Time now to discuss the Eastern Conference over under his Danny, and let's change things up a little bit.

I realize this when I looked at the timestamps for the West that we talked about the first team,

Dallas for like 11 minutes. Now, they are a very interesting team, but I don't think we went as long on any of the other teams.

Also, we're just kind of getting our footing, but it's nice to just start at the bottom of the alphabet and make sure that the Washington Wizards get some attention for the first and only time all season.

Let's begin with their overunders.

Over Under.

Last year, the Washington Wizards finished 18 and 64 with the differential of a 14 win team.

You can see some stuff on the tails of these sorts of things, of course.

And the over-under this year is set at 21.5.

Are they better or worse than last year in your review?

I think they're worse.

I mean, John and his great piece of The Athletic talked about how the three most effective players for the Wizards last year, you know, like in the minutes they played were Valanchunus, Poole, and Malcolm Brogden, and all of them are gone. That doesn't help. They do have these vets. Like, I mean, it's very possible that C.J. McCollum is better than some of those guys were last year. It's possible, of course, that Chris Middleton is. Marcus Martin isn't even on this team. He already got bought out and is a Laker. So that kind of thing on the talent in, talent out, I think they are probably a little bit worse, though you can make an argument that's close. I do think, though, remember, this is a team that not only had started the season

with four rookies, they actually played those guys meaningful minutes. Sarr and Bob Carrington,

most notably, though, of course, Tishon George had a big role too. And generally speaking,

the biggest jump that you see from players is your one to year two because the idea is basically

you and I talk about this in most improved player that there are a lot of adjustments that you

need to make to get into the NBA whether you come through the college system like Bub did or

you come through internationally like Alex Sar did and so year one isn't representative guys

just generally are a lot better. So the internal

improvement, just the passage of time, I think that helps them pretty significantly. But in terms

of like, are they better? If yes, not by much, if no, possibly. Yeah, I mean, Brogden didn't play

at all for them last year. Val Junis was moved before the deadline, and he was out there when they were so miserable.

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