How about we can just watch basketball?

How about we can just watch basketball?

Hello and welcome to The Daily Ding on The Athletic NBA show.

I'm Dave Before here with Trevon Edwards for your Tuesday morning update. Before we start,

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into huge slate of games for the MLK Day celebration in the NBA. So we're going to jump right in.

The Wizards and the Sixers met up on Monday, Trey, and the Wizards just pounded the Sixers,

one 17 to 98, thanks to what can only be called a group effort, Trey. The Wizards have struggled

to find consistency up and down this roster, role players, since that promising start that they

had where we were all excited about them. Against the Sixers, the Wizards had seven players

and double figures. Tres Harold led the way, had 18 off the bench, just been huge for them

all season, Trey, and tonight, no different. Yeah, no, Tres looked like the the clippers trance the one before was that

was trying to get that deal you know i mean he looks a little bit more hungry more inspired

i made some big plays aggressive in the paint that's what they really need it um and you know

if if he can continue to play like that i think think that that will help the Wizards tremendously.

Yeah, Thomas Bryant, who's just coming back from the ACL repair, also came off the bench at 15 points.

And, Trey, you can already see how he's going to add another wrinkle to that offense that might help them get out of this funk with his spacing.

Yeah, I mean, just to highlight some of the points of the game, the Wizards got it going early.

Kuzma with a monster dunk on him beat. Huge dunk. Yeah. And you're going to see that, Trey. It's going to be all over the place. But he had a good game, too. Like, he's been having a nice season. Yeah, I want to shout him, man. He doesn't get a lot of MIP love. definitely should be in some of the conversations playing extremely

well, shooting the ball well, you know, and it's been a little bit quiet, but he's, he's been

stepping up. Yeah. And the story of this game for the Sixers, Trey, is their shooting. They

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