dlts20 wrote:I thought that some of you were insane with the kuzma trade. Not that you were wrong because you weren't but I know our franchise. We are going to pay him and treat him like he is a superstar. He also doesn't want to go anywhere else. He can literally chuck up more shots than the unicorn and Beal and no one will say anything. He's living in a great city and at times is the face of the franchise. Clown show team. Leonsis needs to go and stick to hockey, fr
Leonsis did the same thing to the Caps. I will say if they followed my plan, they would've blown it up the year they won the title lol, so not exactly a genius here but we are going on year 5 of a blatantly obvious downward trendline w/zero chance at a title due to aging out, but like with Beal, Leonsis doesn't want to cash in on the face of the franchise for a massive haul of prospects, not in '19, not in '20, not in '21, not in '22, not in '23, so he ages out and eventually will be traded for 1/5 what we could have gotten '19-'21 but only after he breaks the goal record whenever that is (and there is no lock they don't simply move the goal posts to "we want him to retire a cap".
I love me some Ovy but lets be straight, I have been a Caps fan for 40 years, I'm a caps fan first, and whatever serves those interests long term supercedes everything else.
Well, just like with Beal, the long term interests of the teams competitiveness don't even make the medal stand of the priorities Leonsis has instead, so like with Beal, the caps will continue to play basically .500 hockey, while they're farm system fell off to 20th-30th in the league and stayed there the past half decade, when the rebuild starts they will be building with pennies and nickels instead of the dollars and half dollars they could have been playing with and as a result the rebuild will take twice as long, and that's if it works (see Wizards failed rebuilds of the early nineties, late nineties, early aughts, and the two from this past decade for plenty of evidence on why rebuilds can short circuit).
It's a miserable situation. I mean it when I say that as wizards fans, if there's any way to mentally check out for several years other than important moments here and there (draft day, trade deadline), you should. We've watched this for forty years under Pollin and Leonsis, it aint changing anytime soon and this team is going nowhere. Maybe in '25 or '26 they'll get it, but we're screwed for the forseeable future, really, again, since Wall fell in the shower and they were too stupid to trade Beal for draft capital or prospects from any of the particularly loaded drafts in the following near half decade since.
