AJFromTheDMV

Brandon Jennings has his dreads back.

Nice for both sides, yes Blatche was frustrating at times, but he is kinda misunderstood/talented like McGee. Blatche came to a team whos leader Agent 0 literally took a s*** in his shoes. The environment was always bad for young players until now. I actually wish Young, McGee, and Blatche the best... Now it's time for Wall/Beal and the rest of our young guns to shine!

Drafts are judged by the number of multi time all stars and HOFs, only time will tell. I'll wait a couple of years.

Give me a list of notable underpaid players.

It's a bad idea because Olympic Basketball is the premier tourney for International Basketball. The best players from each participating country should play. U-23 works for soccer because the World Cup is the sports biggest International competition.

Good shooter, he improved his handles and hits the glass hard. Good pick up.

Davis is already hurt, so I'm not sure about him. MKG is not in a good situation. I like Robinson, Beal, and Lillards chances. The last two game score and Robinson may be the most NBA ready.

It looks like the Wizards showed their cards too early and Cleveland are looking to trade their first round picks so they can move up and draft Beal with the number 2 pick. I hope not because I really like Beal and think he can be an all star in a few years.

Brand was a 20-10 player his rookie year, so that's pretty good, he was slowed down by injuries. Same with Kenyon Martin, he's been plagued with injuries. Barngani could be way better if he was aggressive and could play defense. I agree with most of the criticism of Wall, but averaging 8 asts on a bad team is like averaging 10 assists on a good team. A missed assist tracker on BulletsForever's website showed that he could have led the league in assists had his teammates converted at a better rater. "Knowing how to run an offense" is so subjective. Westbrook knows how to run an offense if the offense is set up for him to score. Wall is no Kwame Brown as the top pick, but he is not D-Rose either. He'll finally have a decent team around him next season. Year 3 will tell a lot about the direction of his career.

The NBA draft is next week and I've been looking back at some old drafts, including the 2008 one. Many people considered Michael Beasley to be a sure pick that was going to come in and average 20 and 10 right away. Also, people were saying that Derrick Rose was a pick just off of potential. Beasley's college #s: 26.2 ppg 12.4 rpg 52% shooting, 37% 3pt shooting. Rose college #s: 14.9 ppg 4.7 Asts 47% shooting, 33% 3 pt shooting. Now, Rose is an MVP and Beasley is a role player. Stats aren't everything, but what happened to Beasley?

This almost guaruntee's that the Wizards will draft Bradley Beal if he's still on the board @ #3.

I think the game would actually be pretty close.

I made it in 2 days, I really don't have any fancy mixing tools, just Movie Maker.

2-2-1-1-1 because it favors the home team more like it's suppose to. Still, the road team rarely sweeps the middle three games.

I could have sworn his jumper was better in high school/college. I heard someone joke that Doc told him to play bad, so the Wizards wouldn't draft him. He struggled with the 7 drill, Beal did well in that drill. The 3 players the Wizards are seriously considering are Beal, MKG, and T. Robinson.

Watch this mix I made on YouTube of young NBA PGs. It features Rose Westbrook Rondo Irving Wall Lin Curry Lawson Jennings Teague Holiday Rubio I. Thomas K. Lowry.

Durant, but Lebron has himself to blame, he could have gone to Chicago or Memphis. Both teams are complete, with a nice bench and good bigs.

I'm not as knowledgable when it comes to free agents. Those rumors usually heat up in July though.

There have been many rumors that the Wizards will buy out Rashard Lewis and amnesty Andray Blatche to free up cap space. I like either Thomas Robinson or Bradley Beal with the 3rd pick. With Robinson, the Wizards would have a tough front line with Nene, Seraphin, and Booker. You could remove the soft label that they've earned over the years. With Robinson the Wizards will get a hungry big who is NBA ready. However, the Wizards biggest needs are at the shooting guard and small forward positions. They need an effective shooter with 3 point range. Bradley Beal fits that description. I like MKGs hustle and effort, but he can't shoot. Point blank. The LAST thing the Wizards need is another guy who can't shoot. None of the young guys they've drafted/traded for lately are great shooters. (Wall, Crawford, Booker, and Vesely) Beal would come right in, be the starting 2, and stretch the floor for Wall/Nene to go to work.

No excuses for his shooting, but people forget that John Wall does everything pretty well besides his outside shooting/turnover problem. He's the 3rd best rebounding pg behind Rondo, and Westbrook. He's the best shot blocking pg by far. He's 7th in assists per game. He also gets to the line well for a pg (6.1 atpg). It's so frustrating watching him lose confidence in his J, he can't do that if he wants to be the franchise player. He is a 79% free throw shooter, so you might wonder why he can't hit mid range jumpers consistently. He has a bad tendency to shoot his jumper on the way down or fadaway to his right. If you watch him in practice/workouts, he makes shots consistently, but they are set shots or shots where he jumps like 2 inches off of the ground. He works on his shot with Sam Cassell (who was an excellent mid range shooter/post player.) He just has to keep his form consistent; straight up and down, and stay confident in his shot. He said he would work on his 3pt shot this summer and play in less charity games. Lets see if/how much he improves next season. The Wizards need some outside shooting, J-Wall can personally help out with that.

Who should we draft with the third pick? Who should we pick up in free agency? What do our young players like John Wall, Jordan Crawford, Trevor Booker, and Jan Vesely have to do to improve their games. Players scheduled to work out with the Wizards as of June 11th, 2012: Bradley Beal Thomas Robinson Michael Kidd-Ghilchrist Austin Rivers Possible Free Agents signees: Gerald Wallace Eric Gordon Ersan Ilyasova Ryan Anderson Nicholas Batum

The Wizards were 7-4 with Nene in the line up, and played way better defense under Wittman. Kevin Seraphin emerged as a legitimate big who can score with both hands and can post up any center in the league. Getting rid of Young/McGee was huge even though I wish them the best. Now, we need a good off-season in the draft, free agency, and development of our other young players.

Year: 2002 Why: MJ plus local team Fav Wiz player(s): Gilbert Arenas, Antawn Jamison, Caron Butler. Fav Wiz Coach: Eddie Jordan Fav Wiz Moment: Gilbert Game Winner vs the Bulls in 05 playoffs/winning the series. Amount of games attended: 5