payitforward wrote:Not to hijack this thread, but I wonder how many of you realize that the Celtics just waived Darko Milicic.
This may be one of the few highpick-busts still out there for the Wizards. I think we need him and bad. Today.
Dunno about his test-taking skills, however....
Payitforward. You are now, officially, my favorite poster.
Too funny.
I'm wondering, though, if maybe we are too locked into an old paradigm.
Do you think there is a way for the Wiz to identify and develop their own highpick busts/future veteran leaders?
Sounds crazy, but hear me out.
We'd have to look for the right combination of future attributes in a young man. He needs to be wholly unaccomplished as a basketball player. He must have some physical attribute that resembles something outstanding in some other player -- good leaping ability, long arms, a unibrow. He must have read Faust.
Let's say, he skates along with unimpressive stats (1.2 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 1.5 to, .3 blks) for a number of years BUT manages to stay out of jail, strip clubs, the Ponderosa Steak House all-you-can-eat buffet line.
He can be the Wizards own homegrown veteran presence. He could mentor the next generation of never going to be's and wouldn't cost the Wiz $40 million of cap space, a second round pick and a 2 for 1 coupon at Chipotle.
We could suck exactly as badly as we do now... but we wouldn't have to waste anyone's time contemplating and dissecting cr@p for cr@p moves like Lewis for Okariza.