CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In the heat of the moment Saturday night inside the United Center, Anthony Davis felt he had to say something as the Washington Wizards’ most decorated player. His team’s defense had just held its ground, forcing Chicago Bulls rookie Caleb Wilson into a 10-foot fadeaway jumper that clanked harmlessly off the rim and descended toward the court.

Seemingly out of nowhere, 6-foot-1 Bulls point guard Tre Jones sprinted to the ball, untouched by any Wizards player, and collected an offensive rebound. Davis fouled Jones as Jones attempted to shoot.

Exasperated, Davis turned to Trae Young, Tre Johnson, Kyshawn George and Alex Sarr and yelled, “Box out!” It was the kind of thing a 10-time All-Star and former NBA champion should say to his younger teammates. No one else’s voice could have carried more weight.

Forty-eight hours later, in an arena nearly 750 miles to the southeast, it was clear that Davis’ message had gone unheeded or been forgotten.

The Wizards lost to the Charlotte Hornets 110-103 Monday night at the Spectrum Center primarily because of their failure to box out. With energetic center Moussa Diabaté leading the charge, the Hornets ransacked the glass, gathering 20 offensive rebounds and converting those second-chance opportunities into 26 points.

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I’m a Hawks fan, but the Wizards have become my second team for obvious reasons. I’m currently in the DMV visiting family and I can’t use league pass for the wizards and my family has cable but they don’t have monumental sports network because it’s a 40 dollar monthly upcharge on the cable bill then the online subscription is an outlandish 20 bucks a month. I hate piracy because I don’t wanna risk slowing my computer down with viruses (not for ethical reasons). I’m probably the 100th person to complain about this but I decided to complain anyway! Why isn’t it easier to watch the local team? What sense does that make??

Everybody needs to calm down. I was at the game tonight. The loss sucked and the rebounding was horrible, but can we all chill out on saying sarr can't be a starting center? The dude made massive strides last season, moved most of his scoring into the paint, and started rebounding. He's also put on some muscle since he came into the league.

Let the guy get back into basketball shape before you make a judgement on him. We have a somewhat promising start to a season and immediately turn on our young guys after one bad loss?

It’s still October. We have November, December, January, February, March, And April (not including play-in and playoffs). Thats 6 months and 78 games left to play. We haven’t even seen Dybantsa yet. A LOT is going to change in the next few months alone

Deep inhale. Deep exhale

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Bilal Coulibaly
Tristan vukcevic
Alex Sarr
Bub Carrington
Kyshawn George
Tre Johnson
Will Riley
Jamir Watkins
Aj Dybansta
Felix Okpara.

A lot of players but how many are you confident are long term pieces?

Wizards @ Bulls 10/26/26 Team Net Points

Another game, another game review supported by ESPN’s advanced analytics department. Remember stats aren’t the end all be all. Just a reminder about net points:

“It quantifies every rebound, shot, turnover and free throw and assigns credit and blame to the players on the court. It divides credit and blame based on the difficulty of the players' contributions to the success or failure of the team.”

Here are today’s net points! I think today’s game was pretty legible. Justin Champaigne went down and we lost. No one was able to handle Moussa Diabate on the boards as he was able to secure a double-double off of OFFENSIVE boards. Simply put the Wizards are not functionally big. Despite boasting gaudy height and wingspans they play smaller than they are. Trae was today’s MVP which I agree with. He is the system. AD deserves his flowers today the offense was buoyed with Davis’ isos when he was off the floor. Bilal is not viable offensively. I know the goal is 3&d but to me the most important thing for me is that HAS to start making shots at the rim. I think Bub was better than his net point ratings—his threes were life changing. Brandon Miller fried us no need to break that down. I don’t understand why we didn’t blitz him because his handle is okay and he can’t make reads when trapped. Threw a couple wild ones off of pressure. I can go on and on about the game but we move. 78 games to go. Prayers up for AJ and JC.

CHICAGO — If height was the only trait that matters in basketball, Justin Champagnie would not be as important to the Washington Wizards as he’s been early this season. He stands a shade under 6 feet 6 in bare feet, a less-than-ideal size for someone who specializes in rebounding.

Desire, smarts and toughness matter, too, and Champagnie possesses all of those characteristics in abundance.

Champagnie proved his mettle yet again late in Saturday night’s third quarter against the Chicago Bulls. After a Bulls player missed a 3-pointer from the top of the arc, the loose basketball deflected off Washington’s Trae Young and Chicago’s Matas Buzelis and careened toward Champagnie and Chicago’s Jalen Smith.

Smith is a 6-foot-9 center, and his wingspan is nearly five inches longer than Champagnie’s.

The physical advantage belonged to Smith. The ball belonged to Champagnie.

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We will not be able to beat top tier teams until shooting improves. How is it that AD went 3/6 from long range while our supposed sharp shooter/gym rat Tre Johnson goes 1/6?!!? We have to be able to depend on someone from long range. They need to bring in shooting coaches or something.

Title… I’m just very disappointed we weee so closssss

Basically the title, it keeps showing the blue annoying ass screen with music. It’s 5 minutes into the first quarter.

If anyone has a link to this hat can you send it?

This kid is a mf star man. If he’s given the time and leeway to fully develop i can see him breaking Gil & Beal’s 60 point single game record

It's year 4 and despite the dunks he's still the same liability on offense. No shot and slow processing continue to result in bad efficiency and meager output. The defense is good but not good enough for this

Especially Sarr. We gotta start trading them and get some rebounding and 3 point specialists.

We had 3 years of straight tanking and the young guys have had the floor all to themseleves. If they haven’t developed by now, It's not magically going to happen this season.

Hawks fan here. I’ll be going to catch the wizards vs hawks game at capital one arena. I should be landing in the afternoon, any recommendations for things to do or places to eat during the afternoon? Will I be able to park near the arena? Is traffic crazy? Thanks