Why resign a guy that still doesn't know how to box out or defend?

Let’s bring back Ruffin and save some money on salary so we could cross-subsidize the Capitals. And we wouldn’t even need to hire a big man coach, given that Ruff knows the fundamentals of the game. He would just need some instructions on when to throw the ball up into the air at the end of the game.

i agree i wouldn’t bring him back i would try to see what u can get at the trade deadline to me he’s been in the league long enough to still be making rookie mistakes and show no growth on the offensive side on the low block and he’s selfish just like blatche. to me i would like to see him gone blatche,reshard lewis,to a certain extent young and seraphin along with ernie next season i dont want ernie in charge of the offseason draft or free agency or picking a coach

McGee has potential to be a great player.Maybe the right new head coach could help ! Shot blocking skills and rebounding would be hard to replace.Any 1 notice his new tecnique at the free throw line ? he’s worse this year than last ! I hope it wasent a wiz coach that messed that up .he almost blew that last win vs bobcats when he missed those 2 free throws that would have wrapped up the win.

I see the posts regarding the moving of the feet and playing lazy on defense……………….I’ve also noticed he often trots lazily down the court as though he’s out of gas.

People say he’s a freak athlete……………I know he’s long and can jump………….but he seems incapable of running up and down the court 5 times without needing to take a break.

I get it that he’s 7"0 + and a lot of 7 footers aren’t great from an endurance perspective. But his cardiovascular endurance seems particularly bad. I saw something that said Flip Saunders helped identify his “sports asthma”. I have no idea what that is, but if that’s why he can’t run up and down the court a couple times without needing to take a break then he probably isn’t one of the foundation pieces the organization should be built around.

He also seems to underperform huge on the boards. He should be cleaning up the glass on both ends but he never seems like much of a factor.

Boxing out, moving your feet on defense, running up and down the floor every play take work, hustle, cardiovascular endurance and desire and he doesn’t seem to have it.

Your completely right. He is a very lazy defender. He looks solely for the blocks, but does not do the other things well. Its all about discipline and the coach holding him to a higher standard. You think he would be this lazy in Chicago, San Antonio, most other teams? Hell no. He can do all the other things well, but he needs to be yelled at.

McGee should have a lot of value in a trade. I wouldn’t do it unless I could get a good deal, but with all the risk involved with keeping him (that he’ll never “get it” or decide to leave as a free agent) I think it would be wiser to cash in now. Maybe I’m just being conservative, but the idea of adding a guy who makes the team better along with another draft pick sounds pretty good right now. We’d have to pick up a center somewhere though — we can’t have Seraphin starting…we just can’t.

JaVale gives us the best odds. Re-sign JaVale, and I put our odds of winning a championship before the end of the decade at 20%. Let him go, and I put our odds at less than 10%.

Sad thing is that a year and a half ago, I would have put our odds much higher. Unfortunately, the Wall-McGee PnR has been even more of a disappointment than Dray.