Nine takeaways from the Wizards’ loss to the Nets

Last night, the Washington Wizards lost to the Brooklyn Nets, 112-100. The Wizards kept it close at the beginning, but once the Nets began pulling away at the end of the second quarter, they never looked back.

Grim as things may seem, it is important to focus on the positives as well as the negatives; sports are meant to be enjoyed, after all. In this article, I’ll look at some of the takeaways — positive and negative — from last night about the team as a whole before going into some takeaways about specific players.

The team as a whole

Negative: Who is the fourth best player on the Wizards?

The Wizards quietly have one of the better groups of top-three players in the NBA. Even though Bradley…