Comments on: PHOTOS: WIZARDS GETTING IN SHAPE

By: neal

neal — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:28:56 +0000

Right now we’re at $64,250,169 for 11 players. If Blatche’s contract is for $15M over 5 years and the contract is back loaded, giving him the maximum 8% raise every year, he only costs us $2,556,847 this year. So we’re at $66,807,016 for 12 players. Presuming that Taylor and Hall make the team and are signed at the minimum ($770,610 and $687,456, respectively), we’re at $68,265,082 for 14 players. That’s $400,082 over the luxury tax limit of $67,865,000. If Booth signed for the minimum it would cost us $1,108,718. Mason would cost us $770,610. I suspect we’ll only start with 14 players, however. Means training camp is just for training.

By: Wizfan4life

Wizfan4life — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:38:26 +0000

Does anyone know where the Wizard’s training camp will be held? have they announced it yet? Last year they held it at VCU, a college in Richmond, VA and I got a chance to see them play.

By: BruceO

BruceO — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:58:33 +0000

damn the magic went after every big man they could to make up for darko. I think they may have signed three big men now including their 2005 pick. I’m with you mandel, I want Dikembe here for many reasons, one to see the revival of the Georgetown program where his son is playing and he played, two he can do more work in his community programs based out of dc, three he can block shots and rebound (as you can see this isnt ordered according to importance. I don’t see Visser been called to camp. he might if it doesnt cost us anything. My lasting impression of kyle visser is two. One is when someone said ” HI, I’m kyle visser, I suck!” and two is him not making the wisest eating decisions when he was doing his workouts for different teams including the Wiz. He could have been out of shape. Aaron gray and noah for the bulls seem to be doing good, will Visser really be able to check them? our centers are ok we just need to play them to our advantage against opponents instead of splitting time up evenly. Etan does well against the emekas and dwights while haywood does well against the camby’s and Ilgauskis types.

By: Tom Mandel

Tom Mandel — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:03:59 +0000

Not a bad pick up for them.

By: odawg

odawg — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:36:10 +0000

Foyle signed with the Magic.

By: Tom Mandel

Tom Mandel — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:43:22 +0000

I wonder whether Visser will be invited to camp? He had his moments in the Summer (not too many of them, admittedly), and he definitely hustles.

There’s also Adonal Foyle floating around: maybe he is a better choice than Booth?

Any other undrafted kids, or veteran free agents, that interest anyone here? How about Sweetney?

By: Tom Mandel

Tom Mandel — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:40:48 +0000

With Hall and Taylor, we are at 14 players and probably just edging into tax territory. Will we carry 15? I don’t know. If so, I presume it’ll be Booth (although I wish we could sign Mutombo in his place). Hall and Taylor aren’t guaranteed, but I think they are likely to play their ways onto the team.

Chase will come to camp, and I assume there’ll be a few more in camp as well, but I don’t see how he can make the team. Aaron Miles would have made the team, and IMO he should have been signed and guaranteed, but that’s old news by now.

I agree that Young and McGuire have potential, but I don’t see either of them playing many minutes, especially not Nick who would have to earn them via instant offense while playing in a new, much more competitive league. Won’t happen.

There’s no way even to discuss trades — the ones that matter usually are a huge surprise.

By: BruceO

BruceO — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:50:58 +0000

brian. I don’t know about some moves that might be made making it hard for me to predict. Currently we have 12 people under contract who can play solidly. Beyond that theres mason, donnell, hall that we could sign depending on how they do at training camp compared to nick young and Dmac and each other. There’s also whether or not we are going to sign a veteran with the minimum. (all these depend on how much money we have left which I have no idea). Theres also a possibility of some trades to get a big man If we don’t get one with the vet’s min.
I’m also curious about whether or not we might pick up some extra pieces from the rest of the league. Some teams have too many players under contract and theres good players without teams out there. I’ve always wished we could invite dajuan wagner to camp. He’s one of the people ( telfair, maurice evans, darkos another) who i’ve fallen in love with their potential. I’m really hoping nick young and Dmac pan out. I have the same feeling about nick young that i had about Monta Ellis when I was looking at the draft charts the year he got drafted and saw how good his offense was. Nick young is really smooth. Dmac I feel can potentially become better than caron but thats just me and thats probably not true cause I also think blatche can be better than jamison as well and nick young better than larry hughes.
So to answer your question I don’t know what they will do. thats why I keep checking in

By: brian

brian — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:39:18 +0000

sounds good bruce! u should be a scout for the wizards! since the wiz are pretty much squared away whats the depth chart looking like 1-12 or 13?

By: BruceO

BruceO — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:29:59 +0000

carmelo is playing power forward because he’s strong enough to defend international power forwards. He also can shoot meaning he can extend the defenses. He also has post moves. Playing him at power forward allows the US team to be fast and have some outside shooting from their big men without any defensive liabilities.