Can we clean out everything? Starting with the front office?
Who would choose the new front office? Fundamentally, the Wizards’ mismanagement is an ownership problem.
I don’t think the team lacks talent, it’s just not well distributed. Like they have more solid frontcourt players than they have minutes, I think Kuzma and Rui are good enough to play 30 mins a game. But then you still have Deni, who’s solid in stretches. Also, do you play Trez at the 4 or 5 with TB back?
The gigantic gaping whole on the team is at the guard position. Dinwiddie isn’t good; at shooting, playmaking or defense. Holiday and Neto are both mehh at best.
I don’t know how you fix that through trades. To Meth’s point, Jerami Grant isn’t gonna fix anything.
Roster balance is an issue, but when we talk about “talent” a distinction has to be made between
good players and
elite players. The Wizards are now loaded with good players, but who on this team commands a double team? In how many games do we have the best player on the floor?
When you look at the teams that have managed to win a championship over the years, only the Pistons come to mind as championship team that won as an ensemble of good players without an MVP level player or generational talent.
If the goal is a title, one of the worst things you can be in the NBA is a mediocre team constantly mortgaging its future to stay on the playoff treadmill. If we’re honest with ourselves, Beal is probably the second-best player on a championship team. We’re not a tweak away, we’re a Giannis/KD away. Is there a plan to get there?
It’s hard to argue that we’re stockpiling assets, waiting for our moment - because in such situations draft picks become indispensable and we’re constantly throwing ours away on “win now” trades that, at best, give Ted the revenues from 2 playoff games, excluding play-in contests.
As you’ve noted, the roster is unbalanced. There’s no consistency in lineups, and that may be contributing to the team’s
atrocious defense.
Went to bed at half time just hoping we would hold on.....they covered this game on NBC today this morning
Idk man....obv Beal is the goods. But i need to see Rui develop. I still am holding out faith that Deni turns into a solid starter (i do like his game). But honestly thats about it. Kuz has been a pleasant surprise and same with Trez. But i don't think they are starters on a great team.
It seems we have a lot of decent role players but that it. Which i guess is a start? But yeah...another first round playoff loss coming up (and i think that's our ceiling)
Deni made some good strides this year, but I think he’s a role player. Best case scenario: he works himself into a 3 and D player who can make plays in fast break situations, but for now he still plays small and tentative on offense and hasn’t been reliable as a shooter.
That’s an essential role on a winning team, so I wouldn’t give him up easily, and even as is he’s still better than Bertans, who’s just an out of shape waste of a chair.
I want to have hope for Rui as a starter in this league, but consistency remains a problem. When he’s aggressive, he’s been a spark. That only seems to happen ever fourth or fifth outing, though.
Trez is an energy player off the bench. His pick and roll defense was exposed in the bubble playoffs. Maybe you can get way with playing him at the 4 with TB against big lineups due to TB’s shooting, but I think you have to move him while he has value. He’s looking for more money and minutes than we can provide. We improved his value relative to when we picked him up. It’s time.
They need to make decisions and clear some of the logjams. For all the depth this team has, what good did it do us when they were all out with COVID at the same time? We can’t keep all these guys.
We’re capped out, multiple players are looking for raises, and Beal’s window is closing.
