If you looked at tonight’s game in a vacuum, saw that the Washington Wizards played a total of seven players due to injuries to two starters and three more key rotation pieces, and won comfortably by 14 points, you’d be fair to assume the season was going swimmingly and that Washington was expectedly morphing into an Eastern Conference power.
However, in reality we know this game was in fact the exception not the rule thus far.
This has been a trying season, marred by injuries, horrible defense, and the realization that the roster just is not that good.