The Official Washington Wizards Thread

[pjfootballer]

Wow 43 million in 5 players.

[Yusuf06]

Keep up the losing! We need Ernie FIRED. GTFO and thanks for trying. You are a poor GM. One lucky trade to get Caron doesn't change that. Can someone start a Facebook petition to fire Ernie. The sad thing is with the losing, the Wiz fanbase is so apathetic now they won't make a stand,

Funny, I didn't know such a thing existed. I guess there are more masochists out there than I thought.

[Sticksboi05]

True, but you're vastly underrating Arenas.

Arenas was a Kobe/Wade/LeBron tier offensive player, and had we had a real organization in place that could get Arenas to mature as a person in time before Gilbertology happened, then the history of the Wizards is very different. Even barring that, Arenas on a well constructed team would have won an MVP and possibly a ring. A coach with a stronger hand, and better use of cap money, and that's a 50 win team consistently. And it gets pushed into championship tier status if we trade Jamison for Gasol in 2008 or thereabouts.

Let's say we fire Eddie and Ernie in 2007, and sign Thibodeau as our HC, and Gilbert stays healthy. We trade Jamison for Gasol in 2008 and end up with the following:

Haywood/Thomas
Gasol/Blatche
Butler/McGuire
Stevenson/Young
Arenas/Daniels

That's a team that could win a title and challenge for the ECF for the next few years.

Arenas was a volume shooter shooting in the low 40% range and none of the three played defense. You do not win titles in the NBA playing zero defense. Arenas was not close to as efficient as LeBron or Wade. Those teams were flawed and basically just inferior versions of the Suns teams of those times who at least got to the 2nd round routinely before the Spurs D massacred them.

[No Excuses]

Gilbert in his prime was one of the most efficient scorers in the NBA. Look up all the advanced stats on him. He was a ridiculous scorer and made everyone around him A LOT better. Jamison, Hughes and Butler owe a lot to Gilbert in terms of the success they had in DC.

[Warhead36]

Gil was a great player but he was never Lebron/Kobe/Wade. He was a notch below. At best he was in that Melo territory.

[Sticksboi05]

Gilbert in his prime was one of the most efficient scorers in the NBA. Look up all the advanced stats on him. He was a ridiculous scorer and made everyone around him A LOT better. Jamison, Hughes and Butler owe a lot to Gilbert in terms of the success they had in DC.

Gil would go on hot streaks. But in between man sometimes it'd 30 shots for 20 points. But when he was hot he was red hot. The problem is he was never a great rebounding or passing PG so if he was cold one night he was invisible since he also didn't care about defense.

[Duckus]

Tickets for tonight game going for 40 cents right now on Stubhub.

[No Excuses]

Gil would go on hot streaks. But in between man sometimes it'd 30 shots for 20 points. But when he was hot he was red hot. The problem is he was never a great rebounding or passing PG so if he was cold one night he was invisible since he also didn't care about defense.

Those cold nights were not that common for him and are experienced by even the best of players in the league.

Gilbert had his faults but scoring wasn't one of them.

[StillUnknown]

Tickets for tonight game going for 40 cents right now on Stubhub.

Still overpriced.

[Buford]

Tickets for tonight game going for 40 cents right now on Stubhub.

at least $.50 overpriced. Maybe $.60.

[Sticksboi05]

Those cold nights were not that common for him and are experienced by even the best of players in the league.

Gilbert had his faults but scoring wasn't one of them.

He was a complete scorer. Could score from everywhere on the court, but he was never as efficient as Wade or LeBron. Though he was a hell of a three point shooter. If he hadn't been flattened by Wallace who knows where his career would've gone. Or if the Wiz medical staff had handled his injury properly instead of rushing him back a half dozen times.

[Buford]

Tickets for tonight game going for 40 cents right now on Stubhub.

at least $.50 overpriced. Maybe $.60.

[stevemcqueen1]

Tickets for tonight game going for 40 cents right now on Stubhub.

[Sticksboi05]

Anyone who goes please bring Fire Ernie signs.

[stevemcqueen1]

Those cold nights were not that common for him and are experienced by even the best of players in the league.

Gilbert had his faults but scoring wasn't one of them.

Yeah. The biggest problem with Gil, aside from the defense, was the off court stuff. You can't have your best player and leader be doing the kind of stuff he did.

Can you ever imagine LeBron/Wade/Kobe/Dirk/Duncan/KG/Rose/Durant ever taking a dump in one of their teammate's shoes? Could you ever imagine them bringing a ****ing gun into the locker room as part of a damn prank?

The dump prank alone was horrifically unprofessional. Gil was a clown. You can't win with someone like that. Everyone who was involved in that era needs to be gone. We will never stop being a clown show until they are.