GT #62: Pacers (32-30) @ Wizards (30-31) 7 PM (CSN/99.1 FM)

FAH1223 · Post #1 » by **FAH1223** » Sat Mar 5, 2016 9:03 pm

YOUR Washington Bullets are 30-31 and are still in 10th place in the East. They are coming off a brutal, disgusting loss to the Cavs. The Wiz are a game out of 8th place Detroit and 1.5 back from 7th placed Indiana, and 3 games back of 6th placed Charlotte.

The Wiz have a unique opportunity tonight to play a team in front of them for playoff positioning. Don't hold your breath though, the last time the Pacers were in DC, Paul George and CJ Miles went insane from 3 point land. Expect the same thing tonight as the Wiz continue their trend of losing mass amount of games after a 4 game win streak. Miles will probably not play but I bet either Ellis or Stuckey have big games.

HERE'S your lineups.

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Last game:
Wizards vs. Cavs (L) 83-108
Pacers vs. Hornets - (L) 101-108

Lineups:

Bench:

dlts20 · Post #2 » by **dlts20** » Sat Mar 5, 2016 9:33 pm

By far the biggest game of the season so far. Beal started the 2nd half last game so I hope he will start tonight and we get to see our real lineup for once but I don't bet on it. I just want a 9 man rotation with that starting ground and then Sessions, Neal, Dud, and Nene off the bench. No more Temple unless it's under 10min. I would like to see Oubre in but we all know that's not going to happen so those 9 will have to do

AFM · Post #3 » by **AFM** » Sat Mar 5, 2016 9:44 pm

Is Alan Anderson playing tonight?
This motherphukker should donate his salary this year to a DC charity. Absolutely shameful

Post #4 » by **nate33** » Sat Mar 5, 2016 10:07 pm

Fortunately, a loss by 25 is no worse than a loss by 1. Just forget about the Cleveland game. I assumed it would be a loss anyway. You don't often beat a 58-win team on the road.

Tonight is a must win game. This is it. The Wizards are either a competent competitive team capable of reaching the playoffs, or they are not. Win this and they pretty much control their destiny. A win will tie them with Indy in the loss column and secure the tiebreaker. They might also catch Detroit and Chicago in the loss column as well (but probably not, Chicago hosts Houston, Detroit is at NY).

A loss here would suck. Indy would end up 2.5 games ahead of us and secure the tiebreaker advantage over us. Basically, a loss tonight means 7th place is almost surely out of reach, and 8th place gets a bit harder.

AFM · Post #5 » by **AFM** » Sat Mar 5, 2016 11:07 pm

We are actually favored to win this game

Post #6 » by **pineappleheadindc** » Sat Mar 5, 2016 11:41 pm

At the game with my daughter. Scoreboard says that Beal is starting tonight.

J-Ves · Post #7 » by **J-Ves** » Sat Mar 5, 2016 11:50 pm

I see Neal and Eddy are the only guys listed as inactives. I hope that means AA is cleared to play.

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dlts20 · Post #8 » by **dlts20** » Sat Mar 5, 2016 11:51 pm

Finally Beal gets the start tonight. Finally we get to see our real lineup and Temple get limited minutes. Now it's time for the stretch run

AFM · Post #9 » by **AFM** » Sat Mar 5, 2016 11:59 pm

Pine indoctrinating his daughter

ozthegap · Post #10 » by **ozthegap** » Sun Mar 6, 2016 12:18 am

I want to see paul george and john wall team up at some point in there careers. I think they'd be an awesome pairing.

ozthegap · Post #11 » by **ozthegap** » Sun Mar 6, 2016 12:18 am

Only based on the eyeball test though.

dlts20 · Post #12 » by **dlts20** » Sun Mar 6, 2016 12:27 am

Don't tell me things don't matter. If Temple had started he would've been 0-5 with great looks, the paint would've been packed and we would be down 6 while looking average

J-Ves · Post #13 » by **J-Ves** » Sun Mar 6, 2016 12:33 am

Temp: that was for dlts20

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JWizmentality · Post #14 » by **JWizmentality** » Sun Mar 6, 2016 12:35 am

We finally got something out of Temple

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dckingsfan · Post #15 » by **dckingsfan** » Sun Mar 6, 2016 12:55 am

pineappleheadindc wrote:At the game with my daughter. Scoreboard says that Beal is starting tonight.

Is she going for the popcorn??

dckingsfan · Post #16 » by **dckingsfan** » Sun Mar 6, 2016 12:56 am

JWizmentality wrote:We finally got something out of Temple

Yep, quite solid tonight... Beal in the last couple of minutes, not so much... Sigh.

dckingsfan · Post #17 » by **dckingsfan** » Sun Mar 6, 2016 1:12 am

Nice play by Beal... Not a good game for him but nice to have him close out the quarter that way. He seems to have less TOs when he is coming off the bench?

J-Ves · Post #18 » by **J-Ves** » Sun Mar 6, 2016 1:26 am

dckingsfan wrote:He seems to have less TOs when he is coming off the bench?

It's beginning to look that way. The problem is we don't have a starting caliber 2 guard outside of Beal and maybe AA, and if we use AA there we have a big hole at backup SF. So we can't afford playing Beal off the bench atm.

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dckingsfan · Post #19 » by **dckingsfan** » Sun Mar 6, 2016 1:35 am

Ouch... Well there goes Beal for 10 games

keynote · Post #20 » by **keynote** » Sun Mar 6, 2016 1:38 am

The refs are doing a poor job of protecting our players. Two guys have been bloodied; Morris got clocked in the face; now Beal's been knocked out. Pacers bigs were only called for a foul on one of those instances.

At some point, we might need to send Hickson out there on goon duty.

EDIT: ah, I didn't realize that IND was called for a foul before Beal made his drive.

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