Raja Bell

The Magic, they're, you know, they're not your average eight seed, right?

They're a team that could have been a top 14 this year, if not for injuries, yada, yada.

Jamal Mosley goes from on the firing line, everybody thinking it's automatic.

He's just gone to, oh, there's no way they can fire him now to, oh, my God, they're going to possibly blow this series.

And we're going to come right back around to everybody's asses are on the line, you know, or to paraphrase Nikola Jokic.

If this were in Serbia, everybody would be fired.

Yeah, I mean, this is just a simple roster construction issue and the same one we've talked about all season.

And so you pretty much know what you're going to get from Cade night in, night out.

Like, yeah, he's going to have his bad nights too and struggle like young players do sometimes.

And defenses know they can load up against him because there's not a lot of other guys on that team that can beat you.

But...

He's the one thing you can count on, right?

One of the best clutch players of the season.

I can't remember where he finished in the clutch player of the year voting, but he was seventh overall in clutch points, total clutch points in the regular season.

And he's among the leaders in the playoffs so far.

Like you always, even on the games when he's had like a quiet first, you know, two, three quarters.

You can always count him coming through in the fourth.

That was the case all season if you watched them.

And it's always a question for the Pistons of like, okay, they just need one other guy.

And it was Jalen Duran a lot during the regular season, and it hasn't been him at all pretty much in this series.