When Steve Clifford walked into the Orlando Magic job, he said he wanted to give the whole team and its players a fresh look. He would do his study and understand the players as people — meeting with players like Nikola Vucevic and D.J. Augustin in town and traveling out to meet others like Aaron Gordon.
It might have been easy for those on the outside to get a bit jaded looking at this group. It is largely the same group that struggled to win 30 games in each of the last two years.