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Wittman on John Wall’s improvement:
Everybody’s focused on his shooting. That’s going to be critical. For him to develop his shot, mainly, his confidence in his shot. If you don’t play with confidence, it’s hard to be good at anything you do. That’s the main thing with John is getting him comfortable in what we’re trying to do in terms of repetition, repetition. This summer he’s already been hard at it and that develops your confidence and you see it in people throughout the course of the NBA, that couldn’t shoot when they came in and just continued to work at it. So obviously, John’s got to continue to do that and continue to grow as a leader of this team. He’s got to continue to grow in terms of grasping hold and being the leader that I thought I saw emerging from him. He showed me things that he was doing at the end of the year that you never know a point guard is going to be able to do and John started showing that, and to me that’s huge. So that’s got to continue, as well as the other things we talked about from a basketball standpoint

Grunfeld on how this offseason will be different:
We’ll be able to work with our players this summer. Last summer, we had the lockout, we weren’t able to have any contact. We weren’t able to work out and we had so many young players, so that’s going to be a difference and having a full training camp and having Nene for the whole year, is also going to be a big plus for us. We still have a lot of work to do. We know that and we have to build on some of things we improved on last year.

dukeknicksirish wrote:Trade Vessely+ Booker+ Blatche for #10 and Okafor

we will invest in additional coaches and development staff because we believe in taking a strong view of building infrastructure to support our players and our franchise. We have been investing in statistical analytics as well as in-house technology and have made additional investments in scouting.

doclinkin wrote:^^^ With Splitter, Nene, and Varejao Brasil has some legit size in the frontcourt. I'll be interested to watch how they do.

dangermouse wrote:Can't for the life of my find the offseason FA's thread... if a mod wants to move this then thats fine.

I'm assuming the last roster spot is for Roger Mason Jr... but are there any decent veteran PG free agents this year? Would be good to get a guy in on the tail end of their career who wouldnt mind being a backup and taking more of a mentoring role.

A person familiar with the Wizards who requested anonymity because Evans is unsigned, said the team wanted to bring Evans back -- as a front-office executive, a role Evans wants to embrace in the future. Just not now.

rockymac52 wrote:My guess is Ted's, but more so just as an act of kindness and loyalty, demonstrating a commitment to current and future Wizards players that we take care of our own when their playing careers conclude.