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Official Thread - Wiz at T'Wolves (12/27/13)

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Can YOUR Washington Wizards prevail in Minnesota?

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Re: Official Thread - Wiz at T'Wolves (12/27/13) 

Post#341 » by dckingsfan » Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:34 pm

dobrojim wrote:
dckingsfan wrote:Upon further review - the thing I most disliked about last night's game was Wall willing to settle. He settled for the jumper, he settled in hitting his teammates for jumpers. IMO, he needed to be in attach mode the entire game for us to have a chance.

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/shotchart ... =400489304

On the other side of the ball, their PGs were constantly getting in the lane and causing havoc.

In my mind, that (and Kevin Love) were the difference.


We lost the game because we didn't stop them on defense.
They shot nearly 50%, outrebounded us and committed a very low
number of TOs. They scored like 120 pts. Our offense wasn't that bad.
We just never stopped them.

Wall did fine. 11-20/7 dimes.


Respectfully, our wings usually pull us through - they score and force TOs.

Ariza, Beal, Porter and Webster were 13 of 34, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal and 4 TOs. They usually pull us through and didn't get it done - or at least keep us close.

And Wall was settling - numerically he did fine. But he didn't get in the lane and force the issue. It was unsettling (pun intended :) )
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Re: Official Thread - Wiz at T'Wolves (12/27/13) 

Post#342 » by dckingsfan » Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:37 pm

Jimmy Recard wrote:
dckingsfan wrote:Upon further review - the thing I most disliked about last night's game was Wall willing to settle. He settled for the jumper, he settled in hitting his teammates for jumpers. IMO, he needed to be in attach mode the entire game for us to have a chance.

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/shotchart ... =400489304

On the other side of the ball, their PGs were constantly getting in the lane and causing havoc.

In my mind, that (and Kevin Love) were the difference.

If we're gonna criticize Wall, it was his defense that let him down yesterday. I want him to be more aggressive offensively too (same for Beal), but his D has been pretty inconsistent this season.


If you mean the ability to lock down PGs for longer periods of time - agreed.

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