Wizards are likely to keep Stackhouse <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Recent conversations with Wizards front-office people has revealed that the decision makers haven't lost patience with two-time All-Star Jerry Stackhouse, who missed 51 games this season because of injury and now comes off the bench when his knees aren't wracked with pain. After a Wizards game, radio's would-be coaching intelligentsia offer plans for the future. Many are advising the Wizards to move Stackhouse, who has three years remaining on his contract. Ultimately, president of basketball operations Ernie Grunfeld and coach Eddie Jordan will huddle, reach a conclusion and then act on any number of situations that lottery teams are saddled with. But right now, a look inside the spin doesn't indicate that trading Stackhouse is the order of the day, or, for that matter, the summer. </div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Even if they wanted to trade the 29-year-old Stackhouse, the list of potential suitors would be short because the opinion around the league ? rightly or wrongly ? is that he is damaged goods. Whether he is can only be determined in season. </div> This news does not make me happy at all :thumbsdow
and I thought the Wizards can have a winning season next year. Jerry will be a major problem to the team.
Chris McCosky's quick hits <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">* The Wizards apparently considered leaving former Piston Jerry Stackhouse unprotected and available to the Charlotte franchise in the June expansion draft, but seemingly have reconsidered. It is highly doubtful the Bobcats would take Stackhouse and his three-year, $25 million contract, unless they planned to trade him. Christian Laettner, another former Piston, and Juan Dixon certainly will be left unprotected. Stackhouse, as we mentioned here last week, is not a happy camper. He is being forced to play, even though he said his surgically repaired knee is not healthy. "I think (there) is a consensus with the higher-ups, who feel if I can be out there at 50, 60 percent and do anything to help the team, do it," Stackhouse said last week. "I just roll with it but I'm definitely not happy with who I am as a basketball player and would rather be sitting out just getting ready for next season. But I'll do what I need to do." Stackhouse said he hoped to remain with the Wizards, but added, "I think there's a lot of questions that still have to be asked and answered this summer."</div>
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Q Rich3:</div><div class="quote_post">THis sucks ass. He is a cancer, he takes way too many shots, I hope he is a sixth man next year.</div> I couldn't have said it better myself, I rank him up along with Francis and Walker. Very capable of being good players, they're players who take the fancy play over the safe one, as well as bad shot selections and ball hogging. Although he is inconsistent, KVH has moved away from this, it's about time they do too or become bench warmers and relievers.
Wizards Are Young, but Nothing's New <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Didn't he intimate that Stackhouse was not a leader, that Kwame Brown lacked competitive fire, that Washington's post players are too limited offensively, that young knuckleheads are young knuckleheads, not kids who need syrupy confidence boosts? Jordan said all that. </div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">It's too late to prove Jordan wrong for some. Stackhouse is most likely bound for some offseason deal for a veteran big man, if he is not taken by the Charlotte Bobcats in the expansion draft first. Christian Laettner's days of influencing impressionable minds in the Wizards' locker room are about to come to an end, too. The club may buy out his contract. </div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Etan Thomas, puffing out his pectorals and just a week past 26, was dunking with malice, bringing his knees up, using his rump to seal off old man Dikembe Mutombo. The two were going at each other with elbows, forearms and profanities. Their little generation-gap spat turned a quiet, summer-league run into jolting NBA theater. But then, with the Knicks ahead by only two, Mutombo grabbed a rebound off a missed three-pointer with about eight seconds left. Thomas, within a foot of Mutombo, inexplicably did not foul one of the most atrocious free throw shooters in the league. This was still a winnable game if Mutombo misses one or both. Instead, Moochie Norris seals the game with two free throws. </div> Mutombo isn't that bad a free throw shooter. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Maybe Arenas and Hughes trust their teammates more and chuck from 25 feet less. Maybe Brown and Arenas put their sandbox feud aside and realize, at 22, what they can do together instead of apart. Maybe Eddie Jordan is much more than just the seventh Wizards coach in five years. </div>
