The Orlando Magic offense has drastically changed this year. There is a lot more passing and it is clear it has benefited the Orlando Magic’s offense.

Scott Skiles has never been known for his offense. Everywhere he has gone, defense has followed more than offense. In fact, most might complain that Skiles’ offense are rather stale.

His teams have finished in the top 20 in offensive rating according to Basketball-Reference just three times and finished no higher than 13th at any point in his coaching tenure. He is no offensive genius.

Still when Skiles arrived with the Magic, he was going to bring with him a new offense. It certainly could not be much worse than the offense the Magic had. In 2015, the Magic ranked 27th in the league with a 99.6 offensive rating.

The going logic was the Magic did not have enough shooters to spread the floor and the offense would not work. Having a coach who did not have a strong offensive record did not help either.

Orlando though has defied the odds some. Scott Skiles has implemented an offense that relies on player movement as much as anything else and the team is starting to move the ball at an incredible rate as the team’s offense has begun ticking up and up.

“I think we’ve been playing really well offensively moving the ball, being unselfish, doing the right things, executing,” Nikola Vucevic said Tuesday. “We have to keep that up. I think it helps us a lot. It makes the game easier for ourselves by playing that way. Hopefully we can keep it up and if we can improve our defense, it can really boost us.”

The Magic have undoubtedly taken a step forward in the recent weeks.

The team’s offensive rating for the season currently stands at 102.4, 14th in the league. However since December 14 when the Magic defeated the Brooklyn Nets, they have an offensive rating of 111.7, third in the league behind only the Golden State Warriors and the San Antonio Spurs.

The Magic have the top effective field goal percentage in the league in that span (56.7 percent). They have the best field goal percentage at 51.9 percent in that time span too.

The past two weeks have shown exactly what this Magic offense can be. And a big reason has been that change in philosophy.

The team focuses more on passing the ball — 57.9 percent assist rate as a team — than it has in the last few years. Put good timing in on top of that and the Magic have an offense that hums now.

“Almost always good ball movement is going to lead to a good shot,” Scott Skiles said Tuesday. “But then you still have to knock it down. The passing has been a part of it. But also we’re in rhythm, stepping into shots and knocking them down when earlier in the season we weren’t. I don’t know if those numbers can continue. I did think we were a better shooting team than we started out to be, that’s turned out to be true.”

Everything is clicking and the team is more on time and on target right now. The Magic still have stretches where they revert back to poor play, but they are becoming fewer and fewer.

The Magic offense has truly transformed.