Wizardspride wrote:I pretty much share your assessement Induveca.
I believe this team is going to be bad for a long time. And I mean much longer than many on this board anticipate.
I could be wrong but its just a gut feeling that I have.
In fact, the Skins are going to be good faster than Wizards.
I think we're going to long for the days of getting knocked out in the 1st rd by The Cavs.
I doubt that very much. Why pine for the days when we were 9th or 10th best and had zero hope of ever winning anything. Leonsis wants to build the right way, because Pollin and Grunfeld refused to acknowledge reality, and kept the underachieving bunch intact for an extra 2 seasons, the rebuild was delayed. We are basically a year or two behind schedule. Leonsis wants to build in a similar fashion to the Caps, which took 6 years to fashion a playoff caliber team with title aspirations. Player development in hockey is nearly identical to player development in baseball, players are rarely ready before they are 21-23 years old in hockey, cut that in half for nbad guys, and it's probably another 2-3 seasons of awfulness if we draft well. I do not anticipate leonsis wanting short cuts, and if EG wants a trade, i doubt Leonsis will sign off, if it involves draft picks, or kids. He wants a rebuild, we may ship off the kids that dont get it and wont, but we're not gonna try and build with vets, i imagine the only vets he'll bring in, are vets that can accelerate wall's growth and complement his game, nothing else.
And for the record in reference to another poster, trading blatche and McGee as part of some package for Melo would be beyond foolish. We may end up settling for pennies or less on the dollar for Blatche, but we aren't shipping both of them away for a guy who would then upset the leadership dynamic of the team and the foundation of the team with Wall as its centerpiece. That makes less than zero sense, especially since Melo is not an elite max contract, franchise guy, he's in the tier below, like Arenas once was, and those guys wont win you titles, and in this case, would be disruptive to what we're actually trying to accomplish.
Don't be disheartened, last year and this year were about cratering and getting something of value to build around so 2013-2023 could be way better than 1980-2010, this is a long con so to speak, not a short one, and the only way to win a long con is to play it out smart, and with thoroughness, acknowledging and respecting every detail. There are no short cuts beyond the enormous luck we had last spring in landing Wall. Imagine how bottom of the barrel we'd be if we'd actually ended up with the sixth-8th overall pick as expected we would have ended up with a spare part not worth building anything around. Focus on the good news in that, and that this team is properly tanking this year so Wall can hopefully land a genuine partner to play and grow with in a Barnes, or Sullinger, or Irving, or one of the Jones kids, or the Euro. Getting too good too soon could stunt the potential. This is good medicine , long term so long as we get the right pieces.
As for the redskins, i very much doubt it, they wasted a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th pick on vet pieces (McNabb, Brown) that won't be around when the team is any good, andby beating Jville last week they played their way out of affordable striking distance for a franchise QB, the one piece necessary to build anything of long term consequence in the NFL (check it out, these days, its true, don't have one, you don't contend for titles, or consistently for anything at all). They are old, and well paid, and not young in virtually any of the places they need to be, and lost two of the earliest picks in the third and 4th round that could have been spent on young, hungry future starters and difference makers that would be around a long time. The redskins are going to suck and/or be sub-mediocre for probably 2-3 more years as well, and unlike the boulez, they may never get the piece needed to actually bring back the glory years. , a genuine QB. It's funny, the redskins are the only team in the league thats been around any substantial amount of time that's failed to draft and develop a franchise QB. The last time we did that was during the great depression with Sammy Baugh. Since then we've traded for or signed as a FA the only quality QB's we've ever had. Is it any wonder the redskins have been arse for the better part of half a century other than that blip of time that was 1971-1978, and 1982-1992? Meanwhile the Cowboys ahve drafted and developed five different franchise QB 's since 1960, the eagles have done so with at least 3 and probably 4, the giants have done so twice, and hell, even the cardinals have done so with Jim Hart, and Neil Lomax. We're the only team too stupid to figure out how to actually win in the NFL, especially in modern times with the game completely and quite specifically tailored today to be exploited by elite QB's.
