They have two highly paid centers in a league that's moving towards small ball. Ariza is arguably the best shooter in their rotation right now, which is frightening.

They are going to have to rely HEAVILY on rookie Bradley Beal to cover pretty much all of their perimeter scoring.

They went from a twenty win team with assets and potentially some cap space to a team that's pretty much locked into what they have.

If you're going to ditch the youth movement and try to win now, you don't do add Okafor and Ariza to a 20 win team and think it's going to make you anything but mediocre.