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A message to Scott Brooks and the Wizards: FEED RUI!

“I’m a peacock, Captain! You gotta let me fly!” – Mark Wahlberg, The Other Guys

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As the Wizards season inches to the inevitable conclusion of playoff-less basketball, instead of viewing games with wins and losses in mind, we must now spectate through a prospective lens. Put simply: it’s time to unleash the young guys and see what they can do and become for the team going forward.

It seems that the team has pivoted to this modus operandi: Deni Avdija and Rui Hachimura, the Wizard's precocious pair of top-ten draft picks, are now in the starting lineup.