It took 14 attempts and nearly three quarters for Washington Wizards swingman Michael Jordan to hit his first shot, a futility that ran its course through the entire lineup.

Jordan finally got going and led a fourth-quarter surge that cut a 25-point deficit to seven, but Washington endured too many earlier failures and too many three-pointers by the Seattle SuperSonics. The Wizards lost their fourth consecutive game, 99-84, before an announced sellout crowd of 20,674.

"I couldn't get anything to go," said Jordan, who finished with 16 points (5-of-26 shooting), a team-high 12 rebounds and 4 assists. "This was probably one of the worst shooting nights I've had in my career. . . . I wouldn't say I had bad shots. I had great shots. When you miss a few, it starts working on you mentally. Then you start trying to fix the mechanics and it gets more technical and especially during the course of a game, that's the worst way to go about coming out of a shooting slump.