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I apologize for piling on heaps of criticism. I feel bad about my dislike.

The contract is what I don't like.

Beal is a twenty-three year old. I have a daughter that age. It's crazy for me to feel any animosity at all for someone not long out of high school.

My hope is the pressure from this contract doesn't make Beal miserable. Too much pressure can have a terrible effect on one's mental health and well being.

I know. I don't wish anything but wellness on anyone.

Regardless of how negative my posts are and how badly I want Beal traded right now; I sure hope he fares well in life.

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It's funny. I bear no ill whatsoever for Bradley Beal. I admit that I sometimes develop irrational hatred for various disappointing players - guys like Etan Thomas or Jan Vesely, but I don't feel a shred of it for Beal. All I feel about Beal is... resignation. I'm disappointed that he isn't better, but I really do believe he tries very hard to improve his game and that he wants to play the right way. He's just not a good enough shooter to score efficiently from the perimeter, and he's not a good enough athlete to score efficiently as a slasher. Beal has a ceiling as a player, and he's pretty close to it already. He's a 3rd option player thrust into the role of a 1st or 1A option. It's just not going to work.

I have a white hot anger toward Leonsis and Grunfeld for not recognizing Beal's limitations and trading him when he still had value.

nate33 wrote:It's funny. I bear no ill whatsoever for Bradley Beal. I admit that I sometimes develop irrational hatred for various disappointing players - guys like Etan Thomas or Jan Vesely, but I don't feel a shred of it for Beal. All I feel about Beal is... resignation. I'm disappointed that he isn't better, but I really do believe he tries very hard to improve his game and that he wants to play the right way. He's just not a good enough shooter to score efficiently from the perimeter, and he's not a good enough athlete to score efficiently as a slasher. Beal has a ceiling as a player, and he's pretty close to it already. He's a 3rd option player thrust into the role of a 1st or 1A option. It's just not going to work.

I have a white hot anger toward Leonsis and Grunfeld for not recognizing Beal's limitations and trading him when he still had value.

THIS is exactly my thought. I feel nothing but resignation whenever I see Brad going 3/6 from FT line and 4/11 from the floor. But hey, I believe this kid can do a show one night and I hope it'll be tonight!

Beal keeps this up and he'll start getting the Juwan Howard treatment soon enough. There's no need to apologize CCJ, I'm sure Beal has $128 million ways to console himself in down times.

Noone has to apologised Beal for fair critic. He is guilty himself for being greedy and for his mouth "I'm max player" so he needs deal with it now. He is delusional about own value. I accepted he won't be any special a quite time ago but it's being frustrating when he chuck long 2s and miss FT and turn the ball over and over. But perhaps it is what real max player does

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I can't imagine disliking any of these players -- any NBA player, or for that matter anyone at all -- for his or her limitations. If someone does evil, sure. Or behaves badly lets say, to make it less extreme.

I have considerable distaste for Donald Trump, who from every indication is just a nasty human being, but I don't dislike Bradley Beal; I can't see why I should or would.

OTOH, I do have a distaste for Ernie Grunfeld, so maybe I'm not as rational as I imagine I am? In his case, though, it's his conceit, above all, that makes me dislike him. If he had a shred of humility -- if for example he could say "wow, I really messed up the 2011 draft", something as obvious as that -- it would make that distaste go away.

Interestingly, if he could say that it might lead to his becoming better at his job too!

If nobody ever critiqued a player, there would be no talk shows, no message boards. If the Wizards were a perennial playoff team like Atlanta, maybe the criticism would be less warranted. Beal seems like a decent guy so it's nothing personal, but he wanted the max and he got it based on potential and apparently the market. It's basically going to be impossible to ever live up to that standard.

But I think as fans, we can at least expect more consistency, more durability and more aggression. Also more killer instinct. At times he shows that. I think as a fans, we have a right to expect him to give what he has every night and the occasional last-second, buzzer-beater would be nice.

Now maybe he makes the most $$$$, not sure if he should be the guy calling out others on the bench, but I don't mind it.

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This dude is literally making Harrison Barnes look like a steal. He should take a long look in the mirror. He's playing like complete ass.

80sballboy wrote:If nobody ever critiqued a player, there would be no talk shows, no message boards. If the Wizards were a perennial playoff team like Atlanta, maybe the criticism would be less warranted. Beal seems like a decent guy so it's nothing personal, but he wanted the max and he got it based on potential and apparently the market. It's basically going to be impossible to ever live up to that standard.

But I think as fans, we can at least expect more consistency, more durability and more aggression. Also more killer instinct. At times he shows that. I think as a fans, we have a right to expect him to give what he has every night and the occasional last-second, buzzer-beater would be nice.

Thanks, 80s.

I don't think potential or the market are why Beal got his contract. Ignorance, incompetence, and an inability to quantitatively and qualitatively assess talent are why he got the deal.

Grunfeld and Teddy billiions are a couple of dullards IMO.

There is nothing from four years of data that suggests Beal will make a leap. His slump right now is an outlier. When he reverts to mean his performance will approach what 80s says above.

Nothing like a max player; but, hopefully, the maximum Beal can be.

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