bulldog
June-27th-2003, 08:14 PM
the Wizards have done a lot of stupid things during the past year and have handled the public relations end of their business very poorly to boot.
but, for a team dead and buried after MJ blew town, the Wizards have made a relatively soft landing.
this team is far away from contending for anything of note.
however, being able to bring in a qualified executive in Ernie Grunfeld and a coach with experience from a winning program with the Nets in Eddie Jordan, that's not all bad :)
The draft went off without an Unseld move to select a Manute Bol or Muggsy Bogues, so far so good...........the team's two most pressing needs were at SF and PG and that's what they took. No doubt the Blake pick was some payback to the community for the Jordan fallout.
Hayes can shoot the basketball and the Wizards didn't exactly have any players at SG or SF that shot for a high percentage in 2002.
Some can question the move to keep Brown. A new coach could have taken either tack on Kwame. Either to deal him right away and start over fresh or keep Brown and try to bring him along.
Brown's maturity may be 3 years behind his athletic ability, but I imagine that while a lot of teams were interested in trading for Brown, they were willing to give up less in return than what would be reasonable if Brown DID develop into a solid player.
Trading him for the #12 pick or a combination including a veteran would be a black mark for the franchise if Brown turned into yet another power forward that found a home elsewhere :(
An interesting week.
After all the buzz about MJ being in town over the past 3 seasons perhaps the Wizards can get back to the boring but necessary task of identifying, developing and then mixing talent :cool:
Jordan's presence brought pub but it also brought the weight of expectations and pressure that this team full of mostly young and inexperienced players was not up to handling.
And Doug Collins, although he won 50 games in Detroit, never did reach this team in any meaningful way, despite all the head games and psych outs he tried.
but, for a team dead and buried after MJ blew town, the Wizards have made a relatively soft landing.
this team is far away from contending for anything of note.
however, being able to bring in a qualified executive in Ernie Grunfeld and a coach with experience from a winning program with the Nets in Eddie Jordan, that's not all bad :)
The draft went off without an Unseld move to select a Manute Bol or Muggsy Bogues, so far so good...........the team's two most pressing needs were at SF and PG and that's what they took. No doubt the Blake pick was some payback to the community for the Jordan fallout.
Hayes can shoot the basketball and the Wizards didn't exactly have any players at SG or SF that shot for a high percentage in 2002.
Some can question the move to keep Brown. A new coach could have taken either tack on Kwame. Either to deal him right away and start over fresh or keep Brown and try to bring him along.
Brown's maturity may be 3 years behind his athletic ability, but I imagine that while a lot of teams were interested in trading for Brown, they were willing to give up less in return than what would be reasonable if Brown DID develop into a solid player.
Trading him for the #12 pick or a combination including a veteran would be a black mark for the franchise if Brown turned into yet another power forward that found a home elsewhere :(
An interesting week.
After all the buzz about MJ being in town over the past 3 seasons perhaps the Wizards can get back to the boring but necessary task of identifying, developing and then mixing talent :cool:
Jordan's presence brought pub but it also brought the weight of expectations and pressure that this team full of mostly young and inexperienced players was not up to handling.
And Doug Collins, although he won 50 games in Detroit, never did reach this team in any meaningful way, despite all the head games and psych outs he tried.