Following a hot 3-0 start of the gate of the season, the Washington Wizards have quickly stumbled in the other direction have dropped four out of their last six games.

According to Candace Buckner of the Washington Post, veteran guard Bradley Beal believes this sudden cold spell has been a direct correlation to the team feeling a bit overconfident in their play.

The genesis of the Wizards’ self-assurance began well before this season. Back in 2014, Beal proclaimed that he and Wall ranked as the best backcourt in the NBA. However, Beal believes the team’s fast start to the 2017-18 season provided false confidence.

“I would say early on, probably when we were 3-0,” Beal said. “Then we played the Lakers, I think that kind of started it. We kind of thought we were going to be better than we were. We had three great wins but at the same time, we got to be able to win on the road to be a great team.”

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This has pushed the Wizards back into the realm of being a team that is in the middle of the pack in the Eastern Conference. It has brought back the feeling of what has plagued them over the last several seasons as they do possess one of the top backcourts in the league but have struggled to break through behind them.

Washington does possess one of the more talented rosters in the conference, but their lack of ability to separate themselves in the upper tier of teams with the likes of the Cleveland Cavaliers or Boston Celtics has plateaued them. This has seen them fail to make it past the Eastern Conference semifinals in three out of the last four years that they have made the playoffs.

With it still being relatively early in the season, there is still plenty of time for the Wizards to figure things out while potentially add pieces to puzzle if need be.