The most important thing to remember about Wizards reserve center Anzejs Pasecniks is that he wasn’t really signed because Tommy Sheppard and the front office thought he’d be a good player, even in a reserve role. He was signed to be friends with fellow Latvian Davis Bertans, whom the Wizards actually value as a player.
Sure, the Wizards hoped Pasecniks might be decent, but they didn’t really imagine he would be. I mean, there’s very little reason to think he’ll become even a rotation-level big — his size is adequate, but he’s slow, ground-bound, not very strong and doesn’t use leverage well.