Scott Brooks didn’t look under the pulled-out bleachers or behind the spin bike that Otto Porter uses to keep loose when not in the game.
He didn’t check in the 200 level, which was rather full for a Sunday. He didn’t look in the club area reserved for specific ticket-holders.
Brooks did look everywhere else for an answer Sunday afternoon against the brutish Utah Jazz. He tried different mixes with the bench unit, even going to an extremely small lineup with Markieff Morris as the center. He called full timeouts and 20-second timeouts. No matter which lever he pulled, nothing clicked, and the Wizards were washed away 102-92 by the muscular visitors from the Western Conference.