Written by Chase Hughes at CSN MidAtlantic
Wizards head coach Scott Brooks was not permitted to discuss the signing of free agent point guard Brandon Jennings until it became official. So, following his team’s pummeling of the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night, and after the team had issued an official announcement, Brooks finally gave his take.
Naturally, he is excited to have another scorer and backup to John Wall on his bench.
“He gives us another very good player. He can play alongside John, he can play with Brad and he can play with all of the second-unit guys. It’s a good pickup for us moving forward,” Brooks said.
Jennings will require Brooks to incorporate yet another new player after recently adding Bojan Bogdanovic from the Nets and Ian Mahinmi from injury. The transition for both was not smooth at first, but they have come around. Now Jennings will go through the same process.
“There is definitely going to be an adjustment. Everybody is going to have to stay ready and everybody is going to have to just focus on playing their minutes hard and for the team. It’s what we’ve done. It’s what we’ve been building our team on and the culture of our team is doing it together,” Brooks said.
Brooks also commented on the release of rookie Danuel House, who was waived to clear a spot on their 15-man roster for Jennings:
“We have to make a decision on one of them. We can’t keep them. It’d be nice to petition the league for 16, but we can’t. He has a bright future. It was tough to see him go. He’s had some good moments with us in practice and he’s played well in the D-League. Hopefully he can get picked up, or who knows, we can meet again. I thought he’s had a good impact with the year that he’s had with us.”
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