Our offense

[blazinskillz]

Although we are 6-2, Am I the only person who turns the game 10 minutes into the game only to return layer? I understand that Randy wants to start from inside out but I feel a lot of plays are being forced fed into the paint. I honestly hate this offense. I don't hate Wittman but I wonder what we would be like with a fresh coach? Wall has been playing in this offense since his rookie season and Randy is no Pop. Our offense is stagnant and predictable. I feel like this team should run. Although Beal has improved his ball handling, I felt like giving him the ball that much in the playoffs, offset Wall's game and it effected him because he plays off of confidence. I feel like this team has a lot of errors. I feel like Nene should be benched. He's better of the bench. The wizards would be better with Humphries starting because he can stretch the floor and hit shots. I really feel like they need to play Blair. Blair has impact on the court and it showed when he missed game 7 for the mavs. What do you guys think ?

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[nate33]

Although we are 6-2, Am I the only person who turns the game 10 minutes into the game only to return layer? I understand that Randy wants to start from inside out but I feel a lot of plays are being forced fed into the paint. I honestly hate this offense. I don't hate Wittman but I wonder what we would be like with a fresh coach? Wall has been playing in this offense since his rookie season and Randy is no Pop. Our offense is stagnant and predictable. I feel like this team should run. Although Beal has improved his ball handling, I felt like giving him the ball that much in the playoffs, offset Wall's game and it effected him because he plays off of confidence. I feel like this team has a lot of errors. I feel like Nene should be benched. He's better of the bench. The wizards would be better with Humphries starting because he can stretch the floor and hit shots. I really feel like they need to play Blair. Blair has impact on the court and it showed when he missed game 7 for the mavs. What do you guys think ?

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With Beal and Webster out, the fact is, most of our best offensive players happen to be interior players. Inside-out is pretty much our only option.

I do hope that when Beal gets back, Wittman tries to spread the floor a bit more and open things up a bit. We have some decent stretch four options with Humphries, Pierce and Gooden. Moving Nene to the bench would be a good idea.

One other thing to keep in mind is that a lot of spread offenses don't look as good in the playoffs when teams upgrade their defensive scouting and intensity, but the grind it out offenses seem to continue to work.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

I love Blair's career postseason performances and stats. I think he's a better player than Seraphin. However, Dejuan had a rough preseason, where he averaged 20 minutes a game. He was terribly foul prone. Also, Blair was among the Wizards players suspended for the opener at Miami. The season hasn't started well for him.

Seraphin is ahead of him in the order. Wittman perhaps prefers Seraphin's scoring ability at C, but Kevin has been every bit as foul prone and not as effective as Blair would be IMO. Gooden and Humphries are veterans Wittman trusts.

I don't know what Blair can do but hope for another opportunity to play more than 5-8 minutes and to shine when he does play.

[FreeBalling]

Am I the only person who turns the game 10 minutes into the game only to return layer?

So you are here to hate on our 7-2 team. I knew this real negative chick back in the early 2000s that wanted to fight after sex all the time, she couldn't even let me enjoy my NUT.

Is that you Joy?

I feel like this team has a lot of errors.

Are you chasing something that's never going to be there?

[doclinkin]

I don't know that we're forcing plays anywhere. Through the first 9 games we're top 3 in assists per 100 possessions, (and last year were top 8 in that category as well). The ball moves around and tends not to stick in one spot. Very Spurs-esque in that way.

In the Magic game we had six players in double figures (plus Gortat with 8pts) and 4 players with 4 or more assists. Better still, of the 10 players who played, only Gortat and Hump didn't register an assist, though both had passes that lead to assists. Seraphin, the front court version of Swaggy P, actually had two!! And when Humpfreeze was hot as a Kardashian the ball kept finding him in time.

This is what Wittman means when he says he likes players to take open shots. It just looks pretty when a player curls to a position and the ball meets them just in time for a clear shot at the net. Okay we rack up fewer FTs this way, that's true. But other than John we don't tend to have a mismatch in our favor at any position on the court night after night. We have depth, but we can't rely on one bail-out superstar to force the action and put the opponents on their heels, we have to spread the ball around. What I like this year is that (our one mis-match) John has actually been drawing that contact, and still making his jumpers after a foul. Okay he'll miss a lay-up at times, but he's definitely been more aggressive. Bodes well.

Would we like one more superstar who can score even against pressure? Sure. And we need consistent outside shooters. But we ain't got Durant, or the equivalent and unless and until we do I'm happy with watching the team play like a team.

Loving Otto's developing efficiency blending in with the squad, I'm interested to see how it works with Bradley working his way back in. He's a similar player in that he needn't star or dominate the ball to be efficient.

[Wizkids12345]

There is no excuse for us to have the 19th most efficient offense in the NBA so far with our players and the teams we have played. A lot of the time we midrange jumpshot ourselves to death. Wittman loves to tell players to take the open shot, but we often dont pass up a good shot for a better shot. We dont always need to shoot the midrange jumper with 16 seconds left on the shot clock. The ball movement is good in that is it very Flip Saunders like, but there are just not very many three point shots taken in our offense which lowers the efficiency a lot. The wizards really do run one of the most basic offenses in the nba. Not a lot of off ball screening and disguised pick and rolls. Really straight up. I feel like we really have peaked offensively as long as Wittman is the coach. Love the defense he teaches though.

[J-Ves]

An interesting stat on the Wizard's shot selection through 9 games this year. Credit to basketball-reference.com:

The Wizards have taken the highest percentage of inefficient FG attempts this year (defined my me as a shot taken somewhere between 3 feet and just inside the 3pt line). Right now the number is 56.6% inefficient shots, which is a far cry from league average, 44.7%. As you might guess the Rockets are the best at limiting inefficient shots at 25.9%.

[blazinskillz]

Offense changed

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[Higga]

Wittman needs to call better in bounds plays in late game situations. The shots we ended up getting last night at the end of regulation and OT were just god awful.