Why the Washington Wizards will be the WORST team in the NBA

So, the Washington Wizards, after a weird offseason where they turned Bradley Beal into a ton of pick swaps and eventually Jordan Poole, have essentially allowed the bottom to fall out from under them

They are committing to a full-scale rebuild with a pretty young roster with little to no continuity

I expect them to be one of, if not the worst team in the NBA, and today I'm going to discuss why if I had to put my money on it, they will be the worst team in the NBA

This is going to be the beginning of a scripted power ranking series where I just rank all 30 teams in the NBA just before the season starts

And we're going to start at the very bottom with the Washington Wizards. So let's get into it

So let's start by looking at the death chart of this team. So with the wing spots, Denny Avdia, Bilal Koulibaly, and Corey Kispert are some of the headliners

All three are extremely young, especially Koulibaly, who was one of the biggest projects in this year's draft

though he has some defensive upside which we'll talk about later um and with that youth and lack of

continuity um between these players other than Kispert and Avdia who have played together a

little bit um I imagine it'll be very hard for them to sort of play off each other and they'll

only really be able to provide tertiary elements to an otherwise pretty awful team headlining this

wing group though is Kyle Kuzma who isn't much of a playmaker himself and is just an average

three-point shooter. He shoots above league average volume for sure, about seven and a half

threes a game, but he shoots them at like 33%, so how much, how great of a shooter is he really

And then other than that group, Danilo Gallinari and Patrick Baldwin are not going to be

sustaining any elite wing rotations whatsoever, and so I imagine that this Wizards ring rotation

is going to be nothing short of blah. There's just a whole lot of blah throughout this roster

which is kind of a common theme with the Washington Wizards every year, but finally it looks like this blah is just a little bit worse than the last few years

If we go to the guard depth Johnny Davis after having a pretty not great rookie season he actually turned it around a little bit towards the end but for the most part he essentially didn play at all

He's going to probably be coming off the bench next to Tyce Jones and DeLon Wright, and they'll

basically be trading minutes at the guard positions, along with Jordan Poole, who is also

going to jack up a ton of shots next to Kyle Kuzma. That duo is hilarious. There's going to be no

playmaking whatsoever. There's not going to be a lot of efficiency coming from Poole, and I imagine

that this is going to be a very fun year for him. He's going to love it in Washington, but they are

going to stink because of it. Now, Tyus Jones off the bench. If we actually start talking about

their offense, Tyus Jones is probably the best initiator on this team. He's a good playmaker

who turns the ball over at such a low rate that he's one of the best assist-to-turnover ratio guys

of all time, though without any playmaking next to him, without a ton of shot creating or shot

making next to him, especially at the center position where they essentially only have one

kind of undersized center in Daniel Gafford, I imagine it'll be very hard for him to even

effectively run an offense off the bench. And Poole's going to even have more trouble with that

because Poole is just not naturally a playmaker at all. So I imagine this team's offense is just

going to be a ton of just tough shot making and tough shot taking um though i think if they

properly use avdia and koulibaly they could actually create somewhat of a semblance of a

playmaking wing duo but i i just don't imagine that they'll do that avdia is definitely in need

of a change of scenery after being essentially completely misused and miscast for the last few

years as essentially a spot up guy when he really should be a connector he really should be slashing

and cutting and screening and playmaking, not like standing on the wings shooting threes and just

and just not being initiated, not being a part of like a constructive offense whatsoever

And again, their center depth is just awful. So this team's offense, I think, will be at best

somewhere in the low 20s Maybe they can get into the teams I think if they get to like 15 that like fantastic but I don imagine they get that high And then if we go to the defensive side of the ball it is awful Their rookie Bilal Koulibaly is actually an interesting defensive prospect

He's got great length, athleticism, and pretty good defensive instincts, though he is still a

teenager. And if Washington can kind of unlock those things, if he sort of shows upside on that

side of the ball, then he could actually enhance their defense quite a bit, though I imagine his

complete lack of offensive polish is going to prevent him from cracking the starting lineup

for most of the year. And then really the only other good defender on this team, I would say

other than, you know, Daniel Gafford, who's probably just like an average defensive center

is Denny Avdia, who's probably one of the more underrated defenders in the NBA

though he alone cannot carry this otherwise dreadful team defense. Jordan Poole and Kyle Kuzma are both pretty bad defenders most of the time

and their other small guards as well as their young wings are not going to be enhancing this defense whatsoever

So big teams are going to destroy them, and small teams are probably also going to have a pretty good time against them

So I just imagine this team with essentially, again, no center depth

Mike Muscala as their backup. Mike Muscala is old as dirt and not a good defender. And with poor

defense in the backcourt is going to get hardcore punished by a majority of the teams in both

conferences. So to summarize, this team has very little chemistry and very little continuity. Half

of this roster is completely new. This team's offense is essentially predicated entirely around

two shot chuckers who are poor playmakers and then also bad defenders and this team's defense

is essentially completely awful outside of two high upside wings um so i would be very surprised

if they are no no better than a top a bottom five defense um because they just have no defensive personnel now you can get more out of a defense like this with a good coach who sort of galvanizes and rallies the troops on that end

but Wes Unseld Jr. hasn't really proven that he can do that to any degree

so I'm just not really confident at all that they'll be able to cobble together

even a competent defense. So yeah, the Wizards are going to suck this year

They're going to be, in my opinion, the worst team in the NBA, and I think they kind of edge out teams like the Spurs and the Blazers

just because their high-end talent is kind of redundant. They just have two elite scorers

Well, I shouldn't say elite. Neither of them are that amazing, but elite in the role-player kind

of way, and then they just have a lot of young guys who have essentially no experience in real

NBA games. So I imagine this team's really going to stink. And I think my win prediction for them

is probably going to be about 23 wins. I think that's probably what gets you the worst record

in the NBA this year. The league is really loaded with talent right now. This Wizards team would

probably not be the worst in the league, you know, four or five years ago. But, you know

with just all these holes, I can't imagine that they are any higher than, like, the 14 seed if

they get lucky. I think Poole and Kuz alone should probably be enough to keep them out of

like completely like NBA purgatory and like the 15 win range, but I don't imagine they're going

to crack 25 wins. So I think 23 is about the mark, and I guess that's it. That's my 10 minutes on the

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