The Washington Wizards are mired in one other rebuild, however even by the low expectations set for the membership this has been a disappointing begin to the season. With their 124-114 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday, the Wizards completed the month of November with out a win at 0-14.
Washington turns into the sixteenth staff in NBA historical past to go winless for a whole month and has now achieved — is that the correct phrase on this state of affairs? — the feat in consecutive seasons. Final season, throughout the center of a franchise-record 16-game shedding streak, they went 0-12 in February.
“The stuff that we’re going by way of actually assessments you mentally and and bodily and emotionally and it’s important to hold reminding your self that the actually good gamers and the good ones on this league, and even in life, like, do not run away from arduous occasions,” Wizards ahead Corey Kispert stated earlier this week. “Arduous occasions like this that we’re in is what develops robust character and helps you progress ahead.”
Although the season has not even reached the quarter-mark, this Wizards staff is already coming into traditionally dangerous territory.
They’re 2-16, which has them in final place, and their .111 successful share interprets to 9 victories over the course of the season. In NBA historical past, the 1973 Philadelphia 76ers are the one staff to win fewer than 10 video games in an 82-game season. When it comes to successful share, solely these Sixers (.110) and the 2012 Charlotte Bobcats (.106) have completed a season with worse marks.
Whereas Saturday’s contest was extra aggressive than the 10-point margin would counsel, it was the thirteenth time throughout this shedding streak that the Wizards have misplaced by double digits. For the season, their internet ranking is minus-14.1 — not solely the worst within the league, however one of many worst ever.
Staff effectivity knowledge on the NBA’s stats web site goes again to the 1996-97 season, and through that span the one staff to file a worse internet ranking over the course of a season was the 2012 Bobcats, who went 7-59 with a minus-15.0 internet ranking within the lockout-shortened marketing campaign.
The dangerous information for the Wizards is the highway will not be about to get any simpler. They’ve the league-leading Cleveland Cavaliers, adopted by the Dallas Mavericks and Denver Nuggets up subsequent on the docket. Barring a serious upset, the shedding streak will quickly attain 17 video games, which might be the longest in franchise historical past.
