How Would You Fix It?

by imperialme on Mar 7, 2010 2:33 AM EST

So, during my 13 or so hour hour drive back to greater NOVA from St. Augustine today...

I was listening to NBA Today and Rusillo brought up a new idea. How would you fix your franchise? It's a great question. Especially for Bullets fans. Since I'm pretty sure we've all been playing this game for the better part of our fandom, I'm curious. How would you fix our seemingly star-crossed franchise? The only caveat is that, since we're Bullets fans, we know better than to believe we'll actually win the lottery.

This represents the view of the user who wrote the FanPost, and not the entire Bullets Forever community. We're a place of many opinions, not just one.

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Sign Lebron, Wade, or Bosh

by tmoneyttime1 on Mar 7, 2010 7:56 AM EST reply actions

Can Arenas...

…get Chris Paul, or one of the 3 or 4 young promising young PGs in the league and a shooter at the 2 or 3. Sign McGee/Blatche to long-term contracts.

If nothing else, that team would sell out the phone booth every night.

by Izman on Mar 7, 2010 1:26 PM EST reply actions

No, Arenas will not get Chris Paul

You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on Mar 7, 2010 5:34 PM EST up reply actions

I think you read (understandably)… can arenas get chris paul (to sign with us).

I interpreted that differently… Can (trash) Arenas, get one of 3/4 young PGs (because teams who have those give them away all the time), and pick up a shooter at the 2 or 3 (dont understand why we would pick up a shooter at the 2 if he thought we were keeping Gil).

VOID!!!

by dt3 on Mar 7, 2010 6:35 PM EST up reply actions

Regardless

We can’t ever get Chris Paul. He’s signed through 2011-12, with a player option for 2012-13. And the Hornets will not trade him.

by kseandoyle on Mar 12, 2010 9:33 PM EST up reply actions

Why would anyone trade for Arenas

Much less the best point guard in the league PLUS another player?? Call me crazy but that sounds outrageous. The Wizards don’t even know if they want him back – there’s no way anyone’s giving up anything of value to take him on.

by BlueSkyOneCloud on Mar 13, 2010 3:22 PM EST up reply actions

Draft well, wait for four years, pray we don't lose people to injuries or draft busts

My plan:

-draft the best player available in the draft
-sign Kyle Lowry
-let everyone except Foye expire
-play McGee and Young 30 minutes a game next year, regardless of performance
-DON’T play Blatche more than 35 minutes a game
-let Gil do his thing, try to trade him, maybe for Eddy Curry
-continue to suck, draft the best player available in the 2011 draft
-try to sign Carmelo Anthony or maybe Chris Paul if he’s available
-if we don’t sign one of them, continue to suck and draft the best player available

Eventually, once we know who’s good for the team (can defend, shoot, and pass), trade the guys who don’t fit for people who do. Try to build an identity as a defense-first team.

by pantslessyoda1 on Mar 7, 2010 7:20 PM EST reply actions

The problem with giving Nick run regardless

Is that I’m pretty sure next year is the last on his contract. So, even if he suddenly realizes he’s a basketball player, we probably don’t resign him anyway.

by imperialme on Mar 8, 2010 11:03 AM EST up reply actions

We could always trade or sign and trade him

I wouldn’t mind signing him to an extension if he can prove himself to be a decent player. We’ve got to have 12 people on the roster anyways, we might as well make sure some of them are legitimate NBA players and not just some guy we plucked from the d league and only play when we’re down by 30+

by pantslessyoda1 on Mar 10, 2010 10:11 PM EST up reply actions

What is the benefit

of sign-and-trade? I thought it was only useful if the player was at max-level.

by MR on Mar 11, 2010 10:06 AM EST up reply actions

You can use it to give the player the max number of years, the max amount of dollars, or both, before shipping him off to another team that couldn’t sign him to that much. Obviously, no one will want to sign Young to the max dollars, and there’s only a very, very slim chance that they would want him at the max years (he’d have to play incredibly next year). So sign-and-trade isn’t going to happen with him, or, unfortunately, anyone on our current roster.

by kseandoyle on Mar 12, 2010 9:35 PM EST up reply actions

I am thoroughly convinced Nick Young will never be a starter in this league.

Too inconsistent, and his only worth is scoring the ball.

by tw10 on Mar 13, 2010 9:50 AM EST up reply actions

wth

that sounds like how to get worse

"Who Wants some pudding pops?, delicious and nutritious!

by MJ5 on Mar 7, 2010 9:58 PM EST reply actions

Got to get worse to get better

It won’t help us to go all out this summer and sign a few Songaila or Stevenson-caliber players so we can win 35 games next year and the year after. I’d rather just rebuild the old-fashioned way like the Sonics and Blazers.

by pantslessyoda1 on Mar 10, 2010 10:13 PM EST up reply actions

Fixing this mess

At least Blatche and McGee are getting the playing time they need.

1. Hope that Arenas we saw in the last 3 or 4 games before the suspension is the Arenas we see for the rest of his career
2. Get lucky in the lottery. Get Wall or Evan Turner
3. Keep Mike MIller
4. Use a late first rounder or second rounder on Gerald Lee
5. Use the MLE to get our hands on another PF/C in the summer of 2011 (I confess that I am not sure who will be out there).

"I say he does have to shoot me now! So shoot me now!" --- Daffy Duck

by George Templeton on Mar 10, 2010 11:26 AM EST reply actions

Fire Ernie Grunfeld

Yeah, he did some really good things during his time in DC. Free agent pickups and the Caron trade were well orchestrated. He built a playoff team. He also let that team fall apart. He was far too happy to keep trying to construct the 04-05 team over and over again. He overvalued the worth of his roster the past few years, leading to him trading away a lottery pick this year because he was so convinced (as we all were, but we don’t get paid for this) that his team was ready to compete. And the trades this year? They only achieved one goal — imploding what was left of his failed construction of a team. I’m being harsh, and he’s done some good things here. But the majority of his good work is all years behind us now. At a certain point, you’ve got to break ties and try something new — for each party really. The longer Grunfeld tinkers with the Wizards roster, the less respected he’s going to be in the NBA — that’ll make it tough for him to get a new job.

by kseandoyle on Mar 12, 2010 9:42 PM EST reply actions