arenasisgod
June-6th-2006, 12:07 PM
Lets ease off the keyboards for a minute and marinate on the Wizards for a moment.
Sure their record dipped a bit from 04-05, but they were adjusting to a grip of new players, all looking to make major contributions.
Turning point: Inserting Caron Butler into the starting line-up, from that point on, the wiz went from seven games under five hundred, to the fifth best record in the east. Placing Daniels on the bench ressurected what everyone was calling a "bust" of a season. He became the only bench option in the playoffs and came up huge in game five of the Lebron series
Injuries: Everyone's favorite Power-Forward-lauriate Etan Thomas was recovering from a long time away from the court with an abdominal strain. Haywood battled back spasms, Butler sat out several games with ankle issues and Jarvis Hayes wore a suit for most of the year. While the big guys ('tawn and Gilbert) stayed relatively healthy, the team wasn't totally absent from injury. I feel like with Jarvis able to pump in 10-20 points off the bench, the wiz take 5-6 more games that year. How about another athletic forward to throw at the Paul Pierces, Ray Allens, Lebrons and Dwyanes?
Why dwell on minute things? Simple. This team is in no need of dealing all of their pieces for some injury prone, past his prime stiff (Kenyon Martin) or some flightless draft pick, or some white guy. This team can and will win.
If adjustments were the big problem in the beginning of the 05-06 season, why should the wiz cripple themselves trying to add another cadre of personnell who will have to adjust to Gilbertology, Jamison floaters and Haywood's "post moves?" Shouldn't Ernie and the fam simply re-sign Jared-Jeff, add roller-players to the bench, draft a couple of hungry team-first guys and finally set off "La Bomba" to make this offseason a success?
Yes.
Sure their record dipped a bit from 04-05, but they were adjusting to a grip of new players, all looking to make major contributions.
Turning point: Inserting Caron Butler into the starting line-up, from that point on, the wiz went from seven games under five hundred, to the fifth best record in the east. Placing Daniels on the bench ressurected what everyone was calling a "bust" of a season. He became the only bench option in the playoffs and came up huge in game five of the Lebron series
Injuries: Everyone's favorite Power-Forward-lauriate Etan Thomas was recovering from a long time away from the court with an abdominal strain. Haywood battled back spasms, Butler sat out several games with ankle issues and Jarvis Hayes wore a suit for most of the year. While the big guys ('tawn and Gilbert) stayed relatively healthy, the team wasn't totally absent from injury. I feel like with Jarvis able to pump in 10-20 points off the bench, the wiz take 5-6 more games that year. How about another athletic forward to throw at the Paul Pierces, Ray Allens, Lebrons and Dwyanes?
Why dwell on minute things? Simple. This team is in no need of dealing all of their pieces for some injury prone, past his prime stiff (Kenyon Martin) or some flightless draft pick, or some white guy. This team can and will win.
If adjustments were the big problem in the beginning of the 05-06 season, why should the wiz cripple themselves trying to add another cadre of personnell who will have to adjust to Gilbertology, Jamison floaters and Haywood's "post moves?" Shouldn't Ernie and the fam simply re-sign Jared-Jeff, add roller-players to the bench, draft a couple of hungry team-first guys and finally set off "La Bomba" to make this offseason a success?
Yes.