The Magic look like a team poised to make a leap. They’ve got a newly-minted All-Star. A point guard playing the best ball of his career. An exciting player picked number one overall. Plenty of youth. Depth up and down the roster. A coach pushing the right buttons.
However, to scratch the surface of each of these individual factors is an exercise in the potential revelation of fool’s gold. Vooch might be an All-Star, but there’s a chance he’s only there thanks to a relatively weak position in a relatively weak conference. It’s unlikely that DJ Augustin is going to get better again at the age of 32.