Cam Whitmore traded to Wizards for 2 2nd round picks

I don’t get it. He hasn’t improved much from last year and wasn’t a part of Wizards rotation. He wasn’t a major part of the Rockets rotation due to poor defense, selfish play, and lack of play making ability. That doesn’t scream star player to me

 

Heading into the draft, I had Cam Whitmore basically tied with Ausar Thompson for the 5/6 spots in the lottery. I was thrilled to get him at 20. But he has not developed much and has serious maturity issues. It’s okay to concede defeat on a guy sometimes. I’m just glad they salvaged two decent second round picks for him.

 

Cam still has a lot of potential, but I am definitely getting the Terrence Williams vibe.

would not be good to have around this team. There wouldn’t be enough shots. best of luck to him and his maturation.

 

Nice post.

 

2 second round picks? Do they even convey? I know you love that horse trading, but I think you never give up on a 20 year old talented player because he is immature for 2 - 2nd round never will play in the league picks.

DD

 

He was hurt all or most of last yr. How could he have shown anything?

However, he can score at all three levels, he can get his own shot and he's highly athletic, a lot of what we missed last season.

Rarely do you find 20, 21 yr old two way players, normally they are picked in the Top 5. Cam is a KID with high potential. Like KPJ showed, you need time to mature.

 

Its an obvious sign of lack of maturity. You're talking about young men with plenty of money, who don't have a real job or nothing to do after practice.

As much as we would like them to, they can't play ball 24/7. And I guarantee that there is a very high percentage of players who are doing the same things but they just not immature enough to take a picture and post it.

However, with players, you damn if you DO and you DAMN if you don't. Jalen Green settled down with an older woman and half of the people made fun of him....its their lives

 

2026 CHI
2029 SAC

Both good picks. Both convey. Don’t belittle the return because your love for Whitmore will never die.

 

I don't value 2nd round picks much at all, over talent that can help, that is true.

DD

 

What about for no talent that didn't help?

A reminder that Cam Whitmore got repeatedly benched this year for a team that was trying to lose games because he couldn't even do that - give a credible effort in a futile cause - without annoying everyone.

 

Almost forgot BenMac.

 

Think about what you just posted!

If a team is trying to TANK, why would you play your best players?

Not saying that I'm right or you're wrong but if Im trying to tank, I would play my rookies and my players who are not good enough to win VS my better players.

 

Oh. And of course Michael Beasley!

 

If Washington put Cam Whitmore on the market today, I don't see them being able to get a return for him as good as what the Rockets got for him.

 

Maybe but that is conjecture.

i do believe in him more than most particularly because I know Ime is crap.

DD

 

Our coaching staff definitely needs to do a better job at developing players (Jalen, Amen's shooting, Reed's rookie year, Cam). Ime would rather just trade away Cam and Reed than play them!

I'm with DD; Cam's potential far outweighs the risk, and he is still worth a shot, especially for a rebuilding team.

 

Did something happen to him? Why is this thread randomly getting action all of the sudden?

 

I think there's a lot of discussion about Cam not finding success because of attitude problems or defense when there are people who are much worse at one or the other.

Cam's big issue is that he was not good enough at being a role player to stay on the court. I could see him being very successful in another league if the ball was put in his hands the whole game amd he can just jump over everyone.

Cam just has too poor of court awareness to leverage his primary skill of driving and finishing in the nba. He just doesn't see what the defense or teammates are doing in real time to make the right play and dish to the open man consistently. I think the rockets recognized that and tried to transition him to be more of a 3andD role player because he has all the physical tools to be elite at that.

 

It's conjecture in the same sense that I can't prove that the Wizards couldn't trade him for Victor Wembanyama, after all, the salaries match.

We'll find out whether or not his team option is even exercised next season by the Wizards. I doubt it.

 

They already exercised it.

I think it was a mistake giving up on him so early, he would have been like 7th or 8th man off our bench, and we needed his offensive aggression.

That being said he is not a finished product and I don’t believe Ime is good for teaching players, he was never any good as a player so can’t teach more talented players than him, which is almost all of them.

DD