Washington Wizards: what's your RealGM analysis?

[Godymas]

Our young guys are fun as hell.

Coulibaly, Sarr, Carringtkn, George is a legit core. I pray we trade away Kuz soon because his chucking messes with the entire flow.

[HotelVitale]

Picks, even late ones, are assets. They can be used in a trade for a player (for example, the Bridges trade you mention above), or to move up in a draft or to shed salary or for other picks/assets in the future.

The Jazz might not have picks that look like theyll be in the lottery (which is debatable), but when you combine them with their own picks then they have assets to work with.

My guess is that the Jazz are too good to get Flagg, but who knows. Im sure Atlanta was surprised to get the #1 pick this past draft.

Lottery luck in the next draft plus good development of their young players (Cody Williams, Taylor Hendricks, George, Collier, and Filipowski) and suddenly the future of the Jazz looks a lot different.

The Wizards don't have as many assets or young talent as the Jazz, but have a better chance at Flagg. If they get their franchise player in the 2025 draft that changes things (much like it did for the Spurs).

The draft as you mentioned is a crapshoot, however, all tanking does is give the teams with more losses, a greater chance of picking higher. Now for the Wizards, they better hope that their picks are in the top 3 in the 25/26 drafts or else they are going nowhere just like the Pistons who's tanking strategy to date has failed.

For the Jazz, they need some luck to get a franchise changing player like Flagg is projected to be, however, I agree that even if they don't, they have the ability (and picks) to get to be a regular 6-10 ranked team in the West. My question however is if that is enough to satisfy the Jazz fans.

I agree that luck is needed but rebuilding doesn't require some kind of insane monumental luck to work out. Many many teams have found their guys outside of the generational hype prospects like Wemby. Most franchise guys weren't even top-2 picks let alone historically hyped ones--looking quickly there's Luka, Tatum, Dame, Giannis, SGA, Sabonis/Fox, Jokic, PG, Booker, Mitchell/Gobert, Mitchell/Garland, Haliburton, Brunson, Butler, Trae, etc who were taken all over the draft. You just need to get lucky on landing a legit guy--having a top-2 pick makes that's easier but having lots of other picks can work out too.

Also with the new lotto the bottom 3 teams have exact same odds and the next 2 aren't much worse, very good chance UTA ends up bottom 5 there. I'd pick WAS and CHA to be worse, with DET or POR about the same level of talent/ability to win this year as UTA.

EDIT: also Pistsons lookin pretty good this year, Cade's finally playing like people epxectd him to and Ivey looks good too. Record's not amazing but they've played good teams really closely in addition to their 3 wins.

[Tyrone Messby]

As a diehard Wizards fan that has had to witness a LOT of bad basketball over the years, this is the most excited I’ve ever been about the team’s future. The Arenas years were the most fun until Gerald Wallace fell on his leg, but it seems like we finally have some direction and a plan in place to just not just aim to make the playoffs and be between a 5-8 seed. Bilal has superstar potential imo and it’s been great to see the team just throwing the young bucks into the fire this season. Bub, George, and Sarr all look really promising and fearless.

[Lockdown504090]

Our young guys are fun as hell.

Coulibaly, Sarr, Carringtkn, George is a legit core. I pray we trade away Kuz soon because his chucking messes with the entire flow.

kuz is helping them get their elite #1 guy in the draft, you should be cheering for him.

[doogie_hauser]

As a diehard Wizards fan that has had to witness a LOT of bad basketball over the years, this is the most excited I’ve ever been about the team’s future. The Arenas years were the most fun until Gerald Wallace fell on his leg, but it seems like we finally have some direction and a plan in place to just not just aim to make the playoffs and be between a 5-8 seed. Bilal has superstar potential imo and it’s been great to see the team just throwing the young bucks into the fire this season. Bub, George, and Sarr all look really promising and fearless.

Really happy to see Wiz fans finally have something to be optimistic about/cheer for.

The Beal trade was a watershed moment in your franchise's history and trajectory, for maybe for the first time in forever, your ownership made the brave and bold move of a total rebuild/tear down of the team (you actually got some very good picks for Beal)

BB will get his number retired at DC and always remembered as a Wizards great, and it's good to see him finally gel at Phx under Bud, but it's a great move for both parties.

[Jimmy Recard]

They, at the very least, play hard every game. As a wiz fan, I can’t remember the last time I said that. Bilal, Bub and Sarr is a nice young core, but need to hit on one of these next couple of drafts.

[Ruma85]

Curiosity in me, wonders will they trade Poole by draft day.

[PlatinumState]

Wizards shouldnt even be tanking. Its better to play hard and instill good habits in their youth than tank for the off chance of getting Flagg. If they play hard and lose, so be it, but I hope they dont just blatantly tank like teams did in the past

[Jamaaliver]

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[Bourne85]

They will likely lose a ton of games but they are actually quite fun to watch. I know Poole had a bad year last season but this guy is so damn talented. If he was being coached right and held accountable I could actually see him being an all star caliber talent. He has the shooting, the speed, the ball handling, he’s one of the most skilled players in the league tbh. Sure last year he was all memes. But somewhere in there is a really talented player. When he was on the Warriors during that championship run the guy was looking like they found the next splash brother lol

[CobraCommander]

They will likely lose a ton of games but they are actually quite fun to watch. I know Poole had a bad year last season but this guy is so damn talented. If he was being coached right and held accountable I could actually see him being an all star caliber talent. He has the shooting, the speed, the ball handling, he’s one of the most skilled players in the league tbh. Sure last year he was all memes. But somewhere in there is a really talented player. When he was on the Warriors during that championship run the guy was looking like they found the next splash brother lol

Poole has all the talent in the world but none of the brains - see swaggy P… he is fun but the basic iq is prettt bad.

Poole and Kuz are not serious basketball players but they are fun to watch