Aaron Gordon had arguably the second best game of his career tonight. He played 29 minutes, tallied his first double-double by scoring 10 points and adding 12 rebounds, and he was instrumental to Orlando’s victory.

Gordon did not do much offensively to stick out from the pack, he scored 10 points. The thing that is interesting about those 10 points is that six of them came directly from Gordon crashing the offensive glass. Gordon managed to grab four offensive boards and that was huge for the Magic.

On the defensive end, Gordon was even better. Gordon was able to stay in front of his man whether it be Giannis Atentokumpo, Ersan Ilyasova or Jared Dudley. Gordon closed out well on shooters and did a pretty good job of not blowing many defensive rotations.

Gordon definitely earned his playing time tonight. I would not be surprised to see him start at power forward before the year ends.