The Suns are not the only ones having a difficult month of December. The Wizards are even worse than the Phoenix players, with seven losses in a row, the worst series in the NBA currently.
There are many absentees (Bradley Beal, Monte Morris, Rui Hachimura, Delon Wright, when Kristaps Porzingis has just been injured…) and it will not be easy to bounce back because the upcoming calendar, until Christmas, looks tough.
The franchise will indeed travel for six matches in a row in the West. The Nuggets, Clippers, Lakers, Suns, Jazz and Kings will be on the schedule. All of these teams have a better record than the Wizards.
“I hope we will see players come back”tries to reassure himself Kyle Kuzma for NBC Sports. “We will have to find solutions because we are in a bad patch. We have lost a lot of matches in a row and here we are going to the West to face playoff teams. If we don’t have answers, it’s going to be a long journey. »
What does not help to be optimistic either, in addition to the current bad series and the full infirmary, it is the balance sheet of the Wizards far from the capital: three victories for ten defeats. Clearly, they travel badly.
” I do not know “answers Wes Unseld Jr. when asked how he could explain the difference between the results at home (8 wins – 7 losses) and those away (3 wins – 10 losses). “We have to talk about home advantage. We are at home, with our audience. »
With six matches in ten days, including two back-to-back (against teams from Los Angeles, then Utah and Sacramento to finish), there is obviously a risk of seeing the Wizards come back in a bad state for Christmas…
“It’s going to be very hard as travel, especially at the moment, when we are already in great difficulty. It won’t be easy. What more can be said ? It’s going to be long, very long.” warns Kristaps Porzingis. “We have to tell ourselves that we have to win them all, otherwise we will come back sad”, announces Daniel Gafford. “I don’t want to come back sad. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Bradley Beal | 18 | 35.0 | 52.2 | 35.2 | 87.3 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 5.4 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 22.9 |
| Kristaps Porzingis | 27 | 32.5 | 48.1 | 34.5 | 80.4 | 2.0 | 6.9 | 8.9 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 22.6 |
| Kyle Kuzma | 27 | 35.0 | 45.8 | 33.7 | 71.4 | 1.1 | 6.6 | 7.7 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 21.3 |
| Rui Hachimura | 16 | 23.5 | 48.1 | 33.3 | 72.4 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 11.6 |
| Corey Kispert | 20 | 28.3 | 48.9 | 40.7 | 73.9 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 9.5 |
| Monte Morris | 23 | 27.9 | 44.7 | 36.8 | 75.0 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 5.2 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 9.4 |
| Will Barton | 26 | 22.4 | 36.9 | 33.7 | 88.5 | 0.2 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 7.9 |
| Jordan Goodwin | 21 | 22.5 | 49.6 | 45.0 | 70.4 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 7.9 |
| Deni Avdija | 28 | 25.4 | 40.8 | 27.4 | 75.0 | 0.9 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 7.7 |
| 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 |
| Daniel Gafford | 28 | 13.8 | 74.7 | 0.0 | 57.1 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 4.2 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 6.0 |
| Anthony Gill | 24 | 11.2 | 55.1 | 15.4 | 86.7 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 2.9 |
| Taj Gibson | 16 | 6.5 | 43.8 | 25.0 | 80.0 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 2.4 |
| 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 | 8 | 5.7 | 27.3 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| Devon Dotson | 4 | 12.0 | 12.5 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 0.8 |
| Isaiah Todd | 4 | 3.1 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Vernon Carey, Jr. | 3 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
