The Wizards' New Starting Lineup Looks Like a Glitched Video Game Roster
Lineup alert: Wizards will start Young, George, Dybantsa, Davis, Sarr on Wednesday. - @UnderdogNBA
The just announced their starting five for Wednesday night, and it looks like a corrupted video game save file where someone accidentally turned off the salary cap.
According to Underdog NBA, Washington is rolling out Trae Young, Keyonte George, AJ Dybantsa, Anthony Davis, and Alexandre Sarr.
If you showed this lineup to a basketball fan three years ago, they would have assumed you were hallucinating. You have Young running the point, throwing lobs to a massive frontcourt of Davis and Sarr, while Dybantsa and George operate on the perimeter. It is objectively hilarious to see this much elite talent assembled on a franchise that spent the last decade as the league's favorite punching bag.
The actual on-court results are still catching up to the star power. Washington is sitting at an aggressively average 2-2 on the young season. They are coming off a frustrating 110-103 loss to the Charlotte Hornets, which immediately followed a game where they dropped 124 points on the Chicago . They are clearly still figuring out how to make this fantasy-draft roster function in reality.
When you mash this much usage into one starting unit, there are always going to be growing pains while everyone figures out the pecking order. For anyone looking at the prop markets, this rotation is a chaotic puzzle. Trying to project the nightly shot distribution between Young's playmaking, Davis's interior dominance, and Dybantsa's raw scoring is going to give oddsmakers headaches for the next month.
We will see how this super-sized experiment holds up against the on Wednesday night. If this group actually figures out how to share the basketball, the rest of the Eastern Conference is going to have a massive problem on its hands.