you bet a hundred balls? You just won five cents

This is the most anticipated news of the day. Not that we waited impatiently eh, but rather that we expected it. The Wizards are therefore officially eliminated from the Playoffs race, thank you for stopping by, it was very kind.

So let’s be clear, the following lines are not intended to make fun of these poor Wizards, even if in general we like it. Scott Brooks’ players had come to Orlando with a semblance of hope for a very hypothetical ninth place, very quickly we had and they understood that it would be shabby, but the games of the summer will have at least allowed to stretch the legs are always taken. Florida’s Wizards’ record? Five games, five losses against Phoenix, Brooklyn, Indiana, Philly and New Orleans, and a dynamic so slammed that even the … Hornets (and soon the Bulls) passed them without playing. With three more wanked meetings in the program against the Thunder, the Bucks and the Celtics, the Wizzous could therefore head to a cute 0/8, enough to end up eleventh in the East just ahead of… the Knicks, oh yeah anyway.

But more than on an Augustian destiny like the end of a summer sage on Tf1 or the title of French football champion, let’s focus instead on what the Wizards have all the same proposed since their arrival in the bubble. Because it wasn’t all bad, far from it, and some kids have even managed to have a little fun for ten days. This is the case for example of the pivot Thomas Bryant, excited at the moment and author of some very gluttonous outings, it is also the case of Jerome Robinson, quite happy in the capital after seeing his soul sucked in last January by Ja Morant while still playing with the Clippers, and it is also – especially – the case of Troy Brown Jr., author of a remarkable end to the season and slowly settling into the family of friendly all-around players and even two-way players to avoid spoiling anything. Small disappointment on the other hand for a Rui Hachimura sometimes sharp but sometimes too withdrawn and / or clumsy, to believe that the Japanese had to have the head elsewhere, perhaps well at the Tokyo Games but we are not sure.

Five games, five losses, and an elimination that is no longer in doubt. We knew it guys so the disappointment is not really a disappointment but one thing is certain however: the starting five composed of John Wall, Bradley Beal, Troy Brown, Rui Hachimura and Thomas Bryant may not make the seagulls laugh well. a long time then we touch wood and we meet again… for the 2021 Playoffs?

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