Hoopalotta wrote:zenvibes wrote:well here's the thing with the roster as is...you have John Wall. That automatically puts you in win now mode.
Losing a ton this year in year one will be forgivable if you get a high pick out of it and can turn that pick and some of the younger undeveloped talent on the team into some good veteran help. My guess is your GM starts to go that direction as soon as trade deadline this year.
Someone didn't get the memo.
A) The team is out n' out terrible with fundamental flaws built into the roster.
B) Ownership has made it abundantly clear that they're full on with a youth movement.
This is true. I am getting up to date with the team.
But the overwhelming factor or rate determining step in this entire thread is John Wall. Someone mentioned Rose earlier but Paul or Deron can be used instead. Wall may or may not be as efficient as these guys this year or as productive, but he is every bit as good if not better. He really is. I personally think the best PG in the game going forward for the next 10 years is on your roster. I think he can and will be a better defender than all the others, a better scorer, and looks like a big-time crunch player in the making.
You can't put off winning too long for a guy like this. Do you want to end up with a player like Gary Payton or Micheal Jordan? A winning culture and giving an athlete a sense that it is doing everything it can to win is huge in not only his development as a winner and his attutude about winning but also in keeping him.
You MUST look at the current trends. nearly every single one of the best players in the game right now are switching teams to get in bigger markets and/or under the guise of "winning." His rookie deal will come and go quick and if history shows us anything, rare is it that a Magic Johnson rookie type gets to team up with a Kareem to start winning it all immediately. History has shown us that Wall's true window to win it all as his team's alpha will open in 3-4 years as he learns the game, devolps defensively and offensively, etc...right about the time his rookie deal expires. You have got to keep him happy from now til then. And sure, right now just being in the NBA and living his dream and having some duckets to blow at the club on big bootie hotties will keep him satisfied. That won't last beyond April at the latest. Me? I'm good with a lifetime of that, but I don't have his kind of talent. At that point he will be wondering what the team is doing to help him fulfill whatever legacy he wants to establish for himself and my guess is he thinks highly of himself.
I'm not suggesting that the Wizards start spending foolishly like cleveland did with larry hughes et al. In fact, the wizards aren't looking for 20 ppg scorers like cleveland was back then to build around Lebron. The Wizards arleady have 3 20ish ppg scorers on the roster!!! in Wall, Arenas, and Blatche. The wizards just need the cheapest things pieces. Role players...that essentially cost about the same as top 5 picks. You already have you're role palyer extraordinaire in kirk. You got your microwave/former super star in arenas (and he aint going no where...no one wants that contract for quite sometime. For Arenas' sake as well...you must start to win now...dude (for all the talent in th eworld) has the attention span of an 8 year old. If there is any chance of Arenas truly buying in to a 6th man role it is if the team is winning and he feel relevant. Then you might have a glimpse of the Arenas of old (and hopefully with someone capable holding the reigns).
Wizards need a role playing C and SF...as well as a dirty work PF to back up Blatche when he feel like playing like a project. You have got be very either very good or very lucky to find those in the draft. But they are their and usually in the 2nd round or late first. Picks you can buy not earn through sucking. You can buy a carlos Boozer, taj Gibson, whatshis puss for the spurs. the dirty work role players generally dont go above pick 15 and that's what the Wizards need. And in the meantime fight like hell both on the court and in the front office for the 8th seed to change the culture and keep wall's head in it to keep him in DC.
More top 5 lotto pick project type players will likely just set you back at this point. And I'm some level I'm sure the front office is aware of what they have and what they need to do to get there regardless of what they are selling in their own press releases.
