WizarDynasty wrote:TGW wrote:Ruzious is right.
If Vesely had good strong hands, I'd be satisfied with him as the pick. I'm wary of guys who fumble the ball in traffic or who get stripped alot. Vesely is going to be that. He also rebounds like a point guard despite being 6 foot freaking 11. He makes Bargnani look like Rodman on the glass.
Honestly still don't see what this guy or Kawhi Leonard has on Marcus Morris. MM is a more complete player than both of them.
i wouldn't worry to much about his hands, this a seven footer who can do a eurostep on a fast break, a guy who can dribble from the free throw line, and finish with a dunk in traffic. i have seen him drive with his right and finish with his left on the right side of the basket.
He will fumble the ball if he gets hacked and doesn't power through arm grabs but refs should call the foul.
His hands are coordinated enough to catch alley hoops from half court.
marcus morris is an offensively savy player mentally but he is physically challenged. If he had physical gifts to combine with his advanced offensive mental awareness, he would be a star.
The problem with Marcus is that a physically defensive player negates morris's high offensive mental awareness. Marcus has to work much harder against a physically gifted defender because he doesn't have the physical athleticism to create an advantage.
On top of that, marcus doesn't have a physical tools to have a sustained impact on the game defensively. A physically gifted defender's only weakness is his defensive awareness and if he has a high aptitude for understanding defensive concepts, his defensive awareness will improve. Marcus will never have the physical tools forever in his career and has to rely on others to create a defensive advantage that favors his team because he loses in most physical talent matchups each night because he won't have a standing reach advantage, he won't have a lateral quickness advantage and he won't have a first explosion advantage against a physically gifted nba small forward.
If he were going up against granger, pierce, j.smith, G.Wallace, S. Marion, C.Anthony, T.Prince, A.Iggy, Deng --Magic, Cavaliers, Nets, doesn't have small forward so he might work again them, Mbah Moute--loses.
Vesely has the quickness and at 6'11 with long arm, the standing reach to force all of these players to change their shooting motion out on the perimeter.
He also can still block shots even if he is beat to the hole. Marcus will never have that. Vesely's shot may not fall some nights but you can always rely on his ability to alter shots on the perimeter consistently every game even if his shot isn't falling thus helping you win. If marcus isn't hitting a mentally crafty shot over a defender, he can't help you win the game. Secondly Vesely is giving Wall a finisher every play. He is giving Wall a target every time the opponents collapses and double on wall and Vesely goes up like McGee and gets them and we all have seen that Wall absolutely loves throwing alley hoops off the dribble.
I definitely don't see marcus going up in the air and finishing walls passes at all. marcus may work on other teams but wall is a speed demon with a high motor that is sprinting on every possession. Vesely is the same way, sprint and feels a lane on every possession and gets his team amped up with positive energy. Vesely values drops tremendously without a fast break point guard. We have one of the best fast break point guards of the decade and he's only going to have this supersonic speed for maybe 10 years if lucky so use it now. Vesely is higher on my board for Wall than even Kanter. Kanter helps out on the bench and solidifies us but Tyler does the same thing with a higher upside. Tyler's only has immaturity problems, not a criminal history so Vesely and Tyler would vault EG into the hall of fame GM's.
Blatche, McGee, and Young and his influence on the culture change in Wizards have vaulted his status in my view and of course the Savior's vision is the only reason we have anything to look forward to at all.
Obviously there's in humanity savior and then their is the wiz fan's savior. But getting Vesely and Tyler makes us contenders within two season's and our window stays open for 10 years or longer as long as we can keep all of our players.
I also like our option, if someone takes vesely...kanter or williams falls. We have good option however the scenario falls. what's more important is that the wizards have a situation that most of the top 6 teams will never see, a john wall type point guard. A vesely type player is never going to reach his potential with a Devin Harris running point guard because he is a scorer first/shooter. That drastically reduces Vesely's fast break value. A team like toronto who doesn't have a point guard that can force double teams on nearly every possession will see Vesely struggle to create his shot in a half court set with the ball in his hands because calderon can't consistently beat his man and force the defense to rotate or isn't a threat to finish in the paint and teams don't have to double him. Wall will finish in the paint because of his 40 inch vertical and speed and thus teams already know a man is left open every time wall drives. Vesely has more value to the wiz than the utah or toronto.
I don't see kanter as having much value to toronto or utah because both teams already have rebounding bigs but don't have shot blockers and bigs that protect the rim. Kanter will be another big that can't protect the rim. Kanter is more attractive to us because we already have McGee to protect the rim and only need Kanter to come in and bring consistent rebounding energy and not allow the other team to play 4 on 5 offensively like booker, seraphin, armstrong, and at times Yi allowed last season. Vesely only has value to us because we have wall. kanter only has value to us because we have mcgee. D.Williams becomes a negative because both he and wall need the ball in their hands and d.williams can't change the outcome of a game consistently defensively. And if all else fails and we have irving on the board to pick from we can easilty drop a few spots and pick up our two way post player that only needs a season before he becomes d.howard dominant with tyler.
Obviously we need a starting small forward so williams is an upgrade over booker but a scoring small forward who is below average defensively is usually pretty easy to find in the nba.
I rest my case.
