NatP4 wrote:Williams is a year older and has played 3700 minutes in the NBA compared to 600 for Davis.
My argument is simple: the wizards are an incompetent organization that has completely mishandled the development of Davis, and this is a miserable fanbase that has displaced frustration onto Davis. 99% of this fanbase would’ve picked Scoot Henderson, Jaden Ivey, Jalen Green, and Jonathan Kuminga, but you’ll never read ANY reflecting about that.
This board was dead set on selling the farm to move up and take Ivey in this draft, but all you see now is about Jalen Williams
I'm not sure how much longer you will be able to use Ivey as your whipping boy. Over the last 22 games, Ivey has averaged 22, 6 and 5 per 36 minutes on a not-awful TS% of .571. Over the last 10 games, his TS% is up to .583 and his 3-ball is .440.
And I don't see any evidence that Davis' failures are due to mishandled development. The same team, at the same time, did a fine job developing Deni Avdija, Corey Kispert and Daniel Gafford. And Coulibaly is on pace to play well over 2000 minutes as a 19-year-old rookie.
People love to blame player development when their guy doesn't pan out, but how many examples do we have of guys who improved dramatically after leaving the Wizards? Rui is the same player. Oubre is the same player. Troy Brown Jr. is worse. Garrison Matthews is worse. Jordan Goodwin is worse. Bonga is worse. Otto Porter Jr. was worse. Thomas Bryant worse. Nick Young. Javale McGee. I could go on and on.
On the other hand, many of the players we've obtained via trade/free agency have improved after coming here: Gafford, Bagley, Porzingis, Neto, Harrell, Kuzma, etc. About the only guy I can think of that was dramatically worse here was Dinwiddie.