captaincrunk wrote:Battery wrote:Rich4114 wrote:How is it bad for Washington if they converted a contract that high at a position they didn't have a need for into a contract with one year less at a position they could use more depth at? Washington won that trade.
It's great for Washington because they were able to find someone dumb enough to take Arenas. Now they can let Wall develop without Gilbert around and they get a good veteran presence in Lewis to help in the rebuilding process.
Arenas was a great player and is still at least a good player with a bad contract, maybe a very good player with a bad contract. We'll find out with the rest of this season.
Chucking point guards who score lots of points with bad shooting percentages does not make a player "great." Arenas was a good player but far far far from great. Great players make their teammates better and elevate their team as a whole to play better, Arenas was more in the selfish category. Now he's just another player with a terrible contract who's producing much less and hasn't played a full season since 06-07.
Also, it should be interesting to see how this clown meshes with Howard and can he be coached by SVG who is VERY demanding. I can see Agent A-Hole not getting along with SVG because he demands defense first, not selfish me first basketball which Arenas specializes in. This has a chance to be an epic disaster and I have a feeling it will cost Otis Smith his job, and Howard will end up going elsewhere. Might work during the season, but once playoffs come, Arenas and JRich will be disasters.
