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__4-2 Overall (4-2 vs East), Streak: L1________________1-5 Overall (1-4 vs East), Streak: L5
__1st Southeast Div / 3rd Easterm Conf________________5th Central Div / 14th Eastern Conf

Wow, that trip to the great white north kinda sucked.

Coming off of a huge loss via the Toronto Raptors, YOUR Washington Wizards head to the Hoosier State for a Saturday night match up with the struggling Indiana Pacers. These teams met mere days ago at the Verizon Center with the Wizards barely able to eke out a victory of an injury-deciminated Pacers squad in overtime.

This marks the second game of the Wizards' third set of back-to-back games in this young season. Washington has five sets of back-to-back games within the season's first 30 days. The Pacers are also coming off of a game on Friday night, taking a 101-98 loss to the Cs in Boston.

Let's meet the starting lineups:


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_______PG John Wall, 6'4" (Kentucky)_________________PG Donald Sloan, 6'3" (Texas A&M)
________21.4 ppg, 10.0 apg, 4.2 rpg______________________15.6 ppg, 6.6 apg, 5.2 rpg


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_______SG Garrett Temple, 6'6" (LSU)_________________SG C.J. Miles, 6'6" (Skyline H.S.)
________13.8 ppg, 1.8 apg, 4.2 rpg______________________8.8 ppg, 2.2 apg, 1.8 rpg


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_______SF Paul Pierce, 6'8" (Kansas)____________________SF Solomon Hill, 6'7" (Arizona)
________12.6 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 3.0 apg_______________________8.8 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 2.0 apg


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_______PF Nene Hilario, 6'11" (Brazil)__________________PF Luis Scola, 6'9" (Argentina)
________12.0 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 3.5 apg_______________________6.4 ppg, 7.4 rpg, 1.4 apg


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_______C Marcin Gortat, 6'11" (Poland)________________C Roy Hibbert, 7'2" (Georgetown)
________15.6 ppg, 9.0 rpg, 1.2 bpg_______________________12.4 ppg, 8.8 rpg, 4.2 apg



Can your Washington Wizards bounce back from difficult loss and beat the Pacers twice within four days? Drop your thoughts, predictions, and comments below.

And if you're a Pacer fan, you're invited to partake in the Wizards trolling and insults thread. Come in a good-natured spirit and drop your most clever, witty, and snarky bombs at the Wiz. It's a safe place, we invite it. (With fair warning that we'll give it as good as we take it.)

What: Wizards at Pacers
Where: Bankers Life Fieldhouse -- Indianapolis, IN
When: 7:00 p.m. Eastern
TV: Comcast Sportsnet, NBA League Pass, quasi-legal internet streams
Radio: 99.1 WNEW FM / WFED 1500 AM

Go Wizards!

Head size, too close to call, game time decision. Predict Temple bounce back game. Pacers have to win eventually. Hope it's not this one.

pineappleheadindc wrote:
Can your Washington Wizards bounce back from difficult loss and beat the Pacers twice within four days?

Yes, we can!

You are a quality team brush yourselves off everyone can suck on a given night and crush the Pacers.
Nene should be contesting Hibbert offensively making him move or be punished with some outside shooting.
Can go back supporting your team again since you aren't facing us.

Let's see if Donald Sloan drops 30 again. I doubt it. Porter needs to play more. Randy needs to try a line up with Pierce and Otto both on the court.

We have to shoot better and we will.

The sooner I can erase last night from my mind the better...or maybe I'll relive my nightmare. I hope not.

Wiz needs to focus on regaining that defensive intensity that was surprisingly lacking last, and let the offense feed off that. Your coach also needs to learn the concept of taking a timeout in an efficient manner, in order to rest your players and kill opposition momentum if they make a run. I can't believe Randy didn't take a TO last night early after the 10-2 lead, and then waited until it was like 21-6 before the next one. SMFH

You guys will take this game, you are simply better than the Pacers, first and foremost. But don't underestimate your opponent, because we are all watching professional teams in the NBA, and they can turn it on at a moment's notice if the otherside plays soft.

Good luck, Wiz.

RustyMagoo wrote:We have to shoot better and we will.

Washington will shoot better than last night. They need to also rebound much better than when these teams played the other night.

I hope Pierce plays better. I don't want to go back to posting about missing Ariza. If Pierce's game is off I really want to see Porter get quality minutes with the starters.

The spotlight is also going to be on Randy Wittman. His substitutions need to be on point.

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Blair and Humphries need more minutes. Also, Wittman argued with Rice last game. Let's see if that affects Glen's minutes this game.

is everyone a go for this game, im always weary of back2backs, thankfully indy played yesterday as well

our frontcourt just seems soft sometimes to be honest, its getting tiresome to see

montestewart wrote:Head size, too close to call, game time decision. Predict Temple bounce back game. Pacers have to win eventually. Hope it's not this one.

It a close call but head size is the best kept secret for determining who wins.

Dark Faze wrote:our frontcourt just seems soft sometimes to be honest, its getting tiresome to see

They aren't soft. They just aren't leaping athletic and it kill them against teams that have that.

But Humphries is a big dude who is pretty athletic. Thats going to help a lot down the road.

They just should start Nene against teams like TOR. They should use more Hump and Gooden

At least Hump got dusted off last night. I expect to see a lot more of him moving forward.

hopefully Hump is our 1st and main big off the bench now like we all thought he was going to be and I hope Blair gets his shot also. On top of that we arent playing a super 2 guard tonight so I hope Temple is guarnteed burn over Porter just because. I feel like Witt does alot of pre determining. Like he says Wade & Derozan are All Star SG's so everytime they are on the floor, I want "our stopper" in Temple to be out there so he's guaranteed 30 plus minutes those games even if he bricks every shot and Derozan lights him up anyways. Witt has to stop that.

At the end of the day we didnt showup last night in a big game but dont compound it by losing to bad teams. We have 3 games coming up we should win and that will put us at 7-2 before we play the Mavs & Cavs. Win or lose Beal should be back right after

Jacking up some awful shots so far. Temple needs to settle the **** down and remember what he's good at.

Anybody seen John Wall? Where is he? I don't recognize that guy...

Why the need for rushing the pace so early in the game, Wiz!?

Slow this down, and take it a possession at a time.

Hypnotizer wrote:Anybody seen John Wall? Where is he? I don't recognize that guy...

He's too busy airballing floaters.