Player of the Game - Wizards at Bucks (12/23)

[WizStorm]

Here are the Player of the Game nominees from tonight's game...


Antawn Jamison: 23 points (FG:6/11, 3P:1/1, FT:10/11), 10 rebounds, +/- +20


Caron Butler: 25 points (FG:10/17, 3P:0/1, FT:5/5), 10 rebounds,
1 assist, 2 steals, 3 turnovers, +/- +11


Gilbert Arenas: 18 points (FG:5/14, 3P:1/3, FT:7/8), 9 assists,
4 rebounds, 2 steals, 7 turnovers, +/- +2


Earl Boykins: 15 points (FG:5/7, 3P:2/2, FT:3/3), 2 assists,
1 rebound, 1 steal, 3 turnovers, +/- +6


Randy Foye: 12 points (FG:4/8, 3P:1/2, FT:3/3), 6 assists,
1 rebound, 1 steal, +/- +14


Brendan Haywood: 5 points (FG:2/4, FT:1/2), 9 rebounds, 1 steal, 6 blocks, +/- +8


Nick Young: 4 points (FG:1/1, 3P:1/1, FT:1/2), 1 assist, 2 rebounds, +/- +2


Feel free to post your thoughts and argue the merits for your favorite candidate. Also be sure to post your thoughts on the 2nd and 3rd place guys, including role-players that stepped up and made a difference in the victory.

Player of the game from the Wizards victory over the Philadelphia 76ers (12/22) (link)..
Player of the Game - Gilbert Arenas
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________31 points (FG:13/24, 3P:3/6, FT:2/2), 2 assists, 8 rebounds, 1 turnover
_________________________2nd Place - Dominic McGuire
___________________________3rd Place - Earl Boykins

[DaRealHibachi]

1 AJ... Very efficient 25/10 on 7-12 shooting... Hitting all but 1 of his FT's makes him an easy pick...
2 CB... If it weren't for his shotjacking at times, I'd put him at 1.... Good game though...
3 Boyk... Saved us again in the 4th...


HM:
Gil.. Started of hot but then cooled down all of a sudden... 7 TO's isn't helping his cause either...
Foye... 12 & 6 on 50% shooting... no TO's either...

[mohammed10]

Mentioned on the game thread. I think it's a tie between 'lil Earl (impressive 4th quarter again!) and Caron (made some clutch shots down the stretch.

[Donkey McDonkerton]

Earl the Squirrel, he was unstoppable in the 4th.

[TheBigThree]

FYI it was Caron with 25 and AJ with 23

That said, I'll go:

1) Caron: didn't hesitate and take the dreaded 1-dribble ---> jumper. Let the game come to him for the most part
2) Earl: Calmed down the over-aggressive Gil and brought home the win. His ability to come around a screen and get to the basket is uncanny.
3) AJ: For bouncing back and providing his usual, efficient, performance.

[toughjuice03]

This was a tough one for me to decide but my top three of the game are.

1.A Caron 25 and 10 .
1.B Antwan Jamison 23 and 10 and shot very well once again.
2.Gilbert carried the team in the first half.
3.Earl for carrying the team after Gil went down.

[LyricalRico]

Nice to see Foye with a nice stat line.

[dobrojim]

This was a tough one for me to decide but my top three of the game are.

1.A Caron 25 and 10 .
1.B Antwan Jamison 23 and 10 and shot very well once again.
2.Gilbert carried the team in the first half.
3.Earl for carrying the team after Gil went down.

I didn't cast a ballot but +1 on this post.
Caron was deadly and Delfino was invisible.

Gil was en fuego in the first half, totally dominant
and made sure Jennings was not a factor, got their
whole team in foul trouble by scoring AND assisting.

HM for Haywood for all those blocks and not letting
Bogut have b2b career games.

[doclinkin]

This was a tough one for me to decide but my top three of the game are.

1.A Caron 25 and 10 .
1.B Antwan Jamison 23 and 10 and shot very well once again.
2.Gilbert carried the team in the first half.
3.Earl for carrying the team after Gil went down.

I didn't cast a ballot but +1 on this post.
Caron was deadly and Delfino was invisible.

Gil was en fuego in the first half, totally dominant
and made sure Jennings was not a factor, got their
whole team in foul trouble by scoring AND assisting.

HM for Haywood for all those blocks and not letting
Bogut have b2b career games.

Add a third vote to each.

Caron has been rounding into form. As usual he takes a bit of time to defer until he understands the team concept and feels out his role, then once the comfort level hits he can raise the game of the players around him. At one point in the game he was +20.

I expected Gil to tail off a little on a b2b. He's still regaining his superstar skeeyoze, hardest thing to bring is consistency. He started hot then gassed a little. Now we hear he also got a tooth knocked out, yeah no doubt he tailed off a bit.

Jamison responded well to the yank from the last game. He's generally pretty consistent, but here I thought he brought improved effort on defense.

Tough to plan for Earl and make last second adjustments, and nice to bring him in when Gil gets out of his own head.

Props to Brendan for basically canceling out Bogut.

[Zerocious]

Add a third vote to each.

Caron has been rounding into form. As usual he takes a bit of time to defer until he understands the team concept and feels out his role, then once the comfort level hits he can raise the game of the players around him. At one point in the game he was +20.

I expected Gil to tail off a little on a b2b. He's still regaining his superstar skeeyoze, hardest thing to bring is consistency. He started hot then gassed a little. Now we hear he also got a tooth knocked out, yeah no doubt he tailed off a bit.

Jamison responded well to the yank from the last game. He's generally pretty consistent, but here I thought he brought improved effort on defense.

Tough to plan for Earl and make last second adjustments, and nice to bring him in when Gil gets out of his own head.

Props to Brendan for basically canceling out Bogut.

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[WizStorm]

FYI it was Caron with 25 and AJ with 23

That said, I'll go:

1) Caron: didn't hesitate and take the dreaded 1-dribble ---> jumper. Let the game come to him for the most part
2) Earl: Calmed down the over-aggressive Gil and brought home the win. His ability to come around a screen and get to the basket is uncanny.
3) AJ: For bouncing back and providing his usual, efficient, performance.

Damn boxscore .... corrected.

[dlts20]

All I hope is that Gil is ok and I dont just mean him playing. I dont want him out there if he’s going to look like that ghost we saw from that long stretch during the year. I dont want him playing if he’s not going to be moving much or going full out. Now he has the 3 knee surgeries and thigh bruise on the same leg. Hopefully he can shoot it up or something. I was worried because he didnt come back in but he didnt sound too worried and sounded like he only did that because Earl and the 2nd unit were playing so well. I was 100% sure we would beat the Wolves but if Gil cant go or is limited then that could change things

[montestewart]

I was doing errands and only caught the game in bits and pieces. Based on the box score, I guess AJ (apparently recovering from his humbling experience), but when I was actually watching, Butler and Boykins were pretty on, and since it was nice to see Butler have a good all around game, I'll give him the vote.

[hands11]

1-CB
2-Boyk
3-GA