​Can somebody tell me where the buzz is?Seriously, where is it?The Orlando Magic opened their season Wednesday night against the Atlanta Hawks at the Kia Center, and even with a new coach making his NBA debut, I’m still searching for that groundswell of excitement, that feverish anticipation, that unmistakable electricity that usually accompanies a team supposedly on the verge of something special.Oh, don’t get me wrong. The Kia Center was packed. The fans cheered. Stuff made everybody smile. The lights flashed. The music blared. The T-shirt cannons fired. And Sean Sweeney made his head-coaching debut in the 132-125 loss to the Hawks.But, nationally, the Magic barely register a blip on the NBA’s hype meter. And even locally, there’s a distinct difference between this season and last season, when the Magic had just traded for Desmond Bane and fans were giddy about the possibilities of a young, ascending team.This year? Meh.And maybe — just maybe — that’s a good thing.“I hated (the hype) of last summer,” Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman told me earlier this week. “I love not being included among the elite groups in the East. Just forget about us, let us go to work and let us have a modicum of health so we can come out and show who we are.”Added Bane: “Last year, people spent all preseason talking about how we were going to make a deep postseason run. What did that get us?”It’s not surprising that the Magic have gone from last year’s darlings to this year’s discarded toy. Let’s face it, we live in a society addicted to NEW. We want the new iPhone, the new Tesla, the new Netflix series, the new restaurant everybody’s posting about on Instagram. We don’t want last year’s model, even if last year’s model still works perfectly fine.And that’s essentially the Magic’s problem. They’re last year’s model.Except, of course, for Sweeney.But here’s the thing: This isn’t college football, where a new coach can electrify a fan base just by winning the introductory press conference. The NBA is a player’s league. Nobody is buying season tickets because Sean Sweeney is drawing up a new out-of-bounds play.Sweeney isn’t a celebrity coach. He isn’t a household name. He isn’t arriving with a championship ring and a suitcase full of guarantees. He’s a respected NBA assistant getting his first opportunity to run his own team.And perhaps that’s exactly what the Magic need.Not a coach who wins the news conference. A coach who eventually wins a playoff series.Of course, the Magic have a lot of work to do before then. Despite Paolo Banchero’s 35 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds against the Hawks, the Magic had 20 turnovers and shot 1 of 12 from 3-point range in the decisive fourth quarter.Sweeney admitted afterward that he envisioned having a better feeling after his inaugural game as an NBA coach, but added: “After the first game, we’ve definitely got a lot of teachable moments.