This pick should end Ernie's career here

Considering that the Wizards were trying to make a move, Miller and Foye addressed immediate needs and provided immediate help and none of the picks outside of Evans and Blake Griffin provided immediate help in the draft. Of the best players available, you had some PGs available, but I’d take John Wall over anyone that the Wizards could have landed at the position in 2009.

The bet didn’t pan out, but it was a reasonable wager. As far as the Seraphin pick goes, he was #17 in the part of the draft where you might roll the dice. Calling him a bust at this point is ridiculous. Never mind that the pick in and of itself existed because of Grunfeld’s dealing — he also turned that trade into Jordan Crawford and now Chris Singleton — this for cap space and the rights to a second rounder.

The Vesely pick is a high-risk move for Grunfeld’s career. If the pick doesn’t pan out, then that’s a move that probably will cost him his job. The other ones not so much.

instead of singleton we should have gotten Faried, We need toughness and players who have defined roles. He is making us look like a YMCA team

No big man with Jordan Williams on the board

He’s willing to do the dirty work. He is already an NBA caliber defender. His offensive skills are not great, but they are much more developed than Faried’s. On offense opponents won’t be able to leave Singleton undefended. I like Faried — he does one thing well — but he’s nowhere near as versatile as Singleton.

Time will tell, but I don’t see this as a close comparison.

Hes a young guy, adjusting to life in the US, injured last year. Give him time to develop

For example: “The Kevin Seraphin pick last year was terrible and anyone who knows basketball will tell you that”

Actually, Seraphin was projected to be drafted around that place. NBAdraftnet had him going 22 in their last mock draft before the draft itself. I know hindsight is 20/20, but the draft is a lot like playing with 4 to a flush in poker. You look at the odds, hope it comes, but if it doesn’t it doesn’t mean you played the hand incorrectly. That’s just the odds.

I think EG has been a B- minus GM throughout most of his tenure here. It’s true, he struggles with getting role-players to get their specific niche. I also think he tends to swing for the fences with his picks, taking high risk players like McGee and Perechov over more developed talent. Nevertheless, he hits a decent amount and makes mostly good trades: Kwame for Bulter was fantastic.

I’d probably give him one draft to see if he can make the rebuild work. But, if he fails after that, he’s done.

Tobias Harris would have been a better pick. He’s a future Caron Butler type. Singleton is Al Thorton 2.0. In the model of Chicago, he could be what Luol is to Rose. Yall ridin the hype train that Grunfield is giving, our team is set up to fail once again. We did nothing to improve our rebounding, shooting or all around post play. Seraphin is a bum, Vesely will be Yi all over again(6’11 big who plays like a wing aka soft)

dude…weak argument….just weak. these guys are professionals, they are going to have access to coaching, training, etc. its not like the skill sets they have right now in their ROOKIE SEASONS is going to be their ceilings.

have some patience, lets let these guys develop, let alone step on a court together before we start pulling out our pitchforks. if you call yourself a true wizards/bullets fan, you should know the meaning of the word patience.

why not take some risks in one of the weaker drafts in recent history? i think EG did a good job with what was available, and we filled some needs. youre a fool if you think we were just going to solve all of our problems in one weak draft. idk about you guys, but im looking forward to seeing vesely catch some alley oops on the fast break….

even if over the top at several points there.

The most annoying part is now Jan gets the whole “he needs time to adjust blah blah” that saves Ernie’s bacon for several seasons. Folks already say that the upcoming season is really Seraphin’s “first” for various reasons. I swear Ernie loves these mystery picks that have built-in grace periods and then can be forgotten aka Pech when they are lousy a few years later.

Your heart is in the right place, but you sound like Jay Glassie.

I appreciate the words, but I no longer can watch my team be set up by a GM who does not be realistic about what he has and what it takes for us to be the team my city needs. I look at the Thunder, Bulls and Grizzlies as models, and we are not following the blueprint they set. No one whose commented has given me a answer as to what role any other player not named Wall serves, we are constantly just picking up people on the guess not what we know and it sucks. Its so many times I’ve looked at the team and just said why? Every player we’ve had the last eight years either doesnt have heart or playing out of position with the exception of Wall, who one day if this front office doesnt realize its ineptness will do what every franchise player is doing…. making “The Decision” and we’ll be another ten years from where we need to be. You say my heart is in the right place but i think you guys are as you still believe this current front office is building a title contender. Ill support none the less, but it gets harder as I watch more and more teams rise from pretender to contender

Ernie’s still head and shoulders ahead of the horrific GMs we had in the 1980s and 90s (was there ever a worse GM than Wes Unseld)?

I absolutely agree with the gentlemans comments. First of all, if a culture change is needed it absoutely needs to start with grunfied being gone. He is the one that presided over the wizards having collection of players that are tweeners. no players with a defined skill that leads to winning as a team, just a bunch of assholes with skills. Want a change of cultrue, cut of the neck of the snake.

My man, Nick Young is a scorer in fact he was more of a slasher in college. As far as the Crawford statement, it shows why need a true jump shooter. Not someone who can hit a jumper when he’s got it going, but a guy whose speciality is nothing but. We don’t have that if Nick misses a lay-up first quarter he might finish with thirteen. So I suggested drafting Klay Thompson, a guy who can hover the three point line and when Jordan and John drive the lanes they will have a legitiment knock down shooter. Again something we DON’T have!! As far as me saying he’s getting defensive players now as opposed then speaks for itself. Why do we need a “culture change” now as opposed to then? Everyone in the league knows the Wizards are not a good defensive team and have known that again FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS!!! So thats where the blunder after blunder comes in, because if you are a professional league GM then you more than anyone should know this. If you truly and honestly believe that those three players are going to take you somewhere than why not take what they don’t do namely play defense and rebound, and get them whats needed.Get them that low post threat thats needed to win and if not trade them off while they still have value and you can replace them with whats needed for the team to contend, he never makes the proper move. Every organization thats winning has a team on the floor with defined roles, we don’t. And its a reflection of the poor decisions our GM keeps making. Now supposedly we got two forwards who are athletic and defensive minded, along with a combo guard who can play either guard spot. Now lets refer back to this last draft n trade deadline, we got the exact samething. A project in Seraphin, a tough,hard nosed, and athletic forward in Booker and then to top it off we get lucky and get Crawford, who was a combo guard coming ouf Xavier. Its no wonder Booker wrote “confused” on his twitter, what is that saying to him? But you good with that, no prob….

We can all agree to disagree, to me Grunfield is terrible and to you all he’s doing just fine. I respect everyone’s opinion and move forward because at this point the only opinion that matters is Ted’s. So we’ll watch as the season progresses and see the fruits of Ernie’s decisions and our ticket prices. Wiz 4 life!!!!!