Head coach Randy Wittman said he doesn’t know who to start on his Wizards, who are now 0-9 on the season. (Ron Hoskins/Getty Images)

Washington Wizards head coach Randy Wittman appears to have reached a boiling point after going nearly a month into the NBA season with his team still without a win, according to a report from Chuck Gormley of CSNWashington.com:

“I’m looking down the whole roster and if I had a cell phone I’d be calling the waiver wire trying to find another body. I mean, I’m just searching right now — searching for people to give me consistency.”

The Wizards are currently 0-9 following Monday night’s seven point loss to the Pacers at home in Washington D.C., and the team still doesn’t have a firm time for John Wall’s return. Wall had been diagnosed with a stress injury to his left knee cap in September. The initial timetable for his return was eight weeks,  which would have his season debut set for the end of November, but the team has remained mum on his return to the court and he doesn’t appear ready to play any time soon.

Wittman said he doesn’t have any idea who to start or who to play because of the inconsistency from the entire roster. The Wizards are currently playing up to 13 players on any given night and it’s a number Wittman said he’d like to see whittled down to only an eight-man rotation in order to compete at an NBA level:

“I don’t know who to start, who to play, who not to play. It’s the confusion of different guys every game. We have no consistency of play in our group. It’s just so inconsistent top to bottom. I’d love to have an eight or nine-man rotation. That’s my dream. And I’m playing 12 and 13 [players] every night. You can’t do that in an NBA game. You have to develop a [starting] group and a group that comes in. I’m having a tough time doing that.”

The team is dead last in the Southeast Division, behind the Orlando Magic. The offseason was particularly eventful for the Wizards, who parted ways with Rashard Lewis in exchange for Emeka Okafor and Trevor Ariza, and the team also used its amnesty clause this summer on the oft-troubled Andray Blatche.  The team also saw the departure in March of JaVale McGee in a trade with the Denver Nuggets that sent Nene Hilario to the Wizards.

Wittman said he “might be dumb,” but he believes in his team, though he admitted that he has been particularly baffled by the poor shot selection so far this season. The team is last in point per game at 86.6, last in shooting percentage at 40.1 percent and 25th in three-point shooting percentage at 31 percent:

“We were turning down shots to take worse shots. I know somebody in here is going to ask me, ‘Why do they do that?’ I don’t know. I don’t know.”

Perhaps the lone bright spot for the Wizards this season has been the continued development of their No. 3 pick in the 2012 NBA Draft. Bradley Beal has been in and out of the starting line-up this season, as Wittman has also given the starting nod to Jordan Crawford as of late, but Beal has been averaging 11.7 points in 27 minutes per game. He led the team in scoring off the bench in Monday’s nights loss to the Pacers with 18 points in 29 minutes.

Randy Wittman will return to coach the Washington Wizards for the 2012-2013 season. (Rob Carr, Getty Images)

The Washington Wizards have settled on the man to continue their rebuilding process. Randy Wittman, who served as the team’s interim head coach after Flip Saunders’ firing in January, will have the “interim” tag removed from his title for the 2012-2013 season, according to a team statement.

“We are excited to bring Randy back as head coach and give him the opportunity to build on the positive momentum that the team showed under his leadership last season,” Wizards GM Ernie Grunfeld said in the statement.  “We were very pleased with the development of our young players and the commitment to winning he instilled despite taking over the team under difficult circumstances.”

Previously a head coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Cleveland Cavaliers, Wittman took over a cellar-dwelling Wizards team that was 2-15 under Saunders and led them to an 18-31 mark though the rest of 2011-2012, including a six game win streak to close out the season. Under Wittman’s watch, the Wizards traded center JaVale McGee and shooting guard Nick Young to the Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Clippers respectively in exchange for center Nene and power forward Brian Cook. As a result, young players such as power forward Trevor Booker, center Kevin Seraphin and small forwards Chris Singleton and Jan Vesely saw minutes on the floor, steadily improving as the season progressed.

The Wizards hold the 3rd overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, and owner Ted Leonsis has indicated to the Washington Post that the team will also be active in the summer’s free agent market.

The Washington Wizards will reportedly bring back coach Randy Wittman next season. (Dan Lippitt/Getty Images)

The Washington Wizards plan to bring back coach Randy Wittman next season, reports ESPN‘s Ric Bucher.

The Wizards fired coach Flip Saunders in January, and Wittman replaced him on an interim basis. Now, it appears that Wittman will get a chance to take the reins permanently.

In an interview with the Washington Post‘s Michael Lee, Ted Leonsis also spoke about Wittman’s future.

“Randy is under contract. And right now, he’s our coach. And I was very impressed with the job that Randy did. But more importantly, I was impressed during the exit interviews.

“To a man, the players all felt that the way that we played after the trade wasn’t fool’s gold. It wasn’t the end of the season and other teams weren’t trying. That this was a serious team. A team that was playing for one another. A team that’s coachable and working really, really had and it started to see the lights turning on, that if they played the right way they would get results.

“So we started to take that into consideration, but the players really liked the coach and the staff. That speaks volumes on what decision we’ll have to make.”

Wittman previously has served as the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Minnesota Timberwolves.

Newly introduced Washington Wizards interim head coach, Randy Wittman, said the plan of turning around the team’s 2-15 record won’t be complicated.

“This isn’t brain surgery,” Wittman told CSN Washington. “We need to simplify things.”

“I would not have taken this job if I didn’t think this team could do better than what it is showing,” he added.

Wittman has three previous stints in the NBA as a head coach. From 1999-2001 he served as the head coach of the Cavaliers posting a 62-102 record. In three years as the head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves from 2006-2008, he posted a 38-105 record.

The Wizards will attempt to earn their third win of the season tonight against the 3-15 Charlotte Bobcats.