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Orlando Magic’s second-half goals

By Philip Rossman-Reich

Jan 2, 2015; Orlando, FL, USA; The Orlando Magic get ready to play the Brooklyn Nets before the first quarter of a NBA basketball game at Amway Center. The Nets won 100-98. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 2, 2015; Orlando, FL, USA; The Orlando Magic get ready to play the Brooklyn Nets before the first quarter of a NBA basketball game at Amway Center. The Nets won 100-98. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jan 2, 2015; Orlando, FL, USA; The Orlando Magic get ready to play the Brooklyn Nets before the first quarter of a NBA basketball game at Amway Center. The Nets won 100-98. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports /

The Orlando Magic are the first team to the midpoint of the season. And it was a wild start. What do the Magic need to accomplish int he second half?

The calendar has turned to January and that really means nothing in NBA parlance. It only means we are nearing the midpoint of the season and teams are grinding their way forward and preparing for Playoff pushes. The midway point of the season came Monday in Chicago.

Those Playoff pushes, surprisingly still, include the Magic. Although that seems to be fading away more and more these days.

So, since everyone else is making New Years’ Resolutions and the midway point of the season is here, we might as well add our own and figure out exactly what the Magic need to do in 2015.

There is a lot. They have already probably broken whatever resolutions they made a few weeks ago. It has been that bad in early January.

So what is the Magic’s main resolution?

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“I think overall, we want to be a better team in 2015 than we were in 2014,” Jacque Vaughn said before shootaround as the team prepared to face the Nets, the team’s first game of 2015. “There are a lot of areas we can improve on whether it is transition D if you want to be specific or the overall toughness if you want to have an overall theme. The toughness of our team mentally and physically.”

There is the remainder of the 2014-15 season, which figured to be the one where the Magic started competing later into the season. A very light check on that one so far, as the Magic are 3.5 games out of the Playoff race (but sinking fast).

Then there is the impending free agency of Tobias Harris and Kyle O’Quinn to sort through. Along with several key decisions in roster building as the Magic continue their rebuild and begin to make concrete moves to hand the team over to their new core and build around them for future Playoff runs.

Then there is the beginning of a new season and everything that comes with that.

A lot is going to happen in the next 12 months. Here is what we hope happens and what others hope the Magic can aspire to in 2015.

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