On the eve of the 2019-20 season, I posted my stat-based forecast of the Wizards 2019-20 season. The numbers said the Wizards would win around 30 games this season. I added a couple losses for some late-season tanking and settled on 29 wins.
I also suggested that young try-hard teams like this year’s Wizards are often fun to watch. Seven games into the campaign, the Wizards appear to be what they were expected to be. The team can score (tied for the league’s sixth most efficient offense, and just 0.7 points per 100 possessions behind the fourth place Clippers), but is a defensive horror show (fourth worst defense, and likely to fall — two teams trailing them in the defensive standings are Houston and New Orleans, which both figure to have more capacity for near-term defensive improvement than the youthful Wizards).