Expectations for Wall

[montestewart]

I feel sick...

KingJames: Give me John Wall or DeMarcus Cousins for ROY this year. Them young cats been balling in Summer League

Why?

Poor grammar. "Them young cats [HAVE?] been balling," indeed.

[willbcocks]

I expect this board to become a John Wall fanboy site before long.










(I think I'm already one)

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

I am on board!

John Wall has his head on straight. What a mature, reasonable, dedicated, team-oriented response.

Basically I don't want to miss practice or anything like that, feel like I'm bigger than anybody," Wall said Wednesday afternoon. "The ESPYs were a great chance, I would love to be there, but there's more time down the future to get there. Right now I'm a rookie, so I need to be with my teammates, trying to get better every chance that I can. If I would have left, then they maybe would have looked where I was or I asked where I was. It wouldn't have been the right place and the right situation. So I told the ESPN people thanks for the nominations, and thank God, but I had this and this is more important. This is my job. That comes secondary to what I'm trying to do.

Thank God for this kind of thinking from a 19-yr old. May he always be the anti-Lebron.

[verbal8]

I am on board!

John Wall has his head on straight. What a mature, reasonable, dedicated, team-oriented response.

Basically I don't want to miss practice or anything like that, feel like I'm bigger than anybody," Wall said Wednesday afternoon. "The ESPYs were a great chance, I would love to be there, but there's more time down the future to get there. Right now I'm a rookie, so I need to be with my teammates, trying to get better every chance that I can. If I would have left, then they maybe would have looked where I was or I asked where I was. It wouldn't have been the right place and the right situation. So I told the ESPN people thanks for the nominations, and thank God, but I had this and this is more important. This is my job. That comes secondary to what I'm trying to do.

Thank God for this kind of thinking from a 19-yr old. May he always be the anti-Lebron.

It is great to see him treating it as a job. A lot of NBA players seem to think the fame and money are an entitlement, rather than based on them preparing and performing well on the court.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

Liking this kid more and more every second, man does it seem like we finally got really blessed.

Doesn't just seem like it. We have.

[WizStorm]

Here's a pretty good read from David Aldrich on many subjects, but in particular John Wall's future in the NBA:
http://www.nba.com/2010/news/features/d ... ef:nbahpt1

John Wall has got It.

It is why LeBron has you on speed dial.

It is what makes kids wait in line for an hour for your autograph, even though you've yet to appear in an official NBA game.

It is what fills an arena in the middle of Las Vegas, in the middle of summer, day after day, on the chance that you will do something remarkable and special with a basketball.

It is what brings the owner of your team out to midcourt seats, in his spiffy suit that he spent six hours in at the Board of Governors meeting, just to make sure he doesn't miss a second of your debut.

It is what makes people fork over for season tickets for a team that went 26-56 last season, which ended just three months ago.

It is what gets you a lot of appearances on TNT. (Especially a lot of home games in D.C., with a certain sideline reporter able to drive to the games, say, instead of flying, and stay at home instead of at the swank hotels downtown, which would save the company so, so much money. Just sayin', for example.)

It is hope. And excitement. And charisma. And leadership. And talent. John Wall has all of those things, so he has It, and It can take a team places if It's harnessed and focused and driven. Or It can't, if hubris and recklessness and sloth replace those former qualities. It's up to the guy.

And Aldrich had this thought on a potential Wall/Arenas backcourt...

When Wall plays with Gilbert Arenas in the fall -- and, unless the Wiz and Magic swap Arenas for Vince Carter, as has been rumored for months, that's what's going to happen -- Saunders plans to play the two of them together, with newly acquired Kirk Hinrich spelling each as needed, and according to the situation. And while Saunders will flop Wall and Arenas on occasion, Wall will have the ball in his hands 80 to 90 percent of the time. Arenas had some of his best games in his suspension-shortened season last year when Earl Boykins was on the ball and he played the two, and some of his best work in Washington came near the start, when Larry Hughes ran the point and Eddie Jordan scrapped the Princeton offense to get Arenas some looks off screens.

[Rafael122]

So is he saying the Wizards are getting games on TNT next season or is hejust guessing?

[WizStorm]

So is he saying the Wizards are getting games on TNT next season or is hejust guessing?

Will be interesting to see. One would think by working for NBA TV that he's got some inside information on the scuttlebutt for the upcoming TV schedule.

[20MexicanosIn1Van]

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wireta ... ic_lakers/

Chris Paul recently joined Lebron's group/posse/firm/whatever and then decides to leave. Isn't John Wall associated with Lebron's little pow-wow somehow? I fear that he too may bolt as soon as he gets the chance.

[mhd]

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/68279/20100721/report_paul_has_demanded_trade_to_knicks_magic_lakers/

Chris Paul recently joined Lebron's group/posse/firm/whatever and then decides to leave. Isn't John Wall associated with Lebron's little pow-wow somehow? I fear that he too may bolt as soon as he gets the chance.

Wall signed with Dan Fegan, super-agent.

[sfam]

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/68279/20100721/report_paul_has_demanded_trade_to_knicks_magic_lakers/

Chris Paul recently joined Lebron's group/posse/firm/whatever and then decides to leave. Isn't John Wall associated with Lebron's little pow-wow somehow? I fear that he too may bolt as soon as he gets the chance.

I'm going on record as saying John Wall has his own brain, and will be able to think through the options even if he does have a slimy agent who wants him to go to Miami. I have no fear whatsoever that John Wall will leave. If we build the right team around him, Wall will stay for the duration of his career. If, on the otherhand, we suck hard at building a good team around him, then yeah, he'll bolt. But not because he knows Lebron.

[verbal8]

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/68279/20100721/report_paul_has_demanded_trade_to_knicks_magic_lakers/

Chris Paul recently joined Lebron's group/posse/firm/whatever and then decides to leave. Isn't John Wall associated with Lebron's little pow-wow somehow? I fear that he too may bolt as soon as he gets the chance.

Wall signed with Dan Fegan, super-agent.

I think he is represented by LeBron's marketing agency.