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20. Charlotte Hornets (20)

Virtually everything about the 2017-18 season has been disappointing for the Charlotte Hornets, but Malik Monk's crummy play stands out.

According to Scott Rafferty of the Step Back: "The only rookie to have scored at least 100 total points on the season less efficiently is Semi Ojeleye, who was selected in the second round of the same draft. Take it a step further, and only a handful of players in the entire league currently have a worse true shooting percentage than Monk."

Yikes.

Charlotte is 2-5 in March.

19. Milwaukee Bucks (18)

There's really just one way to lose to the Magic when you have Giannis Antetokounmpo on your team: get destroyed, embarrassingly, during the tiny sample of minutes in which he's on the bench.

Per Dean Maniatt of Brewhoop, Milwaukee's net rating was minus-94.0 in the 7:23 Antetokounmpo sat on Wednesday, resulting in a 126-117 defeat. Coupled with unimpressive wins over the Grizzlies and Knicks, the Bucks had a rotten week.

18. Miami Heat (19)

Thanks in part to the absences of Dwyane Wade (hamstring) and Hassan Whiteside, who's missed three straight with a hip injury, the Heat extended their road losing streak to nine games by falling to the Kings in Sacramento on Wednesday.

Goran Dragic scored 11 straight fourth-quarter points in that one, helping erase a 16-point deficit, but...hey, Heat, why are you down by 16 to the Kings in the first place?

Justise Winslow would have to flame out pretty spectacularly for the rest of March for it not to be the best month of his career. He's scored in double figures in seven of his last eight games (he had nine in the other), has his three-point percentage all the way up to 45.1 percent and offers critical versatility to a Heat rotation that, while deep, seems to always have a couple of bodies missing.

"He was facilitating, getting us organized into offense and then when it was time to be aggressive, he dropped his shoulder and got to the rim a few times," head coach Erik Spoelstra told reporters after Winslow grabbed 13 boards and keyed a late rally in Monday's loss at Portland.

17. San Antonio Spurs (13)

Forget the indecipherable mystery of Kawhi Leonard's return date for a second and instead try to appreciate the perversion of the natural order taking place.

The San Antonio Spurs are assured of a losing road record this year for the first time since 1997-98, ending the longest streak of away-from-home competence in any major sport, per Elias.

Monday's loss to the Rockets dropped San Antonio to 10th in the West, the latest it's been outside the official playoff picture since 1996-97, also per Elias (via ESPN Stats & Info).

That sound you hear is the planet tilting on its axis in protest. All of this feels...wrong.

16. Minnesota Timberwolves (17)

Karl-Anthony Towns turned it on in a short 2-0 week for the Minnesota Timberwolves, averaging 34 points and 13 rebounds while running the fourth-quarter show in victories over the Washington Wizards and Golden State Warriors. It shouldn't have taken Jimmy Butler's injury to nudge the Wolves toward a Towns-centric approach when closing games, but at least they finally got there.

Reports that Andrew Wiggins is unhappy about his place behind Towns in the Wolves hierarchy could hardly have surfaced at a worse time.

KAT is carrying Minnesota and preserving its position in a crowded playoff push while Wiggins trudges down the stretch of a thoroughly disappointing individual season.