I’m not saying the Wizards are actually good — it’s just four games. But the 120-99 thumping they gave the Detroit Pistons is the type of game good teams have.
The long-standing NBA tradition is to celebrate close games where heroic players come through in the clutch. In truth, winning teams typically build leads and hang on to the final buzzer. When they play a bad team (like the Pistons), the good team stomps them. Not always, of course, but enough that it’s a pattern. Enough that basketball analytics guru, and current Wizards assistant coach, wrote about it.