Since Frank Vogel’s arrival to Orlando last summer, the Orlando Magic made a decision to go big. They acquired Serge Ibaka to play next to Nikola Vucevic and Bismack Biyombo and doubled down on defending the paint from drivers. This pushed Aaron Gordon out to small forward, beginning an experiment to play the young forward on the perimeter more often.
The move had plenty of detractors, and rightfully so. Gordon was not an ace shooter and nobody knew if he could drive effectively enough to work out on the perimeter.