Compared to the best teams in the NBA, the Orlando Magic are just strangers who happen to be wearing the same uniform.

Familiarity remains a foreign concept to this starting lineup. Continuity is merely a hope for the future.

If games were won purely on individual talent, and if name recognition carried any weight, the Magic would be favored heavily to win the Eastern Conference.

But that's not the case, and that's what is beginning to worry Coach Doc Rivers.