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80sballboy wrote:Crawford out with a sore left ankle according to Mike Lee (Trade?).

Thibodeau started his breakdown of the Wizards, his team’s next opponent, after Friday’s practice by saying “they’re good,” at the time, it could be chalked up to the coach’s habit of showing almost reverential deference to every squad in the league. But after Washington won its fourth game of the season later that evening, beating a Magic team that has impressed observers thus far in the campaign—albeit not the most talented club and playing without arguably their best player, injured power forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis—to snap an eight-game losing streak, one can assume that the Bulls will do everything in their power not to let Thibodeau’s cautionary advice become prophecy.

“If you look at their record, you would say, ‘Oh, OK, they’re not having a great season,’ and once you look deeper and you see that, OK, they’ve had a lot of injuries,” Thibodeau rhapsodized after the Bulls’ shootaround Saturday morning at the Berto Center. “[John] Wall’s been out virtually the whole season, Nene was out for a good chunk of that. So, you take a quality big like Nene and a good point guard off your team, you’re going to feel it, and they’ve had an opportunity to have some time together, guys are coming back, their bigs are tough to match up with.

“[Jordan] Crawford is a load, [Bradley] Beal is a bright young player, [Martell] Webster has been a good player in the league for a long time—and he’s had some health issues to deal with in his career—but those all are quality players and then you add in a couple of guys like [D-League call-up point guards] Garrett Temple and Shelvin Mack, two quality players that are under the radar, that are very hungry, so they’re a dangerous team,” he continued with his breakdown. “To me, they’re a quality team and the reason their record is like it is, is more because of the injuries that they’ve had, but they played very, very well last night. They’ve played well in a lot of games that they lost, so we know how good they are. We have to be ready.”

80sballboy wrote:Crawford out with a sore left ankle according to Mike Lee (Trade?).