The Amazingly Sucky Rashard Lewis Thread

[Wizards2Lottery]

After last nights performance, he deserves this.

A toast to having the 2nd highest paid player in the NBA who does not give a rats ass about anything on the court. Quite honestly, his play along with Blatche have been the only things that have irritated me this season.

Hopefully this thread has a short future because Chris Singleton (hopefully) is the new starter at SF and Jan Vesely his backup.

[Nivek]

I don't object to giving Lewis a sucky thread -- he's been bad. But, I would point out that he's 32, he's been playing on bad knees for the past few seasons, and he's logged more than 31,000 regular season minutes. His production has been steadily declining, and he's reached an age where players often have significant production dropoffs.

I don't think the issue is not caring with him. He's just not that good anymore. He's a dependent player -- he needs other people to get him open looks. And, there's no one on the team who's enough of a threat to draw attention away from him on any regular basis. Biggest thing this season is that his shot isn't falling. By the end of the season, he'll probably be around 35% on 3s. But it's clear he's on his last legs in the NBA.

[sfam]

So the question is does he just not give a **** any more or does he suck so bad that even if he did care, we wouldn't notice? Given that he has decent games every now and then, I'm going with Rashard not caring. But whatever answer is correct, I think we would all agree on the solution - back of the bench, baby!!!!

Or, um, perhaps a stint in the D-League would help his attitude.

[tontoz]

I was encouraged by his play last season right after the trade but so far this year he has been horrible. I don't think it is because he isn't trying. He just can't make shots or even hold on to the ball.

I think he probably wasn't fully prepared coming into the season (i think Nick may be having the same issue). With the lockout and being on a crap team i wouldn't be surprised if his offseason preparation was far less than in previous years.

[pancakes3]

i also agree that it's not a matter of mind but rather matter. he's just old, decrepit, and frankly not that good to begin with. he's been playing 35 mins a game since 2000. look at how similar aging shooting forwards have fared: stephen jackson shooting 33%, mike miller not playing, mo pete done, artest benched in favor of matt barnes, james posey out of the league...

don't get me (or kev) wrong. he's sucky but i don't think he's amazingly sucky. more... naturally progression of age sucky.

[FreeBalling]

After last nights performance, he deserves this.

A toast to having the 2nd highest paid player in the NBA who does not give a rats ass about anything on the court. Quite honestly, his play along with Blatche have been the only things that have irritated me this season.

Hopefully this thread has a short future because Chris Singleton (hopefully) is the new starter at SF and Jan Vesely his backup.

The guy is not that old and I expect more. However, his salary is not a justifiable income. If you were in sales, the commission would be cut or the individual would be fired for lack of performance.

This guy should be a leader on the team. As we can see there is still a problem with the pay scale.

Make it happen #2



Fire the dead weight...Bring in someone who wants the job and has a future.

[Cramer]

I gotta say, a Sucky Rashard Lewis thread.....I just can't see it. On this team? that's a lot of misplaced anger.

[FreeBalling]

I gotta say, a Sucky Rashard Lewis thread.....I just can't see it. On this team? that's a lot of misplaced anger.

He is the hired gun, what should we expect? I would fire you just for saying that comment.

[FreeBalling]

I want to fire RL and AB for lack of heart or as Jerry Sinefield said. "Just for spite."

[Cramer]

I gotta say, a Sucky Rashard Lewis thread.....I just can't see it. On this team? that's a lot of misplaced anger.

He is the hired gun, what should we expect? I would fire you just for saying that comment.

Really? He's what's holding this team back?

Dude, a clue. Buy one.

You're right though, he's the "hired gun." And you'd fire me? Cute.....

[montestewart]

The one that replaced Arenas

[Wizards2Lottery]

I gotta say, a Sucky Rashard Lewis thread.....I just can't see it. On this team? that's a lot of misplaced anger.

He has quit on this team and his body language shows it.

[montestewart]

another possibility is that, with his age and minutes, his ability dropped off a cliff this year and he doesn't know how to deal with it. Obviously, neither does the coach, the organization, or the fans. I hear amnesty works pretty well.

[Benjammin]

Shart hasn't been the same since he was suspended for using DHEA, a steroid precursor. It wasn't a gigantic drop, but enough to have him go to being a net negative player. This year he has just been dreadful, albeit with a small sample size.

[Mr. Grundle]

Yes, he is older and not good anymore, but its also clear he does not give a ****. If you watched the last game, you probably saw when he didn't even want to try to save that loose ball that was rolling out of bounds, until he realized he had to show some sort of effort or it would look bad, so he made a weak attempt at a save and threw the ball to Melo for an easy layup going the other way. He's not even trying to close out on shooters, or even putting a hand up to try and defend them.

I mean, I get it....he's a veteran on his last legs and being forced to play 40 minutes a game on the worst team in the NBA....I probably wouldn't care either.

What I can't fathom is why Flip Saunders continues to start Rashard Lewis and play him big minutes when:

A.) he is terrible
B.) he doesn't care about this team
C.) he is not a part of our future plans
D.) he has no trade value
E.) we have young, hungrier, more productive players sitting on the bench

This makes absolutely no sense at all and is one of the reasons we are "overtly disfunctional". No balls, still catering to veterans making big bucks. Sad.

[closg00]

I gotta say, a Sucky Rashard Lewis thread.....I just can't see it. On this team? that's a lot of misplaced anger.

He has quit on this team and his body language shows it.

He can't quit on us, his family is settled here and his daughter goes to Sidewell Friends.

[MJG]

I don't see much reason to argue whether Lewis is suddenly terrible because he stopped caring or because he is just plain old. The end result is the same: he's a bad player who's playing at least twice as many minutes as he should be. Maybe if he had nobody at all behind him, but his backup has been arguably the player we've been most impressed with in the opening couple of weeks. He really needs to be benched.

[Dat2U]

The Wizards are off to a franchise worst 0-8 start, and to make matters more troubling a team source tells CSNwashington.com that Wizards' forward Rashard Lewis got into an argument with Wizards' assistant coach Sam Cassell before the Minnesota game and Lewis decided he didn't want to play.

Lewis did not appear on the bench during the 92-73 loss to the T-Wolves. The Wizards said a sore right knee was the reason for Lewis's absence.

Lewis, the team's starting small forward and highest paid player -- like the rest of the team -- has struggled this season, averaging nine points and four rebounds.

http://www.csnwashington.com/blog/wizar ... 269213-849

So much for veteran leadership. We should have amnestied this dude the moment we had the chance.

[sashae]

Rashard Lewis quits on Wizards?

The Wizards are off to a franchise worst 0-8 start, and to make matters more troubling a team source tells CSNwashington.com that Wizards' forward Rashard Lewis got into an argument with Wizards' assistant coach Sam Cassell before the Minnesota game and Lewis decided he didn't want to play.

Lewis did not appear on the bench during the 92-73 loss to the T-Wolves. The Wizards said a sore right knee was the reason for Lewis's absence.

[sashae]

OH HI DAT