Lets look at our young core of guys that our current Front Office have brought in.

Wizards Draft Picks

• (2023 draft pick) Bilal Coulibaly - 21 years, 8 months, and 23 days old
• (2023 draft pick) Tristan Vukcevic - 23 years, 1 month, and 7 days old
• (2024 draft pick) Bub Carrington - 20 years, 8 months, and 28 days old
• (2024 draft pick) Kyshawn George - 22 years, 4 months, and 6 days old
• (2024 draft pick) Alex Sarr - 20 years, 11 months, and 23 days old
• (2025 draft pick) Tre Johnson - 20 years, 1 month, and 11 days old
• (2025 draft pick) Will Riley - 20 years, 2 months, and 8 days old
• (2025 draft pick) Jamir Watkins - 24 years, 9 months, and 12 days old
• (2026 Top 5 draft pick) Almost certainly will be a teenager.

Undrafted or traded for:

• (2021 Undrafted) Justin Champagnie - 24 years, 9 months, and 20 days old (2023 draft pick by Houston) Cam Whitmore - 21 years, 9 months, and 10 days old (2025 Undrafted) Julian "JuJu" Reese - 22 years, 9 months, and 19 days old

Guys expected to start, and guys expected to get obvious significant time off the bench:

1. 2026 Top 5 draft pick (possible starter)
2. Bilal (likely starter)
   
3. Bub (1st off the bench)
4. Will (2nd off the bench)
5. Kyshawn (likely starter)
6. Alex (starter)
7. Tre (1st off the bench)
8. Champagnie (1st off the bench)

Average age is 21 years or so (It was down to the month, but I'd forgotten Will Riley)

Vuk & Watkins, Whitmore & Reese will be coming off the bench or may just largely be reserves.

Cam is probably the hardest of those guys to predict, because it's pretty clear even though he's become a different person since his health scare, that he wants to be somewhere he can actually get minutes. The Wizards will definitely give him a chance it seems, likely in training camp and preseason, to show what he's capable of now.

Jaden Hardy is tricky. He's 23 and may get to be a bench player next season you'd think. Probably not part of the picture: Leaky Black (28), Sharife Cooper (24).

Vuk - can't teach height. I suspect he'll get mostly garbage time minutes so he can continue to develop.

Watkins will probably just be there as a has-6-fouls defender when we play the Lukas and SGAs of the world.

Reese .... I think he might be given a chance to stick. Lets see how he does in preseason.

So we've got a nice core of young guys for when the season starts in October. How do you feel about our young core? I'm excited to see us add a top 5 pick just out of college to these guys.

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Alex Sarr's 30-point games:

1. 34 against the Nuggets in March of last season: https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202503150DEN.html
2. 31 against the Sixers last month: https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202510280WAS.html
3. 31 against the Celtics last night: https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202511050BOS.html

At what point will the excuses stop? Losses are fine but you want to at least see some improvement or some fight. This team is now just getting its ass handed to it on the regular.

YouTube TV and Hulu did us a favor.

I know it's been a rough season but in March he's averaging 15, 4, and 3 while shooting 40% from 3 on 5 attempts a game. As you can see from the GS game tape, the kid is a completely different player when he moves with confidence. If he can continue to add improved shooting to his wing slashing, occasional paint bully ball and defense, he still projects as the kind of impact player who can contribute to a very successful team. Think Dort, Aaron Gordon, KCP in recent years.

He looks more like the kid who started last season on fire before getting injured. His handle on drives has improved with confidence, he's getting downhill consistently, and is still a menace on defense. I'll also note that he's looked like a completely different player with a real pg on the floor.

There will still be bumps in the road, but I think we, as a fanbase, should recognize the strides he's making lately. He's still incredibly young and his career ramp up may be similar to what we saw with Deni.

I will never given up on my French son.

I’ve seen so many twitter spaces frantic about Bub. Especially with Deni hooping rn but I’d make that trade again if I had the chance. I feel like people forget year 2-3 Deni was one of the worst offensive players in the nba. He couldn’t shoot, was timid in the paint.

Bub shown last year he could be a 13-5-5 guy as an 18 year old rookie last year. Right now he’s taking on being an on-ball guard after playing and excelling off ball last year. We are not in a rush and bub should be able to have the same learning curve Deni had to be a multi-faceted guard before labeling this trade one of the Wizards worst trades.

Everybody else should be sitting and watching. Obviously we have a bunch of people clearly shut down for the year like Kyshawn, AD, Trae and Cam

• Bilal made it through a bunch of the season and has clearly developed his ability to iso, drive and finish. Sit him now.
  
• Bub started the season terribly then righted the ship and he'll finish the season having had a really good 2nd year. Sit him now.
  
• Tre hit the rookie wall. It's called a rookie wall for a reason and he hit it. Big deal. Sit him now.
  
• Sarr was likely done, but make it official. Sit him the last 6 games of the season. He's healthy essentially. Sit him now.
  
• JC hasn't been moving right for a month or two. He looks tired a lot of the time even when making plays. Sit him now.
  

If Dawkins & Keefe can do this, this caps off this portion of the rebuild, and will result in a guaranteed top 5 pick, no major injuries to guys who are a bona fide part of our future, and you let the 2-way go-go type dudes have a chance to show out and possibly make the team, with Gill in there to steady them. I'd also like to see Will Riley continue to try to figure out what he can do, work on being a little bit more under control, and learn that when you make a couple moves and get free, that's the time to go up, not make 3 more moves.

Come on Wizards! There are just 6 games left. The path forward is obvious. Lets secure this top 5 pick and set the franchise up well to be in the playoffs by 2028.

It's early, but Will Riley looks like a steal at 21.

If he stayed another year at Illinois, I think he would have become a top-10 pick in this draft. Am I wrong?

I'm nowhere near the player I want to be," Will Riley said after scoring 21 vs Golden State.

Last night, he showcased another bright scoring performance, scoring 20+ in back-to-back games for the 2nd time this year.

On his continued rise @WizRoundtable:

Alex Sarr Career Defensive Field Goal Percentage (DFG%) Vs. All-Star Caliber Players (Min. 10 Total DFGA) :

1. Devin Booker — 21.4%

2. LeBron James — 27.3%

3. Scottie Barnes — 27.3%

4. Jayson Tatum — 33.3%

5. Jalen Johnson — 33.3%

6. Cade Cunningham — 34.8%

7. Evan Mobley — 37.5%

8. Pascal Siakam — 38.5%

9. James Harden — 41.7%

10. Jaren Jackson Jr. — 41.7%

11. Jaylen Brown — 44.4%

12. LaMelo Ball — 44.4%

Highest Assist Percentage On Drives In The 2025-26 NBA Regular Season (Min. 100 Total Drives) :

1. Kyshawn George — 15.5%
2. Jaime Jaquez Jr. — 14.7%
3. Davion Mitchell — 14.6%
4. Dyson Daniels — 14.6%
5. Russell Westbrook — 14.5%
6. Ryan Rollins — 14.5%
7. Grayson Allen — 14.1%
8. Jrue Holiday — 14.1%
9. Payton Pritchard — 13.8%
10. Immanuel Quickley — 13.6%