The Washington Wizards are likely going to fight for the play-in as Kevin Broom mentioned earlier this week. In other words, they are likely remaining on the dreaded “treadmill of mediocrity,” a term that describes when a team is not in championship contention, but also not quite bad enough to get a Top-3 pick in the draft.
If the Wizards only win 30-40 games this year and have an early exit from the postseason at best, they will only be like they have been for most of the last decade: mediocre.
Ava Wallace of The Washington Post wrote an article today about the Wizards’ preseason ambitions and whether the front office believes that the team can break that cycle.