That coat is all I need to make my decision! That is a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad coat!

Nick Young’s knee is bad enough that they left him behind in America….they didn’t even do that for Jamison (ok, he wanted to go with his parents anyway).

Should we be concerned?

I mean, right now, I’m in DerMarr’s corner (mostly).

But let’s consider that Antonio Daniels, especially at his age, is an injury risk — and I’m not sure I’m confident in that wrist injury he opted not to have surgery on…you know, with the way he attacks the basket and all.

On top of that, Dee Brown is unproven.

Who else would possibly play point after those two?

And don’t tell me DeShawn Stevenson….sure “anyone” can do it in Eddie Jordan’s Pro-Princeton offense (kinda), but the more that I think about it, I do not want someone with handles like DeShawn playing the point.

Just trying to see it from every angle…….Juan can play more PG and SG, which is a need, and DerMarr can play SG and SF, which is also a need.

What’s the greater need?

Juan Dixon …. the point needs better insurance and he provides it. He can also play some two guard.

the Wizards’ biggest need is at forward. Even accounting for Blatche playing some 5, thereby reducing his minutes backing up Jamison/Butler, they still have three players who can theoretically pick up the slack – Songaila (who might also see some minutes at the 5), Pecherov and McGuire (remember I said "theoretically").

Excluding Thomas, McGee, Haywood and Arenas, the team has four guards and six forwards, which would seem to point to Dixon from a pure roster construction standpoint, especially since Butler is going to play heavy minutes, and Jamison likely only slightly fewer. There are a lot of variables in this, though, and to paraphrase David Rakoff, if the Wizards need either Dixon or Johnson to contribute a lot, something has gone terribly wrong.

The Wizards are counting on Dominic McGuire to be the backup for Caron.
The Wizards are counting on Nick Young to take the next step and backup Stevenson.

The smart move would be to keep DerMarr Johnson, who can fill in the slack for either position….in case the youngsters fail, or get off to a slow start.

I’m convinced that his size will enable the Wizards to do something they rarely do (except with Jamison) – and that is to Post Up an Opposing team….

It’s nice to be talking about a former starting Shooting Guard in the NBA, who may not make the Wizards roster….

Shows how far they’ve come from the days when the bench consisted of Laron Profit, Peter Ramos, Samaki Walker, Anthony Peeler, Jarvis Hayes, Kwame Brown and Michael Ruffin

that everyone on the wizards seems to love juan? Gil was openly campaigning for his comeback. Grunfeld brought him in on a partially guaranteed contract when he likely could have had him with no guarantee. EJ clearly likes the guy. All that has to count for something especially since none of us have seen either in practice…

Plus with jamison hurting, gil out a couple months, a center with even less offense than haywood as our starter, and stevenson unlikely to repeat his performance from last year…maybe a high volume scorer isn’t such a bad idea for the first few months at least. You can’t deny that if you give juan the minutes, he’s going to score the points.

I’m just going to trust Eddie and EJ on this one. What more can I say?

I know he’s developing, but I honestly don’t see Pech ever being a factor. I think dropping DMac would be a mistake. I think dropping DBrown would be a mistake. I’m a big Juan fan, but I’m not sure he fits as well now as he did when he signed (since Brown has impressed me). I think there is a lot of pro DerMarr talk based on some good play in garbage time in a garbage game.

In other words I think it’s DerMarr or Juan that has to go. A tough decision that I will leave up to the pros.

Can the D-League not help this situation? ie for Pech.