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f22egl · 06-03-2004, 10:49 PM

who are the wizards going to protect in the expansion draft? they can protect up to eight.

im guessing they'll protect hughes, arenas, kwame, haywood, jarvis hayes, etan thomas

they'll likely leave christian laetner unprotected

so out of these two, who will they protect?
blake, dixon, stackhouse, jeffries

f22egl · 06-03-2004, 10:50 PM

i mean they'll leave laetner unprotected

**MJG** · 06-04-2004, 06:33 AM

Honestly, I've thought about this throughout the season, and I've never come up with a relatively set group of three. Laettner and Stackhouse seem pretty obvious, but that last spot is a mystery. Honestly, whoever is left there will probably be selected, so our team needs to think about it carefully.

Looking at the total picture, the choices probably come out to leaving Etan, Jeffries, Blake, or Dixon in that last spot. Etan would immediately save them from adding salary to their squad, where as the other three all have one year deals (either expiring or with a team option for more) at $1.5 million or less. All are perfect additions to the type of team the Bobcats are looking to build.

Really, the team just needs to decide which of them is not the best fit for our team for next year and let them go. I think a lot will have to do with the draft. It's impossible to determine exactly what will be there at the fifth pick, but they'll have to do some predicting. If they think Pavel will be there and that's their guy, let Etan go. If Smith will be there and he's their guy, let JJ go. And so on.

There is a bit of leeway with that though. If Dixon is left open, we have enough players who can play SG that it'll leave our draft options open. If we leave Blake open on the other hand, we almost have to pick a PG in the draft, because we'd only have combo guard Arenas and no one else to run that spot.

I don't really have a prediction in there anywhere, but I guess I should make one. When all is said and done, I think Dixon will be the one left for the taking. It'll be hard to lose his home town heroism and his all out effort, but the things he brings to the team are already done by other players, often better. Basically, he shoots the ball (a lot) and gambles for steals (a lot). We have at least four or five guys I'd like to see get shots before Dixon, and losing him will open up nine shots a game for other players. On a side note, did you realize that Dixon averaged 10 les MPG than Kwame, but averaged one more shot attempt per game in that time? We were way too guard-oriented last year.

Dixon will be a capable starting SG for an expansion team. He'll get the crowd behind him, be a leader on-court and perfect citizen off-court, and on the court he'll be able to give them 15-20 points most night (albeit on 35% shooting). If they build their team based off low salaries more so than solid players, as I expect they shall, Dixon could very well be their leading scorer next season. Scary thought, eh?

**MJG** · 06-04-2004, 06:36 AM

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i mean they'll leave laetner unprotected

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**SKiP** · 06-04-2004, 11:29 AM

They'll protect Blake and Jeffreys and let Dixon go.

The Wizards have too many SG already so losing Dixon wouldn't hurt that much.

Wizards
PG - Arenas / Blake
SG - Hughes / Stackhouse / Dixon
SF - Hayes / Jeffries
PF - Kwame / Laettner
C - Haywood / Thomas

I think this is how the lineup looks like right now.

**BCH** · 06-04-2004, 12:11 PM

Unprotected:

Dixon, Stackhouse, Laettner

Say goodbye to Dixon. Hopefully they take Laettner.

**MJG** · 06-04-2004, 01:06 PM

Nice knowing you Dixon ...

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WASHINGTON TIMES - June 4, 2004
Meanwhile, teams must submit their list of eight protected players for the expansion draft to the league by June 12. Although (Ernie) Grunfeld would not comment, three league sources last week reached the joint opinion that the Wizards are least likely to protect Juan Dixon, Christian Laettner and Jerry Stackhouse.

**BCH** · 06-04-2004, 04:26 PM

If we get a player selected in the expansion draft, how is that going to affect our regular draft?

If Stackhouse gets taken, do we go after Iggy? What about Dixon? I think it would make a lot of sense if that happened. That would leave us with the following guards/sfs:

Arenas/Blake
Hughes/Stackhouse or Dixon
Hayes/Jeffries

Our front court would look like this if Laettner is not taken, and Etan is resigned:

Kwame/Laettner
Haywood/Etan

I purposefully left off Butler/Whitney/Baxter. I wouldn't mind Butler if the price is right (read minimum). We are probably a little thin up front, so if we go SF or smaller in the draft, I would expect a big with the MLE. I have no idea who that would be. Of course, a trade would change this all.

jazzy1 · 06-04-2004, 11:03 PM

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Originally posted by BCH!
If we get a player selected in the expansion draft, how is that going to affect our regular draft?

If Stackhouse gets taken, do we go after Iggy? What about Dixon? I think it would make a lot of sense if that happened. That would leave us with the following guards/sfs:

Arenas/Blake
Hughes/Stackhouse or Dixon
Hayes/Jeffries

Our front court would look like this if Laettner is not taken, and Etan is resigned:

Kwame/Laettner
Haywood/Etan

I purposefully left off Butler/Whitney/Baxter. I wouldn't mind Butler if the price is right (read minimum). We are probably a little thin up front, so if we go SF or smaller in the draft, I would expect a big with the MLE. I have no idea who that would be. Of course, a trade would change this all.

I saw Ernie G on TV the other day and he talked about how ggod Jerry was looking and that Jerry had recovered.

I'm wondering now would he still chance leaving Jerry unprotected.

I think if Deng falls to the 4th spot we are gonna work out some sort of deal with the Bobcats.

I think Ernie wants the Cats to think we're high on Childress so we may get the player Ernie really wants.

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