J. Kyle Mann

There just aren't a lot of really good forwards floating in the ether right now.

And the ones that are, we just talk ourselves to death about, like Trey Murphy or Larry Markkinen, for example, who now might just be nailed down in Utah.

And so who is it that we were expecting them to get?

Who was it that was going to change their world over the back part of this season?

I think maybe it's fair to say that that guy just wasn't out there.

I would say so.

Yeah, I think so.

Shades of Darth Maul.

No, absolutely no Darth.

Now, VJ Edgecombe, he might have some Darth Maul in him, you know?

Yeah, I'm cool with it as not just like a way station, but any kind of like temporary step, you know, yeah, positive direction in terms of how many games the Wizards win.

But also like they just didn't give up anything that's going to change their future.

And the only way they do that is by committing a lot of money to Anthony Davis.

And so, yeah, so long as they avoid that outcome.

I think they would be better for it.

And frankly, they're in a position to where even if they did, I'm just more forgiving of it than Dallas because Dallas was so like salary strapped already that he was compounding problems with potentially getting a new deal.

So it's all relative.

And they just gave up so little for Davis.

They didn't change anything about the trajectory of their team.

And I think Davis is really good when he plays.