It was no surprise when the Washington Wizards started off this season looking like one of the worst teams in the NBA. They were one of the league’s worst teams last year, and they opened this season without starting point guard John Wall, which meant they were running such luminaries as AJ Price, Shelvin Mack and Garrett Temple out there to direct the offense. Needless to say, things did not go very well. Through January 11 (the day before Wall’s return to game action), Washington posted a comically bad 95.0 offensive efficiency. For reference, that was 3.5 points per 100 possessions (pts/100) worse than the Charlotte Bobcats.
In their 11 games since Wall’s return, Washington’s offensive output has jumped 5.8 pts/100 to a still bad but not laughably awful 100.8, which, had it represented their full-season mark, would rank 19th in the league rather than dead last. While the offense is still not great, it’s nowrespectable.
