The Washington Wizards’ off-season to-do list was so glaring and obvious, it might as well have been flashing on a billboard outside the Capital One Bank Arena: Upgrade the bench. The second unit was awful last year. You know it. I know it. There’s no need to go into the gory details. The good news is the bench does not need to magically morph into a league-leading unit for the Wizards to be successful. They simply need to move the needle from catastrophic to relatively competent. That’s not a high bar to meet.
The question remains: Did the Wizards do enough with virtually no cap space this summer to overcome the mistakes of last summer’s spending spree?