Links: John Wall, Others Discuss Selfish Play, And More Wizards-Magic Sadness

Send him to Bangladesh! http://www.loveboatsports.com/2012/01/new-year.html

might be the worst writer for the post. His article on Wall and leaving was awful. Look, I love Wall and his “potential”. He can bounce town if he wants, but he still has alot to learn before he starts bitching about the team needing to field a winner. We’ve seen Rubio already influence games in a controlled manner and he’s played like 6 NBA games. (anyone see his clutch 3 lastnight at the end of the game? Can Wall become a 3-pt threat ever?) John has room to grow and I hope does. But if he never becomes everything we think he can be, then I won’t give a shit if he leaves.

That is probably the biggest issue right now and why I am unsatisfied with the way things are going. What are we actually working towards? Are we going to be a defensive team? A fast break team? A high scoring team? It doesn’t seem like we do anything particularly well. I thought with this roster, fast breaks would be easy, but when you see the awful spacing and decision making on fast breaks, you wonder what the heck is wrong with this team. Running a fast break is one of the basic skills of teams. Anybody that has played basketball knows coaches love to practice the figure 8, but I doubt this PROFESSIONAL team would have the ability to do so.

I also think there is a lack of discipline. If the emphasis is on defense and efficient scoring then why aren’t more players being sat for poor play? There have been times where Blatche has given no effort on defense, and Jordan Crawford has jacked up shots but players like McGee get benched and players like Booker, Mack, and Singleton are struggling to get minutes. It seems as though the players are confused and that is an awful sign.

Sounds very defeated, very frustrated and also like he is definitely talking about Flip at the end of the video.

http://www.csnwashington.com/pages/v11_videodetail?PID=1iMLTB-OeJer0dvOqzQaMsn6IxWBwwlSiz8Y2x6

Wall is not any better. I always see his defender play off of him because Wall doesn’t want to shoot the ball. I think Saunders needs to give him the green light to shoot at will, instead of Young and Crawford doing so. Wall is our biggest investment and he needs to gain confidence in his shot more so than any other player on this team. It isn’t like we are playoff bound. We have nothing to lose by Wall bricking several shots.

Courage!

Help us, Jan Vess-Kenobi…you’re our only hope.

Or we could trade for Darth Vader – that might help, too.

I’m starting to see some terribly distrubing similarities between the careers of Patrick Ramsey and John Wall. Both were great talents coming out of college, and both were supposed to lead their franchises back to respectability and the playoffs. Then both had terrible teammates and coaches that put them in terible positions to learn and grow as players. Ramsey (and now it’s looking like Wall also) learned bad habits, accepted a losing culture, and never lived up to the hype or promise. What resulted with Ramsey after a couple seasons was a QB who had zero confidence, who was gun shy, and who was run out of town and is now a career back up and will probably be out of the NFL soon. I pray the same fate does not await Mr. Wall.

The team is playing very very selfish. No one wants to share the ball. the main culprits are Crawfford, Blatche, Young and lewis. The only thing they all bring to the table involve shooting the ball. None of them rebound,, defend, or attempt to block a shot worth a damn.

Last year when the team made a decent run of cohesive ball they had Yi an unselfish player, Jeffers, an unselfish player, had Crawford actually passing last season along with Booker another unselfish player playing.

Now we have guys competing to be a hero. Now you mix in Mcgee who seem pressed to shoot every time he touches it because he touches it so rarely and Wall when he starts pressing realizing the team is falling behind and its a mess.

This is bad coaching and a horrible roster and those things can only be corrected by firing the people that created the situations.

but chemistry goes through wall?

It is comforting for the players and fans to blame poor effort and selfishness for the poor play. It means that things can be fixed easily. Just try harder and share the ball more. Unfortunately, it’s more than that. Look at the roster. The Wizards simply aren’t very good. It is not all Andray Blatche’s fault. The talent level simply isn’t there. It’s very frustrating to watch the Wizards play the Celtics and to realize, forget Allen, Pierce, and Garnett, Greg Stiemsma and Brandon Bass shoot better than anyone on the Wizards. Ernie simply has not done a good job. Since the breakthrough ‘04-’05 season, the team has NEVER improved over the previous season in terms of roster personnel. Ernie gets praised for not overpaying guys like Larry Hughes and Jarred Jeffries, but he never replaces them adequately. Ernie seems to like athletic guys with huge upside, but you can never assume improvement is going to automatically happen, even with a guy like John Wall. At some point, you have to add some guys who possess NBA level skills right now.