Another banger from DA.
After another non-winning, no-playoffs season, and four decades of mediocrity, someone has to wake the Wizards up. At this point, it doesn't matter who: owner, GM, coach, star. The franchise has to get comfortable being uncomfortable. In @TheAthletic: https://t.co/iuBLytq3Xq
— David Aldridge (@davidaldridgedc) April 13, 2023
by Nick_Argue
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What does “turn up the heat” even mean? Like Ted’s gonna show up to the practice facility one day and say “hey guys I’m turning up the heat, you guys need to win more games this year” or what? Nobody knows what it means, but it gets the people going. I’m as frustrated as David but it’s not as simple as just winning more games or only making winning moves when 29 other teams are doing the same thing.
*Anyone except Spencer Dinwiddie
Peak NBA media to not talk about the Wizards for most of the season but once it is over, drop multiple articles in a short period of time about how the team is terrible despite probably not watching more than two games consecutively.
And here comes the Ted employees in this sub desperately waving away any criticism. “ITS THE MEDIA! WHAT IS TED SUPPOSED TO DO?” What a joke
Can’t believe people ITT are actually defending the Wizards like they haven’t been aggressively mediocre AT BEST for 40 years. The team has won 4 playoff series since 1980 FFS
One of the few journalists who care about the Wizards
What exactly does “turn up the heat” mean?
Ted sucks he really really sucks
[https://archive.ph/YuYvA](https://archive.ph/YuYvA)
This is ABC to building a winning culture and team, but somehow Ted doesn’t realize this or care.
Sell the team Ted!
I am yet again confused by most people’s analysis. It doesn’t matter who the coach and gm is, it’s the vision laid out by the franchise. When you choose to never tank and ultimately build around non 1st option players, not even Prime Phil Jackson is going to change anything.
If I’m being really technical, the fundamental issue is that Ted thinks the NBA is like the NHL, which has significantly more upsets in the playoffs. You can’t run an NBA franchise like an NHL one. It’s kinda sad truth in the nba that realistically, if you don’t have a top 5 player, you aren’t winning a championship.
Tommy just spent his press conference throwing WUJ under the bus while saying this team wasn’t good because of injuries. The President of Basketball operations doesn’t even take this shit seriously, and his job is to convince the owner. Easily a worse GM than his boss.
Gotta be willing to move on from people that you aren’t gonna go anywhere with, and someone has to not be afraid of doing that.
Sell the team is the only way!!!