****OFFICIAL _ASHINGTON _IZARDS 08-09 SEASON THREAD 13-44. WE SHOULDA GAVE OBAMA AN OFFER SHEET****

first off, EoH thanks for correcting my mistake about the whole juwan/c-webb era...

now onto double js: bynum for the lakers, just had his second knee surgery, and i believe he just broke the bank, not sure what the particulars are, but i knowhe got paid. so i guess the lakers are another team that would give someone a rack of money coming off major knee surgery. .

lemme get hypothetical with you for a second. lets just say that arenas had his third knee surgery, but was ready to go at the start of the season. imaginethat he's scoring 26 ppg right now and the team still wins about 20 games this year ...would you still be sayin that it was a bad idea to re-sign him at111 mil? i know that you are probably going to say that it still would be a bad idea...i also think i understand what you are trying to say. are you talkinabout the team not being able to get future free agents because of the money tied up with one person; who may break down again and again??

its obvious to me that ol ernie had no contingency plan if gil went to another team, so he got the blank check from abe. i'm convinced that grunfeld was sostuck on keeping him here that he didnt think of how he could use that 111 mil to get some other talent in here. look, at this point i'm not so sure thatmaxing out gil was the best thing to do either. and we all know that abe is loyal to a fault, but he hired both eddie jordan and matt millen junior. is he thatmuch more loyal to him than jordan?

 

Why would they just sign Eddie Jordan to a contract extension in September and let him go now? It just doesn't make any sense.

 

They came out and played with some passion tonight and even Blatche and Dee Brown was frying

I will be at the game on Thanksgiving, lets see if they play like this against the Magic

 

Blatche getting his Sega Genesis NBA JAM on right now... GS game on Comcast.

These bammas playing like their freedom is on the line tonight!

Good to see an immediate positive response AT HOME...

 

as I speak we are handling the Warriors at home by 20 or so.

seriously?

 

see.. I realized this many years ago... which is why i completely dont +#** with the wizards and won't as long as he owns them

 

finally a needed win for the wiz kids..i hope this will be a start of good things to come..one game at a time with a new attitude and a sense of urgency

 

Finally got another W, Blatch was fryin this game, hope he keeps it up.

 

please note.


i went out tonight solely on the strength that the wizards won. i pop'd champagne for them 2 and 10 brothers and hope that we can continue this win streak.

the club was crazy with NO wizards players present.


lol.


ok im done. gnite.

 

^ they need to stop going to them after party joints if they wanna turn this season around

 

I see what you're saying, but I should have been more clear.....there are dudes out in the NBA who have gotten big contracts after suffering injuries that require a microfracture surgery. HOWEVER, you'd be hard pressed to find another franchise that would give a player 111 mil after 3 major knee surgeries in a span of 18 months. That's unprescidented and insane. I'd be more at ease with the team offering him the max coming off of one knee surgery. But three? For a dude who relies on a quick first step, we don't know what we'll get come next season. The dude's knee is torn up. I'm not mad at him for taking the money, because anyone would if they were in his shoes. I'm pissed at the organization for giving him the money we did (and potentially mortgaging our future for a bit). This deal could come back to bite us in the !++.



we have come to an understanding doublejs, very good assessment...and that was a big win for the wiz kids last night, much needed. i hope this aint "firstgame under a new coach syndrome". they gotta keep consistency, especially blatche. one of the main differences i saw last night was that they let everyoneplay, even the young kids. they cant learn by sitting on the bench; they gotta get minutes...

 

that was eddie j's win..........they beat a slum warriors team without ellis

blatche is still a bum...........................LA 12-1

 

Ryan.. you a Lake Show fan like myself?? Good stuff.. I knew you were aiight with me for some reason...

But I will say this. Since Tapscott hasn't coached a REAL team (College at that) in 20 years.. He might just be telling them to go run and gun like theywere on a Playground which may be the only way some of the young dudes know how to play....

He could be on to something.. BUT

They will still be the bottom dwellers...lol

 

god damn why did they even consider broadcasting this game.. they are horrible.

 

Maaaaan....last night, that boy was about as shook as Dexter Manley trying to read Cat in the Hat.

That game was an embarrassment....1st Wizards game I have ever left mid-way thru the 3rd quarter. I gotta agree w. Rock. Taps is prolly having the dudes runn' gun like they are out at an Alldaz tourney. I read somewhere that the dudes on the Magic were calling out the Wizards plays even before they ran them. I don't care if we had Gil, Todd, or even Jeff Ruland on our team....this squad is in HORRIBLE shape. It was only a matter of time before we gotexposed. Everyone wants to blame our failures on injuries, but anyone who has an ounce of b-ball knowledge could have seen this coming from a mile away. Atthis point, I hope we win 4 more games all season and go 6-76. Hopefully then, we would get enough ping pong balls to get Blake Griffin. However with theWizards luck/plan, we would end up drafting Jesse Sapp with the #1 overall.

 

I have got to steal this one from you.



Sports Quotable indeed.

 

This is the first time...EVER...that I'm actually rooting AGAINST my favorite team pretty much every game. Having a winning season this year won'taccomplish anything for us. We make the playoffs, then what? We get ousted in the first round then get a draft pick in the high teens/early twenties whichGrunfield then messes up. I have zero faith in the front office, which is why I think the FO needs to be pressured by the fans and media to take a player likeGriffin in order to avoid a bust pick which Pecherov is looking to be seeing how he doesn't really seem to be developing at the rate that everyone want himto (I'm definitely rushing to judgment here but I would really prefer to have more value out of that 18th pick in '06 than to have Pecherov at thispoint, possibly in the form of a trade for future picks or something along those lines. Hindsight is 50-50 but I never really saw the point in drafting a bigman whose strengths weren't rebounding, shot-blocking, and defense for the Wizards.)

We should just bench Caron and Gilbert for the rest of this year in hopes of them staying healthy next year for a full year

 

the wiz have a long way to go before becoming one of the league's elite teams... and it starts with firing ernie grunfeld, until he is gone the teamwill not improve...

 

^^Ouch....

Did they count the Basket?