Hoop365: Wizards Soaring, Wall Struggling

[AWIZZINGBULLET]

Nene and Gortat have to step up now IMO...

During the regular season against the league's genuinely good defensive teams, one or both have been held in check during the team's worst losses.


Wall needs to just keep dishing out assists and keep his TO's low...the points will come naturally.

[CobraCommander]

NO. NAME POS AGE HT WT COLLEGE 2013-2014 SALARY
1 Trevor Ariza SF 28 6-8 220 UCLA $7,727,280

Ariza is balling under the big lights but he is Second highest paid player this year after nene and he is avg 14 and 6 rebounds in the reg season. Those stats don't make him our player but he does have and have had the best games of the year for the wiz! Stats don't show heart or defense! Hope we keep him but if Ariza is our best player - we are not as good as we thought we were -

[Illmatic12]

Wall: "Everybody's wondering why I'm playing a certain way, but I've been making midrange jumpshots all season. They just haven't been falling this series"

http://www.monumentalnetwork.com/videos ... ll-5-10-14

Really disappointing interview. Wall genuinely thinks he is a good midrange shooter. Someone needs to introduce this kid to a shot chart, this season he shot more midrange jumpers than almost any player in the league and missed 2/3rds of them. I had a suspicion that Sam Cassell had something to do with it, and looks like I was right

This is an ego thing, Wall wants to prove so badly to the world that he can shoot. I'm not sure if anything short of bringing in a new coaching staff can solve this issue

[CobraCommander]

Wall: "Everybody's wondering why I'm playing a certain way, but I've been making midrange jumpshots all season. They just haven't been falling this series"

http://www.monumentalnetwork.com/videos ... ll-5-10-14

Really disappointing interview. Wall genuinely thinks he is a good midrange shooter. Someone needs to introduce this kid to a shot chart, this season he shot more midrange jumpers than almost any player in the league and missed 2/3rds of them. I had a suspicion that Sam Cassell had something to do with it, and looks like I was right

This is an ego thing, Wall wants to prove so badly to the world that he can shoot. I'm not sure if anything short of bringing in a new coaching staff can solve this issue

I agree with you that wall is struggling with his shot and didn't make a lot of the mid range shots in the year but what should he do? He has to take these shots because they are leaving him open. He needs to work on this shot during the off season. I think wall can shoot because non shooters can't make free throws and wall makes free throws. I was more worried about wall saying he was worried about what the media is saying about his shot. The media didn't say anything during that press conf and wall brought it up. He brought up his shooting woes unsolicited- it's on his mind and that's a problem

[tontoz]

Wall: "Everybody's wondering why I'm playing a certain way, but I've been making midrange jumpshots all season. They just haven't been falling this series"

http://www.monumentalnetwork.com/videos ... ll-5-10-14

Really disappointing interview. Wall genuinely thinks he is a good midrange shooter. Someone needs to introduce this kid to a shot chart, this season he shot more midrange jumpers than almost any player in the league and missed 2/3rds of them. I had a suspicion that Sam Cassell had something to do with it, and looks like I was right

This is an ego thing, Wall wants to prove so badly to the world that he can shoot. I'm not sure if anything short of bringing in a new coaching staff can solve this issue

I agree with you that wall is struggling with his shot and didn't make a lot of the mid range shots in the year but what should he do? He has to take these shots because they are leaving him open. He needs to work on this shot during the off season. I think wall can shoot because non shooters can't make free throws and wall makes free throws. I was more worried about wall saying he was worried about what the media is saying about his shot. The media didn't say anything during that press conf and wall brought it up. He brought up his shooting woes unsolicited- it's on his mind and that's a problem

Nonsense. The defense is leaving him open from half court. Should he take those shots too?

The defense leaves him open for the same reason they leave Josh Smith open. They want him to shoot those shots because he sucks at them.

[Illmatic12]

Wall: "Everybody's wondering why I'm playing a certain way, but I've been making midrange jumpshots all season. They just haven't been falling this series"

http://www.monumentalnetwork.com/videos ... ll-5-10-14

Really disappointing interview. Wall genuinely thinks he is a good midrange shooter. Someone needs to introduce this kid to a shot chart, this season he shot more midrange jumpers than almost any player in the league and missed 2/3rds of them. I had a suspicion that Sam Cassell had something to do with it, and looks like I was right

This is an ego thing, Wall wants to prove so badly to the world that he can shoot. I'm not sure if anything short of bringing in a new coaching staff can solve this issue

I agree with you that wall is struggling with his shot and didn't make a lot of the mid range shots in the year but what should he do? He has to take these shots because they are leaving him open. He needs to work on this shot during the off season. I think wall can shoot because non shooters can't make free throws and wall makes free throws. I was more worried about wall saying he was worried about what the media is saying about his shot. The media didn't say anything during that press conf and wall brought it up. He brought up his shooting woes unsolicited- it's on his mind and that's a problem

Nonsense. The defense is leaving him open from half court. Should he take those shots too?

The defense leaves him open for the same reason they leave Josh Smith open. They want him to shoot those shots because he sucks at them.

The sad thing is that year after year, people kept saying "There's no way Josh Smith actually thinks he's a good shooter right? Surely he'll change" and he never changed. If Wall continues to think he's a good midrange shooter, it will plague the teams he is on for the rest of his career.

[dlts20]

that wall interview was all Witt-Cassell. Thats what they want so thats his mindset.

However, I do think people are somewhat overreacting. I just think he means he played that way all year and still got up to like 44.5% after a slow start to the year before those last 5 games that made his FG% drop. I think he feels that he's just not playing much differnet then he was when he had that stretch over 2 months where he was like 21 & 9 on 45.5% but he's just missing those shots now. IDK if I agree and I dont care. He just needs to find something to get his touch back. Thats 13 games and counting

[CobraCommander]

Regardless - wall contributes without being a great shooter. We need that contribution today or they gonna end the playoffs 5 & 5