The Official Washington Wizards Thread

[Hersh]

The worst part about John Wall's knee is that Ernie and Ted will use it as an excuse to not make any changes. Wittman will be here all year and we will have to same conversations over and over again about what a competent GM and owner should be doing with this franchise. Hopefully there is a good big man or scoring SF worth taking when the Wiz draft top 3 next year.

---------- Post added December-18th-2012 at 03:54 AM ----------

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.

Even if he has microfracture surgery, I will bet that he'll still get a max contract from Ernie.

[Fight4RGIII]

Damn the Cavs are sitting at 5-20. At least they've had Irving for half the year. Of course, we're both be looking for scoring SFs they'll probably and up with the more, "exciting," SF pick like Shabazz. Irving was the more, "exciting," PG than Wall and Waiters was the more, "exciting/flashy," SG than Beal.

[AsiaticSkinsFan]

You're not bringing him here for his scoring. He's only taking four shots a game. You bring him here because he's tough, smart, rebounds, and is efficient with limited minutes. He's a rah rah boost off the bench and he will play defense.

he friggin sucks

he isnt even a "glue" guy because he cant guard anyone.


Bynum? hell nah, he good but if we complaining about knuckleheads I would rather not sign someone who trying to be Silky the Pimp from '75

He tries hard tho, lets give him a MLE because he tries.

---------- Post added December-18th-2012 at 01:47 AM ----------

Microfracture surgery= Gilbert Arenas.

there were a serious of mess ups that lead to Gil getting the microfracture.


but yeah, if Wall has microfracture we may as well just give up on dude.

[pjfootballer]

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 always is worse.'

Fixed it for you.

[Skin'emAlive]

touche. touche.

So if Wall has to have surgery, when do you guys think he will get it? Im guessing not until Late July. Wont start running again until maybe October. Projected playing time around Christmas next year.

That just made me depressed.

[WALEOVECHKIN]

Micro-fracture surgery is not good news, has anyone come back from it in the NBA with the same explosiveness? Players I remember who had it are Gilbert Arenas, Grant Hill, and Amare Stoudemire and all of them have never been the same since.

[G.A.C.O.L.B.]

I've been sitting here all morning trying to find words for what I'm feeling about the Wizards right now. Can't do it. Pit of despair would probably be the closest.

[BRAVEONAWARPATH]

Micro-fracture surgery is not good news, has anyone come back from it in the NBA with the same explosiveness? Players I remember who had it are Gilbert Arenas, Grant Hill, and Amare Stoudemire and all of them have never been the same since.

Add Chris Webber. Jason Kidd, Allan Houston, Tracy McGrady, Anfernee Hardaway, Greg Oden and Terrell Brandon to that list.


Notice the pattern?

[Lombardi's_kid_brother]

I've been waiting for "micro-fracture" to pop up. The weird silence around his injury feels like the weird silence around every injury that leads to that procedure. It's always "Um....he should be healthy and playing by now but is not even practicing....."

I don't think micro-fracture surgery is an athletic death sentence any longer. It would mean probably 18 months of no or extremely limited Wall though. Which basically means that your franchise is in limbo until about 2015.

---------- Post added December-18th-2012 at 01:13 PM ----------

By the way, in reading the article I'm concerned that he doesn't seem to know exactly what his injury is. This has been so vague from the beginning that I wonder if there isn't a certain amount of guesswork going on.

[endzone_dave]

By the way, in reading the article I'm concerned that he doesn't seem to know exactly what his injury is. This has been so vague from the beginning that I wonder if there isn't a certain amount of guesswork going on.

I think Ted and the Wiz are being disingenuous about Wall's injury, trying to persuade people it's not bad so they won't be freaked out about buying season tickets, although I'm not sure who would by season tickets, the tickets are so much cheaper on the secondary market.

[AsiaticSkinsFan]

Add Chris Webber. Jason Kidd, Allan Houston, Tracy McGrady, Anfernee Hardaway, Greg Oden and Terrell Brandon to that list.


Notice the pattern?

Kidd came back, tbf

Amare did too

The problem with micro-fracture surgery is the long term

[Destino]

It hasn't been stated that he needs microfracture surgery yet right? Lets not get too ahead of ourselves. It does seem like his knees are an issue however and were prior to this year. Flip Saunders mentioned his knee tendonitis back during his rookie year.

"I don't think, with his situation, having tendonitis, that he's ever going to be pain free from that," said Saunders. "So I think what we're going to do is we're going to monitor it. That's the approach we're taking, but the reason we say day-to-day is because these things, when you go through them, all of a sudden you might wake up the next day and they might be good to go. That's why we're handling it that way."

[Fight4RGIII]

Micro-fracture surgery could make sense when you mix in the David Aldridge report that the Wiz are trying to move a big man for a vet PG.

[stevemcqueen1]

Beal is balling right now. I would love to see him put an entire game like this together. You can see the glimpses of the IQ and the skill. If he ever puts it all together he's going to be a hell of a player.

---------- Post added December-18th-2012 at 07:22 PM ----------

I don't like that we take bad threes with 4-5 seconds left on the shot clock. Crawford is bad about this.

I want him to pace himself better and use that time. You can do a lot with the ball in four seconds.

[StillUnknown]

Beal having one of his better quarters.