The Doppelgänger Machine finds unfortunate comps for Aaron Holiday

Wizards guard Aaron Holiday Photo by Avi Gerver/NBAE via Getty Images On draft day, the Wizards sent a first round pick to the Indiana Pacers for Aaron Holiday and a second round selection, which they used to take Isaiah Todd. This struck some — including me — as an odd move considering Holiday’s pedigree as a basically replacement level backup guard.

According to the Statistical Doppelgänger Machine, Holiday has several close matches to what he did last season. Unfortunately, those close matches are scrubby guards who didn’t accomplish much in the NBA. The results were so discouraging that I went back and looked at his comps from 2019-20 — the best season of his career so far — and they…