Wizards lose another close game to a bad team in heartbreaking fashion

Atlanta’s best players were FA pickups. I don’t think they are a good example. Memphis doesn’t look poised for greatness, maybe good-ness. Sacto could fall either way I believe.

Then there are all the teams that have been rebuilding for a long long time. You don’t always get good fortune to fall your way.

I’m not against rebuilding, I just think everyone needs to really realize the years of frustration ahead and the possibility that you can end up in the middle of the pack even if you make smart choices.

and we are a couple shots away from being mediocre this year. As for 2007-2008 being 2 games over 500 and the 6th seed in the playoffs is exactly where a team with AJ and CB and Haywood should have ended up in the crappy east that year(really the East was putrid that year and 2 of the playoff teams had losing records including the hawks with a 37 win team). Also that season they had a ridiculous slow pace(27th of 30 teams) where they walked it up and grinded everything out in halfcourt. This year we are ninth out of 30 so it’s not like that season backs up your feeling that we are getting away from the style that was working for us earlier unless you mean we need to run less and grind out more halfcourt possesions. We put 4 seasons of 45(45,42,41,43) or fewer wins which was impressive in comparison to the previous years but nothing to write home about. I mean if we had been in the West we wouldn’t have even been a playoff team for 3 of those 4 years. I just think we were always a very thin line between playoffs and sucking like this. As for my statement “I think they got less than their talent would suggest those years” I simply meant I thought we should have been better those years based on the talent available. We have always been a talented team that underachieved to a certain extent IMO. I mean in 2005-2006 I think we had more talent on our roster than Cleveland but Cleveland played like a team and maximized their talent allwoing them to win 8 more games than us that year and beat us in the playoffs.
Anyways I was merely responding to your statement "the bullseye is back on the flipster right now (and EG for bringing him in). this ain’t working out. we don’t look like a good team. our guys just plain suck all of a sudden? i don’t buy it. how much longer are we supposed to wait before we start seeing the results of his offensive genius? " by saying we weren’t particulary good those years. Maybe you consider barely being above .500 in a historically bad conference as a good team but I consider that kinda mediocre and those teams had the same problems as we do now. To be fair I might be taking that statment out of context I just felt those you were implying Flip had to be the problem cuz we used to be good, when I felt those teams were kinda mediocre. I think the offensive shortcomings have alot more to do with us riding a recovering Gilbert(With his contract we had to still run offense through him even when he wasn’t ready) and Caron refusing to scale back his offensive role as well as bringing lots of new players into the team/rotation. I’m sure adjusting to a new offense might have contributed some but I think that is one of several factors(and a minor one) hampering the offense this year and as always our real problem is defense and rebounding and hustle. Plus didn’t those teams usually struggle coming out of the gate or at certain parts of the year and then get hot for like a month or 2? Personally I think now that Arenas is looking better we will go on a mini-run soon and end up in the 35-41 win range and like the 7-8 seed. Once again sorry if I took you out of context but it seemed you were implying we used to be a playoff team with EJ and now are sucking this year so the problem has to be Flip when playing undisciplined has been holding back this core for years.