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As complaints piled on for years to fire Grunfeld who had the Wizards in a couple Eastern Conference Finals, a game away from another Eastern Conference Finals against Boston, and was aggressive at improving the team at the trade deadline; now the forum anointment replacement Tom Sheppard has been a disappointment and can’t even sniff the playoffs.

Be careful what you wish for.

You're right, he's just as awful as Ernie. Great thread pendejo.

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milellie111 wrote:As complaints piled on for years to fire Grunfeld who had the Wizards in a couple Eastern Conference Finals, a game away from another Eastern Conference Finals against Boston, and was aggressive at improving the team at the trade deadline; now the forum anointment replacement Tom Sheppard has been a disappointment and can’t even sniff the playoffs.

Be careful what you wish for.

You mean East Semifinals

Tommy has the same problem as Ernie. Can’t draft. Can’t find PGs or SFs.

They don’t make the playoffs with Ernie still here either.

Talk about blast from the past. The quintessential knob polisher lives.

They made the Eastern Conference finals under Grunfeld? Sir, you are high right now. Go back to the rock you've been hiding under for the last 4 years.

I thought this thread was about PIF's weed stash.

How is retirement treating you Ernie, are you still in Potomac?

Shepp learned everything from Ernie. He leads the very same people Ernie hired. The stain of the Grunfeld era on this franchise remains. It's really like he's never left. Hi Ellie!

closg00 wrote:How is retirement treating you Ernie, are you still in Potomac?

I knew Erine would return eventually to rub it in -

We are not at gm level sucking - we at owner level sucking at this point

CobraCommander wrote:

closg00 wrote:How is retirement treating you Ernie, are you still in Potomac?

I knew Erine would return eventually to rub it in -

We are not at gm level sucking - we at owner level sucking at this point

It was Treadmill Ted all along, the only constant

You're acting like we wished for Shephard. He's literally a descendant of ernie. I don't blame him. Im not turning down a job. I blame Ted for basically hiring ernies pupil

All milellie111 threads are the same thing. If I were a moderator, I would just merge them all into the eg appreciation thread.

The great thing about Ernie is that he was so bad as a GM, he had the ability to tank unintentionally. And that unintentional tanking would eventually end up yielding top 3 picks so a rebuild was possible.

Sheppard is more competent than Ernie so he is capable of holding this below-average team together with duct tape and bubble gum well enough that they don't actually bottom out.

nate33 wrote:The great thing about Ernie is that he was so bad as a GM, he had the ability to tank unintentionally. And that unintentional tanking would eventually end up yielding top 3 picks so a rebuild was possible.

Sheppard is more competent than Ernie so he is capable of holding this below-average team together with duct tape and bubble gum well enough that they don't actually bottom out.

The awful truth is that Tommy does not appeared to have learned much from Ernie's mistakes, I now suspect that Ernie was even more hands-off than reported by AM980's Jay Glassie, it appears that it was Tommy who did most of the drafting or told Ernie Ernie who we should draft.

nate33 wrote:The great thing about Ernie is that he was so bad as a GM, he had the ability to tank unintentionally. And that unintentional tanking would eventually end up yielding top 3 picks so a rebuild was possible.

Sheppard is more competent than Ernie so he is capable of holding this below-average team together with duct tape and bubble gum well enough that they don't actually bottom out.

I maintain that Ernie's method was to create teams with deliberate strategic design flaws. Whatever star you have at a given position, provide zero back-up, so that when the coach overplays them and they inevitably require bench time, you can bottom out and pick up another top lotto pick. He was trying to replicate the Admiral/Duncan model where a team lands multiple stars after their top performer is required to sit.

nate33 wrote:The great thing about Ernie is that he was so bad as a GM, he had the ability to tank unintentionally. And that unintentional tanking would eventually end up yielding top 3 picks so a rebuild was possible.

Sheppard is more competent than Ernie so he is capable of holding this below-average team together with duct tape and bubble gum well enough that they don't actually bottom out.

The tank was somewhat intentional whenever they had a top 3 pick. They traded Butler and Jamison prior to the 2010 draft. They traded Arenas/Hinrich prior to the 2011 draft. With so many young players, it was relatively easy to tank in 2012 and 2013.