"Finding the Washington Wizards a was easy a few days ago — simply look at the bottom of the NBA standings. But with a new coach in place, a couple of more wins in the books — including an all-important road win — the Wizards find themselves trying to become something more than the league's cellar-dwellers.

With a quarter of the season gone in the compressed schedule, coach Randy Wittman knows he doesn't have a lot of time to get his players to figure it all out.

"We've got to form an identity," Wittman said before the team's first road win of the season, a 102-99 decision Saturday."