Seismic Shift in the East: Thomas Bryant a Wizard

Post #101 » by **nate33** » Fri Dec 7, 2018 10:21 pm

nuposse04 wrote:
nate33 wrote:
nuposse04 wrote:Whats gonna suck is that when Howard comes back, Bryant won't get the backup 5 mins even though he absolutely should. Hopefully we will have traded Morris/Oubre/Rivers/Wall by that point.

Howard isn't coming back. At least not until March or so.

I think so long as we start evening out and winning games, Howard will make an attempt to come back. I'd personally like him to take his time. I'm also hoping that we can jettison some of our non-contributory players.

I thought I read his rehab would be 6 weeks, is it significantly longer?

2-3 weeks. :wink:

ozthegap · Post #102 » by **ozthegap** » Fri Dec 7, 2018 10:38 pm

nate33 wrote:
nuposse04 wrote:
nate33 wrote:Howard isn't coming back. At least not until March or so.

I think so long as we start evening out and winning games, Howard will make an attempt to come back. I'd personally like him to take his time. I'm also hoping that we can jettison some of our non-contributory players.

I thought I read his rehab would be 6 weeks, is it significantly longer?

2-3 weeks.

I thought they said 2 or 3 months

Post #103 » by **nate33** » Sat Dec 8, 2018 1:21 am

ozthegap wrote:
nate33 wrote:
nuposse04 wrote:
I think so long as we start evening out and winning games, Howard will make an attempt to come back. I'd personally like him to take his time. I'm also hoping that we can jettison some of our non-contributory players.

I thought I read his rehab would be 6 weeks, is it significantly longer?

2-3 weeks.

I thought they said 2 or 3 months

It's 2-3 something. Does it really matter?

FAH1223 · Post #104 » by **FAH1223** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:47 pm

Kid needs to play in 4th quarters. 15-18 minutes per game is a joke especially when there's no rebounding.

dorianwrite · Post #105 » by **dorianwrite** » Sun Dec 16, 2018 11:28 pm

Looking for a silver lining in the midst of this debacle of a season: is it possible that, in Thomas Bryant, we might get 2/3 of Hassan Whiteside's production and none of his craziness? I would see that as a hugely successful pickup.

FAH1223 · Post #106 » by **FAH1223** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 3:26 am

Lakers drafted Lonzo, Kuzma, Hart and Bryant in 2017. That was a good haul.

Lakers fans still mad they chose Zubac over Bryant.

Post #107 » by **nate33** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 1:15 pm

dorianwrite wrote:Looking for a silver lining in the midst of this debacle of a season: is it possible that, in Thomas Bryant, we might get 2/3 of Hassan Whiteside's production and none of his craziness? I would see that as a hugely successful pickup.

Yes, he has been a great pickup. And early indicators are that Sam Dekker might be a keeper too. And we know Sato is.

The problem is, it's likely we won't be able to keep them because of luxtax issues. It'll be interesting to see what offers they get. They are all restricted free agents with minimal cap holds, so we can extend qualifying offers and hope that they stay, but if other teams come along and bid up their price, we will have to let them go.

Assuming Howard stays, we will have about $11M to pay the combined salaries of Sato, Bryant and Dekker before hitting the luxtax. Maybe we'll stretch Mahinmi and generate another $10M in luxtax room. I'd love to keep Jeff Green around too.

truwizfan4evr · Post #108 » by **truwizfan4evr** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 9:00 pm

i was wondering what Thomas Bryant ceiling can be? He's young and still developing him. Lakers are so dumb to give up on him already.

pcbothwel · Post #109 » by **pcbothwel** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 9:08 pm

truwizfan4evr wrote:i was wondering what Thomas Bryant ceiling can be? He's young and still developing him. Lakers are so dumb to give up on him already.

A starting Center on a contender...
Running the court, playing good defense, setting picks, and hitting the occasional 3 is all I would ever need from a 5.
I love his game and his energy. When him, Sato, and Brown are playing, you feel a different energy.

closg00 · Post #110 » by **closg00** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 10:26 pm

We have his Bird rights? He can still be pinched

pcbothwel · Post #111 » by **pcbothwel** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 10:58 pm

closg00 wrote:We have his Bird rights? He can still be pinched

Doubtful. He's an RFA at a position that is flooded right now.
Kanter, Jordan, Vuc, Dedmon, Cousins, KOQ, WCS, Brook Lopez, Amir, Udoh, Monroe, Javale, Noel, Zubac, Birch, Bell are all legit rotation worthy Centers that will be FA's this summer. I just dont see teams willing to overpay an RFA like Bryant with all those guys available.

FAH1223 · Post #112 » by **FAH1223** » Tue Dec 18, 2018 12:45 am

pcbothwel wrote:
closg00 wrote:We have his Bird rights? He can still be pinched

Doubtful. He's an RFA at a position that is flooded right now.
Kanter, Jordan, Vuc, Dedmon, Cousins, KOQ, WCS, Brook Lopez, Amir, Udoh, Monroe, Javale, Noel, Zubac, Birch, Bell are all legit rotation worthy Centers that will be FA's this summer. I just dont see teams willing to overpay an RFA like Bryant with all those guys available.

Wow. Yeah he’s gonna be back either at the qualifying offer or a small short term deal.

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nuposse04 · Post #115 » by **nuposse04** » Sun Dec 23, 2018 4:57 am

Great performance. Hopefully he can build off of it, provided our moron coach actually gives him minutes.

TheBabyMaker · Post #116 » by **TheBabyMaker** » Sun Dec 23, 2018 5:21 am

nuposse04 wrote:Great performance. Hopefully he can build off of it, provided our moron coach actually gives him minutes.

Our Moron coach played him by default. Morris fouled out. Brooks have no god damn clue.

dangermouse · Post #117 » by **dangermouse** » Sun Dec 23, 2018 9:55 am

Bruant plays like 7 solid minutes in the first quarter of games, then he's lucky to get back on again in the 3rd. What is Brooks seeing? He's not the greatest defender but at least he hustles. He is light years better than Markieff in that regard and Brooks just continually goes to him. Unless we are trying to build Kieff's trade value...

BigA · Post #118 » by **BigA** » Sun Dec 23, 2018 12:13 pm

pcbothwel wrote:
closg00 wrote:We have his Bird rights? He can still be pinched

Doubtful. He's an RFA at a position that is flooded right now.
Kanter, Jordan, Vuc, Dedmon, Cousins, KOQ, WCS, Brook Lopez, Amir, Udoh, Monroe, Javale, Noel, Zubac, Birch, Bell are all legit rotation worthy Centers that will be FA's this summer. I just dont see teams willing to overpay an RFA like Bryant with all those guys available.

If he doesn't miss any shots the rest of the season, maybe the rest of the league will take notice. He probably won't get additional playing time from Brooks, though.

BigA · Post #119 » by **BigA** » Sun Dec 23, 2018 12:20 pm

So, Brooks has proven that he can at least get a team with 3 future Hall of Fame players to the finals. I figure with 5 or so future HOF players the Wizards might have a shot at a title with Scott at the helm.

So, Dwight Howard is certainly future HOF. Maybe now they have another with Bryant. If they sign Durant in free agency they just need two or three more.

truwizfan4evr · Post #120 » by **truwizfan4evr** » Sun Dec 23, 2018 1:02 pm

BigA wrote:So, Brooks has proven that he can at least get a team with 3 future Hall of Fame players to the finals. I figure with 5 or so future HOF players the Wizards might have a shot at a title with Scott at the helm.

So, Dwight Howard is certainly future HOF. Maybe now they have another with Bryant. If they sign Durant in free agency they just need two or three more.

Were not getting durant,Maybe when he's old and washed up.