sfam wrote:ReasonablySober wrote:And like I said, I certainly don't blame any of you for passing on the deal. If I were running the team I'd add another young piece too. I said as much on my board when talking about your situation:
ReasonablySober wrote:Personally, if I were in the Wizards shoes I'd take Zeller or Len and continue adding to the young core. They could (and should) be a playoff team next season. Just keep adding young core pieces around the same age.
But I don't know the situation over there in Washington. If they have a mandate to win as many games as possible next season in an effort to appease Wall, then I don't think they could get a better player than Ilyasova with that pick. I think he adds five wins to that team and would look outstanding with Wall getting him the ball on pick and rolls and kick outs.
So you're basically saying that if the Wizards have a mandate to do something dumb in order to keep Wall, than this trade is a good deal. Again, if Okafor is included, I don't see us winning more games. This makes the trade bad in the short and long term.
It's not difficult to see exactly what I'm saying. If the Wizards want to win over the next three or four years, I believe Ilyasova gives them the better chance than the #3 pick.
But if you understand my philosophy on team building, and I think I've made it clear if you have even an average ability to infer, it's accumulating a number of young players, losing a lot of games and hoping to hit on at least two franchise changing players. The difficulty lies in finding a franchise player before your young talent improves to the point where you no longer are able to find that guy in the draft. That's exactly what has happened to the Bucks. In an ideal world they would tank, hit a home run on a franchise player, then add your Sanders, Ilyasovas and Hensons. That's a contender.
But to put that perspective towards your team, I think Washington greatly screwed up by adding Nene and Okafor. I'd have gone with Wall, Beal and C-minus players around them until they added one more potential superstar. Now it's hard to imagine them being bad enough in '14 to hit on that guy. Your hopes rest on Wall being a top five player. It could happen, but I doubt it.
So the question becomes do you roll with Wall being a stud and adding the best possible players around him? Hope for some legit success this season? Or do you try and toe the line of win-now and win-later, something that's awfully tough to pull off.
