GT#23 Wizards @ Cavaliers in the 1st quarter

[payitforward]

Champagnie is solid! 2-way guy.

Yup. I've been talking him up for years now. Him & his twin brother Julian who's playing heavy minutes for the Spurs.

[ValvPiti]

Hey - stayed within 10 of arguably the best team in the league right now...

I think right now, there are at least a couple of better teams and they were without their IMO best player. But anyways, I love when Bilal gets to intiate the offence. He has good vision and I realized just how crazy his athleticism actually is, it looks Amen Thompson-esque to me. If he could do just a bit more than just to right and shoot a bit better he would be really, really good already now. But he's still very young.

Not gonna lie, I think he'll easily become a all-star.

This we don’t know yet but I think most of us would agree that he has the potential to be one.

This is why it was so frustrating when he was parked at the corners on offense, which coincided with his shooting slump.

Bilal needs the ball in his hands and to be a primary initiator on offense, period. It is good for his development and the path for him to become an all star.

Yeah, preach. Kuzma and Poole iniiating is so terrible, its obvious good things happen when Bilal has the ball in his hands and out of all your young players, Bilal is clearly the best one. So you desperately want to develop him, he's just not a 3 and d player at all.

[tontoz]

It looked like they decided to play Poole more off the ball to give the young guys more touches.

Nice to see Bilal/Sarr have productive scoring games. Sarr was looking to get inside more. When he is camped at the 3 pt line he is missing out on some easy opportunities inside.

[dobrojim]

Really good game for the kids except Bub’s fouls.

Bilal’s shooting form seemed more fluid and fundamentally sound.

Tanktastic loss.

[dckingsfan]

Only one (negative) thing to note (along with the nice positives), the Cavs didn't have Mobley and Okoro (getting over his injury) only played 1/2 the game (and was a +16). So, when we talk about the kids and being all-stars - well, might be a bit premature. And I am guessing with Mobley, we are having another 15+-point beat down.

Still, I'll take any progress...