Big win over the Knicks! Bagley scored 18+11, the White Devils only got 9 minutes, and the treatment was not as good as the Rockets

In the NBA preseason, the Wizards defeated the Knicks 120-103, finally winning their first victory. Both sides rested their main players in this game, hoping to better prepare for the regular season. The Knicks' five stars are all absent, Towns, Anunoby, Bridges, Hart, and Brunson. The Wizards' second-place pick, Sal, and veterans McCollum and Middleton are also not playing. The team's starting lineup is center Bagley, who was ranked second in 2018, George at power forward, Champany at small forward, and Carrington and Johnson in the backcourt.

The Knicks used Yabusele as the center to play small ball, Clarkson went to the wings to increase firepower and ball-handling points, and McBride and Brogdon served as the backcourt. Obviously, it is difficult for this lineup to defeat the talented Wizards. From the first quarter today, the Wizards' firepower was extremely fierce. George Carrington and Johnson fired from the outside. Bagley got everything he wanted under the basket. Champany scored a tip-in, and the point difference directly reached more than 10 points.

The Knicks started to gain momentum in the second quarter, and Kolek and Clarkson briefly caught up. However, the Wizards played better and better after adjustments, and they directly pushed the point difference to more than 20 points. Basically, the game was wasted in this quarter. In the second half, the Wizards went on an 11-0 run and the Knicks sent in their third substitute, basically declaring the game over. Relying on the end of the third quarter and the final quarter, the Knicks barely caught up to within 20 points. For the Knicks, Kolek had 20 points, Yabusele had 11 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists in 22 minutes, McBride had 11 points, and Clarkson had 12 points.

For the Wizards, Bagley scored 18 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals, George had 11 points, Champany had 10 points, 7 rebounds and 2 blocks, Johnson had 10 points, and Carrington finally played an efficient game with 8 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists. In addition, substitute White Devil Whitmore scored 7 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block, but only played 9 minutes. The White Devils played 16 minutes in the last game against the Raptors, and ended up scoring 10 points on 4-of-7 shots, 1-of-1 three-point range. As a result, the time dropped directly to 9 minutes today.

And today is a preseason game when the main players are not here. Potential stars like the White Devils could have been given more time. But in the end, the Wizards didn't take the White Devil seriously. In the final analysis, it is because the White Devils were the 20th pick in the first round of 2023, not a top five high pick. Therefore, he received very few resources, and the Wizards originally had many rookies. There are potential stars with high picks who have just been drafted, and there are also former high picks such as Bagley.

In a bad team with such fierce competition, the time the White Devils can get may not be as high as the salary the Rockets give him. The main problem is that sending the White Devils to the Wizards was Stone's personal touch. He deliberately chose a team for the White Devils to give him a chance to start, but the White Devils were in a very bad situation. The more rookies a team has, the less they know how to train them. Their most correct strategy is to give priority to resources to high-ranking rookies.

Sometimes it's bad luck. After the White Devils left the Rockets, Jordan was injured and ended the season. If he hadn't wanted to leave the Rockets, he might have had a better opportunity. After all, there is little value in getting data on a bad team, and playing on a bad team is not conducive to the growth of rookies. If he continues to stay in the Rockets, the White Devils can become stronger, and Uduka is very good at pushing him. In fact, in these two games with the Wizards, the White Devils have improved a lot in their defensive awareness and shooting. The style of play is not that lone wolf, and the defense is also active. But there is no way, Stone has good intentions but does bad things.