Washington's "Big Two"
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:39 pm
I am going to keep at this, but the Wizards should NOT trade away Arenas. With the drafting of John Wall, and the return of Arenas who was playing at a high level before his suspension........we immediately have a dominant backcourt if the two gel together.
Dumping Arenas for cap space, with the expectation of scoring a major coup in free agency is foolish. After watching teams gut their roster for "cap flexibility" for the past 3 years with the hopes of signing a Wade or James seems quite foolish at this point for anyone other than Miami.
With all that space, who did Chicago settle for? Boozer......at about the same salary as Arenas. New York? Stoudemire......about the same salary as Arenas. The list goes on.
I strongly contend that the upside/risk of retaining Arenas is far far less than holding out hope of the only other free agent in the next year who we have a 1% chance of obtaining (Carmelo Anthony).
Cap space flexibility is great, but if you miss your mark (in our case Anthony), you end up with at best two second tier, serviceable players a la Stoudmire or Carlos Boozer. In Arenas, we already have a player capable of playing at a superstar level, the man put up 42 points and 15 assists for us last year while still trying to get into game shape. While many on this board search for cap space and flexibility, in hope of signing a "game changer"........I don't understand why they can't see we already have that player!
For those of you celebrating Blatche's surge, you have forgiven his arrests, late night outings, love of prostitutes etc. Forgive Arenas as well.....then realize we have two major stars on our roster TODAY. If Blatche develops quickly, it could well be 3....THIS YEAR. I'll pass on waiting and begging for Carmelo Anthony. No way in hell we sign him.
Dumping Arenas for cap space, with the expectation of scoring a major coup in free agency is foolish. After watching teams gut their roster for "cap flexibility" for the past 3 years with the hopes of signing a Wade or James seems quite foolish at this point for anyone other than Miami.
With all that space, who did Chicago settle for? Boozer......at about the same salary as Arenas. New York? Stoudemire......about the same salary as Arenas. The list goes on.
I strongly contend that the upside/risk of retaining Arenas is far far less than holding out hope of the only other free agent in the next year who we have a 1% chance of obtaining (Carmelo Anthony).
Cap space flexibility is great, but if you miss your mark (in our case Anthony), you end up with at best two second tier, serviceable players a la Stoudmire or Carlos Boozer. In Arenas, we already have a player capable of playing at a superstar level, the man put up 42 points and 15 assists for us last year while still trying to get into game shape. While many on this board search for cap space and flexibility, in hope of signing a "game changer"........I don't understand why they can't see we already have that player!
For those of you celebrating Blatche's surge, you have forgiven his arrests, late night outings, love of prostitutes etc. Forgive Arenas as well.....then realize we have two major stars on our roster TODAY. If Blatche develops quickly, it could well be 3....THIS YEAR. I'll pass on waiting and begging for Carmelo Anthony. No way in hell we sign him.
