How Big Is Your Tank

[AWIZZINGBULLET]

yeah let's go on a win streak while the rest of the league tanks and get stuck with another Vesely instead of possibly enes kanter right now. Classic Wizard Move. We get nick young instead of thad. young. Because we choose to win games when they don't matter any more, yet when we are suppose to win games in the first third of the season we establish the worst records.
Makes no sense. This is the time to play Vesely, Booker, and Singleton. Winning now just ensures we wind up with another booker, singleton, or Vesely.
Sorry but Bennet is definitely worth tanking for. This guy is going to make Wall's, and Beal's day to day life 1000 times easier getting to the conference championship for the next ten years that isn't funny, but the lone time when you get a chance to get the championship your team needs, you superstar point guard all of sudden wants to ruin his chances of ever getting a championship ring. Wall, we know you are max player, how about you wait until next season to win games when our we won't ever ever get a chance to a get a lottery pick because the team is going to the playoffs for the next ten years straight. Wise up buddy. Give Vesely a few more chances to shoot and stop worrying about winning meaningless games that keep us from getting a another scorer that will help you win multiple championships and bring honor to the Washington DC.

So silly.

[Higga]

Well you can't ask your players to lose games on purpose.

I'm okay with winning if it's because Wall is dominating. His development is more important than a few spots in a draft that's going to be historically bad.

[jman2585]

It's pretty huge. Not as big as some though.

[PZiv]

I think your tank is going for..








9th spot in Conference with this schedule.

[hands11]

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[hands11]

Man, Orlando is actually challenging the Cats. That's impressive.

So we going to get back in this thing ? Only two games separates them from 10th to 5th

Then again, MIL is folding like a chair just like I thought they would. Two more loses coming up against LAL and OKC but they do have 4 easy team remaining. CHA 2x, ORL and MIN. I could see them ending with 37 wins.

But we would have to win out to get that. Schedule is to hard. That isn't happening.

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=400278779

Any chance we could get OKC to sell us their second lower first.
They already have a pick at 9th which almost seems unfair. They don't need the second pick.

I got really mixed feeling on a strategy here.
If we lose some, we can get a higher pick and may land Noel. But that gives them a higher pick to bust.
The lower pick may also be a bust but if that happens, it wouldn't sting as much and we could get value there.

I would be nice if we can trade with ATL or UTH so we end up with two picks to get McCollum and one of Withey or Dieng

That has been one of may favorable out comes for a while so if it could happen, that would be a nice draft in my book. Then use the 2nds on players like Pierre, Cory Jefferson, McDermott, Ryan Kelly, Muscala, etc.

[sfam]

In all seriousness, Vesely really needs to get 20-25 minutes a night from here on out. They spent a top 10 draft pick on the guy, they got to get him on the floor to evaluate where he is. If Vesely is going to be back next year, they need to develop an offseason plan for the guy, which will only be useful if they actually see him in gametime situations.

[FAH1223]

In all seriousness, Vesely really needs to get 20-25 minutes a night from here on out. They spent a top 10 draft pick on the guy, they got to get him on the floor to evaluate where he is. If Vesely is going to be back next year, they need to develop an offseason plan for the guy, which will only be useful if they actually see him in gametime situations.

I know one thing. It will be tanktastic.

[sfam]

In all seriousness, Vesely really needs to get 20-25 minutes a night from here on out. They spent a top 10 draft pick on the guy, they got to get him on the floor to evaluate where he is. If Vesely is going to be back next year, they need to develop an offseason plan for the guy, which will only be useful if they actually see him in gametime situations.

I know one thing. It will be tanktastic.

This is our best option for getting more value out of Vesely

Tank and hope for a good ball bounce!

[JWizmentality]

Magnum

[hands11]

In all seriousness, Vesely really needs to get 20-25 minutes a night from here on out. They spent a top 10 draft pick on the guy, they got to get him on the floor to evaluate where he is. If Vesely is going to be back next year, they need to develop an offseason plan for the guy, which will only be useful if they actually see him in gametime situations.

I know one thing. It will be tanktastic.

This is our best option for getting more value out of Vesely

Tank and hope for a good ball bounce!

All about utilizing your assets.

If he can't play, all least he can help us get future players that can or he proves he can. Its a win win.

Shut down Nene. Start the Ves.

[hands11]

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Amazing.

[hands11]

MN won to get into the 29 win race.

TOR getting their asses kicked by MLK.

Wiz in a 3 way tie at 29 with both of them.

Looks like 1 - 4 are locked in pretty strong with CLE at 23 wins.

DET, NO, SAC battling it out for 5, 6 and 7

Looking like 8th is the best the Wiz can do from here.

[Knighthonor]

Wow our city tank train failed.
What will happen next season?

[jman2585]

Your tank has crashed. Game over.

[The Consiglieri]

I blame John Wall. He carried a Tow, and blasted the hell out of it. It must have been a 1942 era Sherman. 4-28 w/o Wall, 25-19 with him. It's nice to know that we've finally got an answer about whether Wall can hack it or not, and the crazier hatathons on him have begun to cease. It appears he's gone from a troubled player with potential, to an injured player, to a potential franchise superstar in the space o about 8 weeks. Crazy. It's good to have 2 legit pieces, that's two more than it looked like a year ago.

[hands11]

That was not tanking as much as it was a good ol butt whooping.

But I'll take a L. Better to be in that 8th slot. That way we get a better shot at a player we want and a few more percent at 1 through 3.

[Upper Decker]

I'm really hoping the Wiz end up with a worse record than Toronto. OKC is a big threat to take Len or Bennett, whom I'm guessing are the two most logical targets at #8. This would at least allow EG to select the better of those two.

I'd be against Len as a high lotto selection, however, I'd be fine with him at #8 because I think he can basically become what Okafor is right now, but a little better. He should be a good anchor defensively, It appears he has the ability to be a pick and pop player, but seems to have the athletic ability to roll to the cup, something that Okafor cannot do.

[The Consiglieri]

So far, so good, we're a game ahead of them in slotting, and 3 of their last four at home. Oddly, they are against the teams in the 5th (42), 4th (45), 6th (42) and 7th (40) playoff slots. It's hard to get a clear bead on how hard the teams will be attempting to win as they're so tightly packed together, but hopefully at least one or two of them will be resting guys so Toronto can keep its win lead over us. We don't have any cake walks on the schedule, but we do have home games (something we've been winning lately) and opponents that may not have any incentive to play hard (Miami tonight), so it's a tough call. Hopefully we can keep ahead of them in the race to the 8 or 7 slot, but we're not going to have a clear answer to that until probably Monday or Wednesday of next week.

I have the same feeling about Len as you do. Back when we were in that 3-5 zone, the idea of selecting him was intolerable, but with the 8th pick, you're essentially hoping your favorite among the big 9 or so falls to you, or picking amongst a third tier of players (based on projections, this draft appears to be Tier 1: Noel, McLemore, Smart Tier 2: Porter, Bennett, Burke, Oladipo, Muhammad, Len, then that vast clump of guys i'd rank in the 10th-20th area and fundamentally less valuable than the vast majority of the top 9 (admittedly I don't like Oladipo, Muhammad, or Porter that much from the top 9). Fingers crossed we land either a top 3 pick, or 7th-8th.

[hands11]

Ok boys and girls.

Here we go.

Down to 3 games.

Gotta say. They did a masterful tank down the stretch last year so they have the skills to get it done.

One home game left against Philly and you know the Wiz suck on the road after that.

Webby with a pulled stomach. Nene on one leg. Trevor A out with something. Beal is shut down.

Sitting in the 8th slot with Minny on our hip. The Wiz can't afford any more wins or they could end up 11th. As it is, they still have a shot at 7th.

I would gladly miss my prediction of 32 for a few more Ping Pong Balls. Looking like its going to be 29 or 30 wins. Something tells me they really want to get to 30. But its just not worth it.

Gotta ring up an L to Philly.