3/25: Deni hates losing
Wizards proceed to keep losing anyway
You’re reading DENI DIARY, a weekly dispatch from Deni Avdija’s rookie season by Louis Keene. (Follow me on Twitter!)
I’m keeping it short this week because I need to, you know, slaughter a lamb and slather its blood on my doorpost or whatever.
Speaking of firstborn sons, Deni Avdija had one good game this week (14 points) and laid two eggs (zero points). It’s going pretty rough in Washington, D.C., right now. The team is spiraling again and the season seems less worth salvaging in the win-loss column and more worth using for player development. You would think Deni Avdija might get more than 11 minutes on a team that now has twice as many losses as wins (14-28 as of Thursday night’s loss to the Knicks). You would think!
Not that the 14-point scoring performance made Avdija feel any better, coming as it did in an 18 point loss (also to the Knicks, somehow). I’m going to embed a tweet below explaining why, and then light a scented candle and use it to search my apartment for leavened bread. Then I am going to log out of this hell world for three days, like any Wizards fan wishes they could. The tweet is in Hebrew but the video is in English.
Happy Passover!