The Orlando Magic greatly depended on Evan Fournier to build on a career-best 2017-18 campaign, hoping he'd be the reliable source of 3-point shots he was a season ago. Yet the French shooting guard had a tough time mustering last season's accuracy, hitting only 34.8% of his wide-open looks beyond the arc, while eight others in his team managed to hit at 35.5% or better.

The 6-foot-8 marksman shot a disappointing 43.8% from the field, the second-lowest shooting percentage of his career, and only 34% from deep, the lowest of his career.

“Obviously, I’m disappointed in the way I shot the ball this year,” Evan Fournier told Josh Robbins of The Athletic. “It was like my worst year as far as just making shots. But somehow I feel like I’ve never been better, whether that’s defensively, being active on the floor, being a leader or just making plays. It’s just for some reason I couldn’t make freakin’ shots, and I’m going to fix that. But it’s a part of it.”

After losing Elfrid Payton early in 2018, Fournier took on more of the ballhandling duties, resulting in a career-high 3.6 assists per game this past season while still putting up a respectable 15.1 points per game average.

However the Magic will need his shooting if he is to remain with the organization.

The 26-year-old has two years remaining in his contract at $17 million apiece, the last of them being a player-option. Fournier received an unlikely $150,000 bonus at the end of this season for reaching the playoffs this season, along with playing in at least 60 regular season games (played in 81 of 82) and 75% of the team's total playoff appearances.