The Ramblin’ Washington Wizards are back in post-Thanksgiving actionagainst the Magic in Orlando this evening after three days off. I’m going to go ahead and call it: this is a must-win. Let me explain.
The Wizards are 4-9 and the Magic have two more games—wins—under their belt at 6-9. One of those wins came against Washington, visiting Florida for their fifth game of the season. In that loss, John Wall didn’t play in the second of this first back-to-back set of the season (after a Hawks win at home) and Tomas Satoransky started in his place. The rookie Sato played well, and fellow starters played OK enough to beat Orlando. But the bench, oh that bench—Marcus was Thornton minus-14, Trey…
