Waaaaay back in mid-November, when Washington’s bench was just as bad as it still is, we attempted to rank, or at least list, the best Wizards bench players from the John Wall era. It was a little bit sad, but we did it! (We used data—how fun.)
As part of that exercise, we also asked contributors to TAI and other willing participants (including you, the readers) to “build” their best bench by selecting two players each from pools of guards, wings, and bigs, plus one write-in candidate from the Wall era. The assumption was that the constructed bench would play behind this season’s starters of Wall, Bradley Beal, Otto Porter, Markieff Morris, and Marcin Gortat.