If you asked Captain Obvious why bench players weren’t starters, he would tell you that they simply weren’t good enough to earn that role. That, at least in most cases, is 100 percent true…and obvious.
Most teams don’t have players on their second unit that can start games and that’s the case with the Washington Wizards, too.
The likes of Andrew Nicholson and Trey Burke, for instance, are talented enough to contribute, but will never take the starting gigs away from John Wall and Markieff Morris.
Coaches typically refrain from playing five bench players at once because, well, they’re not good enough to play together, at least productively.