prime1time wrote:gesa2 wrote:Rui always seemed like a good guy and I’ll root for him wherever he goes. People getting upset about his treatment here have to be referring to *here* , on this chat board. He got all the court time he could handle his first 2 years, had the ball in his hands a ton. And when he struggled and needed time last year no one publicly did anything but support him and welcome him when he came back. With all that, as PIF would say, his numbers don’t lie. He was an ok isolation scorer by year 3 that offered little else. Once we believed we were going to keep Kuzma we weren’t going to be able to afford him.
I don’t really like Kuz or Rui as our power forward for the next 4 years. If we had to stay in house I’d use Deni and play Kispert at the 3. But we certainly weren’t going to keep both of them.
This is revisionist history. Hachimura's role on this team changed every year he was here because as an organization, we have no direction. As evinced by other people's comments, he was never given clear directions as to what his role or place on this team would be. From Dinwiddie's comments to Russ' comments about no one having a role, to him being out last year and not being able to compete for the starting spot he DID not get a fair shake here. Of course on this board, the comments were devoid of reality. But the Wizards are a perfect example of a moribund franchise. Organizational failure happens repeatedly. And it's why we don't resign any first-round draft picks. It's actually laughable that you wrote your comments.
Let me let you in on a little secret. Rui, Kuzma, Deni or Kispert it doesn't matter. The Wizards aren't going anywhere with any of them. I'm happy that Rui left and is no given a clear role that he can work towards.
I'd also point out the discrepancy between what the Wizards said and what the Wizards did. You say the Wizards supported Hachimura, when what they really did was prove the absolute dysfunction of the organization. For 2 years all we heard from Wizards management was that Hachimura needed to improve his 3-point shooting. They said it on the draft night. They said it during the summer league. They said it at during the bubble. They said it during the next season. Well in the 2021-2022 season, Hachimura showed significant improvement and he never even had a chance to fully show what he was capable of. He shot 44.6% from 3 yet his minutes dropped from 31.5 to 22.5.
He was an ok isolation scorer by year 3 that offered little else.
I guess 44.6% from 3 is nothing else. Also, funny how when Rui leaves the Wizards suddenly he knows how to play defense.
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It's almost like if you actually coach up a player for a role that he'd have on a winning team could be better than just throwing a player in the starting lineup and letting him do whatever.
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In Rui's rookie year, the team was absolutely dysfunctional. Beal got injured and everyone on the organization just played for a contract. Here and there Rui had some good games, but he was playing a role that no competitive team would have put him in. For his actual development it was useless. In year 2, Rui played with Russ. So, Rui went from having the ball in his hands to playing around Russ' ball-dominant style. With Russ and Beal soaking up so many possessions, Rui literally had to change his entire style of play. IF you remember that season, the entire team was in dissarray until Westbrook demanded that every played define a role. It was out of this dysfunction, that Rui actually started to figure things out at the end of the season. He played some of his best games at the end of the season and in the 5 games against the 76ers.
Of course because we are the Wizards, we have to completely reshape the team in the offseason. So out goes Russ and in comes Kuz, KCP, Harell and Dinwiddie. Completely new team. Let's remember what the narrative was going into the season...
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Of course, Rui had his mental health problems and then he was quickly displaced by this organization. Other than Bradley Beal - whom Sheppard decide to build around - how is any player supposed to navigate his role drastically changing from one season to the next? Halfway through last year, we ended up trading Dinwiddie for Porzingis, a complete overhaul of our playstyle once again.
Rui Hachimura was never given a fair shake in DC. And this post doesn't even touch on the multitude of vicious attacks that people on this board personally made against Rui. Please stop defending dysfunction and actually look at the statistics. Look at how much his % assisted shots change from 2019/2020 => 2020/2021 (Playing with Ball dominant Russ) => 2021/2022 => 2022/2023. Actually, go on youtube and pull up his scoring clips from the different years and see how much he had place in the offense changed year to year. The Wizards handling of Hachimura is a textbook example of what not to do with a young player.
