Shhhh...Don't Tell The Wizards There Was A Lockout

With the lock out, and the less practice time and training camp that came with it I thought it would take about half a normal season for the real team to show (good or bad). I’m looking to do get most of my insight around game 40 and if positive progress shows up before then great.

I think many of us started the year saying we had to be patient because this team was going to have lots of growing pains. However its very easy to fall back into destroy the team when there is a horrible game (I know I definitely have fallen victim to this feeling).

Good post.

I think the charlotte bobcats right now wish that the season was canceled.

I admire you’re uplifting spirit but I don’t share it unfortunately.

In february 2010 Ernie was orded to innitiate a full blown re-build. Step 1 was to get rid of the old core and get expiring contracts back and/or picks. He did get rid of that core, but he didn’t get anything of real value in return. It wasn’t good, but given the circumstances though, it wasn’t horrible either.

Step 2 was to acquire young talent. So far, we have 1 good prospect in John Wall. Ernie can’t be credited for that one though after lucking into the #1 pick ass. Unfortunatelly, Wall has shown he has 1B as his ceiling. That means we still lack a 1A type talent.
Javale McGee could be a building block, but I am still going back and forth on re-signing McGee.
Booker, I think, is and will be a role player. A energy/hustle guy. That doesn’t mean he can’t start but it does mean he is the 5th and ideally the 7th best player on your roster.

Other than that, I don’t see any pieces that are going to be key career rotation players for us. Mack and Singleton have a chance and Blatche should be so ashamed of himself for waisting his career with late night snacks, poor on court effort and off court shananigans.

So, basically we have 1 starter for the future we are building for and bunch of maybe’s.

Step 3 is developing the young core. We have very little talent due to poor execution of the second step and the talent we do have not being developped because the organization as a whole seems rot at it’s core.

Ernie has done next to nothing to facilitate player development, unless you count giving McGee the ‘room’ to be assertive, hiring and paying for his own bigman coach or if you think hiring Jan a shooting coach for 3(!!?) days to completely mess up an allready bad jumper and free throw routine was a good idea.

There are no specialist coaches, there is no defensive coorditnator who could teach the kids where to be and when on the defensive end and the coaching staff just now seems to be figuring out that they didn’t have an offense system that fit the roster.

Other than that, our medical staff has historically been bad and news yesterday on missmanaging Javale’s astma is just the latest in a long line of miss cue’s. We also have no nutriocionist, or player personal to check up on kids like John and Seraphin who became instant millionaires, living on their own for the first time in their lives. Result: eating muffins, orials and McDonalds for dinner every night. Good organizations guide such players. Wizards do not.

To conclude: After acquiring 2 true building blocks with high lottery picks the next step should have been to package the rest of our assets and trade for a good piece at this years’ deadline and then sign another one this summer. Along with the young pieces we would have left after the trade and filling out the roster with servicable vets, we should have been in the race for 6th to 8th seed next year. We are messed up step 2 and 3 so now we just have to brake the bank to make up for that, instead of going forward and becoming competative. Unfortunatelly, Ted doesn’t look like someone who is willing to do that.

We are wáy behind schedule so far and realistically, our future looks rahter bleak.

What position should we mostly be looking to draft. Should we still target a big man, shooting gaurd, or forward? I really like Kidd Gilchrist and Barnes (who’s seem to fell off a little) but I’m not sold on drummond because IV only been able to watch one game of his. But I think adding a star shooting gaurd/ small forward is the best way to go IF we don’t get the first pick.

Let’s see if they can put together a 2-game winning streak first…

You have to figure if Blatche was really bringing us down as we all suspect, then it would take a few weeks to get over the lazy type of play that is Dray. I look at it like this we needed a power player in that spot Blatche is a self described finesse player who mainly throws up klinckers. With him out, Ves and Book can PnR, which I don’t remember Blatche doing to much of.

I wanted to point out that John Wall seems to be a sponge lately, learning other NBA’s PG style and incorporating it in his game. After the DRose game He borrowed the whip pass, after the Lin game He started the bounce pass in the lane.

leave NO….do we take another risk on a gimpy knee?

The problem with being bad is we are forced to overpay…