Mystics try to weather the Storm after winless road trip Ten games into this season, the Washington Mystics are in a position they never imagined they would be in again. After finishing the 2011 campaign as the Eastern Conference's worst team (6-28), the Mystics find themselves with the same 2-8 mark they sported last year at this point. And following a three-game road trip that featured no Washington wins, the most lopsided loss of the season and the lowest scoring output of the year, the question facing Coach Trudi Lacey's crew is whether they can right the ship before it spirals out of control like a season ago. "We didn't play how we needed to play and the result was some losses," leading scorer Crystal Langhorne said of the team's defeats at Los Angeles, Phoenix and Seattle over the past eight days. "We can't get into a mind-set where it's just like, "Ugh, we have another game." We have to be positive. But the numbers suggest a team that is still searching for an identity under Lacey. Combined with last season, this team is now tied for the worst 44-game stretch in franchise history - matched only by Washington's first 44 games as an expansion team back in 1998 and 1999. This year the Mystics are averaging fewer points per game than any team in the WNBA, and opponents are shooting 46.6 percent from the field. They're also turning the ball over more than 18 times per game. Lacey has tried to address the issue by shuffling her lineup, and nine players have started at least one game thus far. More changes could be in store Tuesday night at Verizon Center when the Mystics get a return game against Seattle, a team they lost to, 72-55, on Sunday night. In that defeat, Washington shot just 34.5 percent from the field and Lacey told reporters afterward that she felt her team was "mentally fatigued." But Langhorne said playing just two days later means the Storm's defensive tactics would be "fresh on our minds." As for the rest of the season, Langhorne and company know well they must erase the sting of these first 10 games soon. "I thought things were going to come for us a little bit quicker, but what can you do now," she said. We just have to come out and play hard the next game.