sfam wrote:This comment really does put a damper on things. There is no way this team goes through next year without major injury time taking its toll. We need to have the depth necessary to continue moving forward. But honestly, consistency in approach should take care of a lot of that. Once everyone knows their roles, and the roles they need to fill in the case of injury, they should step up better. We just need a long string of no major injuries for this to happen.
And it's a very similar story to the previous playoff team Ernie built, except this version is even more fragile than the Gilbert-led team which was undone by injuries, staleness of the roster and the lack of drafting & developing good players. We've even got our own new Juan Dixon (Jordan Crawford), Jared Jeffries (Jan Vesely) & Etan Thomas (Kevin Seraphin) to boot.
It's hilarious to hear these EG apologists like hands, dczards and others make excuse after excuse as if the other 29 teams in the league all play with a full deck every night. The Wizards are 15-35, big whoop. It means nothing. Absolutely nothing. You know when this would have actually meant something???? If we didn't start off 4-28! We aren't making the playoffs, we don't carry the record into next year and if God help us, we suffer injuries (gasp!) next season and start off 5-25 once again or even better 9-19, then what???
I guess what I'm saying is I don't believe this is sustainable. One injury knocks over the apple cart. As I said the other day, its like setting up a deck of cards on a picnic table... eventually a gust a wind is going to come. I don't trust the roster to stay healthy. I don't trust Ernie to make good decisions this offseason (I think he's going overpay big time for Webster or/and potentially draft someone like Rudy Goubert) . I don't trust that this feel good season ending run is going to automatically carry over into next season.
I'm just waiting for Teddy to give Ernie that 5 yr extension this offseason because of this little stretch.
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