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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Wall acknowledged some on-court chemistry issues between him and backcourt-mate Bradley Beal in an interview with CSN Mid-Atlantic.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wall and Beal\u2014who just agreed to a long-term max contract worth $128 million\u2014have been teammates from the start with the Wizards. Wall, 25, was the first overall pick in 2010 and Beal, 23, was selected third in 2012.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wall admitted the two still have to work on their chemistry.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201DI think a lot of times we have a tendency to dislike each other on the court. \u2026 We got to be able to put that to the side. If you miss somebody on one play or don\u2019t have something go right ... as long as you come to each other and talk. If I starting arguing with somebody I\u2019m cool. I\u2019m just playing basketball,\u201D Wall said, according to CSN Mid-Atlantic.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both Wall and Beal have dealt with injuries in recent seasons, and the Wizards took a step backward with a 41\u201341 record in 2016 after consecutive trips to the East semifinals in 2014 and 2015.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"Now that you have your money you got to go out there and improve your game,\u201D Wall added. \u201CI want you to be an All-Star just as much as I\u2019m an All-Star. If we were playing well as a tandem like the other two superstars that play together as a backcourt, play as a tandem, one night it\u2019s going to be his night, one night it\u2019s going to be mine, some nights it might be both of us. Those are nights it\u2019s going to be tough to beat us.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wall also said he wants to take ownership for Washington\u2019s team results and referred to Beal as his \u201Csidekick,\u201D referring to them as \u201CA\u201D and \u201CA-1.\u201D&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beal also spoke to CSN about his relationship with Wall.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"It\u2019s tough because we\u2019re both alphas. It\u2019s always tough when you have two guys who firmly believe in themselves, who will bet on themselves against anybody else, who want to be that guy. We both can be that guy,\" Beal said, according to CSN Mid-Atlantic.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"Sometimes I think we both lose sight of the fact that we need each other.\u201D he continued. \u201CI wouldn\u2019t be in the situation I\u2019m in without John. John wouldn\u2019t be in the situation he\u2019s in without me, without the rest of the team. It goes hand-in-hand so it\u2019s kind of a pride thing. We got to (hash) out our pride, figure out what our goals are individually, help each other achieve those goals, figure out what our team goal is, where do we see ourselves five years from now, 10 years from now and go from there.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Wizards hired head coach Scott Brooks in the off-season. Brooks managed stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook in Oklahoma City from 2008\u20132015.\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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