Magic HC Jamahl Mosley loses by winning challenged call

Orlando Magic head coach Jamahl Mosley correctly challenged a foul call late in the team's 114-109 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. Unfortunately, the result was worse than the original call.

With his team trailing by a point with 10 seconds remaining, Jalen Suggs missed a three-pointer, Milwaukee's Bobby Portis got the rebound and Goga Bitadze was whistled for his sixth foul trying to take the ball away.

Mosley didn't buy it. He challenged the call, arguing that Bitadze's play was clean. After a lengthy replay review, the officials agreed that Bitadze tied up Portis, but because they determined that Portis lost the ball, they awarded possession to Milwaukee.

That meant Orlando still had to foul. So instead of Bitadze fouling out and putting 73% free throw shooter Portis on the foul line, another second ran off the clock and Wendell Carter had to foul 91% free throw shooter Damian Lillard. Carter got his fifth foul, and Lillard hit both his foul shots.

Mosley won the battle, but he lost the war. Perhaps he didn't want to lose Bitadze, who had 14 rebounds. Maybe he thought the Magic should have had a jump ball after the call was reversed. But he got the worst possible outcome, made worse by how much rest the 34-year-old Lillard got while waiting for the call.

Let's just say Mosley will be reviewing his decision on video as he thinks about how the Magic were eliminated from the NBA Cup.