The preseason is over, and the numbers tell a simple story: the Washington Wizards are doomed. DOOMED, I say.
To “umm...actually” myself, that’s not exactly what the preseason numbers say. I mean, if they meant anything, that’s what they’d be saying, but in truth they don’t mean a lot. More than nothing, less than determinative.
In previous years, stat goobers like ESPN’s Kevin Pelton and 82games’ Roland Beech studied whether there was anything to learn from the NBA preseason. They each found some correlation between a team’s preseason performance and their subsequent regular season record.