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Correct answer is, "just in time to go on a 7 game winning streak at the end of the year."Quote:
Originally Posted by StillUnknown
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Been reading up on Shabazz and apparently he had a high ankle sprain in the summer and a shoulder strain a couple of weeks ago. He's barely practiced with the team apparently. I think that could explain his slow start but it raises a different concern about how injury prone he is.
You know what's more helpful than "I don't know"? An explanation as to what the hell is going on with his knee. It took three MRIs to find the injury and its now past the time he was supposed to be on the floor and he's not even practicing at near full speed. Have they looked at it again? Does he still feel pain? Is there still swelling?
If they don't say anything useful people keep asking. Even his mom apparently.
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I don't want Wall on the court with Beal and Shabazz. Some youth is fine but a second year player me a rookie getting a ton of time isn't a winning recipe. Of course the teams hands are tied because of stupid trades so well likely have a young team... Again.Quote:
Originally Posted by stevemcqueen1
Young players who don't know how to play on a team that can't develop talent, matched with 2 or 3 overpriced "veterans" who can't play any longer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Destino
Yeah it's not ideal but I just don't think we can do any better. Our vets are such garbage that the young players are already better than them for the most part.Quote:
Originally Posted by Destino
At least Beal plays with some sense.and doesn't jack it up and turn it over constantly. Plus he plays defense.
If we're really lucky with how Singleton, Crawford, Nene, Seraphin and John play next season, we may be able to bring a player like Shabazz along slowly. The team around him might actually have clearly defined roles so that Shabazz could just focus on doing what he already knows how to do and not have to be a crux early on. It'll be year four. You've got to hope by then John and Crawford and Seraphin will pretty much be vets and totally comfortable playing together and Nene will be totally integrated by then. I've also got hope for Singleton yet. If those five come together as the solid core for a team, we can finally stop the bleeding on this 8 year rebuilding plan.
---------- Post added December-2nd-2012 at 06:17 PM ----------
I'd consider putting Zeller up there. Someone made a LaMarcus Aldridge comparison. It's not that great, Aldridge is a very long armed player, but it's interesting. I like the ways Zeller can score the ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRAVEONAWARPATH
I'm not sure I'd say there is a steep drop in this class though because it doesn't really feel like any of these prospects are that great. This looks like one of those classes that doesn't have any big time stars. It's just a lot of role players, flawed #1s, and incomplete projects really. I think picks 1-14 or so will all be more similar in value than different. The star players that come out of this class will probably come out of nowhere and be players that managed to overcome some problem or flaw that nobody expected. Something strange like Alex Poythress learning to shoot or LeBryan Nash figuring out how to play.
http://www.tedstake.com/2012/12/02/p...young-players/
everything will be magically fixed when Wall comes back from his injury, an injury that nobody can seem to tell when he'll be healthy enough to playQuote:
I am not surprised that these stories about the draft and young players have started to appear in print. They are well researched and well written. But there are two perspectives to share.
Young players develop at their own pace and in context to how the team is developing and playing. When you are a sitting with one win this season, it is very easy, and frankly casual, to critique very young players. We now have six players we have drafted in the lineup, and one player that we traded for who was a first round pick in the lineup, as well in Jordan Crawford. So, that’s seven players out of 15 that have come into our rotation from the draft in the last three off seasons.
Frankly, more than half our team is now made up of seasoned and complementary playing vets. We have seven new vets in our lineup this season as well. And Cartier Martin, who has played with our team before. People advocate for change, and sometimes having so much change at a time when you also have core players out with injuries makes for a very tough start to a season. I am supportive of our young players, and will continue to advocate that we build around a core of players that we have drafted and developed. We have made trades to add the vets. We have done some free agent signings. What we haven’t done is wade into free agency to add a big star to our team.
We have many players on our team that we drafted. As noted, John Wall, our point guard is our most tenured player. This would be only his third season. He hasn’t’ played a minute yet this season. The other two players in that draft – three seasons ago – Kevin Seraphin and Trevor Booker –have also contributed. But Booker has been injured a lot of late. Take a look at this link and at the last six years of the fate of the first round picks in the draft as to injuries. It happens.
So two of the three players in our first draft of ownership are not in the lineup this season due to injuries.
We basically did start over, building a roster from scratch and a team that evolved around athleticism, running, and two players – Nene and Wall – who have special skills and can make players around them fit in and play better team ball. Nene has been limited to his minutes this season and has played only fou games with limited minutes.
Jan Vesely and Trevor Ariza are best situated in a running, fast-paced offense. We have now had to slow down play without John Wall in the lineup, and we are asking players to play half court sets. This is a miss -match for their specific skill sets. Jan Vesely is in his second year of development. You always support a young, talented player, who is 7 feet tall, can run and is fundamentally sound. Jan has our support, and is working hard to develop his all-around game. But this is his second year in the NBA, and he is playing without a starting point guard who can push the pace of play. We shouldn’t be so fast to write him off as a player. This is easy to do in media but not something that is smart to do for our franchise.
I support Jan Vesely.
Our draft has yielded many players that have been developing well. Kevin Seraphin is playing many minutes and contributing. And as he develops his game, will be looked at as a player that was a steal in that draft. Chris Singleton, in only his second year, is in our rotation too and playing well and contributing.
Bradley Beal is only 19 years old, is a rookie, and is learning what NBA basketball is all about. But he certainly has shown signs that he will be a key rotation player and a starting player as time goes on in the NBA. He will look better with John Wall in the back court too.
So, we will continue to develop our young players. We will bring back our injured players slowly and appropriately. Their long-term health and wellbeing is very important to them, to our fans and to us. We will work free agency to add to the team. We will try to make astute trades to improve, but we also must develop cohesion, chemistry and structure around a system with so many new and young players in the rotation.
The season to date has been a very tough experience for us all. I have been through tough times before, but this has been a very sobering and humbling experience. I am committed to getting it right and to building a franchise that is respectable, competitive and that wins for our fans.
I also wanted to come to the public support of our young players. I think that is important for them to know that we believe in them.
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Originally Posted by StillUnknown
Interesting...he brings up free agency and trades. Kinda screwed free agency wise due to Ernie's blunders...however, I wonder if something is going to be done to shake up the roster via trade(s) this season?Quote:
So, we will continue to develop our young players. We will bring back our injured players slowly and appropriately. Their long-term health and wellbeing is very important to them, to our fans and to us. We will work free agency to add to the team. We will try to make astute trades to improve, but we also must develop cohesion, chemistry and structure around a system with so many new and young players in the rotation.
"Bradley Beal is only 19 years old, is a rookie, and is learning what NBA basketball is all about. But he certainly has shown signs that he will be a key rotation player and a starting player as time goes on in the NBA. He will look better with John Wall in the back court too."
That's not exactly a ringing endorsement. Have we decided Beal's a role player?
Just a turd of an owner. I wish he would stop writing blog entries or they wouldn't be posted here. It's infuriating.
Well, i think we all expected him to be a consistent player. Not so much a role player or a star. But a guy who could hit his spots, provide athleticism, and grow. A 20 point guy. He wouldnt have even been starting if Wall was healthy. In my opinion though, i would start crawford at the 2, and then switch him to the point when wall ( or whoever ) needs a rest. I dunno. Thats just me. I like Crawford's play at point in small minutes.
Ted says some things that beg obvious questions.
- Ves and Ariza are mismatches in a half court game? That's putting it mildly. More accurate would be to say they are completely useless in the half court. What kind of an NBA player is that? What kind of a team building strategy is it to have multiple players become useless when one player gets hurt? And really, why can't we develop some ****ing skills in our players so that they don't become useless in the halfcourt? Why can't we teach Vesely to dribble or shoot? Why can't Booker, Seraphin, or Singleton dribble either for that matter?
- Why do we become one of the worst teams in NBA history when John Wall gets hurt? How is that acceptable team building results? John is not Derrick Rose, and you don't see Chicago completely fall apart when Rose gets hurt.
- Why are we relying on seven players with less than three years of experience to be the core of our team?
- Why haven't we gone after some decent ****ing FAs? Why are we incapable of signing them?
- I find this part totally infuriating:
Why are we using the regular season for trial an error to settle on a freaking system? Why didn't we have a plan for a rotation before the season? Don't give me the injuries excuse, it hasn't stopped Minny or Dallas from being competitive. Why don't any of our players have any idea what their roles are supposed to be?Quote:
but we also must develop cohesion, chemistry and structure around a system with so many new and young players in the rotation.
And again, why don't we have a system yet? Why wasn't there one established a long ****ing time ago? What the hell has been the plan all along? Oh my god Ernie has literally been drafting according to the mocks at DX and ESPN hasn't he? There has been no plan has there?
Ted, the people you put in charge have totally and embarrassingly failed. You've got an utterly unqualified coach who made a disaster of the rotation and offense right off the bat. You've got a GM who has established a horrible organization-wide culture; puts no effort or emphasis on player development despite the fact he built the ****ing roster out of young, undeveloped players; drafts without any kind of intelligible, targeted plan for building a team and seems to just collect talent willy nilly; has turned what should be a respectable NBA destination city into a free agency wasteland; and has made two trades that were so obviously awful he should have been fired on the spot (5th for Mike Miller & Shard for Ariza and Oak).
Fire Ernie Ted! Goddammit fire him already!
Well said sir. Well said.
Ted makes it sounds like he just heard that NBA teams sometimes have to run a half-court offense.
I need to stay away from his blog, the bull**** is becoming too much.
Ted isn't going to fire Ernie. We should have seen this coming when Ted retained him; he's just a younger Abe Pollin who doesn't give a **** about "competence" but about giving his buddies posh FO jobs. He was part owner since 1999 or so? Yet he didn't see how Ernie ran the organization into the ground? Clearly Ernie has wormed his way into the good graces of ownership, they probably go out drinking or play racquetball together.
At this point, Leonsis is the worst owner in sports. And I'm not sure that he cares about winning the way Snyder does, and Wizards fans are too downtrodden and used to the incompetence to raise a stink the way Redskins fans did.
Also the clueless basketball media doesn't help. For 10 years ESPN and other outlets have CONSISTENTLY praised Ernie for being one of the best GMs in the NBA despite drafting one all star in his entire career.
So basically we have another instance of a player misdiagnosed with Booker now out of a few weeks after we thought it was just a strain.
I think Shabazz is good, but not sure he is a franchise changer.Quote:
Originally Posted by stevemcqueen1
But if you want to blame someone for their struggles, blame Ben Howland and that archaic offense he runs. Its happened with all of his teams at UCLA. Those guys end up being better NBA players than college players because they are free.