"When does it become insanity when you keep doing the same things"

The Wizards have now fallen to the 12th seed in the East following a tough loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night.

From broadcasters to podcasters and even players, many are starting to raise questions about the Wizards strategy (or lack thereof) down the stretch in close and important playoff-implication games.

One that really hits home is Drew Gooden’s comments after Wednesday’s loss to the Hawks. He questioned why the Wizards are sticking to set rotations rather than basing the rotations on the flow of the game? Gooden even says “When does it become insanity when you keep doing the same things?”.

I couldn’t agree more with Gooden’s comments. He, like myself, many of our readers, and Wizard’s fans, want to see the Wizards maximize their talent and get in the playoffs (not just play-in). Gooden’s comments can be seen here.

During the Locked On Wizards podcast, both Ed Oliver and Brandon Scott questioned the rotations (among many other deserving things) including why we waited so long to bring back KP in the 4th quarter during the first (and most heartbreaking) Hawk’s loss this last week.

Other things mentioned during the podcast were the overreliance of Beal in the final plays of the games and why is he, instead off Delon Wright bringing the ball up the court? Why not try a different play like get the ball to KP in the post?

After the same game, Kyle Kuzma made the following comments: “A lot of times we have the ball in the 4th and it’s Brad’s ball. It’s his time in the 4th and it’s his team so we just live and die by it and it’s cool. Whatever happens you just live with it.” Although Kuz kept it very diplomatic, I think we all can read between the lines.