The Wizards have dropped three in a row, half a game out of last place in the Southeast Division. A glut of turnovers and a suddenly suspect defense loom large, so it's a good time to remember the early season Wizards ALWAYS do this and the team's free agency strategy requires sacrifice in the now.
Watching the Wizards get smothered by the Bucks several games back, I thought, 'This feels familiar.' In the opening weeks of seasons past, the Bucks always seemed right on the edge of utterly dominating. Yet the Wizards hung around and the Bucks could never quite pull away.