The Wiz have 4 players worth keeping.

A good stint on the trade machine has me feeling more bleak than ever re: the Wiz chances of fixing this rebuild.

so neither has much trade value at all, unless we trade Javale to the team and contract of his choosing which seems highly unlikely.

As far as the rest of our “assets” the only ones with value are the ones who play well enough that we’d like to keep them. So if we want something nice, it’s going to take trading Booker not Vesely I am afraid

But since last week I have really fallen off the McGee bandwagon. He’s had a stretch where his numbers have been down (not uncommon for any player) but he’s not been doing the little things to help the team. I’m about ready to give up on him.

I still have lots of patience for Singleton (he will be the next Battier, he just needs time), Vesely (rookie- benefit of the doubt) and even Crawford (sophomore slump, + I still remember Nick being exactly the same and he got a lot better).

As for the rest, get rid. Get some people who can play in here. I see the Cavs, still, as our rivals even now both teams have hit the bottom. Kyrie has reasonable quality veterans in Jamison, Verajo and Sessions. What have we got? Mason? Williams? Gimme a break.

AB. NY, and JVM need to go, period. Anything we can get from them we should take- even if it is a parking pass or warm water in the visitors locker room. Amazingly, AB made JVM look better than he is.

Vesley sucks. What a waste of a high draft pick. But he will be cheap when his contract expires and is a good back of the bench player to roll out and pester the Nowitzkis of the world.

Wall, Mack, Singleton, Booker- keepers. All will be inexpensive to re-sign except JW.

You can even keep JC if he learns to play within the offense.

OK, so the bench is coming together. We only need starters, beginning with the front court

Booker has looked REALLY good recently. Like he has really made some strides and is capable of giving you more than just hustle/garbage buckets. Against the Knicks he was turning and facing the basket and sticking the 15 to 18 foot jump shot. If he can do that he can be a solid starter. Maybe similar to someone like Udonis Haslem in Miami. He is a keeper for sure.

Young and Crawford bring similar capabilities. They’re 2 of the players on the roster capable of creating their own shots and hitting open jumpers. The problem is there’s only room for 1 of them. If we’re rebuilding………….then minutes given to Nick are minutes Crawford isn’t getting to develop. Crawford needs to learn to play better off the ball, improve his shot selection, and become more consistent shooting. We know who Nick is and where his ceiling is. He can score…………..he can knock down open shots…………..hopefully some team making a playoff push is desperate for a scorer and is willing to part with a 2nd rounder for Nick (LA Lakers? LA Clippers? ). Crawford is much better attacking the basket………….he’s younger……….his ceiling is higher right now…………..and he’s way cheaper. So lets move Nick even if it’s for a mid to late 2nd round pick.

Lewis will be gone after this year …………………..and is nothing more than an enormous turd holding this roster back.

Blatche is worth keeping because he is capable of providing scoring……………..and his trade value is probably not that good because we gave him that crappy extension. I hate the idea of keeping Blatche, but I think he just may be imovable unless we amnesty him.

There’s probably room on this roster for Turiaf or Seraphin………..but not both. I’d prefer to keep Turiaf. He’s a much more polished NBA big man capable of contributing now. I have no idea what Seraphin’s contract situation is like, but he looks like he’s years away from being consistently decent. He looks undersized to play the 5 and not athletic enough to play the 4. I have no idea where he fits. I’d love to dump him and keep Turiaf, but I don’t know what the financial impacts are.

Vesley is a project. He HAS to develop some intermediate game from 10 to 15 feet or he’s just a liability. Teams don’t even really have to guard him. There are flashes of really spectacular athleticism………………but it needs to be more than that. He works hard on D (although he fouls too much) and his effort is really high. I will reserve judgement on Vesley until he’s had a few years (like Seraphin already has) to see how much he can improve.

With Nick Young, Lewis, and maybe Mcgee gone next year there will be a lot of breathing room money wise to get some things done. We’ll have some good young players Wall, Booker, Crawford, Singleton, Mack……….1 solid veteran in Turiaf (if he stays)………..and 2 developmental pieces in Seraphin and Vesley (my hope would be that Seraphin is also gone). So there will be room to improve dramatically via FA and the draft.

Beyond that, we can’t conclude anything about any of our players.

Bench JaVale. When Dray comes back from injury, put him at C. His shot is too broken to spread the floor effectively at PF from 20 feet, but maybe he can spread the floor at C from 16 feet.

Run PnR with Wall and our assortment of PFs. Booker shows some promise already, but better spacing might make them all look a lot better.

See what happens, then evaluate their offensive potential based on the results.

Not sure how to evaluate their potential at the defensive end of the court. Maybe when Turiaf comes back?

— especially on Wall and Booker. As far as points of disagreement:

1. At this point it’s all about developing talent anyways, so the fact that Singleton is more developed than Vesely or Seraphin now doesn’t mean much. What matters most is where these guys are in two or three years — and that’s anyone’s guess.

2. Shelvin Mack is OK for where the Wizards are now. But, he’s probably the easiest guy to replace at this point. There are players like him available in every draft in the mid-to-late 1st round, and there are usually even better options available every year in free agency.

The bottom line is that this team has a ton of holes to fill. What’s frustrating is that it’s not really clear that we are much closer to where we need to be this year than we were at the end of last season.

He started off strong but he’s really faded over the past couple weeks. I’m liking what I’m seeing out of Vesely and Booker recently and Singleton has kind of gotten lost in the shuffle. Vesely and Booker will probably never be the kind of starters we need but I’d keep them around as backups/roleplayers or as trade pieces. Seraphin has one good game but really he’s still lost out there. He’s probably got to go. Blatche/Lewis need to leave ASAP. Young is probably gone based on his QO signing this past year. Crawford is a hopeless gunner who can fill it up on occasion.

1) If JVM’s asthma is really the cause of him disappearing both for stretches of games and stretches of seasons, AND they have in fact found the right medicine to solve that, AND he continues any sort of play like he has this week now that it is fixed (although some of that may be Jimmy finally looking for JVM down low more)….you have to keep him. Even if he is a bonehead. He absolutely tried to get better during the lockout (I believe the only Wiz player who did so…or at least the only one it worked for), and he is entering what should be a 5-6 year prime. If that PnR game keeps going on Offense and he keeps setting better screens, I 100% change my mind on him.

2) I think I have given up on Chuckford. He needs to be on a 4-shots a game then we pull you out program or something so he starts using his court vision more. Maybe if he developed some good habits he would use his whole skillset instead of just looking to shoot it 95% of the time he gets the ball.

3) I still like Singleton. He is obviously in a mega-funk, and something does seem to be up with the chemistry on the team w/ regards to him, but he is so big and athletic, and when he isn’t doing 360* spins to the hoop his shot does LOOK good, even though it doesn’t seem to drop haha.