Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:Vesely is not worse despite the statistics and his play in games.
I wish people like Michael Lee understood better why things appear the way they do. I wish Ted and Ernie understood how being dominated in practice by Okafor, Nene, Seraphin, Booker, and Singleton has not helped Vesely. Getting moved back because more bodies were added to the team has hurt him. Having limited opportunities for minutes has hurt. Playing for the stupidest GM/team in the league is more to blame.
Headlines like the one Lee has only do more of the same DUMB stuff. Blame McGee. Blame Blatche. Blame Nick Young. Cut Shelvin Mack. Hate Vesely all the way back to Europe.
The Wizards front office is like an alligator that eats its own young. Fans and local media vent and blame young players who have such little impact on the outcome of games when the true culprit is a very bad general manager who never should have drafted him 6th.
Vesely can be a very useful basketball player and I am pulling for him to be traded to another team so that like those other players he can be happy elsewhere. Put Vesely on the Lakers bench right now and you will see just how misplaced and dumb the criticisms leveled at Jan Vesely are.
Ernie is a fool for not impressing upon Ted Leonsis the concept of minutes and opportunity for young players being important. Bring in marginal veterans ahead of them and they don't play. They don't play and they lose confidence. Seraphin has turned into a real shot jacker this season. His selfish play stands out. The ball is like a hot potato and he cannot wait to shoot all of a sudden. Was he like that last season? Could he be impatient or playing anxiously?
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Lee is attacking Vesely, because IMO people are like chickens. When chickens are gathered together, if one chick gets pecked it can set off a frenzy. Many other chicks will peck the one until it is dead. What the journalist and others might note is how Kevin has fallen off. Check his PER and WS/48. Much worse than last season. Mike Lee, you want to write another hatchet article? Kevin Seraphin can be your next victim. It is really easy to print stuff like that.
But just like Vesely, Kevin Seraphin is NOT any worse.
I posted about this the day the Okariza trade went down. This is EXACTLY what I predicted that day. The reasons are the GM and the owner and anyone else who does not understand how few minutes are available and how to develop a roster.
Kevin shoots more because of the line ups. He starts with .
Price, Beal, Trevor A and Okafor. He is the most efficient scorer in that group and the only real offensive threat. Put him out there with better players and he will shoot less. Webster is the most efficient scorer on the team. Might be a good idea to start him at SG instead of a 19 year old kid who is struggling. Thats on Randy. Given what Randy is starting, Trevor A Kevin is the first option and Trevor A is the 2nd and Beal is forced to be more then he can be right now. Its a terrible line up and their are better options.
Ves will also look better when surrounded by better players. Like you said, he would look better on the LA team. I agree. But he wouldn't be starting on that team this year. He would be coming off the bench just like he will be here once Wall and Nene are on the floor together. But the kid has to add a mid range to his game. That is on him and nobody else.
Nick, McGee and Dray all needed to go. They were infected by the Gil era and Nick and McGee were up for new contracts. The Wiz turning McGee and Nick into Nene and Crawford which was very good. All three had talent but all three were mentally impaired. Crawford can be a good off the bench spark. Thats all Nick was/is.
I think the worst of this is just about behind us and we all know how painful it has been to watch. It was going to be tough either way with Wall, Nene and Kevin injured to start the year. Add now Booker out, Crawfords sprained ankle for a few games, Livingston missing a game, Singletons spraining a shoulder and that just made it worse.
Nene is playing again and will start to show signs of getting in better shape. Wall will return soon so the PG issue will get addressed. Walls return will also help Beal and Ves who are two players that have struggled but who were brought here to play with John, not Livingston or Price. And once Wall and Nene are both out there, the line up will be a lot easier for Randy who has been doing a terrible job with line up without them.
We have a blow out against Miami up next. Then a couple of games that we should be competitive in. Then a game against NO which we should be able to win and then Houston Dec 12.
By then we will be talking about Wall returning. Then will see what they really have. Wall is their #1 pick young franchise player. Now they have to see if what they added compliments that asset and if he is the kind of assets you can build around.
Is fine to judge players and pieces without Wall but the thing that really matters is what they look like with him. And since no one here have a time machine to jump 30 days forward, we are all just going to have to wait and see.
Thanks, you summed-up everything nicely. The angle on Lee's article could easily have been about the lack of player development and poor drafting. Reid's article touched on the drafting.
