payitforward wrote:leswizards wrote:I find it quite interesting that a few of the posters who were quite adamant a few days ago about how great this front office’s drafting has been are just as adamant that the best way to ensure that the wizards have one of the worst records in nba again is to play those players as many minutes as possible.
LOL...
I'm happy to have this discussion with you. Would it be ok, however, to keep it a discussion -- i.e. not to turn it into an argument?
What I'd like to hear from you is what YOU would do -- both now and, to the degree you think it's relevant, over the last 25 months -- since the new guys took over.
Is that a reasonable request?
It would be fair to answer, "I don't know. I'm not an expert." But such an answer might point to the possible conclusion that there is nothing to do but keep making the best draft picks we can until things start to turn around.
Alternatively, you might say "I'd have taken X instead of Bilal, Y instead of Sarr", etc....Or whatever...
Make sense? Is that a fair request?
I don’t remember what I would have done in the Bilal draft. In fact, I think I just gave the new front office the benefit of the doubt and I hoped for the best.
Last year (and if you are bored, you find posts where I was clearly high on Zach Edey), if I had the power and the prognosis power to predict where people would be drafted, I would have my three picks to try and get the 9, 12 and whatever highest pick that I could have gotten. I would have taken Edey, Nikola Topic, and the player who I would project to be the most likely to out produce his rookie contract. Not knowing where the third pick would be, I didn’t really put much thought into the third player. I did like Dalton knecht, but I doubt that the wizards three picks last season could be traded for the 9, 12 and 17. Wouldn’t have traded Deni. Would have traded Kuzma, but not knowing what I would’ve gotten in return, let’s defer his trade to when it actually happened.
Would have traded the wizards three picks this season for the 10, 24 and 25. I would have taken maluach, Clifford and Richardson.
If Edey can be one of most dominant centers of all time (which I believe he can be), if topic can stay healthy and be a dominant pg, if Deni can continue improving and be a reliable third of the big three, if maluach can play 12 mpg as backup pf against backup pf (in addition to 18 mpg as a center), the wizards would have a team that could already start winning this season, and could potentially make a run at the championship.
Viva le tank! At this pace, it will never end.
