hands11 wrote:popper wrote:At this point in his development, Wall has no idea how to close a game out. It appears that he too often wants to be the one to hit the winning shot instead of the one who manages the game to a winning conclusion. It's either bad coaching or he's not listening to the coaches.
Crawford has the same hero ball inclination at the end of games. Our opponents know this and take advantage of it.
Actually the exact opposite happened.
Nene whiffed on a back pick as Wall ran to take the inbound so his defender was right on his tail. It was Kirk. A good defender. Crawford then fought really hard to set a pick at the top of the key and probably fouled the guy doing it knocking him to the ground and taking out Kirk in the process. Wall was wide open for 3. Instead he passed it to Mason who was covered on a very good Atlanta switch. So Mason passed back to Wall who worked his way left and tried to use a Nene screen. Nene was confused because he was open up top. He was ready to catch the pass and keep the ball moving but Wall dribbled toward him instead to get a pick. Nene set a late weak pick. Atlanta switched again. Wall pump faked and his defender flow by him and Wall was open for the 3 but missed. That could have easily gone in for the tie.
Atlanta was defending the 3 line because that was what the Wiz needed. Best open shot was Walls first open look after Crawford took out two defenders and left Wall wide open. That would have been with 10 seconds on the clock. Had he taken that shoot people would have been pissed he was a chucker. And even if he made it, ATL would get the ball again with 10 second. Even though ugly, Wall did have a decent look at the end that he could have made.
Needing a 3 ball against Atlanta when you are the Wizards is not a winning formula.
Well then, according to you, the loss was unavoidable do to happenstance. No coaching or PG errors. Keep believing that and we will never become a good team.
