I don’t dispute that. What he did was get this team to play at a good level despite adversity. He made the most out of a little. The problem I have with Eddie is that he does a lot better with little than he does with plenty. He can get an undermanned team into the playoffs, and that’s great. But he can’t seem to get a really talented team past the first round, and that’s not so great. The second round of the playoffs appears to be Eddie’s ceiling, and he only hit that ceiling once in four tries. All of us Wizards fans have grown accustomed to failure, so we tend to give Eddie the benefit of low expectations. But I continue to look around the league and see what other teams are doing, and it makes me wish for something more.

I would like to see an NBA championship trophy brought home to Washington once more in my lifetime. Unfortunately, this franchise last did that when I was 9 months old and I wouldn’t have considered myself a Bullets fan then. I don’t want to be 90 when it happens again. This team has some great talent, but we can never depend on them to win when they’re supposed to. Inconsistent play is indicative of not-so-great coaching, IMHO. It’s time that the Wizards got a coach who can get this talent to sustain high-quality play for longer than a couple of games here, a couple of games there.