After starting the season in slow motion, with only four wins after ten games played, the Wizards have found their stride. The capital club has won six of its last seven games, including four wins without Bradley Beal, and the franchise is now in 6th place in the Eastern Conference, with a record of 10 wins and 7 losses.
A positive dynamic, which the players are savoring but do not see as a reason to celebrate or rest on their laurels, so early in the season.
Because a big end of November is looming for the troupe of Wes Unseld Jr, with trips to Miami (twice), Boston, Brooklyn and Chicago, at the beginning of December. That’s four direct competitors to the Top 6 in the Eastern Conference, and as many opportunities to prove, both to the league and to themselves, that their current good period is not just a flash in the pan that will go out. in the face of any challenge.
” [Ce qu’on vient de réussir]we will have to duplicate it “recalled Kyle Kuzma. ” We have big trips ahead. So if we want to be a team taken seriously, we have to make noise outside. [Ces déplacements à venir] represent a good challenge for us, because we are still looking for ourselves, as a team. »
Stay the course in defense away from their bases
As rightly pointed out our colleagues from The Athleticfigures in support, it is mainly through defense that the Wizards have built their current dynamic.
From the start of the season until November 6, Bradley Beal and his teammates had the 6th worst defensive rating in the league. Two weeks later, this rating is the 6th… best in the league, with 110.3 points conceded on 100 possessions. All without Delon Wright, the team’s best defender.
And to win outside, particularly at TD Garden where the Celtics, holders of the best offense in the league (120 points scored out of 100 possessions) have lost only one game, no drop in speed will be possible in their half of the field.
” I have the feeling that we are going in the right direction. Of course, not everything is perfect and we still have a long way to go before we reach our goal. But we play hard on defense, and that’s translated into wins lately. “Concluded Corey Kispert, while his coach appreciated” better discipline ” and ” more desire on this side of the pitch.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Bradley Beal | 12 | 36.8 | 51.0 | 37.7 | 91.5 | 0.7 | 3.0 | 3.7 | 5.8 | 3.1 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 22.7 |
| Kristaps Porzingis | 16 | 32.1 | 45.9 | 37.5 | 80.0 | 2.3 | 6.4 | 8.8 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 3.4 | 20.4 |
| Kyle Kuzma | 17 | 34.0 | 45.5 | 31.9 | 72.6 | 0.9 | 7.3 | 8.2 | 3.4 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 19.1 |
| Rui Hachimura | 16 | 23.5 | 48.1 | 33.3 | 72.4 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 11.6 |
| Corey Kispert | 9 | 25.3 | 56.6 | 48.4 | 91.7 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 9.6 |
| Monte Morris | 16 | 27.5 | 42.2 | 32.7 | 71.4 | 0.4 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 8.7 |
| Will Barton | 17 | 22.3 | 37.0 | 34.4 | 93.3 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 7.9 |
| Deni Avdija | 17 | 23.0 | 40.5 | 31.8 | 76.0 | 0.9 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 7.2 |
| Delon Wright | 4 | 22.7 | 41.7 | 25.0 | 60.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 6.5 |
| Jordan Goodwin | 10 | 19.5 | 55.3 | 56.3 | 50.0 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 6.4 |
| Daniel Gafford | 17 | 13.2 | 72.3 | 0.0 | 64.5 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 5.2 |
| Anthony Gill | 13 | 13.3 | 56.8 | 22.2 | 100.0 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 3.8 |
| Taj Gibson | 8 | 6.2 | 37.5 | 20.0 | 100.0 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 2.1 |
| Jordan Schakel | 2 | 3.1 | 50.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| Johnny Davis | 6 | 5.9 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| Isaiah Todd | 3 | 2.9 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Vernon Carey, Jr. | 2 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
