Behind Franz Wagner Hides his brother, Moritz. The interior of the Magic completed a 2024/25 exercise with 13 points and 5 rebounds on average, leaving the bench, arrested after 30 games, following a rupture of the crossed ligaments last December.
Since his arrival in Orlando in April 2021, the pivot has understood that he is a player of rotation in the magic, as evidenced by his only two tenures in the last two seasons. Thus, to best help the Florida team, the 25th choice of Draft 2018 adapted its training.
“I play 20 minutes per game and on a good day, I take 10 shots”, analysis Moritz Wagner for the OMR Podcast. “If I have a hot hand, I can take 15. Taking 1,000 shots the next day in training will help neither me nor the team. »»
Moritz Wagner understood that Jamahl Mosley, the Orlando coach, does not ask him to wear the attack on the Magic as may be the case for Franz Wagner or Paolo Banchero.
Have effective playing time
“I am always looking for how to make my 20 minutes of play as much as possible”, he evokes. “I focus more than ever on my decision -making. I work on my reading of the game, especially on how to analyze a match to take up or keep the advantage in a meeting. »»
Rather than training to take shots that he will never get, Moritz Wagner works to be effective in situations he can meet in match. “If Franz passes two defenders and lets me pass, it is a situation of eighty-three. Now, I have to analyze where the three defenders are: do they protect the basket or do they defend on my teammates and me? Working my reading of the game is something I have to do in training and it's much harder than just taking shots. »»
A more tactical than technical work that pays for Moritz Wagner. Of the 30 games played this season, he was on the basics of his best career statistical season.
A launch that he will have to confirm next season, hoping that the club acts his “team option” to keep him and that he will be well recovered from his injury, to help this Magic team finally pass a Tour de Playoffs, after the last two failures in the first round in 2024 (4-3 against the riders) and in 2025 (4-1 against the Celtics).
| Moe Wagner | Percentage | Rebound | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | Lf | Off | Def | Early | PD | Fte | Int | COP | Ct | Pts |
| 2018-19 | Lal | 43 | 10 | 41.5 | 28.6 | 81.1 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 4.8 |
| 2019-20 | Wast | 45 | 19 | 54.5 | 31.3 | 82.1 | 1.2 | 3.6 | 4.9 | 1.2 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 8.7 |
| 2020-21 * | All Teams | 45 | 16 | 45.4 | 34.1 | 81.6 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 6.9 |
| 2020-21 * | Wast | 25 | 15 | 50.8 | 31.0 | 78.8 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 7.1 |
| 2020-21 * | Orl | 11 | 26 | 40.9 | 37.2 | 87.9 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 4.9 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 11.0 |
| 2020-21 * | Bos | 9 | 7 | 28.6 | 33.3 | 50.0 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.2 |
| 2021-22 | Orl | 63 | 15 | 49.7 | 32.8 | 80.6 | 0.7 | 3.0 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 9.0 |
| 2022-23 | Orl | 57 | 20 | 50.0 | 31.3 | 84.1 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 10.5 |
| 2023-24 | Orl | 80 | 18 | 60.1 | 33.0 | 81.4 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 4.3 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 10.8 |
| 2024-25 | Orl | 30 | 19 | 56.2 | 36.0 | 71.8 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 4.9 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 12.9 |
How to read the stats? MJ = matches played; Min = minutes; Shots = successful shots / tempted shots; 3pts = 3-point / 3-point attempted; LF = Successful free throws / tempted free throws; Off = offensive rebound; Def = defensive rebound; Tot = Total rebounds; PD = assists; FTE: Personal faults; Int = interceptions; BP = lost bullets; CT: against; Pts = points.
