Isaiah Todd will make Summer months League debut in Wizards’ double OT reduction

Isaiah Todd, up until this early morning, experienced been sitting down in a resort home in quarantine with almost nothing to do but press-ups and sit-ups. 

Todd, the 31st in general pick in July’s draft, hit the ground for the initially time Thursday evening in the Wizards’ 84-81 double extra time, unexpected-death loss to the Nets in Summer season League motion. It was the initial time he’s touched a basketball in around a 7 days, as he was only recently activated off the Reserve/COVID-19 list.

“My shot did not slide, but what do you be expecting, you’ve been in the hotel home a week,” Todd explained postgame with a grin. “First time obtaining on the flooring with these guys, it was a lot of fun, it went smoother than I really thought it would.”

Todd concluded with just five points on 2-of-10 capturing and three rebounds, but he played 26 minutes (fourth-most on the group). 

“I come to feel energetic, I really feel pumped,” Todd reported. “Most of that was adrenaline, just from staying thrilled to play basketball again. We haven’t performed given that the bubble, only performed 15 online games there.”

His functionality wasn’t always sharp, but which is to be expected immediately after all he did was Zoom workouts for the past 7 days.

“I feel he experienced some definitely very good turns in the very first fifty percent, we ended up viewing his strength degree just to make confident mainly because he has not labored out in a selection of days,” mentor Mike Miller mentioned. “It was kind of a challenging situation, but he was completely ready to participate in. He was fired up. He confirmed up, I appreciate the athleticism, adore the aggressiveness. You give him a few of techniques now, we get to enjoy again, this is heading to be a wonderful experience for him to take advantage of.”

 

Todd, a G-League product, performed 15 game titles for the Ignite past season where he manufactured two starts off and averaged 12.3 details and 4.9 rebounds for every match. 

A 6-foot-10 ahead and Baltimore indigenous, he did not have any time to observe with his new teammates, together with very first-spherical decide on Corey Kispert. Rather, he had to lean on what he was taught in the G-League and from a walkthrough the early morning of the activity.

“What you observed was all stuff that I experienced discovered final yr, and I kind of just applied it to the standard offense of what we were being performing and the spacing on protection,” Todd explained. “Everything was kind of second character to what I discovered in the G-League.” 

He committed to Michigan and was the moment a 5-star recruit, but elected to forgo his university eligibility in order to start actively playing skillfully. Now, he’s hopeful that after he gets back into a rhythm, he’ll be all set.

“The NBA game, from the G-League game, is kind of similar,” Todd reported. “The G-League is exactly where you go to do the job on that NBA activity. Now that I’m going, I feel very well geared up.”