If the wiz get the #1 pick would you consider trading down?

Ted should hire you as a consultant because he wouldn’t hear this sort of thinking from EG.

I mean he really looks like a player (have only seen him twice though), but geez how many yeras before he is any sort of real force in the nba and will it only be a defensive force? I can see why they would draft him regardless, but if moves arent made to get some gradeA shooters in here as well then next season will likely be disastrous too.

I can’t take the analysis seriously, when the writer didn’t recognize that Wall played at “UK” (University of Kentucky) and not “KU” (Kansas University).

I think it should be a priority for the ‘Zards to get at least two top-10 picks and at least another 1 pick in the lottery. Coming away with Andre Drummond, Thomas Robinson, and Jeremy Lamb would be worth giving away almost everyone on the roster. Kevin Love was really the only guy I thought would be a good fit to pursue as a RFA, but now that he is off the table I think they should dive head-first into acquiring high draft picks. Imagine rolling out a lineup of Wall-Lamb-Vesely/Singleton-Robinson-Drummond with Crawford & Booker off the bench. I would gladly give up McGee, Seraphin, N’Diaye, Singleton/Vesely, and take on 2 or 3 bad contracts to make that happen.

Ant Davis plays man-to-man defense no problem, blocks shots by waiting for the shooter to commit, handles the ball like a guard (he was one), willingly passes for the assist, and is a HIGH ENERGY player. If the Wizards draft him, the Wiz be able to trade either McGee or Vesely or both. He may not be the next Kevin Durant, but he perhaps would be a more phyiscal and defense-minded version of Tony Kucoc.

I can’t for certain say that it has never happened, though, so correct me if I am wrong.

In any event, if the Wizards are ever going to pull this sort of move, I don’t want Grunfeld being the one to do it. He’d do it because he would have his eye on some project tweener forward with long arms available with a lower pick.

How many GMs have had three lottery picks in the last three years? Probably not too many because most owners aren’t as patient with failure as Ted and Abe Pollin. Ernie’s record should be judged, in large measure, on his three lottery decisions. On that score, it’s hard to give Ernie a grade of better than C, with Wall being the only clear-cut talent we acquired. Vesely? He might be an o.k. player in three or four years but he’s certainly not off to an impressive start. The Miller/Foye trade? The less said about that the better.

Many here are critical of the OKC model because it relied on getting lucky in the lottery & draft several years in a row. Well, regardless of the merits of what OKC did, shouldn’t three lottery picks in a row bring in more building blocks than Ernie acquired?