The Washington Wizards received their first loss against one of the most unsuspecting teams, the rebuilding Los Angeles Lakers.
Having started the season 3-0, the Wizards hit the road with a mission — give Lonzo Ball a good introduction to the NBA game, after point guard John Wall admitted to circling this game in his calendar.
The result? a 102-99 overtime loss with Wall having the worst-shooting game of the young season.
The Wizards then lost to the defending champion Golden State Warriors the next time out, now two games apart from the perfect start they mustered to get.
Washington center Marcin Gortat noted his team needed to make less comments to the media and dedicate to show their skill on the court, and he reiterated this notion after a 130-122 win over the Toronto Raptors.
“Just because we won this game today here, it doesn’t mean that everything is fine and we back on the right track. There’s a lot of things we’ve got to work on,” Gortat said, according to Candace Buckner of The Washington Post. “First of all, we’ve got to become a more humble team and we just got to work harder.”
The two losses certainly humbled this team, who had proclaimed they were a team to watch out for this season.
“He’s not wrong in this instance,” his teammate Kelly Oubre Jr. said. “We’ve got to be humble. We’ve got to stop going to the media and doing things and saying things. We kind of got to let our game do the talking.”
The Wizards are 5-4 in the season and have their fair of competition to shed through before they can call themselves one of the Eastern Conferences' elite — but a work ethic approach is not a bad place to start.
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