
Putting the pieces together
So how do the Magic find consistency in 2016? How do they take that step they were searching for all of this past season?
Gaining experience is a tired refrain, but it will be one way to gain consistency. So too will a new coach with a firmer hand and direction. Jacque Vaughn was certainly about player development his first two years and struggled to put players in a position to succeed and give them clearer guidance to win games.
Putting these pieces together, with the talent on the roster could breed consistency.
“Every day in practice, I was impressed. I think our biggest issue was figuring out our identity.” –Channing Frye
“All of them [impressed me],” Frye said. “Every day in practice, I was impressed. I think our biggest issue was figuring out our identity. Some games we could score 120 and other games we couldn’t score 90. Some games we were playing fast. There’s a medium of where we want to go as a team and finding that line of we’re going to play fast but at the same time we’ve got to play better defensively and be on the same page.”
That is the start. The Magic have to know who they are and what they want to accomplish in general before consistently achieving that goal.
It eluded them all season in 2015. Frustratingly so.
It will take everyone — the new coach and the players on the roster improving themselves — to achieve what the team hopes to accomplish in 2016.