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Originally Posted by Chief Rum
Actually, Weaver's just fine and the Angels have the best record in baseball, so if that's jinxing, jinx away! 
Seriously, I like the Camby deal for a lot things, particularly the price. I am somewhat offput, though, if this is the team we roll with this season, because we need more offensive depth of the type Maggette brought us--take it to the hole and get fouled type. Thornton can and should develop into that, but we need more than that. Kaman and Camby will make it much harder to score on us in the post and pretty much make our opponents one-shot-and-done teams--they won't grab many boards from those two. But a fast transition game and a good jump shooting team is going to cause us problems. Kaman took an offensive jump in his game last year. We will need to see another jump to get this team into the playoffs. Or we're going to have to bring in a decent scorer with the midlevel, which isn't easy to do. |
But with Weaver, I wasn't a strong naysayer that said he would implode. If I remember right, I predicted a high 3, maybe low 4 ERA pitcher that would improve a little bit in his prime. I just said he was unlikely to be the revolutionary pitcher he seemed to be. So, my jinx still worked. It just happened that the rest of the team was good.
I do think Camby (if healthy) is a great pickup and improves the team. I just think Mobley (especially now that he is getting older - short SG's other than Jeff Hornacek don't age well) and Thomas provide some of the emptiest numbers in the league. And moody Baron has been overrated for most of his career (until he finally got it back together in G.S.). If Kaman improves, Camby is healthy, Baron is focused, and everyone else overachieves, the playoffs is a possibility. That's a long shot. They need to get new wing players if they ever want to really compete.
But what do I know - I'm a Wizards fan and my team is going to be just good enough to not win anything for the next 5-10 years.