In a utopia, a coach would treat all players on a roster identically. In reality, coaches have always singled out individual players. It starts at youth levels and flows to professional leagues. There are hierarchies in play, different standards of treatment among athletes and their coaches. The Wizards have been no different.
It’s been an underlying issue or at least a topic of discussion with this franchise. Randy Wittman would often pull Kevin Seraphin after a mistake or series of miscues, and would usually stop him before he got to the bench to explain why he was being removed from the game.