After the squandering of a 3-1 lead to the Detroit Pistons culminated in a disappointing first-round playoff loss for the Orlando Magic, the team has several questions heading into the offseason.

The most pressing and immediate matter is who the franchise will hire as its 16th head coach after dismissing Jamahl Mosley on Monday, ending his five-year tenure. It is a topic that Don Strouble of Roundtable Sports recently addressed on the Full Court Magic podcast, but it is not the Magic’s only problem.

There are also questions about whether or not the roster, as currently constructed, has the durability or the talent to get to the next level. Moreover, should there be a level of concern about the willingness of Jeff Weltman, Orlando’s president of basketball operations, to tangibly improve instead of continuing to rely on the injury excuse for the Magic’s shortcomings? Strouble covers that as well.

"When it comes to Jeff Weltman," Strouble said. "This is an executive that sometimes makes the right move and does okay, and other times just is a victim of his own paralysis, a victim of his own complacency, it seems like. And he really, really likes to lean on the injury excuse.

And I'm not saying that it doesn't have merit, but he talked at length during that press conference on Monday, after Coach Mosley was let go, about how the team was affected by injuries and how elite this team is when players aren't injured. And like, okay, fine, fine, right.  But with the exception of Franz [Wagner] and Jalen [Suggs], who I believe only played 52 games, Paolo [Banchero] played 72, Wendell Carter Jr. played 78 and Desmond Bane played all 82, plus the Play-In games, plus all of the playoff games."

While Wagner’s injury certainly impacted Orlando’s effectiveness against the Pistons, specifically with containing Cade Cunningham on defense, The Magic’s overall body of work in their playoff collapse and the regular season struggles that preceded it go deeper than the injuries Weltman talks about ad nauseam rather than recognizing his own shortcomings as an executive.

"So it's clearly not all about injury," Strouble added. "And, you know, I'm sure that's part of this firing, is that Jamahl Mosley struggled with situational awareness, in-game execution, things of that nature. He had hit his ceiling as the head coach of this franchise. And, you know, but to hear Weltman — because it was the same thing, he parroted this same talking point after the trade deadline, when the only thing that the Magic did was move off of Tyus Jones, and they had to tie two future second round picks to Jones to ship him off to the Charlotte Hornets. 

"So sacrificing, you know, picks, future picks for what ended up being a dud on Weltman's part."

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