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Evan Fournier's Path to the Top 5

The Orlando Magic's identity has been clear since nearly the moment that Frank Vogel was hired as head coach this offseason. After going with the flow for years with limited success, the Magic now strive to be the ultimate hipsters basketball. This current regime wants to go retro with two bigs, taking a contrarian approach to all that is considered the acceptable dogma of the modern NBA.

In fact, over the last 15 head coaching hires across the league, only three came to town with the promise of a defensive identity: Dave Joerger in Sacramento, Tom Thibodeau in Minnesota, and Vogel in Orlando.