How Sean Sweeney Handles Injury Prevention for Magic

There isn't some magic trick a new coach can pull out of his sleeve to suddenly turn injuries off like it's an NBA 2K setting; but, there are handful of ideas, positions, and practices that players and teams can try to best prevent injuries from happening, to minimize risk as much as possible, every time a player takes the floor or chooses not to.

I asked the Magic's first-time head coach Sean Sweeney what he and his coaching staff can do to help prevent injuries, if anything.

Orlando's new ball coach confirmed that his coaching staff works with the Magic's medical staff every single day to decide on a plan of attack for each player:

Working in conjunction with the medical staff, our two parts of the building, we meet every day.

We make sure that we go through regularly what the plan is – who can do what, what makes the most sense.

And then really trying to be in partnership to make sure guys are getting better, but then also being smart about how we do it.Sean Sweeney

Sweeney Builds World-Class Coaching Staff

Also at Magic Media Day, I asked Jonathan Isaac what excites him most about the hiring of Sweeney.

After reaffirming positivity for his previous coaches in Mosley and Clifford, Isaac outlined how Sweeney is not just a great coach, but a great evaluator of coaching talent, and through that skill has built a 'world-class' coaching staff here in Orlando this season.

He has assembled a world-class staff.

The attention to detail, the level that they come into the building with, is something I have never seen before.

I feel like there is going to be absolute carryover to the team in the way we play. Our IQ of the game, the way we approach the game, the effort and intensity that we play with, I feel like is going to be a direct reflection of his coaching staff; and that is what excites me the most.

Not just that Coach Sweeney is a great coach, but the staff he has curated is amazing.Jonathan Isaac

Injury prevention might mean sitting out a back-to-back, playing on a minutes limit through a recovery process, or taking off a practice to do some stretching and weights.

There's nothing the Magic can do to ban injuries entirely, but maybe through a little extra attention to detail, they can convince them to stay away long enough to make a playoff run.