Deandre Ayton ponders who number 7 on the Washington Wizards is
The Wizards posted this themselves lol
Tbf I don’t think anybody is under the impression Ayton is longterm might as well get some content outta em
No way they post this if AJ said it
NBA Jameis Winston
thats jameis slander, my goat knows all his teammates and their favorite colors by heart
Jameis Winston is a predator. What a pitiful goat
I had no idea he was on the team. In all the talk about how the vets are going to mesh with the young guys, he is not a thought. My son and I talked about what Bilal is worth regularly.
I mean it’s just funny
did they add the sad Bleach music, too? lol
Carrington’s soul leaves his body after he hears DA’s question. Amaze amaze amaze
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The further removed he is from the Suns, the more I start to think Ayton is just a super nice guy that probably wouldn’t even like sports if he had a normal body.
I think he likes sports. I just don’t think he is a competitive person naturally. I think he knew to succeed in the league you had to be competitive so he gave his best imitation for as long as he could. Even in his best season, where the suns reached the finals, the expectations for the team were low.
How much drive or competitiveness would someone still have if they won the Powerball/Megamillions and all their problems were solved? I didn’t watch him play in college, but it seems like he was a lot more competitive and aggressive in his play in his highlights. Once he made the league, he started dialing it back and then when he got maxed it was turned off completely.
Ya like, I’m sure he worked at it an practiced. But not in the same realm as the vast majority of guys who make the NBA.
Kind of crazy to think a guy who went #1 in an NBA draft is not or only somewhat competitive
It’s me at work where everyone is like you’re so outgoing and an extrovert!
Meanwhile anyone who has known me since I was little knows I’m a total introvert and under that affable exterior is a battery draining with every interaction.
He’d just stream 2k
Doesn’t he make himself as a SF every year? Maybe he just pines for a position he can never play.
As long as DA isn’t asked to catch lobs, defend, block shots, or rotate, he’ll do great on the Wizards.
I agree. He’s not very good on ball or off ball on offense. He gets lost on defense so as long as he can avoid those mistakes he’ll be fine
He’s much better in situations where other players are involved in play
He maximises his impact by sitting on the bench and letting others make plays in his place
However he also struggles in situations that involve teammates or opponents
Or when someone else manages his schedule and drives for him.
As long as the Wiz need their center to shoot thirty 16 foot fadeaways a game he’ll fit right in.
replace “on ball” with “at excel” , “off ball on offense” with “computers at all really” and then “on defense” with “on teams calls” and you just nailed my most recent performance review at work!
So basically as long as Ayton doesn’t play basketball he’s a great basketball player?
Yes! You get it.
He was great as a draft pick.
Fortunately for him, he won’t be starting so he’ll only have to perform in limited minutes against second units.
We’re free. The curse has been passed to another.
Oh no he bobbled it and missed the opportunity for an easy dunk and now he is settling for a spinning fade away floater off the glass???
You guys told us he was fine because he had a small contract…
And that’s correct. Parent comment is being hyperbolic. Don’t get me wrong, Ayton has a LOT of issues but he was unquestionably superior to our back-up center rotation of Koloko, Jemison III and Alex Len. He can move his feet at times and is a fairly consistent rebounder. I would not want him as a back-up on a winning team but we Lakers fans saw first hand what worse looked like.
Shit not me. I’m also a Blazer fan and I was telling the Lakers sub it wasn’t gonna pan out.
lakers passing on the big man with a curse to another team, a bit of a tradition at this point
What?? I thought he was a really great pickup at value who was going to at least be way better than Hayes or Koloko or whoever????
Ayton saved ur organizations season
I agree. He wasn’t ideal, but for 8 million a year he was a solid center where the Lakers had no other options. If they had had him the year before they might actually have competed against Minnesota. He was a bit of a pouty headcase locker room cancer but it was only the first season so it hadn’t gotten bad and Jaxson Hayes wasn’t good enough to really give him starter competition.
If they had had to give him 30+ million, and then attach picks to get off of him then they could complain. They got a little bit of compensation to move on from him, actually probably could have gotten more and a more moveable player back. Now for better or worse they’re stuck with Hardy, who at best will be filler to match salary in a trade.
Or receive the ball and make a decision
To be fair when you’re a 3rd string big people arent worried about you doing any of those things at a high level. He just has to score well with the bench guys & defend other 2nd + 3rd string bigs which is lightwork for Ayton
Lol that’s a good one
His pick and pop was elite for 3 months
DA was a really good stop gap for the Lakers. Before him, do you remember how Rudy Gobert looked like Shaq in the playoffs? And then next year after they got DA, Gobert matchups wasn’t completely uneven anymore. And against the Rockets, he actually did really well against their frontline and helped won the series. What $8 million dollar center can do that? He is a legit NBA player. The expectations on him are just completely out of whack.
For 8m I can’t argue as much but his inconsistency is just really hard to play as a team with.
A winning team needs a center that can anchor the defense and he only can sometimes do that. He can only sometimes be a reliable high % shot.
If he isn’t locked in when it matters most that’s gonna cost you games. He isn’t reliable.
For a vet min that’s fine. If you just wanna be a play in team like the Wizards that’s fine. but your MLE guy is supposed to be one of your reliable 6-8 guys.
Yeah, not so bad considering he was drafted as check notes the first pick. Oh, nevermind.
He’s our backup big. He’ll do just fine.
And so the Ayton Cycle passes onto another franchise. Welcome to the “Low expectations, maybe we can get something out of him” phase.
What’ll forever frustrate me was on the Suns he was that X factor that got us to the finals and almost justified not picking Luka (still bad, but if we had a chip + solid runs after that, not all that bad)
Instead it was getting outclassed by Giannis (which I don’t blame Ayton for), then a spectacular follow up season… into the collapse it was so short.
He was legit like a top 6-8 center at the time and had aspirations.. now we’re talking MAYBE he can be an OK backup center for a play in aspiration Wizards lol.
Grayson Allen ended up being the best player in that Bucks Blazers Suns trade (not Dames fault for injuries)
He’s hopeless. Sure PHX maybe bad blood, but Blazers gave him every tool and resource to blossom and he didn’t. Lakers gave him the spotlight, LeBron and Luka, and JJ isn’t too bad of a coach. STILL couldn’t motivate him.
Lost cause, he may get some vet mins just bc he’s still inconsistently good without trying but man what a waste of generational genetics and potential talent.
I think you forgot about Toumani Camara
Didn’t you all learn from Hassan Whiteside that low motor bigs aren’t salvageable?
Who’s gonna tell him?
Blazers fan checking in, I’ll leave it to you guys or Suns fans.
WE ARE TRYING TO FORGET
I’ll give it 8 games before they hate his guts.
Ah, I remember like yesterday Lakers fans telling me he was a great pickup because they didn’t need much from him and he didn’t make much.
The coping was hard. It’s the wizards turn, now.
Idk what this lakers dude is talking about I still think he was good for 8 million dollars. Help us beat the rockets too
Which was and is completely true.
Idk, but I don’t think anyone is going to sugar coat that. We have AD, clearly better, and Sarr who is clearly a higher priority. That said, he definitely needs to be ready given AD’s injury history.
Yeah they’ll only ask him to do that stuff when AD is injured…
He would still be backing up Sarr in this scenario as Sarr is the starting center.
Literally no non wizards fans are aware that Sarr exists. They all think Ayton is starting
Ain’t he the back-up back-up to Sarr & AD?
He’s kind of the primary back up to both of them, since they’ll be starting at 5⁄4.
Ah okay, didn’t realize AD was gonna start. Figured he was too injury prone haha.
DA is a very good backup big.
Lakers would have kept him if he was remotely good enough. They still kind of have a hole in front court bc of it.
Aytons problem is he’s not consistent enough to justify keeping him for a team trying to win. You would rather have a guy who can consistently go out get you 6 pts 5 boards and hustle even if not the best defense vs a guy like Ayton who will be a turnstile on defense maybe he’ll be passable, maybe he’ll drop 15 maybe he’ll go 1⁄7 as a center
Very good? Holy shit.😂
He’s paid like $8m, but go on and try to be edgy
Edgy?😂 Anybody who has had the misfortune of having DA on their team, knows that he is absolute dog shit. You’ll find out.
He’s only good if he feels like it.
The problem is whether or not he feels like it. This is never a good thing, even for a bench player.
He will catch defensive rebounds though, we good?
Haha, yeah right.
Average Laker fan, as much as you guys shit on him he was such a key piece for you guys making it past the first round. Name a better contract to performance ? Obviously not counting a rookie contract, so much yapping and blaming for a cheap player lol
Yeah, I guess Lakers, Suns, and Blazers fans are all ungrateful, right? DA is a lazy player, stop.
Dont worry no one the Wizards is expected to do that
-10 team chemistry
Bro hasn’t had his crunk juice yet, give him a break
god i can’t believe that was real
Dominayton in playoff form already
Bleach OST going around in 2026 is crazy.
We also got GTA 4 loading music going around in 2026
I was watching and waiting for a flashback, the memory of which leads to a soul reaper finding their resolve.
Today I learned DominAyton is on the Wizards
Top 3 team in the East.
Not sold on their coach
This is honestly it for me too. Doesn’t seem to know how to win but we’ll have to see
TBF, we have never previously asked Keefe to win games. He was hired as a tank commander/player developer.
He’s done both of those things well. But he is a massive question mark beyond that.
Either way, he deserves at least a half-season to show what he can do when asked to win.
They addd Patrick Ewing and Steve Clifford as assistants
The east is going to be super deep this year, apart from Milwaukee Brooklyn and the bulls
Milwaukee still has very solid players, just not a fully comped team. I don’t think it’s likely but they absolutely could be like a 34 win team this year if ware balls out and herro is largely healthy. Even then, I’m not sure there is a 60+ loss team this season.
Sure but then who’s the 13 seed
Going from literal last place in the NBA to top 3 in the East would be insane.
Capela would never
wait they have DominAyton? why aren’t Wiz taken more serious as a contender? injuries?
History. They should be a good team this year for sure.
But not bc of DA
Funniest thing I’ve read all morning, ty
Gonna be super funny when they either are a higher seed than Boston or take em out in the first round
Wouldn’t be a major bragging point this year but let’s hope? They’ve been in the lottery 7 of the last 8 years. It’s about time it manifests into… anything.
I didn’t say it’d be a bragging point, I said its gonna be super funny
record of the past 3 years, tougher East, and everyone thinking AD plays 4 games a year
Already getting in trouble with his new boss.
AJ is legitimately dumbfounded by Ayton
His reaction is hilarious lol. He’s thinking no way this dumbass was also a #1 draft pick like him.
now imagine him deciding roll or pop at game speed.
Yo but seriously who’s number 7?
I know he’s standing right there, but I had to look it up. It’s Bub Carrington
Dumbinayton
Simulayton
Literally the perfect fit for Wizards.
Ngl, I never hated Ayton’s individual game. It’s the fact that he’s a borderline idiot that really fucking irks me about him. If he built on his Suns form by keeping what was good about him on the Suns and earning plays called for his midrange jumper, he’d maybe even get an all-star shout
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Come on man. Deandre Ayton’s biggest obstacle to succeeding in the NBA is Deandre Ayton.
He is fundamentally unserious as a professional athlete. Everything Kobe hated about Dwight Howard, that’s all also true about Ayton. Only Ayton has maybe 60% of the natural talent that Dwight Howard did.
Monty changed his game plan to call more midrange plays for Ayton and always gave Ayton the first look of the game to try to get him involved early.
Monty tried so hard to get Ayton to give a shit, and could not get through to him. I strongly believe Ayton killed Monty’s love of coaching.
Monty tried and couldn’t get anything out of Ayton. Chris Paul, Devin Booker, Jae Crowder all got on Aytons ass to get him to his full potential, but he shut down because he’d never been called out or pushed. Ayton wants all the glory without putting in any of the work, he’s lazy
Not to mention LeBron Luka JJ Lakers spotlight couldn’t motivate him either. He’s a lost cause.
For a vet min or a play in aspiring team he’s fine. He’s too unreliable for any serious contender
CP3 said that it was exhausting trying to motivate Ayton to give effort, both in practices and game. He said him, Book, the coaching staff, everyone who constantly have to be on him. Like dealing with a child.
I would love to know what you’re basing this all off of.
Bro just ban this dumb mf ayton
this wizards team is going to be so fun even if they’re horrible on the court
The odds of them being terrible is low. If AD plays 20 games and Trae plays 50, yeah they’ll be rough. But a healthy 70 games from Trae and 50-60 games from AD this team battling for 6th seed.
He thought he was hallucinayton
Wiz got Javale back
You have to cut him some slack though. DeAndre Ayton is 74 years old, so things don’t come to him as quickly anymore.
Wizards in mid-season form
Dude fell the fuck off. Shame he doesn’t give a fuck about ball
Rumin-Ayton
in his defense (cuz he’s not gonna play any) DA he just got there
“You put Ayton’s brain in a chipmunk he’ll store nuts in his ass instead of his mouth.”
We live in a simulAyton
You know, people were saying this team was contenders right after the draft and now, it looks like the East had some crazy trades in that time.
who was saying this team was a contender
Wasn’t Bub #8?
He’s right about one thing
Ayton was a little ahead of his time. He’s definitely a doom scroller
Best thing to come out of media day events so far
Yeah… definitely a “simulation”
that bleach soundtrack got me nostalgic
They speak like a tweet. Its so weird.
He’s just like me (I don’t give a shit about the Wizards)
Like no one has ever had a moment like this….🙄 Enjoy the laugh!
Yo I know AD has let many of us down , but he doesn’t deserve this free him from this team
10-72 record confirmed after this