Alex Sarr

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

This comes as no surprise for those of us that put faith in the Bordeaux Beast.

I've been a believer in Sarr, but frankly I'm surprised; what he is showing now is close to the max of what I thought was possible, and I definitely didn't expect it this year.

It's crazy because he's doing this despite total incompetence out of the PG position. Usually centers start showing out when they have a good point guard operating on the pick and roll.

Wemby hasn't looked as impressive with Harper out injured. They were killing it with their pick and roll.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

This comes as no surprise for those of us that put faith in the Bordeaux Beast.

I've been a believer in Sarr, but frankly I'm surprised; what he is showing now is close to the max of what I thought was possible, and I definitely didn't expect it this year.

It's crazy because he's doing this despite total incompetence out of the PG position. Usually centers start showing out when they have a good point guard operating on the pick and roll.

Great point. Our PG situation this season is abysmal with CJ and Bub bricking shots and committing turnovers.

I said in the other thread I think it's time to try Riley at PG.

[BearlyBallin]

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[Despy]

Bill Simmons and House talk a lot about Sarr (and our horrible guards) in the latest podcast

I wasnt too worried about Sarrs early woes. I read somewhere that every star and superstar bascally always was an inefficient shooter their rookie season. Even the 0-15 game you could see he had a good shot mechanic and a bunch of post moves the ball just wasn't going in. There some holes still in his game like rebounding but he's almost certainly going to be the best big man in a wizards uniform in my lifetime.

[9 and 20]

Sarr is not too far from 20-10-5. He might be there already if he had teammates who could box out or make shots off of his passes. He actually is already there going by per 36 numbers. Plus 3.5 stocks a game.

All of that plus he actually looks different on the court - much more willing to go at guys. Still shooting a few of those fadeaway jumpers but for the most part, he's gotten rid of the softness to his game that was so maddening last year.

[nate33]

Sarr is not too far from 20-10-5. He might be there already if he had teammates who could box out or make shots off of his passes. He actually is already there going by per 36 numbers. Plus 3.5 stocks a game.

All of that plus he actually looks different on the court - much more willing to go at guys. Still shooting a few of those fadeaway jumpers but for the most part, he's gotten rid of the softness to his game that was so maddening last year.

The guy is going to be real good. I think we all have lowered expectations of him because last year was so rough, but we shouldn't overlook that he was a very young rookie. Imagine if he waited a year to enter the draft and came into the league this year as a 20.2 year old rookie and posted these numbers. 24 points, 10 boards, 5 assist and 3.5 blocks per 36 minutes on a .606 TS% ? Are you serious? People would be talking about him possibly being the rival to Wemby!

I just can't get over my built-in Wizards pessimism though. We can't have nice things. I'm bracing for Sarr's production to collapse once he is scouted more intensely. But it could actually go the other way. He might just get better as his confidence grows and as he gets used to seeing more defensive schemes. And he might get better in pick-and-roll coverage, learning how to stop both the roll man and the ball handler at the same time.

[AFM]

He also might look better playing on a competent team with an actual PG. Sarr is easily my favorite Wizard. What a beast.

[dobrojim]

We could potentially be pretty good if we somehow got DP

DP
TJ
BC
KG
AS

could be a very good starting five by the time they're
all 23-24 yo. And I like Riley too.

[nate33]

We could potentially be pretty good if we somehow got DP

DP
TJ
BC
KG
AS

could be a very good starting five by the time they're
all 23-24 yo. And I like Riley too.

Certainly, that's the best case scenario. Add a scoring guard and a jumbo-sized center in free agency, like, say, Quentin Grimes and Mitchell Robinson, and then we would have a pretty good bench of:

Grimes
Riley
Kispert
Champagnie
Robinson

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[J-Ves]

Sarr is not too far from 20-10-5. He might be there already if he had teammates who could box out or make shots off of his passes. He actually is already there going by per 36 numbers. Plus 3.5 stocks a game.

All of that plus he actually looks different on the court - much more willing to go at guys. Still shooting a few of those fadeaway jumpers but for the most part, he's gotten rid of the softness to his game that was so maddening last year.

The guy is going to be real good. I think we all have lowered expectations of him because last year was so rough, but we shouldn't overlook that he was a very young rookie. Imagine if he waited a year to enter the draft and came into the league this year as a 20.2 year old rookie and posted these numbers. 24 points, 10 boards, 5 assist and 3.5 blocks per 36 minutes on a .606 TS% ? Are you serious? People would be talking about him possibly being the rival to Wemby!

I just can't get over my built-in Wizards pessimism though. We can't have nice things. I'm bracing for Sarr's production to collapse once he is scouted more intensely. But it could actually go the other way. He might just get better as his confidence grows and as he gets used to seeing more defensive schemes. And he might get better in pick-and-roll coverage, learning how to stop both the roll man and the ball handler at the same time.

We can have nice things but only 1 nice thing at a time

[9 and 20]

Sarr is not too far from 20-10-5. He might be there already if he had teammates who could box out or make shots off of his passes. He actually is already there going by per 36 numbers. Plus 3.5 stocks a game.

All of that plus he actually looks different on the court - much more willing to go at guys. Still shooting a few of those fadeaway jumpers but for the most part, he's gotten rid of the softness to his game that was so maddening last year.

The guy is going to be real good. I think we all have lowered expectations of him because last year was so rough, but we shouldn't overlook that he was a very young rookie. Imagine if he waited a year to enter the draft and came into the league this year as a 20.2 year old rookie and posted these numbers. 24 points, 10 boards, 5 assist and 3.5 blocks per 36 minutes on a .606 TS% ? Are you serious? People would be talking about him possibly being the rival to Wemby!

I just can't get over my built-in Wizards pessimism though. We can't have nice things. I'm bracing for Sarr's production to collapse once he is scouted more intensely. But it could actually go the other way. He might just get better as his confidence grows and as he gets used to seeing more defensive schemes. And he might get better in pick-and-roll coverage, learning how to stop both the roll man and the ball handler at the same time.

We can have nice things but only 1 nice thing at a time

And then the one nice thing will be traded for Ike Austin, Rod Strickland, or Mitch Richmond. Or maybe Gerald Wallace will fall on his knee.

[FarBeyondDriven]

I've been on the Sarr hype train longer than anyone and even suggested Embiid lite as his far-fetched peak but mostly I've considered him a #2, #3 type like Mobley and I've thought that because he's Charmin soft with atrocious hands. You can't teach his size, length, athleticism and instincts but it's his lack of strength and horrible hands that betray him. He's improved and it will be a steady and gradual improvement so patience is needed however watching him get bumped and lose control of the ball, miss bunnies from 3 ft and be unable to secure rebounds because of his hands is so frustrating. I want more from him than Mobley 2.0 tbh but I don't think you can teach hands or improve them. It's kinda innate so chances of being better than Mobley aren't looking great but I think everyone should be ecstatic either way.