Kanyewest wrote:Looking back, I actually think the Wizards actually met expectations in the posteason. In 2005, getting to the 2nd round was good and no one had them beating the Heat who went on to the conference finals (although maybe they should have won a game or 2). In 2006, the Wizards struggled without Larry Hughes but managed to make it to the playoffs, LeBron going nuts and the refs not calling travel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGiBXYJi ... ure=g-like), and Gilbert missing 2 crucial free throws down the stretch in game 6 cost them the series. In 2007, Arena and Butler went down with injuries. And in 2008, that was a nice run but looking back now, it's not surprising that a team with caron Butler as your best player got knocked out in the 1st round.
But yeah EJ has his faults. His team's defenses were inconsistent. He overplayed Jamison who often wore down when it came down to the postseason and he didn't give Haywood enough minutes.
Ultimately the team failed because Arenas never came back to 100% and that wasn't EJ's fault.
The D was not inconsistent. It was very consistent. Consistently terrible.
He not only overplayer AJ, he overplayed CB and Gil. All three were in the top 10 players for min/game year after year. Kind of the opposite of what a Pops does.
Not playing Haywood was obviously stupid.
Running Tibbs out of town was as big a blunder for EFJ as it was for Abe allowing it to happen.
Given the talent they had and the weakness of the conference, they should have done more. But EFJ would always wear the team down by over playing them early in the season and right after injuries.
Randy will be 10x better as a head coach then EFJ was.
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