Will Riley

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lol! --well done!

You are a very welcome addition to the board, Northwest Roddy! Really glad u r here!

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I recorded the Hou-NO game from yesterday and just started watching it. Their starting backcourt was Amen/Jabari and I was like

Granted it's just preseason but in theory this could work. Jabari plays like a 2 and Amen seems to have the ball skills to play point.

In theory a starting lineup with Tre/Riley/Kyshawn would have plenty of playmaking ability.

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lol! --well done!

You are a very welcome addition to the board, Northwest Roddy! Really glad u r here!

Thanks Pif. Like many here, I'd sell my left n&t to get another Bullets/Wizards Championship before I shrug off this mortal coil.

BTW, I'm super optimistic. One the Suns made that crazy trade for Beal, I knew the curse was over. That was incredible for us. Then the Bucks taking Kuzma. Amazing. Winger/Dawkins aren't perfect but they are above average while Grunfeld/Sheppard were awful. What an improvement. We got Cam Whitmore for almost nothing and with a lot of upside and low risk. Sarr is looking better. Bilal still has potential. Keyshawn is a revelation. We've got tons of cap space and lots of picks. Of course, if we could have kept Deni and drafted Harper or Flagg, we'd be contending sooner, but we are the Wiz after all, and I still believe we'll be contending in two years. 25/26 snoozer for Boozer!

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By the end of the season, a Tre, Bilal, Keyshawn, Riley, Sarr line up will have excellent length.

Can we get CCJ in the lineup to set picks and grab rebounds?

This season will be the snoozer for Boozer

I can envision this!

Yes as Nate says, the philosophy of this regime is point guard-less and position-less multi-initiators ball movement player movement shedding the old ball-dominant slow paced tread-itions ....

But still, if you watch, Bub brings the ball up 90% of the time when he's in the game. There is still a point guard, or perhaps rather a "primary offense initiator" surrounded by secondary initiators....

I know its early, but I could see Riley becoming that primary initiator. A lineup of Riley, Tre, Bilal, Kyshawn, Sarr could become our best 5. All can handle and initiate, all can score pass switch defend.

Bub is ideal as the 3rd guard/6th man. He can play with either Tre or Riley and fit right in.

I can see that 6 + our top pick in '26 (Peterson, Dybantsa, Boozer?) as the long-term foundation of the team.

Mix in some potential long term role players like Champagnie, and whoever else from this roster can carve out a bench role (Cam, Jones, Watkins, Tristan, AJ, Bagley, etc.?) to stick around.

But I think that 7 could emerge as the core for '26 and beyond.