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Power Rankings Roundup: Back to the bottom five

By Philip Rossman-Reich

Jan 9, 2015; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Orlando Magic forward Tobias Harris (12) drives the lane as Los Angeles Lakers guard Jeremy Lin (17) and forward Tarik Black (28) defend in the second half of the game at Staples Center. Lakers won 101-84. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 9, 2015; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Orlando Magic forward Tobias Harris (12) drives the lane as Los Angeles Lakers guard Jeremy Lin (17) and forward Tarik Black (28) defend in the second half of the game at Staples Center. Lakers won 101-84. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jan 9, 2015; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Orlando Magic forward Tobias Harris (12) drives the lane as Los Angeles Lakers guard Jeremy Lin (17) and forward Tarik Black (28) defend in the second half of the game at Staples Center. Lakers won 101-84. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports /

The Orlando Magic’s poor play entering Monday’s game has them falling in the power rankings around the Web. They are comfortably in the bottom five now.

Before Monday’s game, the Magic’s outlook looked very bleak.

Questions about Jacque Vaughn‘s future came from off social media and into the general press pretty plainly. The Magic’s future was drawn pretty openly into question and things just looked downright bad.

One win cures a lot of this, but generally the feeling is the Magic underachieved in the first half of the season.

Orlando went from watching this page:

NBA.com – 2014-2015 Conference Regular Season Standings via kwout

To watching this page:

http://www.tankathon.com/
http://www.tankathon.com/ /

Tankathon – NBA Draft Tracker via kwout

Maybe the Magic should stick to watching both as we do not know which way this season will eventually go.

The one thing we do know right now is that the Magic are trending downward. That much has been made clear as the team has sunk in the standings and looked so bad on the court.

The free fall has been going on for three weeks now, and it appears to have finally hit the near-bottom as the Magic are comfortably now among the five bottom teams in power rankings across the Web.

How bad have things gotten? Well, at least the Knicks and Wolves are there as a buffer. This team is not THAT bad. And Monday’s win sure felt good.

Let’s see what the Power Rankings have for us this week:

Next: Marc Stein, ESPN.com