This team was built to lose and Poole is accomplishing that. If the Wizards had kept Porzingis and traded Poole for a guard that could play defense this team could have won 30-40 games.
It’s still early enough in the season that he could turn it around. If he can show something to get real value in a trade then he has done everything we have asked for.
If Deni was healthy would WUJ put him in the game.
Every time Gallo makes a shot I can see his trade value going from the 59th pick to the 58th pick.
As bad as the refs have been tonight I’m enjoying the ref’s explanations at the mic.
Deni with the left
If you squint hard enough and then go blind Gallo looks like a homeless man’s Jokic.
Finally Gafford showing some moves.
If we beat the bucks without Bilal and Rollins are we title contenders?
They are trying as hard as monumental sports cameras showing the Lopez brothers over the game.
Comments like these are why I’ve been so pro-Deni.
I’ve seen Magic, Jordan, Bird, Miller, Drexler…
Most NBA fans have seen Lebron, Curry, Durant, and Jokic who are on their level. This idea that you’re the only person that has seen elite basketball is ridiculous.
Deni is like the one athlete from their country to ‘make it’ in the league, and so they’re fiercely protective.
The only reason that I’ve supported him is that until the Wizards drafted Bilal, he was the only player that had legit upside. I don’t know how you can root for a team whose best player (Beal) was not a superstar, got rid of the fan favorite in Wall and not at least try to find the one guy that could break out.
His fans have blamed everyone from Kyle Kuzma to Rui Hachimura to Raul Neto to Poole to Bertans to Corey Kispert to the coach
Rui was a black hole on offense, Neto was another black hole on offense and was a journeyman score first point guard with no future. Poole has been the worst player in the league, Bertans took crazy shots and didn’t pass, and the coach has blown the most 20+ point leads I’ve ever seen while continuing to play horrendous lineups and have no plan at the end of games. Kuz and Kispert don’t deserve blame but there are a lot of guys that were not good.
All that belies the fact that he’s a lottery pick 225-odd games into his NBA career just now becoming…mediocre
Coming into the league at 18 was a mistake but if he had gone to college for the past two years and then this was his second year in the league everyone would look at him as a good prospect. 50-40-~80 with great defense and 2.29 Assist/TO from a 22-year-old is mediocre then I’ll be happy to find out what good is.
We got nothin else goin on.
This sums up my pro Deni position.
TBJ was pretty much the same way, and he’s still hanging around. Difference is nobody hyped up TBJ like he was the second coming
TBj was smaller than Deni and didn’t have the same physical tools. Physical tools will always get more hype and opportunity.
But imagine Deni was your relative. You see somebody online talking shit about him, you’re gonna defend him, right?
I don’t really care about Deni I just want to be right. If he became an all-star I would stop caring about arguing this altogether.
The U.S. army should look into hiring Wes after he is fired from the Wizards. A tank commander this prodigious is nearly impossible to find.
There are moments when this looks like a decent NBA team. Most of them are against the Hornets but there are moments.
Does Meghan not also watch the game while she’s talking. I’ve never heard a broadcast miss announcing parts of the game for a sideline report.
Johnny Davis sighting.
Is Jordan Poole a better basketball player than Johnny Davis
Holy shit, Giannis is 18-20 from the field.
Holy shit, Giannis is 18-20 from the field.
Is Curtis Samuel the best WR on the team?