Charottle game only on the radio

[hands11]

Amazing a game this late in the season isnt being broadcast.

You would think they are loosing a lot of ad money.

CSNDC 45 1PM College Softball

You have to be kidding me.

[hands11]

Well, at least I can walk around and get some stuff done.

[mad4comp]

When ABC plays games during the same time other games are on on other channels, they get blacked out.

What a dumb thing to do, esp. to a playoff bound team.

[hands11]

ahh, yeah.

so we can watch

Cleveland Cavaliers at Detroit Pistons"

What does that have to do with the local broadcast.

We should be able to watch what we want locally.

Its not like there are 2 national games on.

[hands11]

http://www.progressivetalk1260.com

if your am radio sucks, you can listen to clear audio off the web.

It is delayed a sec or two

[hands11]

We got Dave Johnson calling it.

Hes funny.

[hands11]

Okafor is out.

Someone else is out also.

Hopefully we get up then get to rest AJ.

We need to get some work in with our second line players.

[mad4comp]

Originally posted by hands11
ahh, yeah.

so we can watch

Cleveland Cavaliers at Detroit Pistons"

What does that have to do with the local broadcast.

We should be able to watch what we want locally.

Its not like there are 2 national games on.

Its the deal NBA had with ABC so that ABC doesnt lose any viewers to local games... :/ Yea like we all wanna watch the Cavs tank again to the pistons bench..

Sigh...whatchu gonna do tho ? :(

[hands11]

Premo (sp) is the other player out.

[hands11]

http://www.sportsline.com/nba/scoreboard/20050417

Im going to give this scoreboard a look this time.

Others have suggested it.

[mad4comp]

AP activated, lets see if he gets any PT.

[hands11]

OK its live now

http://www.sportsline.com/nba/gamecenter/live/NBA_20050417_CHA@WAS

[Diablo23]

Ok, i guess this is the game thread?


anywho, you can listen to the game here


http://www.progressivetalk1260.com/listenlive.html

[js79]

hughes is on fiyaaa

[hands11]

the nba.com boxscores flash option seems to be the most up to date.

[Diablo23]

Wiz play by play announcer is meh

[mad4comp]

Most up to date is ESPN's realtime. But you need insider access for that.

[Diablo23]

Originally posted by Diablo23
Ok, i guess this is the game thread?


anywho, you can listen to the game here


http://www.progressivetalk1260.com/listenlive.html

bump for anyone who still can't listen to it still.

[mad4comp]

Hughes 1 of 2 from the line

[mad4comp]

21-14 Wiz

[hands11]

http://www.sportsline.com/nba/gamecenter/live/NBA_20050417_CHA@WAS


This page is kind of cool.

They update a pciture of the player involved in the play and give you thier stats.

[mad4comp]

26-18 Wiz

[Diablo23]

Listen to game live here! (http://www.progressivetalk1260.com/listenlive.html)


Last plug :P

[hands11]

Looks like AJ will be a PF for the remainer of the year.

GIL< HUGHES< JEFF< AJ<HAYWOOD

This is the line up of choice for EJ

[hands11]

We are crushing them on the boards.


12 to 3

[Gamebreaker]

Guess Kwame won't be a starter for the rest of the season.

[hands11]

WOW

B Knight.

8 pts 5 assists.

He would be a great 2nd string PG for ys.

[Diablo23]

Ruffin's out

[hands11]

Ruffin is in street clothes ?

He banged his know. They say nothing serious.

[TheEvilGeniuz]

peeler might play today.

[Gamebreaker]

Am I the only one that's noticed EJ hasn't made a single substitution and the first quarter is almost over. Do we really need to play our starters so hard aganist a team that has no chance of beating us?

[hands11]

I guess EJ is trying to put them alway with our starters.

We didnt sub anyone the first quarter.

[hands11]

http://www.nba.com/games/20050417/CHAWAS/livestats.html

yeep

no subs.

Both teams are shooting hot

[hands11]

Blake, Dixon, Hughes, AJ, Etan

now

Blake, Dixon, Hughes, Kwame, Etan


wooo, these are some risky line ups

[Gamebreaker]

Etan is in for Haywood now. Scores immediately.

[hands11]

This is going to be the LH show with this line up

[TheEvilGeniuz]

Kwame sucks just as bad on the radio as he does on tv.... i hate this foo. :doh:

[mad4comp]

I think its seriously time to comtemplate trading Kwame.

[hands11]

wow

down by 6 at halftime to the bobcats without okefar

GOooo Wiz

[mad4comp]

Kwame has just assured himself that he will never play another minute in a Wizards uniform... He is useless on both Offense and Defense.

[hands11]

we have 9 turnover to only 3 for them


http://www.nba.com/games/20050417/CHAWAS/livestats.html

hughes 2
aj 2
jj 2
kwame 1
blake 1
etan 1

[Fatty P For The Pulitzer]

Originally posted by hands11

CSNDC 45 1PM College Softball

You have to be kidding me.

Watch your mouth! J/k!

And we may be glad the game isn't on TV, Charlotte up 57-51 at the half. Good job Wiz. A loss all but knocks us out of the 4 seed, so we'll see what these guys are made of in the second half.

[hands11]

Originally posted by mad4comp
Kwame has just assured himself that he will never play another minute in a Wizards uniform... He is useless on both Offense and Defense.

.500 % shooting for the Bobcats is more then just Kwame.

Its Gil and AJ

Its Hughes looking for steals.

Its probably EJ defense which we cant see and they arent telling us what they are playing.

Its EJ playing the starter the whole first quarter and then playing a lame line up like

Blake, Dixon, Hughes, Kwame and Etan

Come on. I know thats not a line up. EJ doesnt yet ?

[mad4comp]

Alright, everyone tune in for the Gilbert show for the second half...!!!!! :)

[Gamebreaker]

We really don't need the Gilbert show, we need the guards to start passing the ball around and limit so much one-on-five basketball. Gil and Hughes have yet to realize when they need to feed the ball inside.

[DonMagicJuan]

Originally posted by hands11
http://www.progressivetalk1260.com

if your am radio sucks, you can listen to clear audio off the web.

It is delayed a sec or two

TY TY...appreciate it, i knew it was online somehow/someway...

all we need, is something we can watch online!

[hands11]

Originally posted by hands11
Blake, Dixon, Hughes, AJ, Etan

now

Blake, Dixon, Hughes, Kwame, Etan


wooo, these are some risky line ups

We had an 5pt lead before this. after the first quarter.

2nd quarter 33-22 Bobcat.

come on. You have to be kidding me.

You started

Gil, Hughes, JJ, AJ, Haywood.

I would have rotated earlier and done something like.

Gil, Hughes, Profit/D Brown, JJ, Haywood.

then

Dixon, Gil, Profit, AJ, Etan.

then

Dixon, Hughes, AJ, Kwame, Haywood.

then

Blake, Gil, Hughes, AJ, Kwame/Haywood.

[hands11]

AJ 3 turnovers

[Warhead36]

How the hell we down 6 to the fukin CATS?

If we lose I will be seriously pissed!

[hands11]

wow

12 assists for the Wiz

[mad4comp]

Bobcats up by 10...this is just plain stupid by the wiz.

[hands11]

Kapono 5-6 shooting.

I wonder how open they are

[Gamebreaker]

His line-up is the starting 5 coming into the second half. Didn't he do this for the whole first quarter? He should've mixed it up, leave Hughes and Jamison on the bench for Dixon and Etan. Then when they need some rest, you'll have two scorers in the game and won't be outscored by 11 points like they were in the second quarter.

[hands11]

You need to energy change.

D Brown in on IR.

That sucks.

He was a good energy guy.

Put in Profit.

[Gamebreaker]

Larry is 6-15 and just missed another jump shot...I think I know what the problem is on the court.

[Warhead36]

Kiss that 4th seed goodbye

[Gamebreaker]

Etan is now in for Jamison. Now please take Larry out before he shoots the team's next 6 shots.

[mad4comp]

rest everyone and say goodbye to that fourth seed. Horrible play by the wizards.

[hands11]

5 minutes without a field goal to an undersized Bobcats team.

PASS THE BALL.

come on Gil and Hughes. Play some PG.

Feed Haywood inside. They have no one to stop him.

Feed Jefferies. Feed Kwame.

Stop all the outside shots.

[hands11]

With Peeler in at least the have a 2 of 3 of the 1-2-3 that can defend.

This is what I keep saying about AJ.

with Gil - Hughes and AJ you only have one good defensive player and he like to take a lot of chances.

This makes up play up and down. If you want to do that in the playoffs, the up and downs are bigger and youll get blown out.

You have to play more steady and that means defence.

At least with Peeler in there we have more D

[Gamebreaker]

The Bobcats have 3 reserves in double digits for points. :doh: That is just sad and embarassing.

[Gamebreaker]

And they are up by 6 with Okafor, their best player, out of the line-up. This game reminds me of the Wizards of old.

[Warhead36]

Can the real Wizards bench please stand up?

[hands11]

This is just tough.

We dont have enough defensive players.

You have to balance who is on the floor for offense and defense and we just dont have a great PF defensive player to play.

Gil is the biggest problem here only because he has the talent to be a lock down defensive player only he isnt. Both Gil and AJ are poor defenders and that just to much to have on the court at once.

[hands11]

They are shooting over 500% this late in the game.

Embarassing

[hands11]

Thomas travels.

This isnt what we need. Not Thomas one on one.

We need Gil and Hughes to drive and dish for the dunks.


REMEMBER MIL PEOPLE.

Thats our game. You may never see it again.

Someone needs to be the F'N PG on this team.

We have Big who can score if they are feed the ball properly.

They arent great one on one guy.
Yeah, Haywood is ok. Etan travels to much.

I hate this offense. We just pass around the outside and get no penitration. Everyone else runs pick and rolls and double post screens like Cleveland did.

This offense sucks for our post game unless our ball hog guard decide to actually use thier one on one skills to drive and dish.

But the more pressure they are under the less they do this.
Hughes wants to do it all himself. Gil start shooting 3s

They ball doesnt make it to the post in the flow for easy scores.

They have no big men. we should be crushing them with out inside game.

[Warhead36]

At least we came back to tie it up late in the 3rd.

[mad4comp]

Perimeter defense is horrible appearantly as my friend says.... We cant cover the 10-15 ft shots.

[hands11]

http://www.nba.com/games/20050417/CHAWAS/livestats.html


Look at the shot distribution.

47 of 67 from 3 players

[hands11]

In a game where they are small and we should have been practicing our inside game against them we havent.

[hands11]

18-68 shots are from out post players

[Warhead36]

WHERE IS OUR GOD DAMN BENCH!?

[hands11]

Superman for a airball 3

[hands11]

AJ , another outside shot

Does anyone else see the problem here.

[Warhead36]

They're shooting 53% and we're barely shooting over 45%.

5th seed here we come?

[Diablo23]

42-8 bench advantage

Bobcats are not only a bad team, but a bad DEPLETED team

:doh:

[hands11]

Put haywood in a C
Etan or Kwame or JJ as PF

Then tell Gil to stop shooting and play PG

Pull Hughes for second and play Profit at SG. He wont hyst so much but can hit from outside.

Then play AJ at SF

tell Gil to drive and dish and feed to inside every time.

We would run them off the court

[Diablo23]

:doh:
:puke:
:mad:
:rolleyes:

Blah

[hands11]

Gil from 3 misses , another outside shot

we are going to loose because of coach cant get them to play the ball they need to play.

2 TO in row.

Dixon from the outside. Another outside shot.

This is coaching. Tell them to go inside.

[mad4comp]

11 pt lead for cats. Wiz r done. this is why EJ sucks, he doesnt tell the big three to stop shooting, and he cannot teach defense.

[hands11]

There, Hughes in the lane.

We have no D.

Heart scores again


Hughes from 3. another outside shot.

[hands11]

Gil from foul line. Another outside shot.

[mad4comp]

And they just keep scoring. This is horrible...i cant take it anymore.

[hands11]

Originally posted by mad4comp
11 pt lead for cats. Wiz r done. this is why EJ sucks, he doesnt tell the big three to stop shooting, and he cannot teach defense.

They should have warn these guys out by now.

All they had to do was play like they did against Mil.

19 of 74 from our bigs

[hands11]

Superman from 3, good. Another outside shot

[Diablo23]

ARENAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Warhead36]

Down 5 with 5 and a half left.

[hands11]

GIL from 3, good, another outside shot.


Wow, the bobcat score quickly


Wow, AJ drove. NIce

[Warhead36]

Can a brother get some defense?

[hands11]

All they do is pass it around outside the arc.

Pass it inside for once.

[Warhead36]

7-21 from 3? Jesus Christ! Quit taking 3's!!

[hands11]

I hate that they are actually coming back playing this kind of ball.

It only encourages them to do it again. They arent playing a kind of ball that wins playoff games.

If Gil is going to play the PG he need more the 4 assists.

If Gil is going to play some SG then Hughes needs more then 4 assists.

[Diablo23]

yeesh, quit fouling

[hands11]

Hey, they got it inside.

YEAHHHH

[Diablo23]

finally they frickin missed a shot

[hands11]

Another drive

Amazing.

Haywood follow but after the foul.

This is what Im talking about.


I would have liked to hear, Gil drives, dishes, Haywood, DUNK

[Diablo23]

Get another stop!

[Diablo23]

Penalty!


Give us the lead Juan!

[TheEvilGeniuz]

dixon at the line, we can take the lead :)

[hands11]

See, this works better.

Body blow, body blow, knock out.

[TheEvilGeniuz]

DEFENSE ! DEFENSE !

[hands11]

The radio dude just said, you would have expect the WIN inside game to dominate

[Gamebreaker]

Originally posted by hands11
Put haywood in a C
Etan or Kwame or JJ as PF

Then tell Gil to stop shooting and play PG

Pull Hughes for second and play Profit at SG. He wont hyst so much but can hit from outside.

Then play AJ at SF

tell Gil to drive and dish and feed to inside every time.

We would run them off the court

Don't expect anything from Kwame. He hasn't played since the second quarter and I don't expect to see him in the last 3 minutes of the game.

Profit's jumpshot is no more reliable than Hughes'.

[hands11]

so Dixon comes down an takes a outside shot.


WHY

The inside game was working.

[Skinned]

How do we let a bunch of Charlotte scrubs shoot 52% from the field??? :doh:

[Diablo23]

102-99 Bobcats

Yeesh, did they take them too lightly :doh:

[mad4comp]

102-99...i really hate EJ.

[Warhead36]

We can't even take the god damn lead without giving it back up.

PLAY SOME MOTHER****ING DEFENSE!

[hands11]

Originally posted by Gamebreaker


Don't expect anything from Kwame. He hasn't played since the second quarter and I don't expect to see him in the last 3 minutes of the game.

Profit's jumpshot is no more reliable than Hughes'.

Etan or Kwame or JJ as PF

I listed the options.

And I said Profit because though he may not be a better shooter his shot selection is. He would be more likely to play team ball.

[PCRoughrider]

If you don't beat Charlotte at home then you don't deserve home court advantage!

[Diablo23]

Damn, grab a rebound

[hands11]

Originally posted by Diablo23
102-99 Bobcats

Yeesh, did they take them too lightly :doh:

Our bigs cant put the ball in thier own hands. They need it passed to them in the right place in the right way.

Drive and dish.

MIL GAME

Youll saw it.

Our inside score as much as the outside.

http://www.nba.com/games/20050411/MILWAS/boxscore.html

[mad4comp]

And they just score with ease.......EJ has got to be the worst Defensive and offensive coach in the history of coaching. Even the cavs play defense, they are down 4 to the pistons.. :/

[Diablo23]

Stop shooting 3's! damn't

[TheEvilGeniuz]

big steal, we can still win !

[TODD]

Originally posted by mad4comp
102-99...i really hate EJ.

All about the coach... yep. It's not his fault we don't have a bench, get off his back. Our players don't get up for these games and that's NOT a DIRECT reflection on the coaching.

[hands11]

around the arc passing, 3 , missed. another outside shot.

They arent working it inside.

Drive, dish

[TheEvilGeniuz]

omg y they still shooting 3s !

[Diablo23]

ARENAS FOULED!

[TheEvilGeniuz]

ARENAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


:cheers:

[mad4comp]

Originally posted by TODD


All about the coach... yep. It's not his fault we don't have a bench, get off his back. Our players don't get up for these games and that's NOT a DIRECT reflection on the coaching.

ROFL..the big three and the rest of the team are shooting J's which they cant make, and what did EJ do about it ? Nothing.

[hands11]

pass break, left wing for 3.

Drive the dame ball.

[hands11]

wow, they drove.

hear the fans for crazy.

[mad4comp]

I dont understand why Gilbert just cant take the ball in and get fouled more often. Stop shooting 3's DAM*IT!

[TheEvilGeniuz]

omg he missed it, ****

[Diablo23]

Last chance

[mad4comp]

OMG WIZ WIN!!!!

[TODD]

Ahhhh ESPN.com is screwing up what is going on???

[Diablo23]

JAMISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

[hands11]

.525 % Bobcats shooting.

amazing

[mad4comp]

JAMISON WINS IT!!

[TheEvilGeniuz]

ANTAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOLY ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Diablo23]

Hell yes

[TheEvilGeniuz]

OMG , im in lost for words !

[BayouBrave86]

What happened????? Sportsline.com is f'in up!

[TODD]

What happened????

[hands11]

Superman was going to try to do it all himself and gets it stollen.

AJ picks it up and scores.

Amazing.

Terrible game.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

There is nothing to be proud of here but you know Hughes will make it seem that way. " we never give up "

We, yeah yeah did. They whole dame game.

I want to hear someone say in post game.

we sucked. We better get our acts together and play team ball more.

[mad4comp]

Originally posted by hands11
Superman was going to try to do it all himself and gets it stollen.

AJ picks it up and scores.

Amazing.

Terrible game.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

LOL we need to brand a S on his shirt from now on.

[Diablo23]

Brevin drived in, missed it, Hughes got the ball, then he got it stolen and then Jamsion stole it and shot the ball and game winner with 1.4 secs left (something like that)

[TODD]

At the buzzer? What kind of shot? Who's superman?

[mad4comp]

Originally posted by TODD
At the buzzer? What kind of shot? Who's superman?

Hughes

[TODD]

Originally posted by hands11
Superman was going to try to do it all himself and gets it stollen.

AJ picks it up and scores.

Amazing.

Terrible game.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

Chill man, they won.

Enjoy it. :cheers:

[TheEvilGeniuz]

Originally posted by TODD
At the buzzer? What kind of shot? Who's superman?

Jamison , with 1.3 left

[Diablo23]

Hughes' old ballhogging days are slowly coming back :doh:

[jbooma]

i am looking on the espn scoreboard and it said no time, then washington 106 carolina 104!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go wiz nice comeback :cheers:

[mad4comp]

Holy crap...look at the boxscore..the big three are incredible.

[Diablo23]

Originally posted by jbooma
i am looking on the espn scoreboard and it said no time, then washington 106 carolina 104!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go wiz nice comeback :cheers:

Carolina? :p

[mad4comp]

Originally posted by TheEvilGeniuz


Jamison , with 1.3 left

Superman = Hughes.

[jbooma]

Nats just went up 4-3 at the same time :cheers:

[BayouBrave86]

HELL YEAH NATS! What a day!

[PCRoughrider]

This team doesn't play smart at all. They attempt to many quick, deep shots. They rarely set anything up because they take those shots so quickly.

If we played smarter then the defensive deficiencies wouldn't be so obvious.

[mad4comp]

Originally posted by jbooma
Nats just went up 4-3 at the same time :cheers:

And the O's are de_stroying the Yanks

[Gamebreaker]

I'm happy we won, but not happy that we needed a buzzer beater to beat an awful, expansion team missing it's best player. WTH?!!

[jbooma]

Originally posted by Diablo23


Carolina? :p

i meant charlotte LOL

[mad4comp]

Who the F*** is Carroll ?

[Warhead36]

Wait so who hit the game winning shot Hughes or Jamison?

[Skinned]

Now it's 5-3 Nats!

[mad4comp]

Jamison

[PCRoughrider]

That blackhole Guzman is batting though. :puke:

[jbooma]

Originally posted by mad4comp


And the O's are de_stroying the Yanks

can't get any better, oh wait nats are now up 5-3 with bases loaded !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i hate the yankees, go sox :)

[mad4comp]

Originally posted by Warhead36
Wait so who hit the game winning shot Hughes or Jamison?

Jamison hit it.

But Hughes is nicknamed Superman because he tries to do everything himself.

[jbooma]

Originally posted by Gamebreaker
I'm happy we won, but not happy that we needed a buzzer beater to beat an awful, expansion team missing it's best player. WTH?!!

who cares a win is a win, especially this time of year

[PCRoughrider]

Somebody walked Guzman. Who is the stiff they have pitching???

[jbooma]

Originally posted by PCRoughrider
Somebody walked Guzman. Who is the stiff they have pitching???

don't care we were down 3-1 and now up 5-3 and still batting :cheers:

[mad4comp]

Originally posted by PCRoughrider
Somebody walked Guzman. Who is the stiff they have pitching???

Scrub Koplove..

[jbooma]

7-3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hands11]

Originally posted by TheEvilGeniuz
OMG , im in lost for words !

Im not.

They sucked.

They let a short handed Bobcats team take them to the wire.

They shot .506%

they didnt even have Okefar or that other guy playing.

We had gil, hughes and AJ shot 61 of 88 on a team that had no inside presence to stop up from pounding it down thier throats.

This was stupid. Terrible game plan. EJ showed no control over these guys.

We had 18 turnovers.

Juan Dixon was 1-7 and got 18 min while Profit got none.

We need Kwame to be on a roll for the playoffs.
We could have passed him the ball in the flow and got him on a roll but he only shot the ball 2 times.

We needed to blow them out and rest AJ but he played 42 minutes.

EJ should be embarish. He totally blow this one.
He started the starters the whole first quarter with no rotation.
What the hell was that. Then he played that stupid line up.

We have 2 more games to go. And if this is the best we can do against the Bobcats, we have learned nothing.

Gil, Hughes, and AJ alone are not going to win us playoff games.
We need to get everyone involved.

[hands11]

Originally posted by TODD


Chill man, they won.

Enjoy it. :cheers: \

No , they sucked.

[jbooma]

Originally posted by hands11


Gil, Hughes, and AJ alone are not going to win us playoff games.
We need to get everyone involved.

i think they are resting the bigs as much as they can, since they are all hurt

[hands11]

Originally posted by Diablo23
Hughes' old ballhogging days are slowly coming back :doh:

Slowly ?

[mad4comp]

I think without Ruffin grabbing boards, we suck.. :/ We need as many second chance points as we can get.

[Diablo23]

Originally posted by hands11


Slowly ?

Well, he had improved on it this season.

[Warhead36]

I think it was more a fluky performance by Charlotte. How often are they going to score over 53% from the field, WITHOUT Okafor? I'm pretty sure we played some bad D too, but it was a combination of both.

IMO this can be concieved as a good win because we fought back from adversity late in the game. I know I know we won't be playing any Bobcats come Playoff time but still, it's good to see our guys know what it takes to pull a W out of their asses when they need to.

Am I happy with the way we played? Hell no. I was expecting a 20+ point blowout win, but the fact is, this isn't college football, there is no BCS, HOW you win makes no difference on the standings. A win is a win.

Besides, the Bulls had to rally from a 19 point deficit to beat the Hawks last night.

[mad4comp]

Missed free throws:
Charlotte - 1
Wizards - 7

......

[hands11]

Originally posted by jbooma


i think they are resting the bigs as much as they can, since they are all hurt

what are you talking about. They didnt rest them.
AJs post game is totally stupid.

He doesnt get it.

I would expect something totally different.

He makes it sound like they did something today.

He says he thinks the offense is ready to compete at a playoff level. I dont think so.

[Warhead36]

We shouldn't expect blowouts over anyone until we improve our defense.

The Big 3 are trying to do too much. We gotta get the bigs involved too although looks like Jeffries had a pretty poor game today.

[mad4comp]

Gilbert, Larry, and Antawn are ready to play in the playoffs...the rest of the bigs as well as the bench are not ready... :/

[Diablo23]

A wins a win for me.

20 pts or 2 pts, we still would have 45 wins at the end of day, and Hands, I think Antwan knows a little more about the playoffs and the other teams in the nba then you do ;)


Whatever, I'm out for now

[hands11]

EJ sad he didnt match them with small players so he left a big in to see what they could do, only, he forgot to tell someone to play PG and get them then dame ball.

Funny thing is he pointed out in post game a play where they came down, I think Gil was open for a 3 but drove and dished it out. He seems to get what they need to do but he doesnt seem to know what to get them to do it. But he sees it when they do.

It seems like he just lets them do whatever they want but when the do it well, he makes a possitive comment.

I guess its up to Gil and Hughes to figure this out for themselves.

[Warhead36]

You make a fairly valid point Hands. It seems like Jordan really can't tell his players what to do, I guess he fears them or something.

Arenas is a score first PG, but that doesn't mean he can't pass when he wants to. Just seemed like he didn't want to tonight?

Either way you guys are treating this game like a loss. I know we didn't play all out but the fact is what matters is what goes into the record books and we got the W, we did what we had to do.

I'm just worried to death about the Nets on Tuesday. Now that the Cavs have lost, if the Nets can beat us they will tie the Cavs and since they have the tiebreaker, they're pretty much putting their entire season on the line Tuesday night. We will obviously have to play much better to beat them.

[hands11]

Originally posted by mad4comp
Gilbert, Larry, and Antawn are ready to play in the playoffs...the rest of the bigs as well as the bench are not ready... :/

I dissagree.

AJ is ready. He cant play D so I dont expect to see him start now.

But Gil and Hughes havent worked out the PG duties. Until they do, they arent ready. They are in charge of making this a team and not the Gil, Hughes and AJ show.

I dont think you can blame the bigs. If you get them the ball the way you did in the MIL game, they will produce.

We dont have a Duncan or Shaq who you just feed the ball and get out of the way. You have to drive and dish. We didnt do that.

Post game, they said Gil didnt drive today.
Settled for to many jumpers.
Dixon ill adviced 3.

Bobcats played zone. Gil needed to drive and dish. He didnt.

We arent ready until we learn this.

[hands11]

Originally posted by Diablo23
A wins a win for me.

20 pts or 2 pts, we still would have 45 wins at the end of day, and Hands, I think Antwan knows a little more about the playoffs and the other teams in the nba then you do ;)


Whatever, I'm out for now

I have no idea what this is about. AJ know more about the playoffs and other teams then me.

Ahh, ok. I hope he does. Did I say he didnt ?

Why do people have to make this peddy statements ?

[jbooma]

Originally posted by hands11


I have no idea what this is about. AJ know more about the playoffs and other teams then me.

Ahh, ok. I hope he does. Did I say he didnt ?

Why do people have to make this peddy statements ?

Could it be because of what you write :doh:

If anyone were just to read your posts you would think we had won 10 games all year, you say we are bad, have terrible coaching, etc...

Yet the people who cover the game say the complete opposite, so now do you know.:doh:

[hands11]

Originally posted by Warhead36
You make a fairly valid point Hands. It seems like Jordan really can't tell his players what to do, I guess he fears them or something.

Arenas is a score first PG, but that doesn't mean he can't pass when he wants to. Just seemed like he didn't want to tonight?

Either way you guys are treating this game like a loss. I know we didn't play all out but the fact is what matters is what goes into the record books and we got the W, we did what we had to do.

I'm just worried to death about the Nets on Tuesday. Now that the Cavs have lost, if the Nets can beat us they will tie the Cavs and since they have the tiebreaker, they're pretty much putting their entire season on the line Tuesday night. We will obviously have to play much better to beat them.

Im more worried about how we are playing then if we got a win.

Im not looking at the W-L, Im looking at how we did it.

We are in the playoffs. Once they start, our record isnt going to help us win.

What bothers me is, I saw the kind of ball I think we need to play in the MIL game and I havent seen it again since.

I dont care if Gil wants to try to score first but Hughes has to then play PG when hes doing that. If not, we just have 2 SGs and our inside game dissappears.

I dont blame our bigs for this. They cant pass the ball to themselves. Look how Nash made his surounding players better. Their production went way down when Nash was hurt.

Our bigs would play much better and gain confidence if they were feed the ball like a Nash would feed them. Like Gil did against Mil.

[hands11]

Originally posted by jbooma


Could it be because of what you write :doh:

If anyone were just to read your posts you would think we had won 10 games all year, you say we are bad, have terrible coaching, etc...

Yet the people who cover the game say the complete opposite, so now do you know.:doh:

Yet the people who cover the game say the complete opposite ( not True. )

OK, I not going to get into this one. Ive seen to often how they turn out.

How about just posting your views, how you see things and leave me out of it.

[jbooma]

Originally posted by hands11


Yet the people who cover the game say the complete opposite ( not True. )

OK, I not going to get into this one. Ive seen to often how they turn out.

How about just posting your views, how you see things and leave me out of it.

If it wasn't true then why would EJ be talked about for coach of the year, then you think he is the worst coach out there :doh:

We know there weakness is D, we also know they are very young right now, the fact EJ has this team in the playoffs amazing.

I still think he is resting the bigs, haywood played 24 minutes, etan played 15 kwame played 15, he is resting them for the playoffs and to get rid of the nagging injuries, i think AJ is playing because he feels great and is getting back in game shape.

[Gamebreaker]

Originally posted by jbooma


who cares a win is a win, especially this time of year

I care, because it shows we don't have what it takes to beat the upper tier of teams in this league.

[TODD]

Originally posted by hands11

How about just posting your views, how you see things and leave me out of it.

Hands,

That's not how a message board works.

[TODD]

Originally posted by Gamebreaker


I care, because it shows we don't have what it takes to beat the upper tier of teams in this league.

I don't think that's not necessarily true. We've proved time and time again this year that we play down to our lesser opponents (see: Charlotte, Philly sans AI, New Orleans). I don't think that a game like this reflects how good of a team the Wiz are.

For better or for worse, we play to the level of our opponents... and it goes both ways.

[Diablo23]

Originally posted by hands11


I have no idea what this is about. AJ know more about the playoffs and other teams then me.

Ahh, ok. I hope he does. Did I say he didnt ?

Why do people have to make this peddy statements ?

You said that this team isn't ready for the playoffs.

At that you were quoting Antwan.. I was just pointing out that Antwan knows a little more about his own team and playoffs more then you.


And it was a joke. :doh:

[jbooma]

Originally posted by Gamebreaker


I care, because it shows we don't have what it takes to beat the upper tier of teams in this league.

i guess we will see, we did take play against detroit and miami good, and beat a lot of the western powerhouses, so who knows

however we didn't expect to be so good this year, what ever happens now is just gravy, as long as we play well in the playoffs and give our young guys some experience

[PapaDRoc]

The Wizards seem to have not been on TV a lot recently. (I mean once every week or two). It wasn't like this earlier in the year, I wonder if it has to do with baseball.

[mad4comp]

Playing down to Sucky teams and Playing up to playoff teams = good team.
Paying up to Sucky teams and playing up to Playoff teams = great team.

We currently are the first. Although i sill take that over losing anyday, we still got ways to go before we become great.

[hands11]

Originally posted by mad4comp
Playing down to Sucky teams and Playing up to playoff teams = good team.
Paying up to Sucky teams and playing up to Playoff teams = great team.

We currently are the first. Although i sill take that over losing anyday, we still got ways to go before we become great.

And what is worring me is the style we are playing.

The Mil game is my mark. Thats what we look like with a PG.

What we tend to do is, the more the pressure, the smaller we get. By that I mean, we have 3 player that try to do it all and stop us from playing as a team.

We pass the ball around the arc, get no penistration, run no pick and rolls or the type of screans I see every other team run, and then someone shots from the outside or someone goes a one on one and drives. That person rearly dishes the ball off to a big.

If we play like we did again MIL, we can beat anyone. If we do the other, we are going to struggle and have long peaks and long valleys. In the playoffs, you dont recover from these valleys as easy if ever.

I just wish they would show some wisdom. Smart is learning from your mistake. Wisdom is learning from others. We will not go as far as we can if we dont play team ball and if someone doesnt act as the PG. Gil, Hughes or alternate, I dont care but someone has to always be looking to run the team, pass and feed players for wide open shots. Like everyone does to us.

It will be a shame if we have to learn this the hard way.