Andray Blatche will miss the next three to five weeks with a strained left calf.

The Wizards are 4-13 with Blatche in the lineup this season.

The Washington Wizards announced that they have recalled center Hamady Ndiaye from the Iowa Energy, the team’s affiliate in the NBA D-League.

Ndiaye averaged 5.0 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.1 blocks in 10 games (three starts) for the Iowa Energy.

New Wizards coach Randy Wittman wants his team to play even more uptempo, and he made certain it's known he feels that the Wizards' conditioning is an issue.

"Everybody wants to run and every player you would ever talk to wants to run, but we do have to get in shape to run now," Wittman said after the 95-78 win over Charlotte on Wednesday.

"We had 31 points in the first quarter, and I thought we ran out of gas a little in the second quarter. If we want to run, we’ve got to get in here and do extra work if we want to push the ball."

John Wall’s numbers are worse than they were in his rookie year.

Wall is shooting worse, assisting less, and turning the ball over more. As a result, the Wizards rank last in offensive efficiency, scoring a putrid 92 points per 100 possessions.

Wall ranks 83rd in mid-range shooting percentage, ahead of only Danny Granger.

He ranks 80th in percentage among the 89 players who have attempted at least 50 shots from inside five feet, and 63rd among the 69 players who have attempted at least 25 shots from elsewhere in the paint.

Flip Saunders has been fired as head coach of the Wizards, according to a source.

Washington has talked to Randy Wittman, currently an assistant coach with the team, about taking the interim role.

The Wizards have a 2-15 start to the season.

The Wizards have received some of their best production from a lineup featuring John Wall, Jordan Crawford and Nick Young on the perimeter.

The smaller trio is expected to play on Friday against the Nuggets.

“We’ve gone small a lot,” Flip Saunders said. “We’ve played Nick and Jordan and John together, and those guys have all been very effective playing together in the fourth quarter.”

The Wizards are looking to improve their ball movement and unselfishness.

“When you haven’t passed the ball very much, you’ve been holding the ball and holding it, then all of a sudden as a team when you try to start doing it, all of a sudden guys aren’t ready, and so we had a lot of unforced turnovers,” Coach Flip Saunders said.

The Wizards rank 29th in assists (15.9), but turn over the ball with almost the same frequency (15.3). 

Wizards forward Andray Blatche saw a shoulder specialist in Philadelphia on Friday.

No target date has been given for his return though Blatche said that the injury, listed as a sore right shoulder, would probably keep him out a few games.

Blatche was averaging 11.8 points on just 39 percent shooting.

The Wizards are interested in trading Andray Blatche, according to sources.

But team officials are realistic about whether they will be successful as he has four seasons remaining on his current contract.

The Wizards currently have the least efficient offense in NBA history, producing just 90.6 points every 100 possessions.

They are on pace to obliterate the previous low mark of 92.2 points produced per 100 possessions shared by the 17-win Denver Nuggets in 2002-03 and the 23-win New York Knicks in 1976-77.