The Official Washington Wizards Thread

[pjfootballer]

I get the free preview of the NBA the first 2 weeks. I might check them out just to see, since there is nothing else on tonight.

[stevemcqueen1]

Ariza has dogged it through the entire summer Rashard Lewis style. I'd rather see Singleton and Webster get all of his minutes and Booker take the floor than Ariza get burn, Terrible effort needs to go punished.

---------- Post added October-30th-2012 at 05:07 PM ----------

I think you're expectations for Airza are too high Gator and your expectations for guys like Booker are too low.

Booker has had health problems, but when healthy, he's been a good player in a variety of roles.

Ariza was solid defensively from 08-09 to 10-11, but not so much last year. He's also not that great offensively since he left the Lakers to make for lapses in defense. Combine a down year from him last year playing for a terrible NO team with his lack of effort so far, you have to worry about him getting a Rashard Lewis mentality. He could have gotten here, taken a look at how the organization is run, figured we're losers and that he's going to phone it in and collect his paycheck until he's out of here just like many have done the past couple of years.

I'd rather see a hungry player like Booker go out and fight and play those minutes instead. Book is a young big man with a career PER of 15.4, indicating he can be a valuable contributor already. He doesn't hurt you on either end of the court.

[BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93]

I get the free preview of the NBA the first 2 weeks. I might check them out just to see, since there is nothing else on tonight.

good catch PJ...i got the free preview too

I'm excited now (see how long this lasts)

[Gator Bait]

Ariza has dogged it through the entire summer Rashard Lewis style. I'd rather see Singleton and Webster get all of his minutes and Booker take the floor than Ariza get burn, Terrible effort needs to go punished.

---------- Post added October-30th-2012 at 05:07 PM ----------

I think you're expectations for Airza are too high Gator and your expectations for guys like Booker are too low.

Booker has had health problems, but when healthy, he's been a good player in a variety of roles.

Ariza was solid defensively from 08-09 to 10-11, but not so much last year. He's also not that great offensively since he left the Lakers to make for lapses in defense. Combine a down year from him last year playing for a terrible NO team with his lack of effort so far, you have to worry about him getting a Rashard Lewis mentality. He could have gotten here, taken a look at how the organization is run, figured we're losers and that he's going to phone it in and collect his paycheck until he's out of here just like many have done the past couple of years.

I'd rather see a hungry player like Booker go out and fight and play those minutes instead. Book is a young big man with a career PER of 15.4, indicating he can be a valuable contributor already. He doesn't hurt you on either end of the court.

I think you miss interpreted my post. Those are the minutes I expect to see. I absolutely love Booker; but with the Nene/Okafor and Webster/Ariza pickups....I think his minutes will suffer.

We'll see. I hope I'm wrong about his minutes and he bust through this season; but I think his opportunities are going to be few and far between with our injured guys come back. He really needs to make the most of his starting opportunities early on. I'd love to see him get a double double tonight.

[nuposse87]

LOL at calling the Cavs bottom feeders. We had the 2nd worst record in the league, so what does that make us?

Kyrie/Pargo v. Price/Pargo
Waiters/Gibson v. Beal/Crawford
CJ Miles/Gee v. Ariza/Webster/Singleton
Thomspon/Leur/Samuels v. Booker/Jan/Singleton
Varejo/Zeller v. okafor/Jan/Barron


Kyrie is the only guy on that team that legitimately scares me. Thomspon didn't play amazingly better after the allstar break and I haven't heard many things from him in pre-season I like our chances even missing our three best players against them.

[Thinking Skins]

I can't believe Ariza is starting.

[Fight4RGIII]

Longest winning streak in the Eastern Conference. Clearly, we're the hottest team in the conference.

---------- Post added October-30th-2012 at 07:17 PM ----------

Talking all this smack about Ariza, BOOM, a 3 and an assist!

[No Excuses]

I don't understand why after all these years no one has corrected Buck's pronunciation of Verajao.

[stevemcqueen1]

Hitting open threes!!!!

This feels pretty awesome.

So far, really impressed with Okafor. I like the way he plays the game.

[StillUnknown]

Hitting open threes!!!!

This feels pretty awesome.

So far, really impressed with Okafor. I like the way he plays the game.

He doesn't have much lift, but he's incredibly active so far.

[Fight4RGIII]

HE'S THE REAL BEAL!

Nailing shots

[No Excuses]

We've already made more threes in one quarter than we did all last season.

[StillUnknown]

a couple of 3's from Beal

[stevemcqueen1]

Hitting open threes!!!!

This feels pretty awesome.

So far, really impressed with Okafor. I like the way he plays the game.

[stevemcqueen1]

Kyrie is the only guy on that team that legitimately scares me. Thomspon didn't play amazingly better after the allstar break and I haven't heard many things from him in pre-season I like our chances even missing our three best players against them.

Varajao is a really good player. He worries me too. Looks like Waiters is pretty good too.