Rashard Lewis, Sam Cassell Get Into Argument, Lewis Refused To Play, According To Report

His insubordination should seal his fate here, or at least as a starter. Hopefully we’ve had enough embarrassment that SOMETHING substantial will happen soon

Release Lewis and amnesty Blatche. If they can’t be traded sooner.

If you are an organization that holds people accountable, then that means being honest and forthright on all fronts.

Just saw the link saying he’d consider a return to coaching.

to accept a cheap buyout.

…what’s next? Maybe Ron Paul has a conspiracy theory about Washington sports!

I doubt many really believed that he was injured.

Players are getting sick and tired of losing and I expect some more major blowups from player on coach and player on player.

Lewis should be ashamed of himself making that much money refusing to play but he’s not needed and should be released.

Ted needs to wake up and smell the coffee, read the writing on the wall, and make some heads roll.

I would go on, but I am fresh out of cliches.

We got rid of Arenas because of the “drama” he brought to the team

But he’s gone, and there seems to be more drama.

Arenas would be the center of attention, which would allow Wall to quietly improve his game.

Wall could probably get his assist numbers way up with GA parked on the three point line.

Ted seems enamored with The OKC Model of building a team.

BuT OKC is more the exception, than the rule these days.

Heat, Celtics, Lakers built by key acquisitions.

Now the Clippers, and Knicks are following suit

I think Ted is wrong. We need to get an All Star or two to turn this lousy situation around.

I mean if the Clippers can turn it around in one season, why can’t we?

I’m tired of waiting. And sorry efforts like today convince me that we need to blow this up, and start over again. This time by acquiring a proven all star.

What kind of HEAD COACH has so little pull with his assistants and players that he cant knock both of them in line? Instead, just MINUTES before the game this happens and Lewis sits? Flip is just pathetic, I’m sorry, but if you want a “last straw” here it is.

No wonder the team looked like this today, the entire lead up to the game was some bullshit drama between a coach and player….jesus, this team does not deserve the fans it has

If you’re a player, isnt the best way to win to get the hell out of DC as soon as you can? Is Javale or Nick or John or whomever supposed to think “Ok, I’m the guy who will turn all this around!”

or should they think “If I stay here I’ll never win no matter what I do”

it’s falling apart Ted, do something!

Im thinking it may be a possibility that ernie is keeping lewis here for a reason. Right now its a contract on the books to keep us over the minimum. But Before the deadline maybe ernie expects to be able to trade him to another team who wants an expiring contract. Then the contracts off our hands and we get a pick and a random player or two. If I know ernie he is keeping him here for a reason, maybe not the one i just mentioned but theres a reason.

We’re winning something, at least. So we got that going for us.

Amen and Amen. You are one of the few people here who see the light. This is not a rebuild. This is just a money grab. Thats why we take any player that other teams are willing to pay us to take. It keeps payroll low, keep fans at bay while keeping interest and resources on the hockey team.

It’s funny how the hockey team is not run this poorly. It is funny how the hockey team gets what it needs when it needs it. It’s funny how smart decisions are made for the hockey team while head scratchers are made for us isn’t it

One could conclude that Ted wanted the arena and had to buy the basketball team to get it but has no real interest in improving the team or building a winner! He had to have known that it was going to take a huge investment in talent to be competitive in a division with Dwight Howard and Lebron James in it! He could not have thought that this was adequate! This “it’s going to be painfull”, build with rookies and washed up vets on a one year NBA minimum contract has been a smoke screen all along and because most wizard fans are redskins fans that think everything works like football, fell for it hook line and sinker!

It’s 6:05 a.m., and Comcast SportsNet just showed 4 minutes of their show taped Saturday night before someone woke up and realized the mistake.

Maybe its just so early in the morning today, but with everything going on right now with this franchise, I kind of feel like crying a little bit. I’m serious. I can’t imagine another franchise in such a mess as this is now.

Also, what poor timing to change the jerseys/court/logo of the Wizards. What a terrible decision. Someone must have thought that the future was coming, but, O my lord does it look bleek now. If I am Wall, I am really considering getting the heck out of Washington as soon as he can.

I think we’re overstating the historic nature of this team’s failings a little early. It’s been a few player/coach spats so far, but not really as bad as the Cousins incident in Sactown recently. Not nearly as bad as Gilbert Arenas and gungate, imo. Yes, we have only played 8 games this year, and the 2011-2012 edition of the Wizards could indeed reach horror of historic proportions, but on the flipside this thing could really be corrected to ending up merely “bad” as in “losing season” bad. Management can correct some of this stuff — that’s what (competent) management is supposed to do! I still have hope left — that we can win 16-18games rather than 5-6!

David Aldridge.

watching the game yesterday @ Verizon was horrible.

The only time I got excited was when Rubio was on the court. T-Wolves were running double curls, alot misdirection plays, pick and rolls.

Our offensive set consisted of J-Wall driving in really fast with his head down and throwing the ball in the air hoping to get fouled, or ISO top of key/3 pt line by Nick Young or Jordon Crawford – hold the ball for 5 secs staring down the the defender without moving the ball – then throwing up some random BS fadeaway….

This is not rucker park. _ most frustrating Wizards game, I’ve ever been too. Even worse than the games from 2000-2001 with Richard Hamilton, Howard, Nesby, and Popeye Jones, Hubert Davis and co.

It had to be the worst display of Basketball I’ve ever experienced in my life. _

Because it forces the hands of the coach and the GM. If Lewis doesn’t play, there’s more time for singleton, Booker, and Vesely. That’s good. This team needs it’s youth to play. We’re not winning anything this year.

It also may force the GM to look for ways to trade Lewis’ salary, hopefully for help. Honestly, I wouldn’t force a trade though. Lewis’s value on the market is going to be at it’s highest this summer and next season’s trade deadline, we he essentially turns into a cost-cutting contract.

And next season, unless we plan on signing a big time free agent, there’s no reason to amnesty Lewis. We have to pay his salary either way, so easier to just cut him and use the amnesty on Blatche, if we aren’t able to use him in a trade.

Was Sam on his case about not hustling back on that turnover? Because the aspect of that play that keeps getting overlooked is that when he was tip-toeing at the halfcourt line after he saved the ball, no Wizard came to help. None. It doesn’t excuse not getting back on D, but I could see him being equally disgusted at the players he’s playing with.

I see it in other areas as well. Wall hits the floor a few hundred times a game (or so it seems), but many times none of his teammates go over to help him up. I don’t know if it speaks to their general selfish mentality, or if a lot of these guys really just don’t like each other. But clearly in their play and in these smaller things, their chemistry sucks.

I don’t think they should outright cut Lewis though, unless he continues to be a problem. That’s just cutting off your nose to spite your face. They’d be eating his buyout and getting nothing in return. His only trade value at this point has to be as a shorter-term, partially guaranteed contract, which increases in the offseason with only one partially guaranteed year left and the harsher Lux Tax penalties looming.

They’ve dealt with AB, Young and McGee being headaches, EG has dealt with Arenas, and BTH and Etan fighting. I think they can deal with Lewis being unhappy for a few more months.