Comments on: WIZARDS SELECT NICK YOUNG

By: butchie

butchie — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:32:49 +0000

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

By: HGN

HGN — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:13:55 +0000

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.

By: BruceO

BruceO — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:34:42 +0000

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.

By: Tom Mandel

Tom Mandel — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:08:08 +0000

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.

By: wiz-skins07

wiz-skins07 — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:11:41 +0000

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 decentâ€¦.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 roundâ€¦this kid is goodâ€¦o yeah and another thing i say we only trade jamison if we can get Amre Stoudemire, Jermaine Oâ€™Neal, or Pau Gasol if we canâ€™t get these guys i believe or team should stay the same

By: wiz-skins07

wiz-skins07 — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:08:17 +0000

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!!

By: skinny4awiz

skinny4awiz — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:11:43 +0000

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!!!!!!!!!

By: kingbryant82

kingbryant82 — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:19:14 +0000

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

By: mike703

mike703 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:42:45 +0000

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.

By: tbonesteakums

tbonesteakums — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:13:34 +0000

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.