The analytics movement is going full steam ahead in all sports and while the Washington Wizards have appeared to be lagging in that effort, their owner says that's not a far assessment. From Jorge Castillo of The Washington Post:

"Verizon Center served as a basketball laboratory for about an hour Tuesday afternoon when the Washington Mystics and Minnesota Lynx took part in an unprecedented experiment dubbed as an 'analytics scrimmage.' ... Wizards and Mystics owner Ted Leonsis, the scrimmage’s mastermind, joined them. There was a bit of irony to the situation: Though Leonsis staged this grand experiment, the Wizards, the numbers say, have not played like a team that has joined the analytics movement that has swept the NBA in recent seasons. ... Leonsis defended the organization’s use of analytics when asked about criticism levied against the Wizards, including a story ranking franchises’ use of analytics in the four major American sports published in the ESPN The Magazine earlier this year: 'I think we’re an advanced organization. I think, as we said, we were one of the first to hire capologists, we were one of the first to put the high-speed cameras up. One off the first things I did when I bought the team was bringing in a guy name Joe Sill. Double math PhD, kind of a Netflixy algorithm guy. He’s never been here. And so to read an article like that was disrespectful to the people that are doing the work and so that’s why I kind of dismissed it. I think for us of course we can do better.'"