definitely going to come back and haunt us.

Or did Javale’s agent actually claim the club would only get a big man coach for Javale if he payed for it??
That looks really bad

then I suggest she watches games her son has played in because there is 1 reason.

better with Javale on the bench soooo…

I understand Pam defending her son, but I mean, especially as a former player herself, she has to find some kind of objective criticism. Maybe she cited things that he needs to work on and it didn’t get published, and I guess that they hired a coach over the summer is an admission that he still needs to improve, but the article read almost as if she’s completely absolving him of anything.

so I just take everything she said is biased.

about Vale lately. I wonder if he would consider getting mentored by the Diesel this summer.

The respect factor is a valid point. Gene Banks and Tony Massenburg just don’t have the resumes that make a guy want to run through a wall. Don Zierden cannot be the primary big man coach… over Banks?!?

forehead slap

… or lack thereof.

The answer to the question of why the Wiz didn’t bring in a real big man coach was always “Gene Banks is the guy.” Well, WTF? If he was so great at it, then why isn’t he still doing it?

But there is no way in hell his mom should ever be saying this to a member of the press. This is one of those teachable moments where she has to let her son grin and bear it and fight his way past this made up hype of a story.

Mcgee should have screamed mom NOOO don’t do this.

Flip will be revealed to be a bad coach in time. You never want your mom as a pro athlete coming to your defense to the local paper.

I am a Javale guy he’s a good kid a hard worker.

The article is still right about what Flip has done and what the organizational infrastructure is lacking.

Flip noted that Javale averaged 6 min as a freshman, 20 min as a sophomore, and his mom just noted that he was late to the game as a serious player. The Wizards need to give him a respected actual big man who can coach the pivot to develop him. This is really an organizational problem. Ask yourself, who is the last player the Wiz/Bullets actually developed? Gil was a self starter, Caron and Antwan are who they were. Nobody here develops, and all we do is rip them individually.

Is the latest to receive insufficient coaching, with his shooting coach who overhauled his shooting motion and left 3 days later. The Wiz should hire the same guy they had for one year when Haywood free throw %age went up and the team as whole shot up. I believe he went to Toronto then Dallas. We had him as a consultant and they gave him a full time gig.

He’s learning and getting better. The thing you can’t teach that he has is motor very active player. Those sorta guys just need to learn how to use the energy they have.

I could tell the hub bub of Dunkgate got to him in the game yesterday hurt his confidence. Mcgee leared a valuable lesson a vet coach will use you to distract folks from the horrible job he’s doing.

Mcgee has gotta do what they ask of him until he gets someone who believes in him to evelop him.

He’s gotta get to that space where he plays within himself and blocks out everything and just gives honest effort not let the coach frustrate him with the jerking, or lack of play calls or anything else.

Had Ramon Sessions and Nick Fazekas. Javale is raw now what do you think he was then?

Why does Flip jerk Javale in an instant, but not Blatche for never rotating, blocking out, challenging anyone at the rim or Wall for continuously going over the pick on PnR and creating easy penetration into the lane or continuously missing point blank lay ups. We have two players that show any resemblance of special NBA talent (Wall and McGee), Wall has Cassell and McGee has Gene Banks and Zierdan give me a break. Cassell game is unquestioned but could not be more different than Wall’s skill set.

Thats why you don’t see it often, it’s more than a hook shot, its the floor game of a pivot which is all encompassing and different than a perimeter player. Shooting is essential and its not just free throws.

He was never a true point, he was a scoring lead guard who could post, deadly from mid range and was crafty player.
Wall fashions himself as a true distributing point who relies on athleticism at this point in his career. Someone who could show him tempo with speed would be great. Mo Cheeks would be the type of coach needed for Wall.

He was mostly a jump shooter with decent footwork. Hire Hakeem as a consultant to work with him offseason and to provide spot work and critiques throughout the season. Pat has not developed Howard sufficiently in my opinion and his game remains unrefined with questionable footwork.

and maybe he is on the team.

thats McGees position. McGee has to think about this. 6th pick of the draft and can play my position.

…I guess it’s back to reality. And reality is what Pam McGee says:

1) you develop your big-men, even if it means hiring a real big man coach. The economics of this are obvious.

2) you don’t throw your players under a bus in public. This goes not only with Javale, but everybody. In other words, you send Flip to public relations school.

3) you run 10 plays a game for McGee to make him part of the offense and develop him into another threat so Young can’t be triple teamed on every possession.

4) An adult with the Wizards (maybe it will require Leonsis) needs to get everybody in a room and hash things out in an open and constructive setting.

they never really take the coaches to task strongly enough. its been like this for quite awhile. rather its the Skins or Wizards, Nationals or Caps.

all the probelms trickle down to the players. The Skins lately the only exception but the angst never seems to approach the level of discontent the fanbases have for the coaches and gm’s of the teams.

this whole area has been caught in this malaise of bad coaching and poor management. I just wish the main tv and newspapers would hold their feet to the fire the blogs do a much better job maybe its because they are more embedded with the fans.

I can’t imagine it does any good for a pro athlete to have his mommy stalking the sidelines and barking on his behalf. I actually feel sorry for Javale. Had this come up before the OKC game and I’m Perkins I elbow Vale in the face instead of former biggest-weanie Blatche) and humbly suggest that he call his mom out to defend him. Game-set-match to Perkins. It’s unmanly in a man’s game.

I have a kid and I get it: she wants the best for her son. But she’s not some tigress in the jungle protecting a wounded cub—he’s a millionaire. Pam is making a calculated decision about his fortunes (and therefore hers) but forgetting that HE’s the one who’s gonna have the shit kicked out of him on the court.

It’s a bad way to do business.

Mom did her job.

enough of catering to anyone. this is a team sport and no one on this team has proven that they can “carry” a team to any heights….the unprofessional behavior and integrity has been questioned on blogs for a while. This has exposed them to what people were fearing in the first place. Javale and any other player that is continuously bashed, while others are put on a pedestal, will always have their day, regardless of who’s in charge

“culture of losing”

“don’t develop players”

true or not, they are losing the PR battle on this big time.

(as has been alluded to by my many others)

it’s downright ironic that his mother, when you contrast her assessment of mcgee’s play against javale’s exhibited fundamentals on the court, is a former pro player. despite everything i should know, it always disappoints me when i realize how many people aren’t even remotely rational or objective. i should maybe cut her some slack b/c it’s her son, but, yeah no. she’d make her case much better if she wasn’t so indiscriminate.

i really liked how yop put it:

My little Johnny is brilliant, it’s all the teacher’s fault. The school should hire Einstein to teach little Johnny his 2x tables

Why not bring up the Rockets running plays for him? When they ran pick and rolls against him and he looked lost like he was trying to do algebra?