Not yet dressed to face the Clippers, Spencer Dinwiddie and Davis Bertans answered questions from Dallas journalists, and from this press briefing, we will remember the Latvian’s reflection on the atmosphere at the Wizards. We knew that Montrezl Harrell and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope had to be separated by their teammates at half-time of a match, and listening to Davis Bertans, this tension was… permanent!
” It’s hard to find automatisms when every day guys are fighting each other with “I want more playing time” and “I want a bigger role” explains the Dallas rookie. ” That was arguably the biggest struggle for most guys during the season. This stuff doesn’t show at first because everyone is trying to figure out how it happens. Once that starts happening, it’s really hard to turn things around and reverse the curve.“
“They were complaining about their playing time, not receiving the ball, not touching it…”
Words confirmed by Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, spared by the laundry. ” Everyone starts the season with their personal program in mind and their way of attacking the season by playing. A lot of guys were fighting for playing time. They were complaining about their playing time, not getting the ball, not touching it…“
And yet, the Wizards had started very well with 10 wins in 13 games. ” Once everyone felt comfortable, I felt like the egos got the better of the goal we set for ourselves.” esteem KCP.
What does Kyle Kuzma, who has become the leader of the team in the absence of Bradley Beal, think of it?
” I don’t want to go into too much detail. he smiles. ” But on arrival, we had started the season really well, then we went through a difficult period, and we really fell apart..
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Bradley Beal | 40 | 36.0 | 45.1 | 30.0 | 83.3 | 0.9 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 6.6 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 23.2 |
| Kyle Kuzma | 52 | 33.1 | 45.5 | 33.2 | 69.8 | 1.1 | 7.6 | 8.7 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 16.2 |
| Montrezl Harrell | 46 | 24.3 | 64.5 | 26.7 | 72.7 | 2.1 | 4.6 | 6.7 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 14.1 |
| Spencer Dinwiddie | 44 | 30.2 | 37.6 | 31.0 | 81.1 | 0.8 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 5.8 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 2.4 | 12.6 |
| Kentavious Caldwell-Pope | 52 | 29.3 | 40.7 | 36.7 | 89.3 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 11.3 |
| Ish Smith | 1 | 19.6 | 57.1 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 9.0 |
| Daniel Gafford | 48 | 20.6 | 67.8 | 0.0 | 75.6 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 8.9 |
| Rui Hachimura | 16 | 18.3 | 45.1 | 44.1 | 77.3 | 0.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 8.4 |
| Thomas Bryant | 13 | 16.8 | 49.4 | 34.6 | 76.5 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 7.8 |
| Raulzinho Neto | 46 | 19.9 | 44.7 | 22.9 | 75.3 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 7.5 |
| Deni Avdija | 55 | 23.0 | 44.2 | 30.3 | 75.0 | 0.6 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 7.4 |
| Brad Wanamaker | 1 | 27.1 | 40.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 7.0 |
| Corey Kispert | 50 | 19.1 | 42.3 | 31.7 | 88.4 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 6.5 |
| Aaron Holiday | 41 | 16.2 | 46.7 | 34.3 | 80.0 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 6.1 |
| Davis Bertans | 34 | 14.7 | 35.1 | 31.9 | 93.3 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 5.7 |
| Greg Monroe | 2 | 8.8 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 5.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 4.0 |
| Anthony Gill | 23 | 7.2 | 67.6 | 62.5 | 71.4 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 3.0 |
| Cassius Winston | 3 | 5.7 | 40.0 | 25.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 2.3 |
| Craig Sword | 3 | 6.3 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 2.0 |
| Tremont Waters | 1 | 8.4 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Isaiah Todd | 9 | 3.9 | 33.3 | 40.0 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.8 |
| Alize Johnson | 3 | 6.1 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 |
| Joel Ayayi | 7 | 2.9 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Vernon Carey, Jr. | 1 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Jaime Echenique | 1 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Jordan Schakel | 2 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Jordan Goodwin | 2 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
