that movie had tons of problems being made, and the Craven/Williamson team couldn’t re-create the magic they found in “Scream.”

So true.

No, I didn’t forget that awful movie. Draft? What draft? Aren’t the Wizards a top seed? BRB 2006-07

I don’t see Ernie making a big trade. As Mike Lee points out, Ernie wants to see what Gil, Caron and Antawn can do together. Barring injury, Brendan will be the starting center. The only starting position up in the air is SG. I don’t see how we could get a real difference maker, such as Richard Jefferson, at this point.

Anyone on our roster poised to make a leap? Is there a scenario in which our defense becomes above average? Lay out how this team could make it to the ECF next season. Please, someone cheer me up.

about this. about how getting the 1st pick is not a strategy for building a winning team, about how wiz are stuck being mediocre. about how awesome lebron james is.

Blah

Lebron fails to get his ring in the next two years and leaves Cleveland, I can make it through this. Go Lakers/Nuggets/Magic!!!

There were only two players considered great, and one has a buyout. I would be happy if we got a really good point guard.

good thing you didn’t use a “Drag Me To Hell” poster. Something tells me we’re gonna want to save that for a special occassion.

Who wants the crappy fifth pick, and badly enough to take Mike James?

and I know next to nothing about college basketball. That makes me just as likely to pick the right guy as Abe and Wes. I was screaming for Chalmers last year.

I was so happy:
“No longer mediocre!”
Then: “Wizards pick fifth.”

but I think you can get the gist of how I feel.

In fact, I think lez Boulez got the worst deal because they could have very much used Griffin.

Hope is all well in Bullets land for all of you. Even though Abe Pollin is not my favorite owner (right up there with Papa Glen Taylor and Donald Sterling), you guys are fun to read, and honestly, talk with.

Hope all is well amongst you all. Good luck in the upcoming season!

is that poor Blake Griffin will have a great first year and then blow out his acl, mcl and every other cl and never have a great career. Welcome to Clipper-life.

Saunders wasn’t allowed in the room, but he appears to be a lock at securing the fifth pick. The last time Saunders was in Secaucus, he represented the Minnesota Timberwolves, who slipped to fifth in 1995. They used that selection to draft Kevin Garnett. “If we can get another Garnett,” Saunders said, “I’ll be okay with that.”

For crying out loud, the Clippers were really lucking winning the 1st AND 2nd pick. Man.

Gotta hand it to Michael Lee. That dude is awesome.

It has been this way forever.

Chicago, a team only 15 games under .500 in 2007, getting a hometown stud in Rose last year? You have got to be kidding me…

Maybe fans would return to the NBA if they had hope that their terrible ass teams actually had a chance of improving.

The damn NFL uses the logical system, and they seem to be doing fine relative to the NBA’s complete loss of viewership/popularity/credibility.

God forbid basketball allowing teams to build talented young cores like Tampa Bay in baseball or Arizona in football; that would undoubtedly be a detriment to the NBA’s already tremendous growth in popularity, right?

number 8 for number 5 and we’ll throw in jared jeffries for a swcond rounder in 2012.

Granted, it’s nice to see Wilbon not being negative, but did he really just say that the Wizards should explore trading for Zach Randolph or should pick a point guard because Magic Johnson says Gilbert Arenas can’t be effective at the one? He sure looked pretty good in the couple of games at the end of the season.

If the Wizards’ defense is bad now, and it is, imagine how it would look with Arenas and Jonny Flynn in the same backcourt trying to defend opposing shooting guards.

I’m surprised that he didn’t mention James Harden one time in that article.

Yes, we could use a really good SG, but James Harden is not it. The dude can’t even compete against the elite at the college level, what do you expect him to do in the NBA? The Tournament exposed the guy as a sham. He’s a poor man’s DeShawn Stevenson. No thank you, we already have the rich man’s version coming back healthy next season.

If we are going to keep the pick, I like Prada’s idea of trading down and taking DeJuan Blair. The man is a big physical specimen who would bring much needed strength and toughness to the low post that our team lacks. He’s a bit short at 6-7, but has a 7-3 wingspan to help make up for it. He doesn’t get backed down or pushed around, and cleans up the glass on both offense and defense. He’s the kind of guy we need.

Otherwise package the pick with one of our young prospects and an expiring contract or two to get a veteran tough guy who is a bit taller. Either way, we need to address the low post this off-season or we will have no chance to compete against the top 3 teams in this league, or even the Atlanta Hawks for that matter (I swear, if ZaZa gets another 15+ rebounds against us next season I’m going to throw my chair through my 46" LCD).

Yes, I do realize that we have Brendan Haywood, but he is just one player and he sits on the bench for at least 20 minutes a game. Every other “big” we have is thinner than a Somalian and is about as tough as a wet noodle.