The Washington Wizards' home opener against the Milwaukee Bucks had many of the makings of the sort of games that fans regularly had to suffer through over the last three years.

If we can, for just a minute, ignore the fact that players of Anthony Davis ' and Trae Young 's caliber did, indeed, suit up, the contexts within which they slotted in were chock-full of blown opportunities for easy buckets, missed defensive assignments, forgotten box-outs and a nondescript on-court identity.

But that's the thing; they do have those new stars, and that's without accounting for the injured AJ Dybantsa and his ongoing wait to make his own Wizards debut. It took awhile, but Davis and Young eventually looked their respective parts.…