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Chaos Revenant wrote:Brooks should be fired, but this organization loves fake "continuity" so he will at best "coach" out his contract. This team is still talented enough to make the playoffs so that will likely even get him an extension.

Ted Leonsis doesn't give a **** about basketball, so there will never be any real accountability.

Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:At this point I’m almost hoping for a loss and for some dissension on the team to start to jeopardize Scott Brooks job security.

nate33 wrote:I'm hoping that with Westbrook out, Troy Brown gets an opportunity to handle the ball more and get into a rhythm. His bad play these first two games has been a real downer for us because we're thin at forward with Rui out and Bertans limited. Theoretically, a forward rotation of Brown, Avdija and Bonga should result in a lot of good passing and ball movement.

And I still don't get the preordained minutes restriction on Bertans.

I wonder if Neto will start. Brooks likes to keep guys in their role, so he might want to bring Ish off the bench and promote Neto straight to starter in Westbrook's absence.

I'd like to see Wagner tonight. Orlando's backup centers aren't overpowering behemoths that Wagner can't handle. And Wagner is typically pretty decent at getting out and challenging stretch bigs like Vucevic.

Here's the rotation I'd like to see:
PG Neto/Ish
SG Beal/Brown
SF Avdija/Brown
PF Bonga/Bertans
C Bryant/Wagner

Please, please, always have one of Bonga and Bertans in the game at PF and play Avdija all the minutes he can handle at SF. The rest of the rotation will take care of itself.

miller31time wrote:Have we gotten to “Actively rooting for losses so Brooks is fired” territory yet? Or is it premature?

A close win here wouldn’t do anything to make me feel better about our prospects this season.

Lary Grand Jr wrote:I see a lot of people complaining about the line ups and the rotations, but I wonder what do you guys think about the game style you have seen so far, are you satisfied? would you change something? From what I've seen there is way too much hero ball and way too less team ball. Yeah I know it's a Beal and Russ team now, but isn't the goal is winning? In these two regular season games I feel like there is no good balance between scoring and making sure all the players are getting involved in the offense. Each player is playing for himself and his stats. I just don't like it. People praise Neto, but so far he has played 18 minutes and has only 1 assist. I don't like it. I don't like it that too many players looking to prove they are play worthy by scoring, what about passes? what about cuts? what about so many other aspects of the game, which is a TEAM game and not tennis? I've watched the Heat yesterday and I loved so much the way everybody there is looking to pass, share the ball, move without the ball, their game style reminded me why I love basketball. I want the Wizards to play team basketball, this is how IMO you build a healthy winning culture and a healthy organization. And I can't help but wondering if it's possible with Beal, Russ, Ish, Neto and so many players in the same team thinking about their own stats more than thinking about what is good for the team.

Just my thought.

Hope to see some positive team-play signs in today's game.

Lary Grand Jr wrote:I see a lot of people complaining about the line ups and the rotations, but I wonder what do you guys think about the game style you have seen so far, are you satisfied? would you change something? From what I've seen there is way too much hero ball and way too less team ball. Yeah I know it's a Beal and Russ team now, but isn't the goal is winning? In these two regular season games I feel like there is no good balance between scoring and making sure all the players are getting involved in the offense. Each player is playing for himself and his stats. I just don't like it. People praise Neto, but so far he has played 18 minutes and has only 1 assist. I don't like it. I don't like it that too many players looking to prove they are play worthy by scoring, what about passes? what about cuts? what about so many other aspects of the game, which is a TEAM game and not tennis? I've watched the Heat yesterday and I loved so much the way everybody there is looking to pass, share the ball, move without the ball, their game style reminded me why I love basketball. I want the Wizards to play team basketball, this is how IMO you build a healthy winning culture and a healthy organization. And I can't help but wondering if it's possible with Beal, Russ, Ish, Neto and so many players in the same team thinking about their own stats more than thinking about what is good for the team.

Just my thought.

Hope to see some positive team-play signs in today's game.

nate33 wrote:I'm hoping that with Westbrook out, Troy Brown gets an opportunity to handle the ball more and get into a rhythm. His bad play these first two games has been a real downer for us because we're thin at forward with Rui out and Bertans limited. Theoretically, a forward rotation of Brown, Avdija and Bonga should result in a lot of good passing and ball movement.

And I still don't get the preordained minutes restriction on Bertans.

I wonder if Neto will start. Brooks likes to keep guys in their role, so he might want to bring Ish off the bench and promote Neto straight to starter in Westbrook's absence.

I'd like to see Wagner tonight. Orlando's backup centers aren't overpowering behemoths that Wagner can't handle. And Wagner is typically pretty decent at getting out and challenging stretch bigs like Vucevic.

Here's the rotation I'd like to see:
PG Neto/Ish
SG Beal/Brown
SF Avdija/Brown
PF Bonga/Bertans
C Bryant/Wagner

Please, please, always have one of Bonga and Bertans in the game at PF and play Avdija all the minutes he can handle at SF. The rest of the rotation will take care of itself.

Lary Grand Jr wrote:I see a lot of people complaining about the line ups and the rotations, but I wonder what do you guys think about the game style you have seen so far, are you satisfied? would you change something? From what I've seen there is way too much hero ball and way too less team ball. Yeah I know it's a Beal and Russ team now, but isn't the goal is winning? In these two regular season games I feel like there is no good balance between scoring and making sure all the players are getting involved in the offense. Each player is playing for himself and his stats. I just don't like it. People praise Neto, but so far he has played 18 minutes and has only 1 assist. I don't like it. I don't like it that too many players looking to prove they are play worthy by scoring, what about passes? what about cuts? what about so many other aspects of the game, which is a TEAM game and not tennis? I've watched the Heat yesterday and I loved so much the way everybody there is looking to pass, share the ball, move without the ball, their game style reminded me why I love basketball. I want the Wizards to play team basketball, this is how IMO you build a healthy winning culture and a healthy organization. And I can't help but wondering if it's possible with Beal, Russ, Ish, Neto and so many players in the same team thinking about their own stats more than thinking about what is good for the team.

Just my thought.

Hope to see some positive team-play signs in today's game.