The Eight-Man Rotation Is Coming

Wizards Coach Flip Saunders began building relationships with his players even before the team officially hired him. It started with a few text messages with Gilbert Arenas. Since he's been hired, Saunders has worked out individually with some of his players, offered personal instruction and traded text messages from time to time to give and receive updates. But in the past few weeks, Saunders has also started traveling to the hometowns of his players and hanging out for a few days with them. Saunders has already made it down to Atlanta to hang out with Javaris Crittenton and he's supposed to soon head to Charlotte, where he will spend time with both Antawn Jamison and Brendan Haywood. Saunders believes it is important to establish relationships with his players, and mutual trust will be a key, especially when Saunders inevitably decides on his rotation. Sportsradiointerviews.com posted a recent interview that Saunders