Another game, another new marketing slogan. This one — The Washington Wizards: We’re tired. Washington was on the second night of a back-to-back, and they took on a Toronto Raptors squad that had been off since December 23. The result: the Wizards took a 30-point drubbing.
The energy differential showed early and often. For the Wizards, it leapt off the screen in the one, two, or no-pass possessions that featured guys standing around and launching shots because no one else was doing much of anything. It appeared in the abundance of open threes Toronto got.