80sballboy wrote:Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:closg00 wrote:I haven't been this depressed since Ernie got his contract extension.
If the Wizards start losing I hope Ted sells and the team moves.
Being a fan of a team like this for 40 years takes a toll. One playoff series win back in 2005 or 2006 over the Bulls, only to be swept by the Heat. The EJ years were "highlights" where the Wizards managed 45 wins once. They won 43 a couple times. Great mediocrity while paying the contracts of Arenas and Jamison!
Before the great EJ years there were the Chris Webber years. I think they achieved 43 or so wins then. MJ and the Bulls swept a young, talented team. Big Gheorghe hurt his foot on a movie set. Webber's parties got wild and Abe had a real problem with weed on C Webb's car. So much so he gave Webber away for old broke down Mitch Richmond and completely done Otis Thorpe. Ernie probably was thinking of that when he traded the #5 for Mike Miller and Randy Foye. Screw the future. Let's suck now!
Before the CWebb years were the Unseld coached years. Now there were some seriously bad teams. The best players were guys like Charles Jones or Tom Gugliotta. I remember when the Bullets had no three point shooters, no shot blockers, and no one over 6'9". They managed almost as many wins as Flip did. (Actually, they matched Tapscott).
Someone posted earlier, I think Dat, how the Wizards went downhill to begin with acquiring old Moses Malone, old Dan Roundfield, and old Gus Williams. EJ couldn't wait to see if Nene would break down over time. He had to double his pleasure getting even more broke down Okafor.
This seems to be a really horrible day for the franchise.
The thing I learned after the day Nene was acquired for Javale is that it probably is nowhere near as bad as it seems.
All I know is it is a tormenting kind of feeling. I hope the new guys represent more talent than yesterday and they come in playing well, like Nene did. (When he played--I am sure he would have missed less games if they weren't tanking. Right????) This feeling is really uncomfortable.
Give me a break CCJ. We have a bad franchise
. I watched them in 1973 when they were the Capital Bullets and saw very good to mediocre teams until the C-Webb fiasco and the mismanagement of the Abe/Wes regime. They always be my team through thick and thin, no matter how crappy Ted r EG is or how gullible we are as fans.
But on June 17, 1996, many of us PG County guys nearly crossed over to become Boston Celtics fans. I stood there with my HS friends at the Cap Centre, watching in disbelief at the old telescreen when they used to have those old Draft get togethers as Boston picked #34. At least they would have been our second team and y'all know what happened on June 19 but that's probably the closest I've come to rooting for something other than the Bullets.
I just hope that pick #3 will help change this franchise around and JWall finds a jumper over the summer. We can only hope like Cubs fans every offseason that the tide will change.
You forgot about the Fat Lady? She sang for Dick Motta's Bullets. 80s, the Bullets were really good in 1974-1975, when they won 60 games. I still remember the dumb strategy to have Mike Riordan foul Rick Barry. George Johnson and Keith Wilkes destroyed the favored Bullets. Still, that team had Elvin, Wes, Kevin Porter, and Phil Chenier. Later on, Bobby D and Charles Johnson got them a championship. They even returned to the championship game. No, they were better than mediocre in the 70s.
Since then this franchise has been the worst, Clippers included.
The day they traded Webber stands out as one craptastic day for sure, 80s. I just not-too-long-ago forgot exactly what day in July of 2007 that EJ foolishly ran off Tom Thibodeau. This franchise consistently sucks. As much as hiring Wittman was the stand up thing to do, hiring Joerger would have been swinging for the fence. Yet, I knew that wouldn't happen the day EG traded Javale McGee. I knew THEN EG's job was safe.
80s, I am just saying this move needs to work next season or I'm reaching a point where I will truly begin to hate this team. Too much obsessing over a CRAP franchise.
I knew the day they resigned Arenas that guy was still injured. The day they signed Pecherov, that guy is not as good as Millsap. We all knew Nick Young lacked intelligence.
Ariza can't shoot of late. Great, just what they need next to Crawford.
Like I said, this needs to work. I thought for sure Nene would be a disaster, he wouldn't be as good as Seraphin, and McGee would blow up. I was wrong. Nene played well and Kevin played. Right now, I don't see the minutes working out. I am anticipating a lot of bad feelings, but who knows.
I just feel bad about this deal.
