<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>As the <font color="#0c4790">Washington Wizards</font> prepare to open their preseason schedule tomorrow in <font color="#0c4790">Cleveland</font>, Coach Eddie Jordan finds himself with many of the same players he had last year but a different team.</p> Inexperience and injuries kept Jordan from developing a consistent playing routine in 2006-07: The Wizards were breaking in new starting shooting guard <font color="#0c4790">DeShawn Stevenson</font>, bringing along talented but raw forward <font color="#0c4790">Andray Blatche</font> and dealing with forward <font color="#0c4790">Darius Songaila</font>'s back injury a year ago, so Jordan had to rely heavily on his starters while trying to patch together a bench rotation.</p> But now Jordan is feeling far more comfortable with his roster. Stevenson, <font color="#0c4790">Gilbert Arenas</font>, <font color="#0c4790">Caron Butler</font>, <font color="#0c4790">Antawn Jamison</font> and <font color="#0c4790">Brendan Haywood</font> return as starters, while Songaila and <font color="#0c4790">Antonio Daniels</font> are locks to be key contributors off the bench.</p> Blatche, in his second year, had a strong training camp and figures to play power forward and center, and Jordan has expressed confidence in <font color="#0c4790">Roger Mason</font> as a guard option off the bench. Rookies <font color="#0c4790">Oleksiy Pecherov</font>, <font color="#0c4790">Nick Young</font> and <font color="#0c4790">Dominic McGuire</font> will have eight preseason games to define their roles for the upcoming season, but Jordan is comfortable with the team's veteran core.</p> "We definitely have nine guys who know the offense, understand what we're doing, they have continuity and they're driven," Jordan said. "In that sense, it was a weird training camp for me. I never got [angry] like I have in most camps. I didn't have to motivate anybody. We didn't have a bad day. The effort was there, we heard a lot of talk out there and we had leaders. I kept telling my coaches: 'I have to get angry today,' but I didn't have to do it. We have veterans who are motivated and I never had to kick them in the pants. We have a real solid group."</div></p> Link</p> Eddie Jordan still needs to figure out where Oleksiy Pecherov, Nick Young and Dominic McGuire belong though. What happens when they end up performing better than Andray Blatche, Roger Mason or Darius Songalia? Eddie's had major inconsistency last season with his decision making, usually putting in the wrong guys at the wrong times.</p>
I completely agree, he also needs to decide how many minutes Brendan Haywood will recieve. He can't give Haywood the same in-consistent amount of playing time he did last season or it could potentially lead to anotehr conflict.</p>
