Washington Wizards fans have a lot to talk about this season. John Wall is well on his way to becoming an All-Star, Bradley Beal looks like one of the top young shooting guards in the NBA and the Marcin Gortat trade seems to be working out nicely.
But amid all of these positive storylines is Otto Porter Jr. The third overall pick of the 2013 NBA draft, Porter was supposed to be Washington's sixth man off the bench, but instead he's been buried in the lineup.
Porter's stat line looks like someone who was drafted in the late second round, not someone who was a highly touted prospect out of Georgetown.
The solution to Porter's problems, though, is not for head coach Randy Wittman to just bench Porter, or continue to put him in the lineup and wait for him to shoot himself out of this slump. It's for the Wizards to send Porter down to the NBA Development League to get his feet under him, eventually getting him to the level at which the Wizards drafted him to play.
What's been wrong so far?
For Porter, pretty much everything has gone wrong this season. Go to YouT ...
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Washington Wizards Must Properly Utilize NBA D-League for Otto Porter
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