How to Not Appreciate Loss Avoidance and Wizards Drama

[Rondae Hollis-Jefferson #24 of the Brooklyn Nets Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Stephen Gosling/NBAE via Getty Images)]If you’re like me, you’re constantly caught between what this Wizards team can be — appreciating how far the franchise has come but not being spoiled by it — and the sheer exasperation of watching a bunch that almost just refuses to grow up. It can be exhausting, for sure, but boy does it make for great theater.

The rebuilding Brooklyn Nets had already beaten Washington twice this season by a combined 40 points, both times at the Barclays Center. So when the Wizards outscored the Nets by 20 points over the first 24 minutes of play at the Capital One Arena on Saturday night,…