{"id":831698,"date":"2026-07-28T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831698\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:05:13","slug":"the-wizards-are-still-projected-to-be-a-bottom-feeder-in-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831698\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wizards are still projected to be a bottom feeder in 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Key question: Can the young guys keep developing?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">The Wizards were the worst team in the league last season, but there were some individual signs of progress with their young core \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Trae Young should help those players get better shots. The Wizards ranked 26th in shot quality last season, but their shot-quality score was much higher (top-five level) off of Young\u2019s passes in the five games he played. However, the offense was still bad (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/team\/1610612764\/onoffcourt-summary?Season=2025-26&amp;SeasonType=Regular%20Season&amp;dir=A&amp;sort=ON_OFF_RATING\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">106.6 points scored per 100 possessions<\/a>) in his 104 minutes on the floor. The young guards will also have to adjust to getting far fewer touches, and it remains to be seen if Sarr and Davis can fit together offensively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Dybantsa is the future, but there\u2019s a decent team here if the returners can find their way in what may be a very different offense from what we\u2019ve seen over the last few seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key question: Can the young guys keep developing? The Wizards were the worst team in the league last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,701,459,82,290439],"class_list":["post-831698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-news","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-washington-wizards-team-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}