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Comment from Reuben
Time June 28, 2007 at 8:57 PM

Great pick I think he will help us a lot

Comment from aznzero
Time June 28, 2007 at 8:58 PM

man i wanted to go to that college

Comment from cdog44
Time June 28, 2007 at 8:58 PM

i live out in OC, watched him play several times, cant wait to watch em in dc…i think he was a good addition for the team

Comment from jpark2
Time June 28, 2007 at 8:59 PM

i know he’s an outstanding talent out from the SoCal area, but why oh why did we draft a guard? Do you want to continue to rely on Brendan Haywood streaky player and his sparring partner/poet Etan Thomas?

Comment from balla4lfe90
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:02 PM

Lets just thank the lord we didnt select Jason Smith

Im Happy with Young I see him averging double digits rookie year

Great Scorer, Will end up being a great steal in the future

Comment from mysmissur
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:04 PM

For this draft, the Wizards NEED a good guard. Overall, I’d say they need a center, but I think with the pieces of Daniels, Stevenson and Hayes, they can dump one of them plus Ruffin, Heywood or Thomas and pick up a good center and have Young learn the Gurad ropes.

Comment from jdonowen3
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:05 PM

With the addition of Nick Young on the way, looks like we’re only a Marcus Camby deal away from taking the East. Get on it Ernie.

Comment from dondadda
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:06 PM

Why in the hell did we get a rookie guard? why didn’t we get the italian Belinelli guy?

Comment from GrifonRacing
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:08 PM

Hopefully he will be the scoring threat off the bench Jarvis Hayes or Roger Mason Jr. were supposed to be. We should be able to get a fair big with our second pick or a packaged trade with Haywood involved.

Comment from Uberscrumhalf
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:09 PM

YAY!
I am so glad with this pick!

Comment from balla4lfe90
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:09 PM

Jpark2 I guess they have alot of confidence in andray blatche and O Pech. Because I dont see brendan staying with the team

Nick Young is a Great Scorer and he and Gil will get along great Which will work perfect for that missing bench scorer we needed out of jarvis that we did not get last year

Comment from balla4lfe90
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:10 PM

I hope we SNAG Stawberry..

Comment from jdonowen3
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:11 PM

Hope Jarvis has his bags packed

Comment from jonski95
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:16 PM

when do u think we can get strwaberry u think he’s going that late?

Comment from bronzeroad33
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:17 PM

What do the Wizard need another guard for. Go for a big man like Aaron Gray from Pitt. Seem like they never get what they need

Comment from nickyoung
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:20 PM

i think u made an amazing pick nice steal it will pay off in a couple years watchin hibachi for now he will be a great 6th man!!!!nice pick!!!!!!

Comment from WizDom
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:21 PM

Did anyone catch what Young said? ESPN messed up on his mic.

Comment from LilGil
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:24 PM

I couldn’t understant everything cuz the guy was talking at the same time, but I heard Young saying “I’m pretty happy man (smile) I’m playing with Gilbert!”

Comment from balla4lfe90
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:24 PM

he just talked about his movie skit premiere and the death of his brother … i wanted them to ask him what is it going to be like playing alongside gilbert arenas

Comment from balla4lfe90
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:25 PM

this is the NBA they need to fix the mics

Comment from GrifonRacing
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:28 PM

Bronzeroad33… Mr. Arenas requested a scorer coming off the bench. Thus.. a shooter. Gray Maaay fall to us in the 2nd round. If he does we have made 2 good steals

Comment from aznzero
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:29 PM

i hope NIck is ready for gilberts pranks. lol

Comment from WizDom
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:31 PM

Its gonna be a rough year for Nick as a Rookie in our locker room… lol

Comment from LilGil
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:33 PM

Exactly what I was thinking ^^ Remember that coffe-bath for Dray, well I’m pretty sure Gil got other crazy things ready lol

Comment from varnelle
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:40 PM

i love the draft pick by the wizards front office i believe nick young will be our starting sg or sf either ;put him at sg and leave caron butler at sf i really believe this will be a steal in the long run

Comment from dondadda
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:40 PM

Portland got Rudy Fernandez.. a great scorer from Barcelona..

Comment from wizskinz00
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:41 PM

Wooooo, I picked Nick Young from wizards web site today. Hopefully I will win something from wizards tomorrow.

Comment from aznzero
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:42 PM

idk maybe gil would be a bit nicer since he’s coming from the west coast

Comment from balla4lfe90
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:45 PM

Watch there be a commercial where gil pranks Kevin

Comment from wizfan4u
Time June 28, 2007 at 9:56 PM

Young will be a good addition…….only if EJ PLAYS him instead of sitting him like he did the rest of the bench.

Comment from Wizards043
Time June 28, 2007 at 10:09 PM

I love the pick!! Nick will be great!! so that our big 3 wont have to put up 70pts to win everynight to win if someone is slumping or not having a good night he will be like bobby jackson when he played for the run and gun Kings but better cuz he is taller and more athletic!!!!! Trade brenden, let go of ruffin and jarvis!!! Keep stevenson and daniles add a big man in the draft we will be fine!!!

Comment from dondadda
Time June 28, 2007 at 10:10 PM

what do you think of Big Baby?

Comment from wiz-skins07
Time June 28, 2007 at 10:29 PM

Nice pick by the Wizards i believe Nick Young will thrive in the Wizards Offense……….i hope we can get Strawberry or Trade up and get Taureen Green or “Big Baby”

Comment from wiz-skins07
Time June 28, 2007 at 10:32 PM

this is my wizards starting line up next year:

C-???
PF- Twan
SF- Tough Juice
SG- Nick Young
PG- Agent Zero

Comment from wiz-skins07
Time June 28, 2007 at 10:33 PM

we need to trade brendan and thomas and maybe do a sign and trade with jarvis and add our 2nd rd pick to that package and try to get Amare!!!!

Comment from wiz-skins07
Time June 28, 2007 at 10:35 PM

Dag Sonics Just Picked Up Glen Davis

Comment from JuanGarcia
Time June 28, 2007 at 11:00 PM

wow we might be able to pick up green or gray!

Comment from kimchi20
Time June 28, 2007 at 11:09 PM

im pretty glad about this pick.. hopefully young can come in the game and flat out score double digits every game.. good job wizards.. now we have to get rid of haywood

Comment from JuanGarcia
Time June 28, 2007 at 11:14 PM

damn… well at least he plays defense

Comment from Uberscrumhalf
Time June 28, 2007 at 11:27 PM

whos this mcguire guy? i hoped they would have gotten Gray or at least Visser/Gasol

Comment from FLOYDBT
Time June 28, 2007 at 11:37 PM

why the hell didnt we pick up marc gasol or aron gray?????

Comment from bulletfan
Time June 28, 2007 at 11:40 PM

He is the 2nd round sleeper we had hoped for

http://gobulldogs.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/mcguire_dominic00.html

Comment from crunch
Time June 28, 2007 at 11:47 PM

This is a joke. They picked two guards and did NOTHING to get a big? This is not a video game. You need guys to rebound, play interior D and score inside. The Wiz have NOTHING inside. Ernie let us down bigtime.

Comment from crunch
Time June 28, 2007 at 11:54 PM

I agree with Floydbt. The Wiz desparately needed Smith, Gray or Gasol, not yet another gunner who can’t play D! Enie blew it!

Comment from Saosin507
Time June 29, 2007 at 1:37 AM

Our big men are terrible….so why didnt we draft a good big man or two? This is getting ridiculous. Wizards management is a bunch of morons.

Comment from stevevu
Time June 29, 2007 at 6:21 AM

First of all, jason smith is not the answer for us in the post defensively. he might be offensively in a few years but not now. eg made the right decision picking young because he is exactly what agent zero wanted and thats all eg is thinking of doing right now so that arenas stays. also mcguire is not a guard, he is a forward that can play the 3 and 4 who can BLOCK SHOTS and REBOUND and he is very athletic. and about gray and gasol they are both very slow sluggish and not really the defenders. gasol might develop into something good, not a star though, but i dont think that gray will ever be better than what brendan is now. so with what we got, i think that eg did a good job. i would have looked into drafting green and tangle daniels in front of peoples faces that have a big man expendable.

Comment from stevevu
Time June 29, 2007 at 6:22 AM

also, most guards that come into the nba cant really defend but a lot of them learn how to be very good defenders if taught right.

Comment from WizDom
Time June 29, 2007 at 6:38 AM

I like the 2nd pick.. kid was good in college, can gaurd all 5 positions.. tons of upside.
He could be the steal of the 2nd round. Good job again Ernie.

Comment from Tom Mandel
Time June 29, 2007 at 7:51 AM

None of the centers were worth a #16 pick. Jason Smith is a 4 not a 5, and we have similar players in Blatche and Pecherov. All the same, if he is really good, he’ll be coming down the road from Philly to beat on us for years.

I was *praying* for Al Thornton or Julian Wright, but maybe Stevevu is right, and the kid can learn defense. Dominic McGuire (http://www.nbadraft.net/admincp/profiles/dominicmcguire.html and http://www.draftexpress.com/viewprofile.php?p=1162 ) looks like a steal in round 2.

Kyle Visser wasn’t drafted, so we still have a chance at a big, slow white guy. He is probably better than Gray (but not as big). Marc Gasol may or may not even play in the league.

Comment from butchie
Time June 29, 2007 at 8:27 AM

I think this is a great look for the wizard.
Without agent 0 and Butler, wizard don’t have a number 3 guy that can give you that outside present, it was proven in the playoff!

When our 2 best scorers went down, the wizard lack the points on the board. Plus, since both Agent O and Stevenson may opt out of their contract, who knows if we will have them in a few years.

Now, the wizard can go get a big name in Kevin G, who has the experience as well as a new face..
trade Brenden, jarvis, thomas, booth, ruffin to the bucks for the kid from, China
“Yi Jianlian” since he does not want to be there, free up some salery cap space and get Kevin Garrnet .
KG would love to play with the Wizard and Yi Jianlian playing at the V-center in the heart of chinatown~

Comment from butchie
Time June 29, 2007 at 8:36 AM

Talk with the Bucks and trade Thomas, Brendon, Stevenson and Booth for the kid from China Yi Jianlian.
free some cap room and get kevin G.
both Gil and Stevenson will otp out of their contract,
so thery may not be here anyway!

Nick will fit in fine with the Butler and Antwan.

With Yi and KG in, DC we now have a run for the crown

Comment from Jrice31
Time June 29, 2007 at 9:28 AM

I like the pick. Although I was hoping Al Thorton will fall to us cuz he fills a need and is very productive. One question that is still on my mind is WHEN ARE THE WIZARDS GONNA CHANGE THOSE UNIFORMS????? I think we need something new!!

Comment from mysmissur
Time June 29, 2007 at 10:43 AM

I don’t get all of these people complaining about how the Wizards didn’t draft Rudy Fernandez, Taigo Splitter or Marc Gasol. Washington drafted two international players last year (which I didn’t get). When you draft international players, they come with a lot of baggage – learning a new system and language and often with contract issues. With Young and McGuire, the Wizards pick up two proven players. Remember, for every Dirk or Tony Parker who gets drafted, there are guys like Peter John Ramos.

Comment from stevevu
Time June 29, 2007 at 10:45 AM

butchie, that is one of the worst ideas for trades i have heard yet. first of all why would the bucks want to take on 4 or 5 people in exchange for 1. Also, why would they trade for a few average players and bench warmers and give away a potential superstar. we would have give away atleast one of the big 3 to get him and it is not worth it. yes yi is upset with the pick, but i dont think that just because his representatives dont like where he is headed that he has the power to demand a trade so he wont go anywhere. and for garnet, at 31, he is not worth trading for. we would have to give up arenas probably and maybe someone else. so at the end of the day, with your trade, we would have 1 of the big 3 and maybe 6 other players, most of them PF. That would set us back another 10 years. this is not a video game.
as for what we can do, young is not ready to start so resign deshawn and blatche. i dont know if hayes is going to draw much attention so we might be able to get him cheap and would be a good 8th option off the bench or maybe get someone a little better than him. as for the much needed help in the front court. i dont know if we need another swing man anymore so i dont know if trading haywood or etan for one would be necesary unless an amazing offer came along. i would keep an eye on what portland does because they drafted like 5 people so they are going to be overloaded and might even buy out the contracts of some of their players.

Comment from jonnyflo14
Time June 29, 2007 at 11:04 AM

All of the big men that were worth the 16th pick were drafted before the 16th pick. The best one going number one and the worst of the best big men going 9th, so why waste a decent first round pick on a second round talent. This is something that Wes would have done in the past. I guess all the years of him running the team in to the ground has poisoned most peoples brains. I think the Young pick is fantastic. And actually before the draft started I was hoping that he would fall to us at the 16th pick. It is hard to find a player in the draft that can get his own shot and have the confidence to take it on a regular basis, and when playing next to gilbert that is what is needed. Taking Young had nothing to do with not needing a big man, we definitely need that, but taking the best avaiblabe talent at the 16th pick. It just so happens that the 16th pick of Young can help us in an area that we are seriously lacking too. I like the direction that Grunfeld is taking the Wizards. It finally seems like we have a solid plan in place, unlike the Unseld and Jordan years. We can definitiely find a big defensive presence in camp this year. So again why waste a decently high first round pick, which also means a little bit of a bigger contract, on a slow plodding center that isn’t any better than what we have. Seriously people, use your heads on this one. When all is said and done I think Young will turn out to be a great pick. And quit freaking out on the Gil situation, there is no way we are not giving him max money after this coming season.

Comment from aznboygino76
Time June 29, 2007 at 11:14 AM

i cannot believe we got drafted him, shure hes a great player but we whould have got Jared Dudley from boston college and drafted D.J straberry in the second round cause he slipped pretty way down the draft to the suns so i dont know washington you should of done what i done and o yea resighn gil

Comment from Sexy Agent ZERO
Time June 29, 2007 at 3:59 PM

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4-Jamison

Comment from tbonesteakums
Time June 29, 2007 at 4:13 PM

Both good picks. Especially Young. ….But can we please make some moves to get rid of Haywood the cry baby at center? We need a center that plays D, not one that takes fade aways. And I love Etan, but he’s a good bench player at best. Get rid of Haywood and throw in AD and/or Jarvis and we could get someone decent.

Comment from mike703
Time June 29, 2007 at 4:42 PM

I actually like Young on the roster. I can see the backcourt being just as it was (if not better) than when Larry Hughes was still around. Our big men this year may have not stepped up as much as we wanted, but next year could be a whole other story. We have Pecherov in the mix and he will definitley open up the floor with his outside shooting, plus I think he has more talent than any of the big men we could have drafted this year. Haywood and Hayes I believe (or at least hope) will be traded. I also did some research on Maguire and consensus is that he can be high energy guy that can create a lot of loose balls on defense as well as being a lockdown type defender on some of the better SFs out there. I do agree that we are probably one solid bigman away from doing serious damage in the east, but definitley dont want to get tunnel vision in filling one need when there are other needs as well. In Grunfeld we trust!!! Every year he has found a way to make this team better.

Comment from kingbryant82
Time June 30, 2007 at 1:19 AM

man nick is my boy im proud of him i use to beat up on him when he was a kid at robertson park in los angeles. i hope the nba can be good to him . a nick if you read this its yo boy larry and titus . titus still claims he dunk on you but its all good rep la boy

Comment from skinny4awiz
Time June 30, 2007 at 1:11 PM

i am very happy with who we got i am glad he is great with defense thats a plus i wanted d.j. strawberry to come to us in the second round but the suns got him i was pretty angry but hey who knows but im glad we got nick young and hey now we have a 1,2,3,4 team
arenas,YOUNG,stevenson,butler,and jamison hip hip hooray!!!!!!!!!

Comment from wiz-skins07
Time June 30, 2007 at 3:08 PM

hey i believe that the wizards should trade Antonio Daniels and bring in Steve Blake…i believe he could do as good as AD…and it would be a lot cheaper….Steve Blake is a free agent!!…i would also like to see the Wiz make a move for Anderson Varejao, Mikkie Moore, Jason Kapono, Earl Boykins, and maybe PJ Brown…one or two guys of this list would be good if we need another scoring spark off the bench i would also like Jannero Pargo…I can already see the Wiz re-signing Andray Blatche, DeShawn Stevenson, and probably Donnell Taylor….here’s a list of all free-agents for this summer!!

Comment from wiz-skins07
Time July 1, 2007 at 8:11 AM

but who do you guys think we can get for etan thomas maybe we can package him with AD and next years 2nd round pick and we may be able to get someone decent….if we do trade AD anyways which i would only approve of is if we were getting a good player in return..but if we do i think we should go after Steve Blake look at the nice job he did with Denver!! at first i was a little iffy about Dom McGuire but now after reading al his stats and comparing them and reading all these blogs and comments im starting to think that this may be one of the biggest steals in the draft according to his stats i would think this kid would be gone in the mid first round to late first round…this kid is good…o yeah and another thing i say we only trade jamison if we can get Amre Stoudemire, Jermaine O’Neal, or Pau Gasol if we can’t get these guys i believe or team should stay the same

Comment from Tom Mandel
Time July 1, 2007 at 10:08 AM

I also think McGuire has a chance to be a major steal.

Keep in mind that the biggest problem in making trades is the impact of the cap; you gotta take back salaries that about equal what you trade. Trade Etan and AD, and you have to take back @9m in salary. The guys the other side wants to trade were problems for them, obviously.

We will have a mid-level exception to use on a free agent, but I wonder whether we’ll use it.

Comment from BruceO
Time July 4, 2007 at 1:34 PM

i love grunfeld I dont know if hes made any bad choices thus far, I think he knows talent, he drafted michael redd to replace allen, he said nick young by far was the best talent, mcguire was also a steal he had rebounding numbers out the ying yang, he’s defense is solid but i hear he falls for alot of ball fakes, the quote was whenever you answer a question say yes instead of nodding cause when you nod he jumps out the room trying to block something. Another knock was he couldn’t shoot that well but he was working on his shooting pre draft and can improve his mechanics i believe, hes a hard worker as well and very in shape and tough. I like our draft i hoped we didnt get jason smith, Not saying he sucks but he has short hands and we already have pech and blatche and might get visser on the cheap. The moment new orleans didnt pick young i knew we had him, stuckey or thornton.

Comment from HGN
Time July 6, 2007 at 3:13 PM

Personally , I like the pieces we have put together. The addition of Juan Carlos Navarro gives us depth , scoring, and trade options. I would like to see us keep Stevenson , Jamison , and Daniels if possible. However , the addition of Navarro puts keeping Daniels in play. Daniels provides good steady leadership at the point.
And we saw last year what a good veteran leader such as Jamison means to a team when Arenas starting acting up and Jamison had to sit him down and school him. So we may need that Leadership from Jamison in the locker room again.

My keepers would be : Arenas ; Butler ; Jamison ; Percherov ; Navarro ; Stevenson ; Young ; Songaila ; and Blatche.

My options for trade would be : Haywood ; Thomas ; Taylor ; Hayes ; Booth ; Ruffin ; Mason, Jr. ; and possibly Daniels if I couldn’t avoid it. But I would try to hold him back in any trade proposal.

I would try to group any combination of the Non-Keepers in a trade to acquire a full time center. There are possibly some decent centers out there that could be acquired. Keeping both Haywood and Thomas is not good , just for team chemistry sake. So one or the other has to go. I would prefer to keep Etan even though he is playing out of position.

EG , lets go get us a center, and let us start to rock-and-roll.

Comment from butchie
Time July 31, 2007 at 9:32 PM

Well Steveu
I guess it was not such a crazy idea to Boston.
They just sigh Kevin and now they will be a force in the East. I’m not sure if you watch basketball or have played basketball or maybe your were just one of thoses play by play guys that knows nothing about basketball, but every championship team that I’ve seen, won because they had a big man! and speaking of big men, and I’m sure your following basketball, there is talk that Yi might be going to!!!!! yep Boston or New York!!

you need a big man to play this game, everyone knows this.
Maybe just maybe the Wizard can get O’Neal from the pacers

I would like to see what New York and Boston are going to do