Capital City Go-Go. All about the Wizards minor league squad here.

[NatP4]

Yeah, I would just let him stay in the g league and continue to gain confidence. His 3pt shot has turned a massive corner. He’s made 13 in the last 5 games. All of the sudden he’s not only elite defensively, but also the Go-Go’s best offensive weapon and go to scorer.

The Go-Go have much better structure to their lineup now with Dotson facilitating, Davis&Bernard initiating offense, and Todd/Huff spacing the floor. It’s a really good developmental situation. He just went up against Scoot Henderson/Sidy Cissoko/Leonard Miller, and then followed up against a good Mexico City team with Kenneth Faried/Gary Clark/Skal Labissiere.

Let him keep playing 30+ minutes with high usage and 15+ shots a game. Put on strength and have a good off-season and dominate the summer league.

[gambitx777]

Yeah, I would just let him stay in the g league and continue to gain confidence. His 3pt shot has turned a massive corner. He’s made 13 in the last 5 games. All of the sudden he’s not only elite defensively, but also the Go-Go’s best offensive weapon and go to scorer.

The Go-Go have much better structure to their lineup now with Dotson facilitating, Davis&Bernard initiating offense, and Todd/Huff spacing the floor. It’s a really good developmental situation. He just went up against Scoot Henderson/Sidy Cissoko/Leonard Miller, and then followed up against a good Mexico City team with Kenneth Faried/Gary Clark/Skal Labissiere.

Let him keep playing 30+ minutes with high usage and 15+ shots a game. Put on strength and have a good off-season and dominate the summer league.

Exactly, the g league isn't a terrible no man's land that it use to be. It's a legit developmental league and a legit second career option for guys who can't make it or who are done in the league. It's not longer just a scrub factory.

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[NatP4]

Man it’s tough to watch these go-go games, there are only 3 guys on the roster that have any semblance of basketball IQ and unselfishness. Maker/Williams/Todd are 3 of the lowest BBIQ players I have watched.

Davis is far and away the best and most talented player on the court. He makes some incredible plays on the defensive end. Switches and guards 1-5 pretty effectively. Doesn’t force anything.

[TGW]

Johnny with another outstanding game. 23 points on 9-15 shooting, 4-9 from 3. Only reason the go go had a chance in this one. He’s looked like the clear best player on the team in the last 5.

Time to call him up and get rid of Dunn or someone else

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Nah he ain’t ready to play with the varsity team yet. Let him play on JV where he wont get flamed,

[NatP4]

Johnny played another great game tonight. He’s flat out dominant on defense, makes winning plays all over. Gets a crazy amount of deflections, made a bunch of great passes to teammates for layups and wide open 3s. Gets to his spots with ease.

Dotson/Davis/Bernard are all NBA rotation guys. They took over this one.

[NatP4]

17 points on 6-12 shooting, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, 1 block. +16.

No clue who was keeping stats, because Johnny had way more assists than that.

[gambitx777]

It's really good to see him playing so well!

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[closg00]

Let's hope he can be a contributor at the NBA level, he's gonna be with us for his rookie contract, I like Quenton Jackson prospects as an NBA player much more.

[doclinkin]

Ridiculous how every year the Wiz need 3pt shooters and can't find them. Well. nor develop them either since the GoGo is next to last in 3pt% and bottom 3 in 3pt attempts. Funny how Tommy drafts and trades for scrappy defenders who pass, letting go of players like Garrison Mathews who pretty much only shoot 3's.

Does the organization have a system yet? I like the idea of training a back-up for each player in our winningest rotations. Seems like that would help plug-and-play if one guy goes down.

Morris. Dotson?
Delon. Goodwin.
Beal. Jules Bernard?
Deni. Cooks.
Kuz. ... ...
Porzingis. Huff.

But aside from the high-post center concept, seems like we haven't yet come up with a system that makes the players better than their individual stats.

Looking around the G-League, man, whatever Ronnie Burrell is doing for the Long Island Nets is working. Players who join that roster suddenly shoot better from 3 and begin producing better all around. Our former guy Chris Chiozza is playing well there.

[NatP4]

Not sure about that, Doc. The wizards just won’t play them. Bernard is a good player and shooter and can absolutely help the Wiz, he doesn’t even have a two way deal.

Jackson is another really good 3pt shooter and shot creator. He’s just too good for the g league but hasn’t even gotten a look on the big league squad.

Dotson is really a NBA caliber rotation guard, and while he’s not a great shooter, he’s at 35.7% on the year.

Johnny is even shooting 45% from 3 since the ASB on over 5 attempts per game.

Those 4 are absolutely NBA caliber rotation pieces. We will eventually lose Bernard and Dotson to other teams, maybe Jackson as well. The wizards have simply proven to be bad at evaluating players. Garrison Mathews is one of the better role players in the league and they wouldn’t even play him, let him walk for nothing. Same deal with Gary Payton II.

[DCZards]

Don’t understand the fascination with Garrison Matthews. He hasn’t done squat the last two seasons.

Averages 13 mins, 1 three pointer and less than 5 pts per game…and shoots 35% from 3. He’s certainly not someone the Zards should regret losing, imo.

[payitforward]

Don’t understand the fascination with Garrison Matthews. He hasn’t done squat the last two seasons.

Averages 13 mins, 1 three pointer and less than 5 pts per game…and shoots 35% from 3. He’s certainly not someone the Zards should regret losing, imo.

Agreed (with proviso -- see below). Mathews never developed much, & as Houston started to focus on the young players from whom their next core must emerge, GM lost playing time.
No reason to be fascinated with him, & no great reason to have kept him.

OTOH, at the deadline this year,, the Hawks traded Justin Holiday, Frank Kaminsky, a 2024 second-round draft pick, and a 2025 second-round draft pick for Mathews & Bruno Fernando.

IOW, Garrison Mathews had value & still has value.
& when you let guys go for nothing, even though they have value, the result is the lousy team the Washington Wizards have been for most of the last 3 decades (or is it four?).

It's more or less the same kind of error as trading draft picks for veterans who are mediocre at their best & whom later you may even have to pay to get rid of.

As to "hasn't done squat the last two seasons..." the guy is posting a .584 TS% this season -- above average for a wing. Last year it was .602. He's an NBA player with value. He's not, for example, Caleb Homesley.

There are guys who've been in the league a decade or more who aren't as good as Mathews -- some of them have played for us! Some of them we've gone out & traded for!

[doclinkin]

Don’t understand the fascination with Garrison Matthews. He hasn’t done squat the last two seasons.

Averages 13 mins, 1 three pointer and less than 5 pts per game…and shoots 35% from 3. He’s certainly not someone the Zards should regret losing, imo.

Yeah. Interestingly his stats have dropped off the map since playing with us. He was efficient here, somehow his 3FG% has gotten worse every year since then.

[gambitx777]

Don’t understand the fascination with Garrison Matthews. He hasn’t done squat the last two seasons.

Averages 13 mins, 1 three pointer and less than 5 pts per game…and shoots 35% from 3. He’s certainly not someone the Zards should regret losing, imo.

Yeah. Interestingly his stats have dropped off the map since playing with us. He was efficient here, somehow his 3FG% has gotten worse every year since then.

I think his numbers were unstable and not reproducible. I think we need to realize sometimes, as I hate to with carry Jr that the team sees these guys every day and know more than we do. In this case not sinking money into Matthews was correct.

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[gambitx777]

Not sure about that, Doc. The wizards just won’t play them. Bernard is a good player and shooter and can absolutely help the Wiz, he doesn’t even have a two way deal.

Jackson is another really good 3pt shooter and shot creator. He’s just too good for the g league but hasn’t even gotten a look on the big league squad.

Dotson is really a NBA caliber rotation guard, and while he’s not a great shooter, he’s at 35.7% on the year.

Johnny is even shooting 45% from 3 since the ASB on over 5 attempts per game.

Those 4 are absolutely NBA caliber rotation pieces. We will eventually lose Bernard and Dotson to other teams, maybe Jackson as well. The wizards have simply proven to be bad at evaluating players. Garrison Mathews is one of the better role players in the league and they wouldn’t even play him, let him walk for nothing. Same deal with Gary Payton II.

I agree with this statement. At the deadline I advocated hard for gutting the back of the team. The last 5 spots and the two ways. I wanted to get ride of Todd, Gill, Taj and Barton. The team ended up making a choice on carry Jr and dumping Barton. We gave one spot to Goodwin and one spot to this Aussie guy. Gave a two way to Jackson and huff. That's three spots to give to young guys on the gogo. Lots of options were there and I would have loved to elevate the young cats.

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[Kanyewest]

Don’t understand the fascination with Garrison Matthews. He hasn’t done squat the last two seasons.

Averages 13 mins, 1 three pointer and less than 5 pts per game…and shoots 35% from 3. He’s certainly not someone the Zards should regret losing, imo.

He had a good stretch for the Rockets right before he signed his long term deal. They were calling him Gary Bird. But yeah he's cooled off-then again the Rockets aren't an actual organization where many can succeed ATM.

[gambitx777]

Don’t understand the fascination with Garrison Matthews. He hasn’t done squat the last two seasons.

Averages 13 mins, 1 three pointer and less than 5 pts per game…and shoots 35% from 3. He’s certainly not someone the Zards should regret losing, imo.

He had a good stretch for the Rockets right before he signed his long term deal. They were calling him Gary Bird. But yeah he's cooled off-then again the Rockets aren't an actual organization where many can succeed ATM.

They are in tank spiral mode for sure. Like John wall had it right those guys aren't playing any kind of real ball.

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[closg00]

We advanced in the playoffs, Let's GO!

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[Frichuela]

Watching this right now. Entertaining so far.

Todd committed 2 fouls quickly and back to the bench…