[It was all a dream... the health of Wall, Beal and Nene.]The 2012-13 NBA regular season ended a month and six days ago.Over the 170 days prior, starting on October 30, 2012, it was 82 games up, 82 games down for the Washington Wizards; ...
[It was all a dream... the health of Wall, Beal and Nene.]The 2012-13 NBA regular season ended a month and six days ago.Over the 170 days prior, starting on October 30, 2012, it was 82 games up, 82 games down for the Washington Wizards; 29 wins and 53 losses. The beauty is that we don’t have to live through it again–teams that win 35 percent of their games rarely want to–but we also don’t have to forget. Because you’d never learn, or improve, if you forgot everything and ripped the rearview mirror off the Ferrari.
Nineteen different individuals suited up for the Wizards this past season. Martell Webster led the way in action with 2,200 minutes, and Jason Collins contributed the fewest with 54 minutes. For all 82 games, the staff of Truth About It.net, amongst other game observations, rated each of the five Wizards starters plus two players off the bench on a three-star scale (inspired by the District of Columbia flag) in a series of posts called the D.C. Council. (Well, we evaluated players for all games, except one: Game 60, when Deron Williams completely demoralized the Wizards from ever competing by going 7-for-7 from the 3-point line in the first quarter.)
Sometimes three players off the bench were evaluated instead of two; a few times it was less than two. In general, the average rating of players coming off the bench was skewed a little higher for the simple fact that those playing better were more likely to get evaluated. Starters, on the other hand, got evaluated no matter what.
[***Also: remember that silly little time in December 2012 when the most positive talk that could be mustered was how the 1-13 Wizards led the NBA in bench scoring? Swell.]
The D.C. Council ratings are a statistical anti-stat. They are the combined impression of several interested members of the crowd, but in numerical form. Sometimes the ratings were contingent on winning and losing, and they were always subjective. They are simply one window of evaluation, combined with written analysis, both standard and advanced statistics, and shot charts. Below is a hyperlinked index of reviews for all 19 Wizards (plus a bonus review of Tomas Satoransky, Wizards Euro-stash), their average D.C. Council three-star rating, and the number of games over which they were evaluated.
The 2012-13 Washington Wizards season: it was all a dream, and not that great of a dream.
Trevor Ariza: Highs, Lows and Oh Nos!
by John Converse Townsend (@JohnCTownsend)
1.41 – 35 games
Earl Barron: Have Ring, Will Play Basketball
by Kyle Weidie (@Truth_About_It)
1.75 – 4 games
Bradley Beal: Growing Pains? Beal With Them
by John Converse Townsend (@JohnCTownsend)
1.63 – 52 games
Trevor Booker: Cook Book Lacks Sizzle
by Rashad Mobley (@Rashad20)
1.20 – 25 games
Jason Collins: In Like A Lamb, Out Like A Lion
by Rashad Mobley (@Rashad20)
0.63 – 4 games
Jordan Crawford: Steez-less in DC
by Rashad Mobley (@Rashad20)
1.50 – 33 games
Nene Hilario: Trapped in a Glass Menagerie
by Sean Fagan (@McCarrick)
1.63 – 55 games
Shaun Livingston: In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb
by Kyle Weidie (@Truth_About_It)
1.00 – 7 games
Shelvin Mack: Lost in a Waive of Despair
by Adam Rubin (@LedellsPlace)
1.25 – 4 games
Cartier Martin: Last Gasp for the Good Guy
by Adam McGinnis (@AdamMcGinnis)
1.71 – 12 games
Emeka Okafor: A Three-Sided Coin
by Adam Rubin (@LedellsPlace)
1.43 – 76 games
Jannero Pargo: A Trivial Pursuit for an Orange Wedge
by Sean Fagan (@McCarrick)
N/A
A.J. Price: A Perfectly Imperfect Solution
by Kyle Weidie (@Truth_About_It)
1.47 – 19 games
Kevin Seraphin: #KevinSeraphinLife Heads Off Track
by Adam McGinnis (@AdamMcGinnis)
1.56 – 26 games
Chris Singleton: Someone Give This Man Appropriately Heated Porridge
by Conor Dirks (@ConorDDirks)
1.06 – 27 games
Garrett Temple: Unsung Warrior, Blogger Mea Culpa
by Adam McGinnis (@AdamMcGinnis)
1.20 – 40 games
Jan Vesely: Confidence a