00:00What's up everybody, my name is Trey and welcome back to Better Days Sports.
00:04And in this video, we'll be breaking down the Washington Wizards in a nutshell.
00:11Because I don't care about the knee-jerk reactions that most people have
00:16when it comes to the Washington Wizards getting both Trey Young and Anthony Davis.
00:22Because this is exactly what more NBA teams should be doing.
00:27And let me explain.
00:30Sure, should they be trading for Trey Young in AD?
00:33Not necessarily.
00:34But the Washington Wizards made a statement in trading for these two players.
00:41They said Anthony Davis, when healthy, and Trey Young, when healthy,
00:46are arguably two top 10 players in the league.
00:51And we probably won't be able to find that through the draft.
00:54At least in the short term.
00:57Sure, teams have been building through the draft.
00:59You can look at the Pistons.
01:01You can look at the Spurs.
01:03You can look at Oklahoma City.
01:04But for majority of these first-round picks, they do not pan out to be a Cooper Flat,
01:11to be a Shea, to be a Chet, to be a Wimby, to be a Castle, to be a Dillon
01:19Harper.
01:19So, it's not guaranteed just because you have a ton of first-round picks that those picks actually plan out.
01:27And because of that, I'm so tired of half the teams in the NBA tanking, half competing,
01:38and then ending up in the exact same place they were for multiple years.
01:43They don't have a star.
01:45They have top picks who don't plan out.
01:48And they have no real upside.
01:50The Washington Wizards, however, said,
01:52Hey, instead of hoping and praying in the draft that we get somebody that's going to change around our future,
01:59how about we just go and get those players in a year in which their stock is probably the lowest?
02:08And I know what you're thinking.
02:11It's AD.
02:13Look, a healthy AD you want on your team.
02:16A healthy Trae Young, at one point in time, took his team to the Eastern Conference Finals.
02:23Sure, did he win anything?
02:24No, but name another player on the Hawks besides Trae Young that year.
02:28I'll wait.
02:31Exactly, okay?
02:35So, the league, and this is my opinion, the league absolutely punishes mediocrity.
02:44If you live in the middle, which I think a great example of this, the New Orleans Pelicans.
02:53They have been a team that has made moves, not for necessarily all-star level players, but for good players.
03:02You get CJ McCollum, you get Javonte Murray, you get Jordan Poole.
03:08And by no stretches of imagination are any of those players that I just listed where you're like,
03:16Oh, that player can get us to the finals.
03:19They can put us over the hump.
03:21We're on a team that's right on the edge.
03:24That's the player that's going to get us.
03:27No, they're not.
03:28And the fact that they talk themselves into that is why so many teams are at this, we are mediocre
03:37stage, and they continue to live there.
03:40And the Wizards, on the other hand, took a big swing.
03:44Trae Young gives them an offensive engine, somebody they can absolutely run their offense through,
03:50somebody who will facilitate for other people, and a guard who actually will take the last shot.
03:57Not only that, with a healthy AD, they have a defensive identity, they have a legit rim protector,
04:04and they have instant credibility with those two players of no longer being an absolutely bottom feeder of the East.
04:11But now, they can be sneaky good.
04:15Can they be a playoff team?
04:16Not a play-in team, but can they be a playoff team?
04:18So let me paint this perspective for you.
04:21The Washington Wizards arguably are going to have a top five pick.
04:24They have Trae Young.
04:25They have AD.
04:26They have a lot of young talent.
04:29Not only that, but they also have the number two pick last year that they drafted,
04:32who is starting to come into his own as a stretch four.
04:37Has a lot of upside.
04:38Is he the best second overall pick ever?
04:41No, but he's definitely shown sparks of being a very good player.
04:45So the bigger picture is, sure, we're going to tank for the rest of this year.
04:49We're going to have a very high pick in an absolutely loaded draft where we can get arguably the best
04:56wing scorer in college basketball.
04:58Or maybe we get the best scoring two guard next to Trae Young so we can get some of that
05:04pressure away from Trae Young.
05:05And they have a roster of just young, skilled players.
05:10This wasn't a desperation move where they're like, we have to mortgage our entire future to get these two older
05:16stars.
05:16They're stacking, in my opinion, the timeline on the front end.
05:22Sure, are they going to be extremely relevant the rest of this season?
05:26No.
05:26They're tanking.
05:27They're trying to get a top five pick.
05:28But next year, with everybody healthy, a top pick, young talent, I think this team is a lot more dangerous
05:36than a lot of players or a lot of people.
05:39I think this team is a lot more dangerous than a lot of people want to give them credit for.
05:43Simply because, on paper, with the asterisk of AD being injured and Trae Young being a small guard who's also
05:51been injured a little bit in his career.
05:53Especially after leaving the Hawks as disgruntled as he did.
05:57I don't care.
05:59I respect this move from the Washington Wizards because it wasn't safe.
06:03It wasn't conventional.
06:05And this isn't playing to be a play-in team as they have been for, it seems like, the last
06:11five years.
06:12This is a team that says, next year, with the way that we are constructed, we have the ability to
06:18be in the playoffs, make a run, and with an East that seems to be the more injury-riddled conference,
06:26maybe with one or two stars getting injured, it's going to lead directly into the Wizards finding themselves in the
06:33Eastern Conference Championship, maybe even the finals.
06:37Is it something that I'm predicting?
06:39No, it is not.
06:40But I just wanted to throw out there, I absolutely love what the Wizards did, this trade deadline, getting two
06:45legit all-star level players and showing up their timeline to be a competent organization.
06:52But let me ask you, are you a fan of this trade for the Wizards?
06:56Are you a fan of Trae Young or AD?
06:58Maybe you don't think they work well together, or maybe you think this is absolutely disaster waiting to happen because
07:03of their injury history.
07:05But also, what else were the Wizards going to do?
07:09So leave your comments in the comment section down below of your opinion.
07:12Let me know how you feel about the Wizards making some questionable moves.
07:15But in my opinion, one of the few teams that said, hey, we're going for it, and we're not going
07:21to be bad next year.
07:22I know we were this year, but we have some building blocks, and we have the right players in the
07:28right type of systems that, in theory, work on paper.
07:32And let's see how that actually translates to on the court.
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07:39And leave a comment, like I said, down below on exactly this because I'm really excited to see what the
07:45Wizards have in store next year.
07:48And just like that, I will see you in the next one.
07:49Peace.
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