queridiculo wrote:nate33 wrote:queridiculo wrote:Brooks and the ghosts of Grunfeld, outcome not surprising.
Trash coach, trash roster, trash results.
Expecting another romp, Bulls in a laugher.
What's frustrating is that the roster isn't trash. There is plenty of talent here. It's just being used by a coach that doesn't know how to leverage its strengths, and it's being further hampered by a front office that overinvests in one type of player while ignoring the need for athletic defenders.
A team that already has offensively skilled big men with shooting range and bad defense (like Bryant, Wagner and Hachimura) does not need to spend $16M a year on a one-dimensional sharpshooting big with bad defense.
In a league that is getting away from diminutive PG's and instead focusing on bigger, switchable combo guards, why do we have three PG's under 6-2 (Neto, Ish and Winston)?
Having a handful of guys with upside doesn't mean that the roster isn't trash.
The roster composition is a joke. It's like a puzzle composed entirely off little squares that's supposed to make up a circle.
Washington's best rebounder is a small forward that doesn't get any playing time and who duplicates the core skillset of 5 to 6 other guys on the roster.
Washington has one plus defender, by reputation anyway, that doesn't see the floor.
The other startling thing to me is that the Wizards roster is almost entirely devoid of above average athletes.
It's basically Beal, perhaps Bonga and then a whole bunch of nothing.
There's no identity, no cohesion, no plan or direction of any kind with this roster that makes even a modicum of sense.
Eh, I wouldn’t go that far. The lack of identity is because of Brooks. Mathews&Avdija are good, Bertans is normally good. Jury is still out on Brown Jr&Winston. Of course, no one is to blame for the Bryant injury, and he was a pretty good player.
It’s still a roster built around a couple high usage guards, one of them is just terrible.
An average coach could have this team playing .500 basketball easily. All he would have to do is not play multiple PGs together, play Mathews, Bonga, and Brown, and not overplay the revolving door of mediocre centers so much. He could also have a gameplan defensively. Doesn’t matter what the gameplan is, just having one at all is an improvement from Brooks. The players don’t even know what to do in pick and roll coverages. We switch sometimes, sometimes we sit back, sometimes we trap them and leave a shooter wide open, but it’s always something different. No two defensive possessions are the same.
An average coach+ a top 5 pick= playoff team. The roster isn’t all that bad. Look at pistons&twolves rosters.
) and somehow Ujiri decides to come here with new front office & coaching staff.
