December 4: Coulibaly is projected to miss three-to-five weeks as a result of his oblique injury, according to sources who spoke to Grant Afseth of RG.org.
December 3: The Wizards are preparing to be without forward Bilal Coulibaly for multiple weeks due to a right oblique strain, according to The Athletic’s Josh Robbins.
As Robbins writes, the Wizards have yet to set a formal timeline for the injury, but Varun Shankar of The Washington Post notes (via Twitter) that while timelines can vary for oblique strains, an absence of multiple weeks should be expected.
Coulibaly suffered the injury during Tuesday’s game against the Sixers and was able to play about nine more minutes after the injury occurred.
The former seventh overall pick has had a hard time staying healthy this season, missing eight of Washington’s first 20 games. He missed the start of the season while recovering from a torn ligament in his thumb and four more games in November with a left calf contusion.
Coulibaly has struggled with his offense since returning to play, averaging 8.8 points per game on .374/.268/.771 shooting splits. Robbins notes that Coulibaly’s defense has been massive for the Wizards, who are ranked 30th in that category and don’t have many above-average perimeter defenders to put around Alex Sarr, who is also currently injured with an injury of his own (an adductor strain).
Realistically it wont matter, Keefe will continue to have terrible subs and rotations to ensure they lose, which is the command handed down from the front office. If they wanted to promote some exciting basketball they will trade McCollum, not sure you can get much for Middleton. And with Kispert injured as well its hard to see any value for him. CJ and Middleton are averaging 29.7 and 25.9 minutes a game. What help is veteran leadership if you’re going to be losing this much? If you are going to be losing like this, there has to be some coaching leadership. And there really doesn’t seem to be any of that from what I can tell.
Ditch the veterans that aren’t going to be around as soon as possible. See what you have by giving starter level minutes to the likes of Riley, Whitmore and once he’s back Tre. I love Bilal’s defense but he’s regressed, I love Bub’s 3 point shooting and ability to get the assisst but he too has regressed overall. At some point the organization has to say, “we’re done tanking.” is it after this season? For my part I hope its sooner as this team is being coached to lose from what I can tell, key players have taken steps back in their development and the ones who have improved seem to have done so individually in the offseason apart from the organization.
This is not the last tanking season. There’s not enough talent on this team to compete with what’s out there.
San Antonio tanked for 2 more years after drafting Wemby. Detroit tanked for 3 more after drafting Cade.
You are right though, its not likely going to stop anytime soon. The worst part is you can have one of the best chances to score the top pick and then end up with the 6th pick overall. Who knows, maybe the NBA will rig it in our favor at some point.
Those are the new lottery odds. The worst team in the league is much more likely to get the #5 pick than #1 or #2.
On the other hand after tonight, can you really keep Brian Keefe around? The C’s didn’t even have Jaylen Brown and they win by 45 on your home court? I mean someone’s head has to roll after that.
I haven’t seen anything from Keefe to make me think he’s a competent coach.
As far as team performances go, pretty much my only wish was fewer blowouts than last season, namely, home blowouts.
But it’s actually gotten worse than in 24’25.
Tactically, there’s nothing, and on an individual level, the players don’t seem inspired by him or anything like that.
27.5 percent for a top 2(14&13.5)
48 percent for #5