#player-inconsistency

#player-inconsistency

The Jordan Poole experience in Washington was quite the ride for an abundance of reasons. Between major offensive performances, unreal shot-making, nights where his inefficiency stood out and others where his decision-making simply caused frustration stemming from the coaching staff to the fans at home. Regardless, there's no doubt that while having the Michigan product on your team can cause a roller coaster ride of emotions, it rarely translates to winning.

In the first five games of the season, the young and inexperienced rotation - Sandro Mamukelashvili is the oldest at 26 with the most years played [4] - looked to already be an insolvable quandary. It was 16th in net rating, 21st in points scored, and as resistant as rotten fruit on the glass (25th in rebounding percentage). The lot of them looked lost, small, and, ineffectual. Only Jamison Battle had a positive plus/minus in their losses, and he played limited minutes in just two games.

Rafael Leao went into the game against Atalanta full of confidence, but he exited after just 45 minutes of action. To call it 'action' might be over-generous, because Leao was anonymous. As La Gazzetta dello Sport recall, Massimiliano Allegri revealed after the game that the forward was battling a hip problem, and he preferred to take him off because he never got into the rhythm of the game.