POTG: WAS vs. TOR

[nate33]

Lot's of candidates for POTG in tonight's game:


Wall: 8 pts, 9 ast, 2 reb, 3 blks, 2 tos, 3/12 fg, 2/3 ft, 34 min


Young: 15 pts, 1 ast, 1 stl, 0 tos, 6/13 fg, 2/2 ft, 29 min


Booker: 9 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast, 3 stl, 1 blk, 1 to, 4/4 fg, 0/2 ft, 32 min


Singleton: 9 pts, 9 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl, 0 to, 4/9 fg, 1/3 ft, 23 min


Lewis: 15 pts, 1 reb, 2 ast, 2 stl, 0 to, 6/10 fg, 2/3 ft, 27 min


Blatche: 9 pts, 8 reb, 1 ast, 1 blk, 1 to, 4/11 fg, 0/2 ft, 25 min


Crawford: 11 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast, 2 to, 5/11 fg, 1/3 ft, 19 min


Vesely: 4 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast, 5 stl, 0 to, 2/2 fg, 0/0 ft, 16 min

[LyricalRico]

VE-SE-LY! VE-SE-LY! VE-SE-LY!

VE-SE-LY! VE-SE-LY! VE-SE-LY!

VE-SE-LY! VE-SE-LY! VE-SE-LY!

[queridiculo]

Have a tough time picking anybody to be honest, thought it was just a great team effort.

That said, the guy that stood out to me was Vesely. He was harassing Bargnani and did a great job forcing turnovers and giving the team extra possession.

[fishercob]

[closg00]

Have a tough time picking anybody to be honest, thought it was just a great team effort.

That said, the guy that stood out to me was Vesely. He was harassing Bargnani and did a great job forcing turnovers and giving the team extra possession.

+1 I'm really racking my brain

[nate33]

My vote is Booker who set the tone early by displacing Blatche's energy sucking presence. He also posted the best numbers from an efficiency standpoint. Singleton is 2nd and Vesely is 3rd

[sfam]

We've seen them fall apart even when leading. I thought Vesely really just boosted things up to another level with his steals and subsequent easy baskets. If you could give it to someone who only played 16 minutes, he's the guy. Otherwise I'd give it to Wall.

[Severn Hoos]

I say we all vote for Blatche in hopes that some other team's GM might read the thread and think Dray was the difference tonight.

[7-Day Dray]

Booker. Good thing he's finally getting what he deserves and starting in favor of Dray, who sucks the energy out of the building.

[DallasShalDune]

Vesely for the 2nd and 4th quarter energy he provided.

GAMECHANGER!

[no D in Hibachi]

Booker and for no other reason than he's the anti-Blatche.

[hands11]

None of the above.

The actual POG went to the TEAM and I agree.

If anything it would go to Flip for the rotation changes.

[TGW]

My vote is Booker who set the tone early by displacing Blatche's energy sucking presence. He also posted the best numbers from an efficiency standpoint. Singleton is 2nd and Vesely is 3rd

This. And LOL at the energy sucking presence.

Props to Flip for making the changes. Hopefully, he has the balls to stick with it.

[CntOutSmrtCrazy]

I'd have to go with Booker for this game, with Wall and Vesely coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Great to see Booker and Singleton starting for us, I love what they bring to the team defensively. There not to shabby offensively either If Singleton continues to develop that jumper and Booker continues to bang down low, cut and continue on the midrange jumper they could really give us some great depth down the road.

Blatche and Crawford still have at least five WTF offensive possessions each per game, they destroy a good 15% of our possessions I feel.

[long suffrin' boulez fan]

I'd have to go with Booker for this game, with Wall and Vesely coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Great to see Booker and Singleton starting for us, I love what they bring to the team defensively. There not to shabby offensively either If Singleton continues to develop that jumper and Booker continues to bang down low, cut and continue on the midrange jumper they could really give us some great depth down the road.

Blatche and Crawford still have at least five WTF offensive possessions each per game, they destroy a good 15% of our possessions I feel.

Love it! A new advanced stat - the WTF.

Imagine this stat line:

Mcgee 10pts, 6 rebounds, 3 blocks, 5 WTFs.

In fact, we could just call it a Mcgee.

And we could do it on per possession probability basis.

So, someone like Javale who is at the high end has a WTF probability rating of .1 - Kobe, at the other end of the spectrum would be .01 WTF.

[20MexicanosIn1Van]

Andray Blatche and Crawford definitely average more WTFs per game than McGee.

[dangermouse]

I'd give it to Flip for actually shaking things up a bit with the lineup change.

If i had to pick one i'd say Booker, honorable mention goes to Vesely. 5 steals in 16 minutes of action is inhuman. Whats that per 36?

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

dangermouse, I just opened this thread to post give it to Flip Saunders.

This is the lineup to play for the Wizards. Continue to bring Blatche and Lewis off the bench. Get Vesely and Mack in for quality minutes. I like Wall playing 31-35 minutes a lot more than Wall playing 38. It is great to see Booker finally starting.

It took Saunders a while, but finally he seems to understand that offense can come from great defense. I think that should be obvious with such a long-limbed team. Use the speed on the wings of Wall, Booker, Singleton, and McGee. They will get points off of great defense. Once those guys get out in transition, that opens things up for jump shooters like Young, Lewis, and Blatche.

If Flip keeps playing 10 guys and keeps Blatche and Lewis coming off the bench I am sure I won't complain about his coaching much at all.

[willbcocks]

I feel like Kobe has a pretty high WTF rating; just his WTFs, like Nick Young's, are more likely to be successful.

[closg00]

Toronto was playing the 3rd game of a 3 game stretch, the new & hungry lineup benefited the most.