After an 8-4 start to the 2017-18 NBA season, there was great optimism for head coach Frank Vogel and the Orlando Magic. Unfortunately, their winning ways did not continue as they have gone 13-45 since and have the fourth-worst record in the entire NBA.

In this league, when things do not go a certain way, firing the head coach is the easiest option. According to Josh Robbins of Orlando Sentinel, Vogel finds himself on the hot seat and unsure if the Magic will retain him following the season:

And now Vogel finds himself in a predicament coaches dread: on the hot seat, unsure if his team’s front office will retain him for next season. Vogel is in a precarious spot. Between Vogel’s first and second seasons, the Magic fired Rob Hennigan as the team’s general manager, dismissed many other key figures within the basketball operations department and hired Jeff Weltman as the president of basketball operations and John Hammond as the general manager.

However, many executives and scouts believe Vogel inherited a flawed roster with two major moves, according to Robbins:

Many executives and scouts throughout the NBA think the Magic’s roster has been flawed throughout Vogel’s tenure.

In the months leading into Vogel’s first season, the Magic made two major failed moves. First, the team traded Victor Oladipo and the draft rights to Domantas Sabonis for Serge Ibaka. Then it signed center Bismack Biyombo to a four-year deal worth $17 million per season.

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