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How well did the BF staff predict the season?

Right before the regular season, the BF staff made 26 predictions about the 2016-2017 season. At this point, all of the predictions have played out so let's see how they did.

1. 2016-2017 Otto Porter will be the best Otto Porter yet. Yes. He established career highs in shooting percentages, scoring, and rebounding even if he didn't have a much bigger role than he did in 2016.

2. Otto Porter will sign a deal worth over $70 million this summer. Yes. Otto shocked the world by signing a deal that was not only way over $48 million but also way over $70 million.

3. John Wall posts a career-high true shooting percentage. Yes. His 54.1% true shooting percentage beat out his previous high of 52.4% in 2014, though it fell short of the 56% that would have guaranteed a championship.

4. Wall will make First Team All-Defense this season. No. He ended up finishing 7th among guards in the All-Defense voting, so...uh...Fourth Team.

5. Wall will finish in the top-five in MVP voting. No. Also a distant 7th behind IT and Curry.

6. Wall will have at least seven triple-doubles this year. Nope. It was the year of the triple-double, but Wall had none and only had a few close calls.

7. Bradley Beal will have a 50+ point game this season. No. Beal topped 40 points four times after never hitting that mark before in his career but "only" got as high as 42 points against the Suns in November.

8. Beal will appear in his first All-Star game. Nope. He was beaten out for the final spot by Melo.

9. Beal will play in at least 70 games this season. Yes! He played a career-high 77 games, beating out his previous high of 73 in 2014.

10. Ian Mahinmi will average more fourth quarter minutes than Marcin Gortat. Actually...yes. The key word here is average since we already knew at this point that Mahinmi would be out a while at the start of the season with a torn meniscus. Mahinmi played 184 fourth quarter minutes in 31 games, or 5.9 minutes per game, while Gortat played 435 minutes in 82 games, or 5.3 minutes per game. Mahinmi really gained on him after the All-Star Break, more than doubling up Gortat in 4th quarter minutes (164 to 70).

11. Mahinmi and Gortat play less than 15 minutes together all season (and not because either of them gets injured). Yes. They didn't play together at all, and Scott Brooks probably wouldn't have given it a thought at all even if Mahinmi was healthier.

12. Gortat will be shipped before the trade deadline. No. Mahinmi had barely started playing again by the trade deadline so the team wasn't really in a position to trade Gortat. I don't think this is the last we'll see of this prediction.

13. Markieff Morris will become the team’s most important player outside of John Wall. No. Though Morris was definitely valuable during the team's hot stretch in January and February, that honor goes to Beal for the offensive and defensive loads he takes on.

14. Morris will lead the team in technicals. No. Morris couldn't match a career year for Wall in technicals. Wall racked up 15 in the regular season compared to Morris's 10.

15. Tomas Satoransky becomes the primary backup for both guard positions. No. This is the first of several bench predictions where the logic (that some bench players would be unplayable) was right but the prediction (that someone else would step up) was wrong. Here, the idea was that Burke and Thornton would have their minutes reduced and Sato would step into both of their roles. Instead Burke and Thornton had their minutes reduced and Sato didn't get either of their roles.

16. Satoransky will enter the Dunk Contest. No, though it couldn't have been much worse with him in it.

17. Kelly Oubre will shoot 35 percent from three this year. No. His 3PT% actually fell from 32% in his rookie year to 29% last year. He did shoot above 35% on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays though.

18. Marcus Thornton will play more minutes than Trey Burke. No. The logic was that Burke would be unplayable and Thornton would be slightly better. Instead, Thornton was unplayable and Burke was slightly better. Burke outminuted Thornton 703 to 575.

19. Sheldon McClellan cracks the Wizards’ rotation. No. The idea here was that Sato and Thornton were question marks so there was a good chance Mac would get to play. Instead, none of them ended up in the rotation, and there wasn't anybody even named Sheldon McClellan by the end of the year.

20. The Wizards sweep the Hawks in the regular season. No. This prediction was dead right out of the gate as they dropped the first game of the season to the Hawks. They did win the other 3 games though, including that 26 point beatdown in January.

21. The Wizards will sweep the Celtics in the regular season. No. We became all too familiar by the end of the playoff series with the fact that neither team won on the other's home floor.

22. The second unit will struggle to score, forcing the team to make a move at the trade deadline. Finally a good bench prediction. Add up Burke and Thornton falling out of the rotation, Sato and Mac not cracking the rotation, and Oubre shooting below 30% from 3, and you've got a second unit that's gonna struggle to score and a deadline deal for a shooter.

23. John Wall will have less assists this season, but it will be a good thing for the Wizards. No. This is yet another prediction that fell victim to bench player optimism since the idea was that the bench PGs would take up some of his minutes. Instead, backup PG struggles forced Wall to play 36.4 minutes per game in 2017, his highest average since his rookie year, and he had a career-high 10.7 assists per game.

24. Washington will win the division for the first time since 1979. Yes. The team cruised to a division title by 6 games over the Hawks.

25. Washington will finish top-five in defensive rating. No. They actually got up to 9th by the All-Star Break but fell off a cliff defensively after that, finishing 20th.

26. The Wizards will return to the second round of the playoffs. Yes.

Final Results: The staff got 9 out of 26 predictions right. Feel free to roast them in the comments.

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