The Ringer: The Wizards Have Two Star Guards and … the Wrong Supporting Cast
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:28 pm
link:
https://www.theringer.com/2020/12/15/22175373/washington-wizards-bradley-beal-russell-westbrook
Curious what you guys think of this.
By the way, I think like 3% of the board would agree with me, but if the choice is Beal staying, or keeping Brown/Hachimura/Deni and not trading away future 1sts, I'd do the latter every time.
The Beal iteration of this team will not win a title period w/o us winning a lottery in a great player year and I think the chances of Beal bailing, or demanding a core destroying trade to be a 4-6 seed and no better and then also bailing shortly are around 75-90%.
I have zero interest in blowing up this rebuild for a player who will almost certainly leave anyway very shortly and knowing that regardless of what we do, barring luck in the lottery, we can't win the east let alone a title, I have no interest in blowing up anything for a player whose 10-25% to stay in the first place.
That's my view. I get probably virtually no-one agrees, but I think part of that is because if you live in DC or nearby, you're inherently going to think better of your chances of retaining him then if you don't have the local media in your ear everyday.
Just my 2 cents, obviously (whats the point of posting) and I have an open mind, sort of, especially in basketball.
https://www.theringer.com/2020/12/15/22175373/washington-wizards-bradley-beal-russell-westbrook
Curious what you guys think of this.
By the way, I think like 3% of the board would agree with me, but if the choice is Beal staying, or keeping Brown/Hachimura/Deni and not trading away future 1sts, I'd do the latter every time.
The Beal iteration of this team will not win a title period w/o us winning a lottery in a great player year and I think the chances of Beal bailing, or demanding a core destroying trade to be a 4-6 seed and no better and then also bailing shortly are around 75-90%.
I have zero interest in blowing up this rebuild for a player who will almost certainly leave anyway very shortly and knowing that regardless of what we do, barring luck in the lottery, we can't win the east let alone a title, I have no interest in blowing up anything for a player whose 10-25% to stay in the first place.
That's my view. I get probably virtually no-one agrees, but I think part of that is because if you live in DC or nearby, you're inherently going to think better of your chances of retaining him then if you don't have the local media in your ear everyday.
Just my 2 cents, obviously (whats the point of posting) and I have an open mind, sort of, especially in basketball.