The Official Washington Wizards Thread

[Hersh]

Problem is Bynum is a max contract player and we would get him in year one of that deal--if he chose to extend here that is. That's a big if. Also Bynum seems like a bit of a malcontent. Nene is only 70% of a healthy Bynum. But you can make up the difference of that with the contract and he lack of headaches that come with Nene.

Bynum is too risky for me. I don't like the thought of giving him a max deal.

This is spot on.

The only reason I see to bring Bynum here is to create cap space and potentially use him in a sign and trade. No way I would give him a contract extension.

[stevemcqueen1]

Nene is one of those players that you're always thinking about upgrading but when you start looking at what's available you never actually find anyone better than him.

[Destino]

Nene is one of those players that you're always thinking about upgrading but when you start looking at what's available you never actually find anyone better than him.

Are we talking about at center or PF? At PF I don't think Nene even stands out nearly as much.

[stevemcqueen1]

Are we talking about at center or PF? At PF I don't think Nene even stands out nearly as much.

Well, PF is nebulous. Call it a true big man and not one of those smaller scoring PFs that stretch the floor.

It's getting harder to define positions nowadays. The lines between PG and SG have been blurred for a while. But now it's also getting to where I think you only have a handful very general positions and not the five rigidly defines positions from the past:

PG, combo guard, swingman perimeter type, general forward, and general big man.

By that definition Nene, like Seraphin, is a big man.

I think finding good true bigs is the hardest position to fill. There just aren't nearly enough. That's why Omer Asik got the conract he did. Why DeAndre Jordan got his. It's why Nene is going to be so dang hard to replace. Deal Nene without a backup plan and you could end up starting Desange Diop and saying yeah, that was the best we could do.

[StillUnknown]

http://www.bulletsforever.com/2012/1...jury-and-rehab

Transcript from Wall talking about his injury today.


Not that encouraging, some of what he says, contradicts what Wittman put out earlier.

[Destino]

http://www.bulletsforever.com/2012/1...jury-and-rehab

Transcript from Wall talking about his injury today.


Not that encouraging, some of what he says, contradicts what Wittman put out earlier.

Yeah I really don't like this part:

Wall: Well, my fracture is already healed. I just feel like it's the cartilage part left that I'm trying to get cleared. The 8 weeks I took off was the time I was supposed to take off for the stress fracture to heal.

Not a matter of a broken bone healing now. That answers my earlier question as to why he took longer to heal in this day and age. He didn't. The bone healed but he's got another knee issue and I really do not like the sound of it.

[DjTj]

Can doctors figure out what Adrian Peterson's knee is made of and then transplant that into the knee of every other professional athlete?

[Destino]

Can doctors figure out what Adrian Peterson's knee is made of and then transplant that into the knee of every other professional athlete?

Peterson is not a human being. His body reacted to the knee injury by growing better knees. If he gets a head injury he might show up the following season with horns growing out of his head.

[RichmondRedskin88]

Peterson is not a human being. His body reacted to the knee injury by growing better knees. If he gets a head injury he might show up the following season with horns growing out of his head.

Gore Gore Gore!!!

[endzone_dave]

Yeah I really don't like this part:

Not a matter of a broken bone healing now. That answers my earlier question as to why he took longer to heal in this day and age. He didn't. The bone healed but he's got another knee issue and I really do not like the sound of it.

I'm not a doctor but cartilage issues at his age is an awful sign. You can get microfractur surgery to help some that has limited benefits (if what my doctor told me is true).

[StillUnknown]

I don't like that microfracture surgery seems to be a possibility, however small the chance may be (although with our luck, its a virtual certainty) .

Wall's game is completely predicated on his athleticism, take even a fraction of that away and his game gets real ugly.

[Skin'emAlive]

That is terrible news. If he needs to have arthroscopic knee surgery to clean up the cartilage, then it needs to be done as soon as possible. I shudder at the thought of him having micro fracture surgery. That is the nail in the coffin right there folks. Rule of thumb for the wizards continues to be, ' no matter how bad it looks, it could always be worse.'

[Renegade7]

I don't know why, but after reading that, I just have this feeling this is all going to work out in the end. He brings up God a lot, in this case, all you can do is keep the faith. A Wall/Beal backcourt does feel like money, when it does eventually happen. I wouldn't be upset to end his season to make sure we actually do get that backcourt for the future...

[BRAVEONAWARPATH]

I don't like that microfracture surgery seems to be a possibility, however small the chance may be (although with our luck, its a virtual certainty) .

Wall's game is completely predicated on his athleticism, take even a fraction of that away and his game gets real ugly.

Microfracture surgery= Gilbert Arenas.

[Destino]

If he needs micro fracture he needs to be traded two months free he gets back on the court and momentarily looks good. I don't care if he looks like Derrick Rose. Having said that, I don't think we are anywhere near that point.