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With the flirtation former coach Frank Vogel had of turning Aaron Gordon into a small forward now safely in the past, the five-year veteran can work on continuing to refine his game at the 4 for the Orlando Magic.

Gordon, who will be 24 in September, still has time to make a leap and he will be pushed by young Jonathan Isaac for minutes, but Gordon is coming off a solid 2018-19 campaign during which he made some real progress as a team player.

He averaged 16.0 points, 7.4 rebounds and a career-high 3.7 assists in 33.8 minutes per game last season, shooting 44.9 percent overall and 34.9 percent (also a career-high) on 4.4 attempts from 3-point range per game.

Gordon was also healthy after sitting out 24 games the previous season with a variety of maladies.

He is a dynamic dunker and he did get back to attacking the rim with more frequency last season, with 32.8 percent of his attempts coming in the restricted area, up from 27.5 percent in 2017-18. He converted at a 67.1 percent rate, but still needs to refine his shooting from the rest of the court.

Gordon didn’t shoot better than 35.5 percent from any range outside the rim and he will need to improve his consistency there.

Orlando made the playoffs last season for the first time since 2012 and the Magic played 2.0 points better per 100 possessions with Gordon on the court.

He didn’t disappear in his first postseason run, averaging 15.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.2 steals in 32.8 minutes per game in Orlando’s five-game loss to eventual NBA champion Toronto. He was also 8-for-20 (40 percent) from deep in that series.