Links: Wizards Try The Players-Only Meeting Thing

When I was growing up, I read the sports page every day, at first with my dad and then on my own. I listened to (and sometimes still do) Steve Czaban and the SportsReporters to get my news and analysis. But these people are starting to piss me off. They are always late on the news (seriously, how hard is it to get a Twitter) and their analysis is increasingly one sided and misinformed, especially in regards to basketball where the players are now almost entirely of a different generation than the traditional media staffs covering them. This Boswell piece is just the latest. Mike Wise, Tracee, etc. have all written things in the past year or so that lack of understanding. Thanks to this community and others like it for keeping up with the times.

Knicks play no defense at all, just through length and running Ves should be able to find a few crowd pleasing dunks to get the VC fired up!

twill be interesting.

Wall gets a jumper! Just like rose in his second year. Even in rose first year he still shot the jumper. Wall doesn’t have the confidence to even take a j. We went from agent 0 who could shoot a 3 in your face to a pg scared to shoot!

it’s the easy story for sure. Can we give him the year before we write off his year in comparison to Rose’s second year? Can we aknowledge the vast differences between the team Wall plays on and the team Rose plays on?

Finally, can we discard once and for all the notion that all we had to do was get a PG (a PG!!!) at #1 and then slot in players around him to build a dynasty?

Like I said last year, he ain’t Magic. He’s a good young PG. We need a LOT more than that to be successful.

They need to bench someone important to prove a point they need to shorten the rotation to try and generate a style of play.

It can’t be everyone is young so everyone gets a chance. All that does is put everyone who comes in the game in hero mode if I make this play then I will insure I always play.

Flip needs to call more timeouts after small mistakes and uss someone out then put them back in the game.

He needs to bench Blatche for the slightest defensive breakdown or pull Nick Young if Mcgee is wide open and he looks him off.

He should play Mcgee and Wall together and often no matter what no penalties for mistakes let them work through their games they are the only real players we have that are productive and who have value around the league.

Imo, Bos used to be great, but he has lost his fastball. He is still solid on baseball, but on any other sport his opinions are usually not insightful. Or they were insightful two months before when someone else already offered them. He talked about the jump from a player’s first to his second year, but with no mention at all of the lockout and the impact it might have had. Most players have the benefit of their team facilities, coaches and trainers during the offseason. I don’t think Wall suffered particularly from a facility standpoint, but I don’t think he benefitted as much from the barnstorming tour as he might have working with Sam and the team. And having a longer training camp.

As for 980 vs 106.7, I usually listen to Andy and Czabe, because I can’t stand LaVar and Chad most days. When the topic turns to the Wizards however, I usually tune Andy and Czabe out because they don’t have much to offer. Lovero (sp?) either. Their forte is the Redskins and they’ve worked to become a bit more Caps friendly. Which makes sense. They’re frontrunners because it’s their job to keep an audience. The Caps are supposed to be good and the Skins always sell, so that’s who they focus on. Really going to miss Coach Thompson, too. The only upgrade to 980’s hoops coverage imo has been bringing in Laron Profit. He knows hoops, he knows the area. Having him talk about the Wizards has been a pleasant change so far from the usual drivel.

after what reid wrote, someone had to point out that wall is playing very poorly himself

They make the weekly list of 5 worst teams in the NBA. http://www.loveboatsports.com/2012/01/friday-suck-5.html