Mother of all tanks! Wiz @ Bobcats 7 PM

[Zonkerbl]

John needs to improve his shot selection on jumpers. If he has to fade back to take the jumper, he shouldn't take it. He improved marginally during the season taking good straight up jumpers that the defenses were giving him. Now they've tightened up somewhat on his jumper and he is trying to compensate by fading back. He is not a great jump shooter and should not be attempting fading jump shots. If I were him I would concentrate more on going straight up and kicking out my legs to draw fouls.

[crackhed]

even with the feel good win and the outstanding floor game by Wall I am
troubled how broken his J is compared to earlier this season. For one thing,
it doesn't seem like he ever goes up straight. He's leaning back a lot. He's gotta
fix that going forward.

i thot he was hitting that shot earlier in the season too. maybe he got careless (or greedy) and started taking even higher difficulty shots and that led to the confidence demise. good shooters need some degree of amnesia and focus mostly on mechanics.
but ur right... the fade-away jumpshot is a tuff shot, and using it unnecessarily puts the shooter at a disadvantage

[DaRealHibachi]

This John Wall wins a ton of games, Ji.

Yup. This is an example of what John Wall can become, he's never going to be a Rose or Westbrook.

In fact, he would have been even better if he hadn't taken any shots at all.

Goes back to my theory about the correlation between a low usage rate for Wall being his optimal game. I don't think it's a coincidence that the Wizards scored 20 points above their season average with Wall's usage rate being about half of his average.

Or that 1. They were playing the Bobcats, 2. His team-mates were producing, hence no "issue-forcing"...

And why does he have to be Rose or Westbrook, why can't he just be John Wall...???