The Washington Wizards play basketball like a degenerate gambler. Regular season games don’t provide enough action. That’s like a $20 office pool. Even the first couple games of a playoff series can’t hold their interest. That’s like a $200 buy-in house game. No, the Wizards can’t feel the rush until they’ve pushed their child’s college fund into the pot.
There is really no other way to explain the Wizards seeming indifference on a night-to-night basis. Marcin Gortat surely does not have a better explanation. Asked by Todd Dybas of The Sports Capitol after Game 4 why the team always seems to play its best when their odds seem the longest, Gortat was at loss for words:
“If I knew, I would tell you.