Good analysis and very insightful comments from Javaris and Sam. I like that Javaris is thinking about his play that way, that’s great to hear.

I also thought about McGee breaking out without Blatche and was reminded of some of your comments in the past about them not being a super effective duo. One would think this may just be a fluke based on one summer league game, but something definitely doesn’t sit right with me in terms of the way those two played together this week and then individually today with Blatche out.

Offensively, JaVale basically stood around, out of position a lot of times and shot jumpers playing next to Blatche, and then today he just looked more comfortable and seemed like he was in the right position most of the time.

Hopefully this is something where both of our young bigs and develop better chemistry and work their way out of it as we approach the season.

As usual the best wiz coverage anywhere. I feel pretty good about the results from summer league. Nick played pretty well on a consistent basis. I think hes going to really grow to love his new roll running around screens off the bench. Between Andre and Javale I feel pretty confident we are going to get a boost from our backup bigs. On any given night one is going to be a terror for the other team. Now we just need to get our starting 5 rolling. I can’t wait to see Gil back out there. Any word on how hes doing in Chicago?

I’m catching a plane in a few minutes back home, so I won’t be here for tomorrow’s game. I’ll throw a post up about Nick Young’s development on running through screens tomorrow, but otherwise, this concludes BF’s Summer League coverage.

Killer coverage Mike. Bulletsforever always has insightful analysis, but you took it to whole new level this past week. Thanks.

If McGee and Young really start to display the talent we know they have, and Areanas and Brendan back to being healthy this year may be special. No, I’m not gonna do it, must fight hopes from getting up.

Great coverage all around guys. I come here multiple times a day looking for new basketball information and you guys deliver all the time.

i’m a long time Wiz\Bullets fan and am new to BF and this site has been a great asset to the true Wiz fan. Mike really appreciate the coverage this week, couldn’t make myself buy the internet coverage so the stuff you sent back this week was really the next best thing. Thanks to you and all the staff.

Concerning our young bigs;1) Blatche and McGee should not play at the same time now because they are essentially the same player (only Blatche has better hands at this stage). It is critical that we find another full body big to put on the court when Brendan is not playing to be on the floor when one of these young bigs is playing. It will allow them to be the athletes that they are but the vet would provide the insurance against the mistakes that they are going to make. Not really concerned with out front court because there are only so many minutes to allocate and unless Brendan has a freak injury like last year these guys hold it down.

and we needed to see it happen. Well done JVM and good reporting Mike.

just can’t seem to work together on the court. Probably because they overlap skill sets, because of their effectiveness as low-post players, and because for each of them, their biggest weakness seems to be trying to play like small forwards (fancy passes, outside shots, etc). Now, I’ve made no secret about my opinion that Blatche should get traded while his value is still high, and this is another piece of my argument. If no one can figure out a way to put the two of them on the court together, then they’ll be cutting into each other’s minutes. It’s troublesome that two key reserves are so incompatible. And despite the couple of reasons I already wrote, I really can’t see why they are so bad playing next to each other. I don’t think those are good enough reasons. But their problems playing together could be why Javale saw so little tick last year. Tapscott probably decided that only one of them could get PT, and I guess he decided on giving that to the more experienced player.

great effort all around. Didn’t mean to be such a downer with my last post. If this group of guys can continue to show defensive abilities, then I’ll be very happy. More offense for the starters, more defense for the backups. With Flip’s zone defense, that should allow a very above-average offensive team to be at least average on defense. And as far as I see it, Great Offense + Good Defense = Postseason Success. (not going to give any exact predictions yet though)