2025-26 Lineup Thread -- How's it shakin out?

[leswizards]

What I said was an accurate distillation of your strategy.

Your only response has been to point out that the Wizards are currently really bad. This is not a revelation. We can all see that. But replacing a bad rotation with a worse rotation is not a solution. It just makes us even worse while not developing our young players.

That is false, but since it is never going to happen, I don’t see the point in arguing over your false assumptions.

For someone who delusionally thinks/thought this wizards team is capable of winning 30 games this season, you are obnoxiously rude and smug.

When did I say they could win 30 games?

I predicted 25, up from 23 because I didn't think intentional tanking would be necessary. Now that more teams have entered the tanking derby, I wish I could rescind my 25 and go back to 23.

I don’t remember what thread it was in, but over a series of posts between you and someone else, you worried that the wizards had such good young talent, and if Alex Sarr improved too quickly, it would lift “all boats” and the wizards risked winning 30 games and losing their first round pick.

[closg00]

Try this lineup Keefe:
PG: Sharife
SG: Tres
SF: Tristan
PF: Alex
C: Bags

No CJ/Khris except for a few minutes. I put Sharife at PG because he has the best penetrating and play-making ability of the remaining group, Will and AJ could also get some run.

[nate33]

Try this lineup Keefe:
PG: Sharife
SG: Tres
SF: Tristan
PF: Alex
C: Bags

No CJ/Khris except for a few minutes. I put Sharife at PG because he has the best penetrating and play-making ability of the remaining group, Will and AJ could also get some run.

Do you honestly think it's a good idea to start Vukcevic at SF? You do realize that NOBODY ever plays a true center at the SF position. Is every other coach in the league stupid?

I understand the notion of trying to get bigger. If you suggested a 3-man rotation of Sarr, Vukcevic and Bagley to man the PF and C positions for the entire game, I'd say, sure, why not? But now you are just going overboard. If nothing else, by starting all of those guys, you leave nobody on the roster to play center for the second unit.

Also, Kyshawn is pretty clearly the second best player on the roster right now. Do you really want to bench him in favor of Vukcevic playing out of position at SF?

If we want to try something different, with a slightly bigger, slightly more veteran leaning to our lineup, and with Sharife getting a chance to see if he can run the offense better than Carrington, I'd suggest this:

PG CJ/Sharife
SG Tre/Kispert
SF Kyshawn/Whitmore
PF Sarr/Champagnie
C Bagley/Vukcevic

[leswizards]

Try this lineup Keefe:
PG: Sharife
SG: Tres
SF: Tristan
PF: Alex
C: Bags

No CJ/Khris except for a few minutes. I put Sharife at PG because he has the best penetrating and play-making ability of the remaining group, Will and AJ could also get some run.

Do you honestly think it's a good idea to start Vukcevic at SF? You do realize that NOBODY ever plays a true center at the SF position. Is every other coach in the league stupid?

I understand the notion of trying to get bigger. If you suggested a 3-man rotation of Sarr, Vukcevic and Bagley to man the PF and C positions for the entire game, I'd say, sure, why not? But now you are just going overboard. If nothing else, by starting all of those guys, you leave nobody on the roster to play center for the second unit.

Also, Kyshawn is pretty clearly the second best player on the roster right now. Do you really want to bench him in favor of Vukcevic playing out of position at SF?

If we want to try something different, with a slightly bigger, slightly more veteran leaning to our lineup, and with Sharife getting a chance to see if he can run the offense better than Carrington, I'd suggest this:

PG CJ/Sharife
SG Tre/Kispert
SF Kyshawn/Whitmore
PF Sarr/Champagnie
C Bagley/Vukcevic

Unbelievable. I never once suggested playing Bagley at pf. Yet you bashed me because you falsely assumed playing him 30 mpg would necessitate playing him at pf, yet here you are suggesting playing Sarr at pf which clearly would have been doable under my suggestion which would have prevented Bagley playing pf. Unbelievable.

[dckingsfan]

Unbelievable. I never once suggested playing Bagley at pf. Yet you bashed me because you falsely assumed playing him 30 mpg would necessitate playing him at pf, yet here you are suggesting playing Sarr at pf which clearly would have been doable under my suggestion which would have prevented Bagley playing pf. Unbelievable.

I am lost as to what you are suggesting then. Maybe break it down Barney style?

[leswizards]

Unbelievable. I never once suggested playing Bagley at pf. Yet you bashed me because you falsely assumed playing him 30 mpg would necessitate playing him at pf, yet here you are suggesting playing Sarr at pf which clearly would have been doable under my suggestion which would have prevented Bagley playing pf. Unbelievable.

I am lost as to what you are suggesting then. Maybe break it down Barney style?

Before I decide if I want to answer your question, what do you find more mind numbing:

My suggestion that Kispert and Gill get 60 mpg.

Or

The actual fact that Kispert already gets 20 mpg; given Khris and CJ’s current level of performance that they get ~58 mpg; and given the young players current level of performance that Bub, Tre and Cam get 70 mpg?

[closg00]

Try this lineup Keefe:
PG: Sharife
SG: Tres
SF: Tristan
PF: Alex
C: Bags

No CJ/Khris except for a few minutes. I put Sharife at PG because he has the best penetrating and play-making ability of the remaining group, Will and AJ could also get some run.

Do you honestly think it's a good idea to start Vukcevic at SF? You do realize that NOBODY ever plays a true center at the SF position. Is every other coach in the league stupid?

I understand the notion of trying to get bigger. If you suggested a 3-man rotation of Sarr, Vukcevic and Bagley to man the PF and C positions for the entire game, I'd say, sure, why not? But now you are just going overboard. If nothing else, by starting all of those guys, you leave nobody on the roster to play center for the second unit.

Also, Kyshawn is pretty clearly the second best player on the roster right now. Do you really want to bench him in favor of Vukcevic playing out of position at SF?

If we want to try something different, with a slightly bigger, slightly more veteran leaning to our lineup, and with Sharife getting a chance to see if he can run the offense better than Carrington, I'd suggest this:

PG CJ/Sharife
SG Tre/Kispert
SF Kyshawn/Whitmore
PF Sarr/Champagnie
C Bagley/Vukcevic

OOPS, in my haste I forgot about Kyshawn, I was just trying to work Tristan into the lineup. Still, I would give it a try anyway just for the helluva it

[dckingsfan]

Unbelievable. I never once suggested playing Bagley at pf. Yet you bashed me because you falsely assumed playing him 30 mpg would necessitate playing him at pf, yet here you are suggesting playing Sarr at pf which clearly would have been doable under my suggestion which would have prevented Bagley playing pf. Unbelievable.

I am lost as to what you are suggesting then. Maybe break it down Barney style?

Before I decide if I want to answer your question, what do you find more mind numbing:

My suggestion that Kispert and Gill get 60 mpg.

Or

The actual fact that Kispert already gets 20 mpg; given Khris and CJ’s current level of performance that they get ~58 mpg; and given the young players current level of performance that Bub, Tre and Cam get 70 mpg?

When did you stop beating your wife question

Answer: That Gill gets any minutes other than blowout minutes - of which there are plenty

[leswizards]

I am lost as to what you are suggesting then. Maybe break it down Barney style?

Before I decide if I want to answer your question, what do you find more mind numbing:

My suggestion that Kispert and Gill get 60 mpg.

Or

The actual fact that Kispert already gets 20 mpg; given Khris and CJ’s current level of performance that they get ~58 mpg; and given the young players current level of performance that Bub, Tre and Cam get 70 mpg?

When did you stop beating your wife question

Answer: That Gill gets any minutes other than blowout minutes - of which there are plenty

Then I prefer to agree to disagree.

[dckingsfan]

Before I decide if I want to answer your question, what do you find more mind numbing:

My suggestion that Kispert and Gill get 60 mpg.

Or

The actual fact that Kispert already gets 20 mpg; given Khris and CJ’s current level of performance that they get ~58 mpg; and given the young players current level of performance that Bub, Tre and Cam get 70 mpg?

When did you stop beating your wife question

Answer: That Gill gets any minutes other than blowout minutes - of which there are plenty

Then I prefer to agree to disagree.

And there you have it...

[leswizards]

There are: 3 teams (including the Wizards) on pace to win 7 games; 1 on pace to win 14 games; 2 on pace to win 19 games; 1 on pace to win 25 games; and 3 on pace to 27 games.

I didn’t realize how possible it is for the Wizards to fall out of the top 8 draft picks. So, I retract everything I posted. Losing is still the most important thing, and if the Wizards are constantly blown out, so be it.

[penbeast0]

... I'd suggest this:

PG CJ/Sharife
SG Tre/Kispert
SF Kyshawn/Whitmore
PF Sarr/Champagnie
C Bagley/Vukcevic

OOPS, in my haste I forgot about Kyshawn, I was just trying to work Tristan into the lineup. Still, I would give it a try anyway just for the helluva it

Middleton?

[doclinkin]

There are: 3 teams (including the Wizards) on pace to win 7 games; 1 on pace to win 14 games; 2 on pace to win 19 games; 1 on pace to win 25 games; and 3 on pace to 27 games.

I didn’t realize how possible it is for the Wizards to fall out of the top 8 draft picks. So, I retract everything I posted. Losing is still the most important thing, and if the Wizards are constantly blown out, so be it.

Right. That’s what we’ve been banging on about for the past couple years. That last year had 2-3 franchise caliber talents. And next year had 3-4. If we miss them then we take a serious setback and both New York and possibly the Suns may profit at our expense. Thing is scouts track players since middle school. So it’s been known for years that ‘25 and ‘26 were thought to be strong draft classes at the top. It’s predictable that other teams all of a sudden have terrible coaching and weak line ups. Because nothing else flips a teams fortunes like getting lucky in the right year. It sucks to watch but we’ve had to triple down on suck for the past few years. Missed out on Wemby. Lucked out on Sarr. Fell as far as we could last year. We’ve got one more chance at it. If we luck out then we can at least try to play competitive lines. If not we may have to change tack. By mandate of ownership maybe.

[popper]

I'd be interested to know how the GM might want to balance the roster going in to next season. The draft is an unknown obviously but of the 11 or 12 players signed for next year, what jumps out other than a paucity at the 4 position. Granted JC and Coulibaly can spend some minutes there but I don't think that's enough height/weight for some matchup. Seems we have 3 or 4 combo guards now. Do we need another pure PG?

Edit- KG as well at the 4