The recent Wizards have been unfavorable, the last game became the background board for James's 50 points, and today the Blazers, who are also "fish belly", continue to lose, not only suffered 5 consecutive defeats, but also let the opposite young player Hart get a career-high 44 points. Hart was selected in 17 years, but was traded to the Blazers this season to get more tactical status and development opportunities, but the Wizards' Yamura base is not so lucky, he has no tactical status this season.
As the highest draft pick in Japanese history, Yamura has enjoyed a high degree of attention as soon as he entered the NBA, and the Wizards have spared no effort to cultivate him, in the first two years of his career, Hachimura baseball has more than 30 minutes of playing time, and has not played a single substitute, he can also contribute steadily to 13.5 points and 5.4 rebounds. Especially in last year's playoffs, Yamura's statistics can be improved to an average of 14.8 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, shooting 61.7% from the field and 60% from three-point range. Everyone thought he would be the ultimate answer to the Wizards' forward position.
However, by the end of the season, everything had changed, with Yamura missing many games at the start of the season for personal reasons, and has only played 26 games until now, but none of them have started. In these 26 games, Hachimura averaged only 19.3 minutes of playing time per game, with 9.8 points and 3.2 rebounds, and it is worth mentioning that his shooting percentage and three-point shooting rate are career highs, not because of the decline in personal strength. In today's game against the Trail Blazers, Yamura scored 12 points on 4-of-7 shooting, but didn't get more playing opportunities because of his high shooting percentage, and Yamura only played 17 minutes.
Because there is a better player in the same position, Kuzma, when he was traded to the Wizards last summer, The Little Margo was only the first addition to the trade, and the Wizards even wanted to take him to the Nets for a second round, but unfortunately he was refused. But Kuzma seized the opportunity because Yamura had not played at the beginning of the season, and Margo had just started, and the more he played, the better, and now he has become the second boss of the Wizards. Kuzma has played 63 games this season, averaging 17.4 points, 8.6 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, and shooting a career-high 45.8 percent, so Kuzma is definitely more valuable than the yamura bases in the same position.
But that's not why Yamura's playing time has plummeted, and if the Wizards coach is willing, he can at least let Yamura baseman swing in the 3/4 position and earn more than 30 minutes of playing time. There are currently three forward players in the Wizards' main rotation, namely Garford, Gispat and Avdia, who are not as good as the eight village bases, but they all average more than 20 minutes per game. The only explanation is that coach Unseld received a signal from management that they were ready to give up the season after Beal was injured, that Hachimura had been out for too long, and that his body had not yet returned to its peak form, so the Wizards made such a platoon arrangement.
No matter what the reason, I hope that Hachimura can calm his mentality, now he has already established himself in the NBA, many teams are interested in him, what Hachimura has to do is to hone his skills and defense, waiting for the day when the opportunity comes. Even if the Wizards don't have a good result, he can go to a team that can give him a chance, like the Kings' Bagley.