MAS RipCity

Deng or Andre Iguodala would be great additions to your squad and would fit in perfectly imo. Either trade up or down to get one or the other.

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afireinside

we don't need a SF. we have Stack and Hayes. we need to give Hayes more PT because he could be big. Childress is really not good at all. either is this draft, but there has to be better options. what I see is we have at least 3 in every category except center with some people being free agents(notably Etan).

PG: Arenas, Blake, Whitney
SG: Hughes, Dixon, Butler
SF: Stackhouse, Hayes, Jeffries
PF: Kwame, Laettner, Baxter
C: Haywood, Thomas


Laettner and Kwame could play center, but not the best choices. Etan is also small compared to other C's. either way that is a major shortage at the C position. we need to recruit a foreign center that really has potential. I don't look much into that, but the team should scout foreign players over the summer. We don't need another guard.

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havoc

Went into the draft 2 years ago hoping the wiz would take anyone but JJ.. gonna go in this year hoping they take anyone but Childress. I'm just not impressed with his game at all and would much rather take a risk on a big euro kid, be it podkolzine or someone else.

twinz2gether

How bout Martynus Andriusivyncus (spelled way wrong)?

I mean, people say this guy is not developed enough yet and he should stay in Europe another year. But they also say that he's definately going to be a great player. I don't mind waiting on a guy who will probably be a good Center. Some might disagree though.

I don't really want to take Pavel because i'm sure he probably would to nothing this year and he just seems like he has no potential at all and people just like the fact he's big.

SF is also an option to pick, but that means we have to trade either Stackhouse or Hughes.

Trading shouldn't really be an option because we will probably get nothing for this pick.

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PatBateman

one of the worst trades I have ever seen posted on these boards, an abomination

shazha

ok maybe a future unprotected first rounder. But word is that Pierce is just not trying anymore and is sick of Boston. Theres been talks of blowing the team up starting with dealing pierce.

Fair enough hes worth more in your eyes, but a future 1st rounder might land u the next big thing. Plus celts want to run, and paul doesnt run.

btw, why would the wiz want childress when they have jarvis hayes. Werent you guys really big on the guy? Unless Childress is to play sf, the wiz seem to have a backlog of guards happening.

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MJG

Really, there's no pick that we can make at five that really would excite or upset me. Okay, we could grab a JR Smith or Sebastian Telfair that early and I'd be annoyed, but there's no realistic choice I'm against.

Frankly, at this point, we could draft any of the following and I wouldn't complain (no order): Biedrins, Livingston, Childress, Gordon, Andriuskevicius, or Iguodala. There may be one or two more I'm forgetting off the top of my head as well.

I still really like the idea of getting someone who'll help next year (even in a backup role), but if the team believes that a guy like Biedrins will be our center of the future, I won't complain.

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Hawks4ever

Do not over-rate your talent pool, cause it isn't much. The Wizards are not loaded, they need to stockpile talent in this draft. Stackhouse and Hayes will not stop management from drafting a SG if they think it will be a future star, ditto for Kwame and Arenas.

Cinco de Mayo

Think the Clippers would swap picks if you guys threw Larry Hughes into the mix? They could use a SG with Richardson likely out the door, and to make Sterling really happy, Hughes is an expiring contract that can play ball. The Clippers move down to take a PG like Devin Harris while the Wizards can snatch up Dwight Howard.

Just a thought.

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MJG

That's actually a deal I looked into this morning, I was thinking of posting it on the Clippers board. It lets Sterling not have to pay Q, while getting a solid replacement for him with an expiring deal -- as you said, big from Sterling on that one. They get to have the draft they really want by taking a PG, probably none of which will be taken ahead of fifth. Works for us because it frees up the SG spot to be taken over by Stackhouse and gives us the option to take whoever we want best between Deng and Howard (which would be Deng right now, if recent reports hold true).

Picks don't have any value until they sign a contract, so we'd also have to take back an equal amount of salary to Hughes. The only two combos I could find on the trade checker was Hughes for Ely and Drobnjak or Hughes for House, Jaric, and Ely.

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Hawks4ever

You would have to be crazy to take Deng over Dwight.... Washington needs to draft BPA. Howard is the best prospect in this draft

Cinco de Mayo

Actually, since the Clippers are under the cap, the 115% rule doesn't need to be satisfied. At least that's how I understand it.

But why would Washington prefer Deng over Howard? From all I could see from this past year, Washington is loaded with swingmen. Stackhouse, Hayes and Jeffries are all serviceable SFs, and even Arenas can play some SG every now and then. Meanwhile, there's just Haywood and Brown covering the middle if Etan isn't brought back, and I'm sure that Wiz fans would prefer Brown at PF. Howard could be a stopgap in a major way and seems to be a bigger talent than Deng anyway.

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