10 Takes

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• Now that Corey Kispert is gone, Anthony Gill has the best hair on the Wizards.

• Coach Brian Keefe is haunted, whether metaphorically or by an actual ghost, that man has seen something from the great beyond.

• I don’t have time to get into the math here, but t-shirts under jerseys actually make players look shorter/stringier.

• It’s creepy when children in the little kid dance troops at half time have a ton of make up on.

• The Wizards should have a one-season slogan for next year to officially mark the end of the rebuild era. Just riffing here, but maybe, “We will never, ever tank (again)” or maybe something simple like “Towel Time!”

• Kyshawn George is the hard shell taco of the team—people forget how good they are and how good they can be. I’m not talking about Taco Bell—though there is a time and place (the place is Taco Bell)—but a good homemade or well prepared restaurant dorado. When the crunch hits, it hits.

• Trae Young walked so Lamelo could run.

• Ted Leonsis needs to be reminded once a season that he broke ground on a new stadium complex in Virginia for as long as he is using half a billion dollars in DC taxpayer funds to add a new facade to Capital One Arena. It doesn’t have to be a big deal of a reminder, but it should be during a game—maybe a little montage or something.

• Bilal should become a more dominant dunker rather than a better distance shooter.

• If the league truly does address tanking, this year was a bit of a squandered opportunity to do wacky stuff. I would have loved a game where all the Wizards wore the same shoes, same headband, etc. just to mess with the other team. We could have brought on some French-speaking 10-day contracts and gone with an all Francophone line up. The team really should have done more Rookie of the Year style stuff to make this season memorable. I want us to get fined not for benching guys but for high jinks.