At the risk of sounding like a delusional optimist , this team is not that bad . 1 Our defense is starting to get nasty . After last night Game 15 , the Magic are now a top 10 defense . Week One Games 13 Def Rtg 107 . 8 Week Two Games 46 Def Rtg 101 . 1 Week Three Games 710 Def Rtg 101 . 1 Week Four Games 1114 Def Rtg 87 . 5 2 Many are pointing to having a 69 record with an easy SOS Strength of Schedule as an indicator for the future . It matters to some extent , but SOS is not an all encompassing stat . It doesn ' t account for the huge roster and coaching turnover this team underwent in the offseason . That turnover occurred on a still extremely young team 6 th youngest in NBA . 3 The offense has sucked there ' s no denying that . BUT in my opinion that was bottom . It will never be a juggernaut , but it has a much higher capacity than what we ' ve seen thus far . Before last night , Vucevic had been experiencing a career low slump on that end . Vuc is a proven 18 PPG player , that has struggled to put up 10 PPG this season . That ' s a huge point dropoff , will turn around and when it does fully , it will loosen up defenses and add to the point total . Fournier ' s 3 pt % was down considerably early on , but that has been steadily improving . In the first seven games , he shot 32 % 1340 from downtown in the following eight games he has shot 40 % 1742 from behind the arc . Despite those early bad shooting games and being the defensive focus of every team with very little help , he is still managing to put 17 PPG on . 548 TS %. Ibaka , had an off night on the offensive end vs Suns , but he has been solid on the offensive end pretty much all season including a career high 46 % from three point range . I refuse to believe that Mario has regressed this badly , he is a zero factor right now . Jodie Meeks is set to return soon . That is two considerable offensive weapons off the bench that have yet to make a single drop of impact . All we need is for one of them to produce 50 % of what was expected and the bench becomes much more effective , if both perform at that level then its an entirely different level of offensive firepower . Those two will be at minimum more of a factor than their current zero impact Jeff Green and Aaron Gordon are being relied on to produce points right now , when the rest begin to meet their prior career levels , any offensive impact they provide will be gravy on top , not the main course .