GT: Wizards @ Sixers 02-05-08

[JWizmentality]

I'm sorry, this team needs a change. We are sinking faster than a brick and by the time Gil gets back, we'll be too far under .500 for him to make much of a difference. I respect Jamison, and love him but, if have to give up somebody to get anything of value, it has to be him. EG needs to make a trade now. This team is too tired.

[Ji]

Our only hope for the future is not to make the playoffs...not for gilbert to come back this year ...and get a lottery pick and hope it can be a top 5. The team has sunk

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

Now with Iguodala's backcourt violation there's a small glimmer of hope, down 4 with 21 secs left.

[ZonkertheBrainless]

worst conditioned team. ever.

more wind sprints!

[newslowsad]

disgusting.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

And of course on the miss you have smalls in the game and Dalembert gets the board.

If I were an NBA coach and I had a 7 footer who's making 80+ percent FTs and he's the best offensive rebounder on the team I'd have him in the game.

I think Eddie Jordan really makes his own job that much harder by not realizing that Haywood in this game was his BEST PLAYER BY FAR.

To have him on the bench shows EJ has not fully grasped that BTH helps him win games.

Eddie the loss IMO is mostly on you today.

[gowiz999]

21-4 Philly run to end the game. This team is done for the season. That was the most disgusting performance I have ever seen. As soon as CB got hurt and BH got benched we fell apart. We might not win a game for a couple of weeks now.

[tkunit]

A game would have won and a game we need to win. I can't believe we just lost like that.

[miller31time]

Shame. This was our chance to get in a win before MANY surefire losses.

Jamison was 6/23 from the field, 0/5 from three, and 4/6 from the line.

Oh my....

[Tough Juice]

I'd love to be optimistic, but does anyone realistically see them winning any of the next four games? They can't beat mediocre teams. They are going to get blown away by quality contenders on the road. That would mean an 8 game losing streak, which can cripple them psychologically. Not good. Time to focus on the Caps for a week or two.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

18 and 8 in 30 minutes ....

That's equivalent to 25 points and 11 rebounds in 42 minutes, but of course BTH would probably collapse of exhaustion if he ever sniffed 42 minutes.

Only perimter shooters get those kind of minutes under Eddie Jordan.

[80sballboy]

This is going to be a tough stretch. EJ needs to get some of the young guys in the game now. Get Pecherov, Young and DMac some run. That doesn't mean you give up on the game, but we need to sit Caron until the All-Star break and not throw out AD for 45 minutes. Unfortunately we have no point guard other than him and it was so evident tonight, against a very athletic team. I'm not going to get on my soapbox against about Ernie not keeping a point guard in preseason, but it's killing us against these types of teams and with AD about 60% healthy.

Oh well. I thought we were playing over our heads for the most part and relying on two guys. Now you need the "third-year star" Andray Blatche step up.

[tkunit]

we are getting blown out by good teams and can't win against the bad ones. We are in a big slump, I'd say good coaching could pull us out, but yeah.... we all know that won't happen.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

The upsetting part to me is they were up 12 with 8 minutes left and the Wizards made a substitution as they (the Wizards) appeared to be clicking.

Then Antawn and Andray came in flatfooted.

Even Darius was playing okay, but not those two at the end.

The guards were exhausted but DS and Roger kept shooting contested threes at the end of the shot clock. Caron was hurt but then again I guess ineffective Daniels is also hurt.

This team's falling apart and that includes EJ today. Terrible at the end.

Just terrible.

[Ruzious]

I don't see where the loss is just coaching. When you have veteran guards that can make simple passes against a team overplaying. You have one guard in Mason that's scared to shoot or do anything. I don't think that means throw in Young, who is a turnover machine against a gambling defense like that. It was plain and simple choke job-with or without Caron. That was the worst stretch I've seen the team play all year and it figure the damn CSN+ would come back on for the last 1 1/2 quarters.

I pretty much agree. Both Young and Mason's lack of ability to handle the ball makes what should be an easy win into a disaster against Philly's full court press. Whenever Daniels was out or didn't have the ball, they feasted like famished mosquitoes. Mason was just awful. And Blatche - I thought center was his position. It's not at this point. His lack of switching when players came down the lane was Kwame-like. The center has to keep his eyes open, and he was asleep at the job when it mattered.

I said before the game, the Wiz were going to lose, because they're tired. That was certainly part of it.

[ZonkertheBrainless]

Now they'll have to steal a win from Denver or something to make up for this bad loss.

[Ruzious]

The upsetting part to me is they were up 12 with 8 minutes left and the Wizards made a substitution as they (the Wizards) appeared to be clicking.

Then Antawn and Andray came in flatfooted.

Even Darius was playing okay, but not those two at the end.

The guards were exhausted but DS and Roger kept shooting contested threes at the end of the shot clock. Caron was hurt but then again I guess ineffective Daniels is also hurt.

This team's falling apart and that includes EJ today. Terrible at the end.

Just terrible.

Sorry CCJ, but I question your objectivity. This loss had nothing to do with EJ's coaching.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

In the fourth Stevenson went 0-4, Mason 0-5, and Jamison 1-6. That's 1-15 combined from the field.

Haywood was 1-1 before being yanked in the fourth. Songaila was 1-1 and 2-2 from the line in the fourth, and AD was 2-3 in the fourth.

I believe this game would have been won if Eddie had Brendan with Andray at PF and even Darius at SF. Attacking the basket and more importantly stopping the layups and dunks, and by rebounding stopping them from geting out in transition is what was needed down the stretch.

This was a bad loss today.

[dandridge 10]

I don't think it would have mattered who E.J. put in the game at the end, unless the Wizards suddenly found a guard who could handle the basketball. The Sixer just forced turnover over turnover. Mason, Daniels and Stevenson all looked like deer in headlights. It also didn't help that Jamison is obviously in his annual mid-year slump and Butler (suprise, surprise) is injured again. The only thing I'd like to blame E.J. for is something I mentioned during the Lakers game. Why the **** did E.J> play Butler so many minutes during that blowout, when even he acknowledged that Butler did not appear 100%. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if Butler is out until after the all-star break. I blame that on the coaching staff.

I said three games ago that I could see the Wizards going 2-8 over the next 10 games. With Butler injured, Jamison hitting his mid-season slump, and the tough road trip ahead, we will be lucky to win one game. I don't think its cause of all of us fans to jump off the ledge though...I think the Wizards have overachieved up to now...they are just reverting back to norm.

Hey, BTW, what happened to all that "we are better without Arenas" banter. Boy, I wish we had him now.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

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Sorry CCJ, but I question your objectivity. This loss had nothing to do with EJ's coaching.

Okay, I just know I saw Haywood dominating the game and saw him get benched at the same instant Philly went on the run.

I saw EJ call two timeouts and not put him back in until 3:26 was left in the game.


You have every right to question my objectivity because I have a bias against the way the man refuses to use Haywood better.

All he had to do is not bench Haywood and the Wizards would have won.

That said, nothing in blue has a thing to do with bias.