After the start to the 2017-18 season the Orlando Magic have had, no fan can complain about where this team is at right now. Here is how they can keep that momentum up through November.

The Orlando Magic have been the team and the story of the early 2017-18 NBA season, with big wins over the Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs punctuating their 6-2 record.

While many believe that this hot start will come to an end eventually, and it will, there’s no reason to believe they’ll slide precipitously down the rankings either.

Coming into the season, most felt that the team would go a sixth year without making the postseason, and that may still come to pass. For now though, they’re jostling for top spot in the entire conference with some much more established teams.

The feel-good factor has to lessen sooner rather than later, but if they take the season a month at a time, they can hopefully still be in the playoff mix by the All-Star break. That alone would be progress, given how this team was an afterthought by Chrismas for the last few years.

Here’s a look at five keys to the Magic having a November that will keep them motoring along after the start nobody saw coming.