People are kind of down on Jan Vesely right now. Some say that as the sixth overall pick in 2011, he should be playing better. Really? There are high standards for the sixth pick in a weak draft? Let’s all take a step back and chill, add some lockout-shortened season/tainted locker room perspective to the mere 19 games of Vesely’s rookie season thus far. He’ll only be 22 in April; he needs more of a chance.
For starters, Vesely is part of the Wizards’ “core” of seven players. Dan Steinberg on the DC Sports Bog relays that on ESPN 980′s The Sports Reporters, Coach Randy Wittman was asked about key future pieces in the rebuild aside from John Wall.