Links: Wizards Lose To Bulls In Historic Fashion

then we’d be talking about how the wiz played great defense, until the starters ran out of gas at the end

Those tickets will be for 10 cents

yet to a man we all (rightly) believe the team has improved drastically over the past 2 games. Gotta love being a Wizards fan!

Can you spot the travel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6dEFON50dh8

I would offer anyone on the roster not named Wall or McGee. Vesely, Young, Booker, 2013 1st round pick for Cousins and Francisco Garcia. I would try to make the pick protected but if they insisted on it being unprotected I would still pull the trigger. This team just lacks talent. Young is gone after this year anyway. With the 2013 first rounder I dont care as much because we already will have too many young guys as it is.

We need one more guy on this roster heading into the offseason that can be labeled as a core guy. Wall and McGee are both core guys in my opion. Singleton is a keeper. Cousins would be another one. Everyone else on the roster can go. You go into the offseason with 3 legitimate starters in Wall, Cousins, McGee plus one legitmate contributor in Singleton. Bring in a new coach (I would love Calipari) and maybe a new GM. You have A TON of cap space after you amnesty Blatche and hopefully trade Shard’s expiring or he agrees to a buyout + a top 3 pick. You can find your other two starters + bench guys with those resources. Draft Barnes and overpay for Gordon so the Hornets dont match and you are looking at Wall, Gordon, Barnes, Cousins, McGee with singleton + whoever else we sign off the bench. But it all starts with trading for Cousins.

Anyone have some ideas? Wait for the draft i guess. Could there be some trade possibilities? Or free agency next summer? Just throwing these ideas out there, because in my mind there is no doubt that this position is our biggest weakness.

Yi, Cartier Martin, a primed and in shape Young, a much better Crawford. a beter Lewis.

The Pick and Pop game was there teams got spaced open to allow Wall lanes to drive. This year teams are just laying all over the paint and saying yeah right. let someone make a shot 1st.

I really noticed something else last night Nick Young has lost some ahleticism compared to last season he’s not moving well at all. He must still be in really poor shape.

Others have hinted at it, but it’s pretty apparent: JaVale McGee is our best player on the court consistently this season, and I could actually see him being our best player – period – when everything is said and done.

I’ll start out by saying both players have good work ethics. However, JaVale is seeing results from his off season work (much better foot work, a great looking hook shot, a baseline spin move). John isn’t. Whether John learns to shoot well, we’ll find out in time, but he does have the work ethic to make it work.

Then there’s the pure ability to be a “difference maker”…to just have a player in the game that makes a huge impact on both sides of the floor. I would argue that in this sense, JaVale makes much more of an impact on each and every game (this season) than John Wall has. This season, JaVale has been unbelievable on defense (and again, has improved here), and on offense, he’s shown great moves and played within himself, something he had tons of trouble doing in the past. Last night, players on the bulls were legitimately afraid to come into the paint when JaVale was in, because they knew he would be there to challenge every shot. It’s truly a shame that JaVale couldn’t play the entire game, because Seraphin really hurt us….but that’s a completely different topic….

Then, of course, there’s the confidence to keep pushing, and just KNOW that you’re the best player on the court. I feel like John shows flashes of this, but then minutes later, he’s pouting, he’s frowning, he’s shooting a jumper KNOWING he won’t make it. I’m serious, he shoots sometimes and just looks like he thinks there’s no chance it’ll go in. There are obvious moments where he lacks confidence and competitiveness….

Meanwhile, JaVale hasn’t ever met a shot he doesn’t KNOW he’s going to make. I feel like JaVale thinks he can make anything he shoots…even if he were to shoot a 3 pointer, I think his first initial thought would be “BUCKETSSSS!”…in the past, we saw that this would lead to a lot of poor shot selection by him, but this season, he’s let the game come to him and played more patiently, so when he does get a chance in the paint?

He knows he’s going to make it. He has supreme confidence in his ability, and I truly don’t think JaVale McGee ever doubts himself….EVER.

Lastly…I’d like to mention “upside”. I feel like a lot of us, myself included, feel like John Wall has absolutely absurd amounts of “upside”, or potential. He’s extremely gifted. It seems like some people forget though, that JaVale McGee might have more upside than any single player in the entire NBA. Including John Wall. John Wall isn’t done developing, but neither is McGee.

I don’t mean for this to sound like I’m bashing John Wall – I think the kid will be a perennial SUPER star once he gets some shooters around him…but I also think that JaVale McGee, when all of these young guys are done developing, could very well be our beset player, and main superstar.

Last year, I wrote JaVale McGee off completely, because I didn’t think he could ever become consistent. The scary part about this season is I find myself asking, “How good can this kid be eventually…” after almost every game. He’s playing at a (in my opinion) top 5 center level right now, but it doesn’t look like his skillset is fully fleshed out yet.

What happens when he gets even better? And who’s to say that McGee won’t end up being a better, more impactful player that Wall?

Just food for thought…sorry for the wall of text…

…that if we could just fill in a bunch of great shooters around John Wall and JaVale McGee, as John develops a jumper, and JaVale continues to improve on his post game, demand more touches, and demand a double team almost every time he gets the ball in the block…

Our team could be really, really good. John hitting a shooter for a wide open 3 after he draws 2 or 3 defenders onto him, or JaVale consistently drawing double teams to kick it out to an open Singleton.

The future could be really bright if we draft well and get some shooters on this team.

why the hell don’t they give Mcgee the ball more on the block. The only time he really misses shots is when he gets the ball too far from the basket and is forced to try some sorta evasive manuver and sometimes get himself into trouble. With so many terrible shooters why not pound it to him and let him work the hook and up and under.

Wizards team from the coaches and some players really don’t get it. he could get guys better looks if we tried establishing him we did it more last season this season its just been fire away.

Really helped lower my Wizards blood pressure.

I wrote a scathing commentary on his BS Blog. I am not going to read him or believe any thing he says until he starts to put some money out on this team. Turning the team in to the worst team in basketball must be the plan. I look at the FA signings this season and it has cheap and con written all over it. How the eff is he going to get these big time FAs? Where are they? Who are they? He doesn’t know. They will just be there when Ted is ready. He keeps touting the Capitals as a big success. How are they a success? They aren’t except as ticket sales.

Tthis is the definition of a shot jacker