Me too, but only for 20 minutes a game. In any case, that’s all it’ll take for JaVale to foul out of many games. But I am very eager to see whether Crittenton can play.

I couldn’t agree more about Mike James. If he is a factor on our team, that tells you more about the team than it does about Mike (which doesn’t make him a bad player, btw).

You guys wonder what happened to JaVale and Nick, the short answer is Tapscott. Those kids numbers and confidence have dopped like a rock since Tapscott has attempted to coach thisteam. If anyone read his disjointed comments in the Post about “what you do with veterans if you give the rookies playing time” gets a good sense as to why this team suffers from perennial mediocrity. When your time is winning less than 18 % of its games, you sit your old tired jump shooting veterans on the bench. Only on the Wizards squad can a nomad 33 year old “combo” guard (that a championship caliber New Orleans team did not want) get major minutes.

What Grunfeld and Tapscott and the organization is telling its fans is that if we give you a 40 win team, the fans can live with that. They can feed you nonsense about the “Two All-Stars” which is about as believable as Santa Claus coming down the chimney. Name one other team with two All-Stars that has 5 wins. No plan for the future, no bold moves other than signing an injured guard and a 32 year old “in-between” forward to
outrageous contracts

Come on who cares about a win against Oklahoma City if we don’t develop our young guys. Who cares about Mike James, who will be somewhere else next year. Who cares about DeShawn Stephenson who should have been benched 10 games ago. Who cares about 20 and 10 if your teqm does not win, hell Kevin Durant is aveaging 20 and almost 10.

Every other organization has figured it out. You live with the growing pains of playing your young guys and if they are NBA caliber players they will rise to the occasion. But give them a fair chance to be successful. If everyone recalls, Brendon Haywood was viewed unfavorably by almost everyone until he got a chance to play last year.

The major reason I kept going down to Verizon was because I enjoyed seeing the athleticism of JaVale and If Tapscott comes back, Grunfeld can sell my two season tickets to someone else.

I don’t pick by position; I pick the guy who I think can be a superstar. Right now, Blake Griffin looks awfully good. Phenomenal, in fact. But, it looks like we’d have to have the #1 pick to get him.