiring mentor than best friend.

[Bensational]

I don’t know how anyone can be disappointed with Mosley. The team outperformed under him. Even in the rough 5-20 start he had the team fighting to stay in games. A lot of those losses were close. Then he had the team fighting for a play-in spot which only the most optimistic of us thought possible.

He staggered rotations to make sure one of Paolo and Franz are always on the court to give them plenty of reps on ball. He helped Cole find a role where he could be a winning difference maker.

I think we’ve found a good one. He has created a great culture of growth in the team.

[Bakomagic]

My opinion, is that he has accomplished the mission so far.

Build a culture of competitiveness and togetherness and the young core players have improved.

The next task is to make the jump to playoff team.