Haywood to Miss 2-4 Weeks

I don't like this at all

What's next for this team?

No Antawn
No Juan
No Haywood
No Hayes
No Peeler


Arenas has a bad knee. Kwame still is not right. Hughes missed 20 games. Blake missed time. Etan missed 1/2 the season.

It's going to be a struggle to remain at a 6 seed or better to avoid Miami or Detroit in the 1st round (if we get in). I sure hope the curse is not coming back.

 

Bye bye homecourt advantage...

 

Kwame stepping up

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Kobe 8 Ball:</div><div class="quote_post">This is great Kwame is really going to have to step up now. Wrong time for the injury bug to come up...

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You can forget Kwame stepping up, thats not going to happen. I would start a lineup of

C-Ruffin
PF-Jeffries
SF-Hughes
SG-Arenas
PG-Blake

Once Jamison comes back move Blake back to the bench and slide Jeffries down to SF and insert Jamison at PF. We need to go back to the things that got us so many victorys in the first place. At that time Kwame was not part of the equation, at best he is a serviceable backup nothing else. At least with Ruffin you know what you are going to get, he is not going to score, so you don't have to worry about him jacking up bricks like Kwame. Unlike Kwame there is no expectation for him to do any more than rebound and block shots. We are all still hoping that Kwame breaks out and has a monster game (he does as well, there lies the problem) the guy feels obligated everytime he steps on the court to prove to everyone that he was worthy of being selected # 1 overall.

 

Tough blow for Washington but I think the Wiz can survive. Hopefully players like Hughes and Areanas can step up big and knock down the big shots. Areanas has been looking good though with 20+ in the last 6 games.

 

Arenas has had 20+ the whole year, he averaged about 30 for a month or so, and that's what will likely be needed alone with about 25 from Hughes.

The team curently has only 2 scoring options, unless Kwame steps up and starts scoring about 15 PPG, their's not much scoring on the team. Haywood is 9-10 PPG gone also, and Jared Jeffries and Etan Thomas aren't scorers.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting og15:</div><div class="quote_post">Arenas has had 20+ the whole year, he averaged about 30 for a month or so, and that's what will likely be needed alone with about 25 from Hughes.

The team curently has only 2 scoring options, unless Kwame steps up and starts scoring about 15 PPG, their's not much scoring on the team. Haywood is 9-10 PPG gone also, and Jared Jeffries and Etan Thomas aren't scorers.</div>
Why does everyone keep saying, "unless Kwame steps up" or "Kwame needs to step up" face it, it's not going to happen. In order for us to win games now, Arenas and Hughes have to combine for at least 65 points, because realistically who else on this team do you expect to score more than 10 pts. Kwame couldn't make a shot if his life depended on it, so how is he going to step up. The person that needs to step up is Grunfeld and Eddie Jordan, there has to be somebody out there they can sign that can put the ball in the hole. This team has absolutely no one that can score other than Arenas and Hughes, EJ can't even give Arenas a break because as soon as he does the team goes into a scoring funk. Bring in Glen Rice or Dana Barros, someone. Or better yet sign Derrick Coleman or Tyrone Hill for a couple of games.

 

^Well said. Yeah theres a couple of decent players in the free agent market that you could sign for maybe like a month long contract to bring a 3rd good scorer to the team.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Why does everyone keep saying, "unless Kwame steps up" or "Kwame needs to step up" face it, it's not going to happen. In order for us to win games now, Arenas and Hughes have to combine for at least 65 points, because realistically who else on this team do you expect to score more than 10 pts. Kwame couldn't make a shot if his life depended on it, so how is he going to step up. The person that needs to step up is Grunfeld and Eddie Jordan, there has to be somebody out there they can sign that can put the ball in the hole. This team has absolutely no one that can score other than Arenas and Hughes, EJ can't even give Arenas a break because as soon as he does the team goes into a scoring funk. Bring in Glen Rice or Dana Barros, someone. Or better yet sign Derrick Coleman or Tyrone Hill for a couple of games.</div>
lol yea, Tyrone Hill is the scoring option the team needs, a career average of 9 points and high of 13.8 points, at 37 years old he's going ot give the team some points.

Dana Barros, Glen Rice etc would do nothing for the team, you need to be realistic here, guys like that at 40 aren't going to be scoring options, and they'd also be defensive liabilities. Also Barros plays PG/SG, why would we get a guy that plays the same position as the 2 top scorers?

You can't blame management for not "stepping up" and picking up washed up players because of mid-season injuries, if it's the off-season, okay, their's players to get, but during the season, their's not much they can do.

I really don't understand what you're complaining about with me reffering to Kwame, "unless" doesn't mean it's going to happen, it means only if it happens, so I don't understand what you're complaining about.

 

Ouch this really sucks for the Wiz. We keep losing player, after player. Hopefully Arenas or Hughes doesn't go down, or we could be lucky to even make the playoffs. I think we will struggle, and most likely slide in the standings. But that's ok, I think we can get the 5 seed. If Cleveland struggles also, maybe we can stay in the 4 seed and get Home Court.

 

Can't stay in 4th, it's not the Cavs we're afraid of, it's the Bulls.