abdcskins Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 3 hours ago, stevemcqueen1 said: Add Ariza to that list. I want him back next season too. Guard: Wall, Beal, Sato Forward: Otto, Ariza, Dekker, Maybe Troy Brown (hopefully) Center: Bryant I thought it was a foregone conclusion that Bryant would be gone at the end of the season. Isn't he a free agent? I assumed some other team would just outbid us since we have no money. Also, why wouldn't Troy Brown be on the team next year? What was his rookie contract? I hope he isn't just another first round bust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONAWARPATH Posted January 22, 2019 Author Share Posted January 22, 2019 (edited) 4 hours ago, Destino said: I kind of want to see if they can make the playoffs without Wall. I think the assumption has largely been that they can't, that he carries the team. Also a bunch of them are playing for contracts. While I realize the Wizards would benefit from a great draft pick, I find it hard to root against Sato, Bryant, and even Dekker. The lottery pick is more important imo. Edited January 22, 2019 by BRAVEONAWARPATH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 9 hours ago, abdcskins said: I thought it was a foregone conclusion that Bryant would be gone at the end of the season. Isn't he a free agent? I assumed some other team would just outbid us since we have no money. Also, why wouldn't Troy Brown be on the team next year? What was his rookie contract? I hope he isn't just another first round bust. Bryant will be back unless something catastrophic happens, like a knee injury. Money won't be the reason he leaves. The free agency rules for players signing second contracts are complex. I think we might have the option for right of first refusal with Thomas, but even if not, the absolute biggest offer sheet he's allowed to sign this summer is a three year mid level exception. I doubt Thomas will command the MLE this summer. We can probably get him back on a team friendly deal for about three years. After that, all bets are off. Ariza and Sato are the two I'm worried about extending. Ariza is coming off this big one year payday he got Phoenix to give him. It blew his market out of the water and his cap hold is huge this summer. He's going to be tricky to come to terms with because we can't afford to keep paying him 15-18 million a year. He's going to have to take a much more team friendly deal to stay with us, which probably means he's going to have to truly want to be here. I really hope he does, because he's such a great presence in our locker room. He's our best leader. Wall and Beal love him and actually listen to him and respect him, which is big. Sato is also going to be tricky, though not as much as Trevor because he'll be a restricted free agent this summer. That means we'll get the opportunity to match any offer sheet that Tomas could sign with another team. Hopefully it doesn't come to that though, because that's what screwed us over with Otto Porter's extension. The best scenario is to negotiate a reasonable extension with Tomas right now and get him signed before the season ends and he has a chance to test the market. That's something we weren't able to do midseason with Beal or Porter because they were first round picks. The absolute max salary that Tomas would be allowed to sign for under these circumstances is a four year deal with a starting salary of ~10 million and 4.5% annual raises. I think he's a keeper, so I would try and sign him to a four year deal and see if the extra security means he'll take a lower per annum number. If I had to guess, Sato and Bryant will be back and Ariza walks this summer. Re: Troy Brown, he may or may not be a keeper. We don't know yet because he hasn't played. We have him under contract for another three years if we want. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Very annoying that we've only played 2 games in 10 days. Have an awful stretch of 5 games in 7 days coming up starting tomorrow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 45 minutes ago, stevemcqueen1 said: Very annoying that we've only played 2 games in 10 days. Have an awful stretch of 5 games in 7 days coming up starting tomorrow. I was just thinking the same thing. I know they flew to London, all the time off just forces them to play more in a shorter period afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 45 minutes ago, Destino said: I was just thinking the same thing. I know they flew to London, all the time off just forces them to play more in a shorter period afterwards. Our schedule was not well-handled. We've got a really rough road from tomorrow until the AS break now. Hard to get mad about anything unfair that happens to us though. Who really cares any more? This season has been a disaster and the only way it could go any worse is for Beal to wreck his knee too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRobi21 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Sato is playing his ass off.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Wizards don’t have the horses to run with these dudes, but they’re certainly trying. Adding Cousins has made the warriors an allstar team. They’re out there laughing and jogging their way to easy buckets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popeman38 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) Porter got called for a foul because Klay stubbed his toe and fell. What a joke... Edited January 25, 2019 by Popeman38 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popeman38 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 3 fouls on Wiz in 7 seconds. None of them should have been called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popeman38 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Last 2 min of officiating leads one to believe there is money on the line. Not a single whistle on one end of the court... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 If Otto hadn’t shot so poorly we might have stolen this one. That illegal screen called on Beal... wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popeman38 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 THAT was an illegal screen? After the 3 step screens Draymond has been setting all ****ing night? There was no contact, how can it be a foul??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky21 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Never thought they were going to win that game but they were certainly competing. This new bad ass 4th quarter Wiz squad is great....and baffling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Vucevic is eating Bryant’s lunch, but I still can’t help but get excited every time Bryant scores. He gets so excited about it, that it’s contagious. I’m going to be bummed if he leaves in free agency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 *sigh, playing better, but close only counts in horseshoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinswillwin06 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 How does Brooks not call time out the second Beal gets doubled??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 13 minutes ago, Renegade7 said: *sigh, playing better, but close only counts in horseshoes As another wizard fan is fond of saying, all road wins are beautiful. Otto continues to be disappointing though. He’s coming off the bench and still doing the same sleep walking bull****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Destino said: As another wizard fan is fond of saying, all road wins are beautiful. More then fair. I'm still goin to fan appreciation, they look like they care. Quote Otto continues to be disappointing though. He’s coming off the bench and still doing the same sleep walking bull****. It saddens more seeing you and Steve not feel like defending anyone, I think I exhausted myself with going after him about it. Edited January 26, 2019 by Renegade7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Wizards haven’t won in San Antonio since 1999. Wow. They’re showing Brads house on tv. He’s got a sense of humor, apparently, and he definitely has embraced his nickname big panda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 54 minutes ago, Renegade7 said: It saddens more seeing you and Steve not feel like defending anyone, I think I exhausted myself with going after him about it. Well, technically Otto is second in the league in bench scoring to Lou Williams since he started coming off the bench. He shouldn't be coming off the bench though. Otto getting benched for Jeff ****ing Green because he got hurt has been one of the low key ****tiest things about this season, along with Troy Brown getting buried and Dwight getting exiled because of a tranny scandal. I would be outraged by these things if I gave a **** about this season any more. Scott Brooks is just torpedoing our future in order to save his job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) 4 minutes ago, stevemcqueen1 said: Well, technically Otto is second in the league in bench scoring to Lou Williams since he started coming off the bench. I remember you making a similar point with Morris when I was upset he wasn't starting. Quote He shouldn't be coming off the bench though. Otto getting benched for Jeff ****ing Green because he got hurt has been one of the low key ****tiest things about this season, along with Troy Brown getting buried and Dwight getting exiled because of a tranny scandal. I would be outraged by these things if I gave a **** about this season any more. Scott Brooks is just torpedoing our future in order to save his job. One of the most wasted wizards teams I've ever seen, I thought it might on of the best. Will we ever see a high quality coach in DC? Edited January 26, 2019 by Renegade7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 We're the 9th seed right now. Two games out of 8th, 2.5 out of 7th. We're going to win 40 games and get the 8th seed and Ernie will get an extension and we'll take the next Kent Bazemore in the draft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StillUnknown Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 8 hours ago, stevemcqueen1 said: Well, technically Otto is second in the league in bench scoring to Lou Williams since he started coming off the bench. He shouldn't be coming off the bench though. Otto getting benched for Jeff ****ing Green because he got hurt has been one of the low key ****tiest things about this season, along with Troy Brown getting buried and Dwight getting exiled because of a tranny scandal. I would be outraged by these things if I gave a **** about this season any more. Scott Brooks is just torpedoing our future in order to save his job. A good part of me feels like Otto is perfectly fine with coming off the bench, which is a problem. He has no dog in him, paying max dollars to someone content to fade to the background was never gonna work. On a different note, i've watched only 1 or 2 of the last 7 or so games and i dont really miss them. That saddens me actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMP Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 6 hours ago, stevemcqueen1 said: We're the 9th seed right now. Two games out of 8th, 2.5 out of 7th. We're going to win 40 games and get the 8th seed and Ernie will get an extension and we'll take the next Kent Bazemore in the draft. You must have had a hard schedule/bad luck too. 538 has you with a 63% chance of making the playoffs. Higher than the Hornets, Heat, and Pistons. They have you as the 7th best team in the East. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2019-nba-predictions/ Obviously, they can't/don't take into account future injuries (and realistically, they aren't properly taking into account Oldiapo's injury property yet), but they tend to be pretty good with their projections by this point in the season. Unless somebody else goes down with a significant injury a 6/7/8 seed looks pretty reasonable. On another note: "IS JOHN WALL TRADEABLE? Washington’s eight-year veteran will enter 2019-20 coming off season-ending heel surgery while making $37.8 million. Wall’s deal will balloon to $46 million in 2022-23, his age-32 season. For a player who has never reached the conference finals, such an extreme cap figure projects to be one of the league’s great albatrosses. Is there anything Washington can do?" https://www.si.com/nba/2019/01/25/nba-trade-deadline-supermax-john-wall-mike-conley-kevin-love 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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