{"id":1819,"date":"2026-05-27T05:35:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:35:45","slug":"pelicans-new-coach-jamahl-mosley-expects-to-handle-success-better-in-new-orleans-than-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans new coach Jamahl Mosley expects to handle success better in New Orleans than in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>By BRETT MARTEL<\/p>\n<p>METAIRIE, La. \u2014 Jamahl Mosley sat comfortably at the end of a conference table at New Orleans Pelicans headquarters on Tuesday and suggested that his recent downfall in Orlando stemmed in no small part from how he handled success.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1817\">Lane Kiffin on turning down Gators: \u2018It really was not about them\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mosley proved in five years with the Magic that he can take a collection of young players in a relatively small market and mold them into a playoff team. As New Orleans\u2019 new coach, he\u2019ll be expected to do that \u2014 and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the team rises and expectations rise, that communication level needs to rise with it. And that accountability has to rise,\u201d the 47-year-old Mosley said shortly after his introduction at team headquarters. \u201cWhen you grow, you have to be willing to have the harder conversations as you get better and better and be OK with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Orlando made the playoffs in each of the past three seasons, it never won a series. This season, the Magic not only lost a 3-1, first-round playoff series lead to Detroit, but could not hold a 24-point, second-half lead at home in Game 6.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Dumars, now entering his second year as Pelicans Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations, said he needed to discuss that collapse with Mosley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the first thing we talked about,\u201d recounted Dumars, a former NBA champion as a player and executive with Detroit. \u201cI was like, \u2018What the hell happened, man?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dumars said they spoke about Mosley\u2019s message, his usage of timeouts, the tone with which he spoke to the players and \u201ceverything that you would want to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dumars concluded that Mosley handled it all professionally, and that it was just a bad day for a promising coach.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando\u2019s decision to fire Mosley after five years was \u201cmore the norm\u201d in the NBA \u201cthan an outlier,\u201d Dumars said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a natural course of the NBA,\u201d he said, citing as an example New York Knicks coach Mike Brown, who has been a head coach with five franchises \u2014 twice with Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive years, if you\u2019re like, \u2018We need to take another step,\u2019 I get it,\u201d Dumars said of the Magic firing Mosley. \u201cPeople move on \u2014 and you pick up coaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More important factors, Dumars said, were the similarities he saw among his own and Mosley\u2019s vision for the franchise. They both said they want to see the Pelicans play elite defense, be physical, exhibit an unsurpassed work ethic and be accountable to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1815\">Daily Horoscope for May 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you go through these searches, really what you\u2019re trying to do is find alignment, more than anything else,\u201d said Dumars, whose candidates also included Darvin Ham, Rajon Rondo, Steve Hetzel and ex-interim coach James Borrego.<\/p>\n<p>Mosley already has brought in several members of his Orlando staff, including Bret Brielmaier, Dale Osbourne and God Shammgod. They attended Mosley\u2019s introduction before an audience that included Gayle Benson, the owner of the Pelicans and NFL\u2019s New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n<p>Employees of both franchises attended, including Saints general manager Mickey Loomis and coach Kellen Moore, a self-described basketball fan. They stood together behind several rows of white chairs set up on a practice court.<\/p>\n<p>Mosley said he brought former staffers to New Orleans in part because they are comfortable criticizing him and also have seen him at his best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re constantly telling me the truth about myself,\u201d Mosley said. \u201cWhen you can have people tell you the truth about things you need to improve or things that you do great, you can really evaluate it the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Mosley and Dumars were vague about potential offseason roster changes, both said they expect star power forward Zion Williamson, who averaged 21 points in 62 games last season, to remain a centerpiece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe hasn\u2019t even scratched the surface of things he can do,\u201d Mosley said of Williamson, while also noting that \u201csome of the things he\u2019s done here have been obviously spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dumars, meanwhile, said he would \u201clove to see Jamahl coach Zion. I\u2019d like to see him get Zion to defend and do all the things they said. And let\u2019s see what we have here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soon after Mosley was fired by the Magic, he said colleagues tried to cheer him up with texts such as: \u201cYou\u2019re now an official NBA coach. You\u2019ve been fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now that he\u2019s been rehired in less than a month, he appreciates those sentiments even more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sucked in the moment. You don\u2019t understand it. But at the end of the day, like, you are exactly where you\u2019re suppose to be in life,\u201d Mosley said. \u201cYou don\u2019t make excuses about it. \u2026 You figure out what you need to do in that moment and then keep moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1814\">Joined by brother, Magic\u2019s Anthony Black discusses extension, Mosley firing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamahl Mosley sat comfortably at the end of a conference table at New Orleans Pelicans headquarters on Tuesday and suggested that his recent downfall in Orlando stemmed in no small part from how he handled success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-orlando-magic","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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