Official Thread - Wizards vs Bulls (2/27/09)

[hands11]

You gotta love the player DMac is becoming. So far tonight, he has 10 points, 9 boards, 4 assists, 3 blocks and a steal. He has only missed one shot (though he has 3 turnovers).

Before people ship off CB so quickly, who do you think DMAC is emulating ?

You want solid vets like CB on the team to help teach these younger players. There is no better example of solid rounded vet who works on his game them CB.

They even mentioned it again during the game. Only CB and LeBron average 20 pts, 6 assist, and like 7 rebounds. CB is simply a great vet glue player. You don't ship that out of town. In a couple years if DMAC keep it up, he may... and I say may... be able to replace CB.

[hands11]

Honestly, that looked like a different team out there.

Was that the Wizards?

We are going to be a damn good team next year. Depending on what we do with the draft pick, we could be a great team next year. The press doesn't know about Crit, Dom, Blatche and McGee. They will soon enough. It's very different playing a game where you know the goal is to tank, and a season where you know the goal is to fight.

plus those guys will be in lessor roles to which they are more suited.

We should have a pretty deep team, barring yet another year of injuries.
As long as it's not either Gil or Haywood, we should be OK. I think we've
seen enough this year to know those guys are exceedingly important to
our success.

Haywood is still the key. If we had a starting quality center ( Haywood) going into next season and this group as they have matured to date, we wouldn't suck like we did this season. They wouldn't be great but at least you would see them win more and grow quicker. Most the younger player now have their dippers off. You can at least play them without them looking totally lost.

We would be that same .500% team with younger player growing. If you can integrate GAs skills the right way, we are a .600% team that can even get better with a few moves.

Haywood, AJ, CB, GA
McGee, Blatche, DMAC, NY, Crit
DSong

That's 10 players and you still have Etan, DS, James, OP, draft pick

And since Abe is making it so money isn't a problem next year, I wouldn't be surprised to see.

Haywood, AJ, CB, DS, GA
McGee, Blatche, DMAC, NY, Crit
DSong, Etan

Deactivated OP and draft pick (PG) until you trade Etan near trade deadline.
Dixon comes off the books and you buy out James.

That's a pretty solid team of vets and younger players with a draft pick waiting to come on board.
You just need McGee to mature and Nick Young to find his role by playing more efficient.

Ideally, to win it all I still think we are short a vet PG for next year. Between GA and Crit, neither is the kind of vet PG I would want to go for it all. Gold would be turning Etan, DS and the pick into that player who could be here maybe 2-3 years while we make a run.

Haywood, AJ, CB, GA, Vet PG
McGee, Blatche, DMAC, NY, Crit
DSong, ( open stop for OP if he is ready - if not, cheap vet C/PF )

This give us success now and time to see who out of these 2nd line players can become first line players. I think McGee will. Maybe Crit also. DMAC shows signs. I don't know if Nick has the make up to ever be a starter and Blatche is still a ?. I think he could start with the right vets around him but it would be hard for me right now to see that 2nd line starting together as a first line. But we would still have GA.

McGee, Blatche, DMAC, GA, Crit
Haywood

Haywood, McGee, Blatche, GA, Crit
DMAC

Haywood,.Blatche, DMAC, GA, Crit
McGee

Point is, we are looking pretty good.

[dobrojim]

If we play like this every night, our pick will come at the end of the lottery and might not have enough value to even move one of our contracts, let alone improve the team much.

Unless we get really unlucky in the lotto and get passed by at least 2 teams, we should
have a pretty high pick.

then again, there is always the curse of lez boulez

[doclinkin]

If we play like this every night, our pick will come at the end of the lottery and might not have enough value to even move one of our contracts, let alone improve the team much.

Unless we get really unlucky in the lotto and get passed by at least 2 teams, we should
have a pretty high pick.

then again, there is always the curse of lez boulez

Dunno, we've got stiff competition for those lotto balls. If other teams were playing better, Gilbert would have been on court by now. But as it stands we can't afford too many wins. Feels weird saying that. We are all ji now...

[no D in Hibachi]

You really have to feel bad for Bulls fans. They were set up earlier this decade to be a dynasty. They had good young talent, the second pick in a good draft, the 9th pick in a better draft, valuable trading pieces, and tons of cap space. How did they screw it up so badly?

Who would you rather have?

Tyrus Thomas-2nd pick or Andray Blatche-2nd round pick?
Joakim Noah-9th pick or Javale McGee-18th pick?
Thabo Sefolosha-13th pick or Nick Young-16th pick?
Aaron Grey-2nd round pick or Domonic McGuire-2nd round pick?

We can fault EG for his terrible cap management, however he has consistently demonstrated that he is able to out draft other GM's who are making lottery selections year after year.

[hands11]

Damn am I glad I recorded this game. Just got finished watching it and the only thing I can think is "where the hell did that one come from"?

Effort, energy, hustle and execution on both ends of the floor, it's like a bizarro version of this years Washington Wizards.

McGuire continues to impress, Blatche played under control and remained patient and even Young did a great job playing within the offense and sharing the ball.

Impressive effort and nice win.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=290217027

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=290220017

Actually, they looked like this in the last 2 wins. I can't remember which of the two games it was on in one of them, I think the Minni game, the defense looked really active.

This was just the first one that NY and Mcgee also pitched in on offense.

Nick
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/p ... yerId=3243

McGee
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/p ... yerId=3452

[hands11]

If we play like this every night, our pick will come at the end of the lottery and might not have enough value to even move one of our contracts, let alone improve the team much.

Some people can always find a dark cloud on an other wise sunny day.

Keep up the bad work.

I'm sure you will be even more happy when we beat MLK tonight.