Morris out 6 weeks due to neck injury

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[nate33]

Crap! 6 weeks puts us past the Trade Deadline.

I was hoping he could be traded to Philly for Muscala. That doesn't seem very likely now.

[nuposse04]

Addition by subtraction I guess. He prolly had more perceived value, shame we prolly can't get anything for him..like a 2nd rounder. Although it would be near impossible for EG to admit to his mistake.

[Ruzious]

Well, he can still come back in time to "help" a team down the stretch or be filler in a trade. It might actually allow him to come back fresh from the usual aches and pains.

[nate33]

Well, he can still come back in time to "help" a team down the stretch or be filler in a trade. It might actually allow him to come back fresh from the usual aches and pains.

I hope so.

Hopefully a team won't consider this relatively minor injury (and one not associated with the lower body) to be a deal breaker in any trade.

[Ruzious]

I'm thinking Boston might end up having an interest in him - because they're a little thin up front, and they seem to like his brother a lot.

[Induveca]

Another agent/player “protect yourself now” move before getting traded. Bad character move, but in a dysfunctional setting where he was getting traded or benched it likely saves some portion of his own perceived value.

He either likes DC itself or is trying to outlast Grunfeld and/or Brooks.

[Kanyewest]

I'm thinking Boston might end up having an interest in him - because they're a little thin up front, and they seem to like his brother a lot.

Damn Marcus Morris has a 63.6 TS%.

[long suffrin' boulez fan]

Good...

For team basketball and for my blood pressure.

Bad...

For the tank and for his trade value.

OTOH. If teams can’t actually observe him playing, they’ll forget just how lazy, short armed and slow moving he is.

[long suffrin' boulez fan]

Good...

For team basketball and for my blood pressure.

Bad...

For the tank and for his trade value.

OTOH. If teams can’t actually observe him playing, they’ll forget just how lazy, short armed and slow moving he is.

[trast66]

Doubt we ever see this dude on the court again for us. Hope he stays away from locker room.

[Jimmy Recard]

Like he had any trade value before the injury

No competent GM with the slightest clue would give up anything of value for this bum. Not even a 2nd rd pick. It’s still maddening that Ernie gave up a lottery pick to get him. Can’t wait til he’s gone, my most unlikeable wiz player since Blatche.

[Eli Babak]

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So our lottery pick from 2016 gave us

- 5937 minutes in 210 games
- averages 28.3 MPG, 12.5 PPG, 5.9 RPG, 1.7 APG, 0.6 BPG, 0.9 SPG, 1.7 TOPG, 3.2 FPG
- FG% 46.2, 3P% 35.1, FT% 81.5

- 554 minutes in 19 playoff games
- averages 29.2 MPG, 11.4 PPG, 6.7 RPG, 1.7 APG, 1.2 BPG, 0.8 SPG, 1.4 TOPG, 3.6 FPG
- FG% 42.8, 3P% 32.0, FT% 82.9

- lazy effort
- stupid technical fouls
- annoying face

Nice. Worst case situation (I'm not gonna even mention #FireGrunfeld): no-one trades for him, they keep playing him and in the summer Mahinmi is traded with a pick to make room for Morris.

[trast66]

To be fair, not many guys from the 2016 draft have been better than Kieff over that time frame. Of course any pick would have been paid 30% of what Kieff was paid and wouldn’t have been a locker room lawyer.

[Eli Babak]

To be fair, not many guys from the 2016 draft have been better than Kieff over that time frame.

Maybe, but still it was a terrible trade.

With Markieff they had a 17-13 record and finished 10th, 41-41. Phoenix got 13th pick. Instead they should've traded Dudley for a 2nd and tank to get Sabonis or Pöltl.

Wall/Satoransky
Beal/X/Mac
Oubre/X
Porter/X
Gortat/Sabonis or Pöltl

Satoransky was the only good signing in that summer (Mac was also a good pick from UDFA). **** you Ernie. What the hell were they thinking when they signed Smith, Nicholson and Mahinmi to those awful contracts? ARGH!!

Edit: https://tedstake.monumentalsportsnetwork.com/2016/07/08/a-very-productive-off-season-my-perspective
Okay, sorry about rambling, I didn't sleep enough last night!

[montestewart]

To be fair, not many guys from the 2016 draft have been better than Kieff over that time frame.

Maybe, but still it was a terrible trade.

With Markieff they had a 17-13 record and finished 10th, 41-41. Phoenix got 13th pick. Instead they should've traded Dudley for a 2nd and tank to get Sabonis or Pöltl.

Wall/Satoransky
Beal/X/Mac
Oubre/X
Porter/X
Gortat/Sabonis or Pöltl

Satoransky was the only good signing in that summer (Mac was also a good pick from UDFA). **** you Ernie. What the hell were they thinking when they signed Smith, Nicholson and Mahinmi to those awful contracts? ARGH!!

Edit: https://tedstake.monumentalsportsnetwork.com/2016/07/08/a-very-productive-off-season-my-perspective
Okay, sorry about rambling, I didn't sleep enough last night!

Sorry, I have to quote this Ted's Mistake masterpiece:

Add to the team as needed via trades. We have executed extremely well in this regard, adding the starting frontcourt tandem of Marcin Gortat and Markieff Morris. With Markieff, we felt that we used a sound strategy to take a proven starting power forward who is under contract rather than select a player with the 13th pick. We also used this tactic to add Trey Burke, a very good young guard who was a first-round pick, a member of the All-Rookie team and who will bolster our backcourt. All three players were acquired in exchange for draft picks and helped us mold a strong, balanced roster.

Use free agency to add talent and provide depth. We signed Ian Mahinmi, who was a starter on a very good Indiana team last season, and he will provide defense, rebounding and rim protection. We also signed Andrew Nicholson, a former first-round pick who gives us a budding young inside-outside threat at the four position, and Jason Smith, whose shooting and toughness will add to our frontcourt depth. We also have agreed in principle to enter into a contract with Marcus Thornton, who is a proven scorer at the two-guard spot and showed last season that he can provide instant offense off the bench.

Three 1st rounders and one 2nd rounder (EDIT: two 2nd rounders) later (at least, so far, by my count) the team has an injured Marky Mo and a benched Yawn to show for all that busy work.

[Wizfanman]

Another agent/player “protect yourself now” move before getting traded. Bad character move, but in a dysfunctional setting where he was getting traded or benched it likely saves some portion of his own perceived value.

He either likes DC itself or is trying to outlast Grunfeld and/or Brooks.

He wont outlast Brooks or Ernie before he's a free agent. Those guys are going nowhere.

[Ruzious]

Sorry, I have to quote this Ted's Mistake masterpiece:

Add to the team as needed via trades. We have executed extremely well in this regard, adding the starting frontcourt tandem of Marcin Gortat and Markieff Morris. With Markieff, we felt that we used a sound strategy to take a proven starting power forward who is under contract rather than select a player with the 13th pick. We also used this tactic to add Trey Burke, a very good young guard who was a first-round pick, a member of the All-Rookie team and who will bolster our backcourt. All three players were acquired in exchange for draft picks and helped us mold a strong, balanced roster.

Use free agency to add talent and provide depth. We signed Ian Mahinmi, who was a starter on a very good Indiana team last season, and he will provide defense, rebounding and rim protection. We also signed Andrew Nicholson, a former first-round pick who gives us a budding young inside-outside threat at the four position, and Jason Smith, whose shooting and toughness will add to our frontcourt depth. We also have agreed in principle to enter into a contract with Marcus Thornton, who is a proven scorer at the two-guard spot and showed last season that he can provide instant offense off the bench.

Three 1st rounders and one 2nd rounder later (at least, so far, by my count) the team has an injured Marky Mo and a benched Yawn to show for all that busy work.

Wow, that second paragraph from Ted - bragging on his free agent signings of Mahinmi, Nicholson, Jason Smith, and Marcus Thornton... I threw up a little in my mouth. Epic failure.

[nate33]

Like he had any trade value before the injury

No competent GM with the slightest clue would give up anything of value for this bum. Not even a 2nd rd pick. It’s still maddening that Ernie gave up a lottery pick to get him. Can’t wait til he’s gone, my most unlikeable wiz player since Blatche.

I don't know about that.

I don't think he'd bring back a 2nd round pick, but he could be exchanged for an even more crappier player with a smaller contract, which would save luxtax dollars. Two potential targets would be Philly (Muscala) or LA (Beasley plus a minimum salary contract).

[Wiz99]

I’m fine with this.

Wiz need more players to get diagnosed with “injuries”.

If I were in a position of authority I’d convince Beal he has tendinitis of the knee and his initial “rest and reevaluate” in 10 days would turn into 2 months on and off until in early March we shut him down for the season.

We need to be “lyin for Zion”.