On June 26th one of these two players is going to go with the #1 pick in the draft. Assume that for some crazy reason, the Wizards ended up with the 1st pick in the draft. Which of these two players would you like to draft? Now for those of you who want to fully play this speculation game, what would you do in free agency after drafting that player.
So let’s say you took Beasley, would you look to re-sign Arenas and Jamison or just one, or neither and look for something else? And obviously why would you look to do that and how would that help you…
The all-rookie teams came out yesterday and Nick Young just missed out making the 2nd team, coming 8 points shy of Houston’s Carl Landry.
Young did receive two first team votes, the most for any player that did not make either 1st or 2nd all-rookie team.
Here is who did make it. I wrote the age of three players instead of their draft slot to show that they really aren’t rookies. Al Horford was the only unanimous selection to the first team with Kevin Durant being voted to the first team by all but one coach.
1st team
Al Horford (pick #4)
Kevin Durant (pick #2)
Luis Scola (28 years old)
Al Thornton (pick #13)
Jeff Green (pick #5)
2nd Team
Jamario Moon (28 years old)
Juan Carlos Navarro (28 years old)
Thaddeus Young (#12)
Rodney Stuckey (#15)
Carl Landry (#31)
A couple people on this blog have been talking about 2nd round players they liked in the last couple of drafts, some of those players have turned out good some have turned out not so good. Therefore, I want you to state now who you think will turn out to be steals in the 2nd round and a couple sentences on why you are choosing that player.
Hey everyone, lots of real good discussion going on but I wanted to bring all the summer/Free agency talks to this thread. Ernie will be speaking at 2:00 today and if you have any questions please let me know, I will do my best to answer the questions I can and at the same time if Ernie talks about your specific question I will let you know.
We will have a transcript and video of the presser as soon as possible.
6:00AM…Dave Johnson checking in…BLOGCAST is back tonight and starts at 7…of course my dream was for the Wizards to have a chance to clinch the series in game six at home on a Friday night…but the commitment of this team has given Wizards fans a chance for another great memory…in a lot of ways it is probably best that Gilbert’s status is now clear…when the Wizards beat the Sixers in the final week of the season to clinch the fifth seed Gil was the difference.. he was the game changer..I thought he would be in this series and he was in game one but just not healthy enough to do it on a consistent basis…moving forward to me and my partner Glenn Consor the key is rebounding…had the Wizards been more competitive on the boards in game four they would have won…it still is amazing the Wizards only lost by three–even though they were outrebounded by 20….smart on offense…hit the boards.. and we very well could be going to Cleveland on Sunday…..BLOGCAST starts at 7…hope you can join us…..
UPDATE: Well fans your not going to like to hear this but the NBA has decided to suspend Darius Songaila for game 6 due to the technical foul he received in game 5.
Oh wow. I dont even know what to say about last night. Just a great effort put forth by the whole team. I can’t believe the resiliency. When we were down 84-82 we get a very very tough no call on Caron that leads to a 3-point play and all of a sudden were down by 5 with under 1:30 to go in the game. I had all these Cleveland fans patting me on the shoulder saying have a nice off-season and then bang here they come shutting down the Cavs and scoring in the clutch. Just unbelievable.
Anyway I will be heading down to practice at noon. I will have more for you following that. Let me say the plane ride home was great the whole team was in a good mood and now they gotta carry that energy over to Game Six. If you have questions please feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer. Oh and I threw up four videos from last night. One of the Cavs fan fest, one of jordan talking pregame, a live band at the arena and then 3 minutes of the Cavs and Wizards intros.