NBA 2017-18: 5 Most Inconsistent Teams So Far

#4 Washington Wizards

Bradley Beal and John Wall

The Washington Wizards have been a tough puzzle to solve this season. At the beginning of the year, they had depth and talent but they got into the bad habit of playing down to their competition early on. Then, late in November, John Wall's left knee started bothering him and he was forced to sit out nine games til mid-Dec.

The Wizards played like a group of soldiers would without their (floor) general, going 4-5 in those nine games. But, what left analysts and pundits dumbfounded was that once Wall returned, the Wizards weren't particularly playing any better either. Before sitting down a second time because of his troubling knee in late January, Wall and the Wizards went 12-9, not being able to establish any consistency.

When Wall started sitting out games once again late in January, the rest of the Wizards responded much better this time. They've gone 10-6, with three of those losses only coming in the last three games. Wall is slated to return in the first week of April. It would be interesting to see how the team and Wall play together, just a week or 10 days before the Playoffs.