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Wizards open up, come together and let loose on Pacers in Game 5

 

 INDIANAPOLIS — On the day the season could end, the mentor multiplied down on his drooping point watchman, pulling him aside in the morning shoot-around practice. On the day the season could end, Randy Wittman needed to let an unsure, unconfident John Wall know who he still was, who he will dependably be as a NBA player.

"He came up to me and he let me know, 'Tune in, I simply need you to be aggressive,' " Wall said Tuesday night from the platform at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. "He said, 'On the off chance that you have 20 turnovers, I couldn't care less. I need you to play the way the John Wall I realize that helped us all around this season