Official Thread - Wizards vs Cs (12/8/14)

[Higga]

That was one of the wildest games I've ever seen. Holy sh....

Anyone who doesn't recognize the greatness of John Wall needs to recognize. Marcus Smart being a better player LMFAO. Guy hit some of the luckiest shots ever. He'll go back to being mediocre at best the rest of the season.

[dobrojim]

Wittman plays his starters for the entire 1st and 3rd quarter, then he rests them for 6-7 minutes in the 2nd and 4th. That's fine when it's the first half but with 6 minutes left in this game, the starters should have been in the game. Instead the lead went from 20 to 6. Just horrific in game coaching. I have never seen star players sit out near half way through the 4th.

All true but in this case, the starters came in and did just as poorly as the subs.
Smart is going to be a tough player for Wall to contend with going forward. Great
size for a PG and gets after it defensively.

[dobrojim]

Epic choke job. They deserve to lose this game!

Weird thing - As poorly as they played on Sunday, they probably should have won.
And as well as they played (for 3 qtrs) last night, they should have lost.

Halfway through the first OT I was saying in spite of Wall's 15 (at that point) assists,
he really hadn't played that well. I'll take that back considering how he closed the
game out.

[dobrojim]

The Drew Gooden story was fine last year, it was nice, but he should not be playing major minutes like this. Why isn't Blair in the game? Why are Seraphin, Andre Miller and Rasual Butler playing with 6 and change left in the 4th?

Randy trusts vets way too much. He needs to be more experimentive.

That being said Wall was WAAAY too passive when he got reinserted part of that is on him part of that was on Randy IMO. Wall has to right ship though.

As I type this he hits a clutch shot.

Gooden wasn't very good last night. My eyes were saying KS was better.
His D is really poor though.

[dobrojim]

That was what they drew up? Seriously? They deserve to lose on that alone.

That possession was just awful. Why do they stall for the first 10 seconds of the possession
when the opp is still going to have more than enough time even if we shoot with 1 sec left?
Then it was just everyone standing around. These guys shol know by now that when you
stand still, you are soooo much easier to defend.

[Higga]

That was what they drew up? Seriously? They deserve to lose on that alone.

That possession was just awful. Why do they stall for the first 10 seconds of the possession
when the opp is still going to have more than enough time even if we shoot with 1 sec left?
Then it was just everyone standing around. These guys shol know by now that when you
stand still, you are soooo much easier to defend.

Yeah I didn't understand that either.

Better to get some kinda play that gets Wall going to the basket so he'll either score, get fouled, or can dish to an open man in the corner.

When Gil Arenas is your PG you can just do nothing until the clock runs out and then jack a jumper but with Wall you want to utilize his speed and playmaking ability.

[dobrojim]

Boston actually has a coach.

He notices that tonight's just not Rondo's night, Rondo sits. Still sitting.

Rondo was/is in a miserable and prolonged shooting slump...shooting
like freakin Ruffin, a self check as far as shooting goes.

[dobrojim]

Wall is trash.

hey mods - can we ban this guy? freakin Pacer fan on our board with
nothing worth reading to say.

[dobrojim]

Wall is trash.

Marcus Smart is going to be a better player than Wall.

Maybe, but I doubt it. Don't let the emotion of the moment cloud
your judgement. Wall is a pretty awesome, albeit still flawed, player

[dobrojim]

Never Forget Kris Humprhies 2nd FT.

Hey Ballboy. If you had anything worth reading, you wouldn't need to
draw attention to your posts with all that cleavage. Grow up.

[dobrojim]

Wall lost his poise in the mid-third quarter when he started throwing up terrible ally oop passes. He never got it back.

Hopefully, this and-1 gets him going.

Maybe a pro shouldn't let this affect him but it was an emotional night for Wall.
Love this kid.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/12/john-wall-tears-emotional-postgame-interview

[dlts20]

I hate to beat a dead horse but Im going to say one more thing about the small ball lineup. I was watching the C's feed. 1st off let me say I use to email Ted all the time about comcast inferior audio. You can here so much more on the opposing teams feed. I always hear a louder crowd, coach instructions, and players talking. You cant hear any of that on our stuff.

Anyways back to my point. We killed them with small ball last game in the 4th. Wall got to the rim but he mostly killed them by sucking in the D and finding 3pt shooters. Brad Stevens adjusted. When we were down 7 in double OT, Wittman finally decided to go small. Immediatly you hear Stevens shout to his players "stay home". He was not going to let Wall kick out this game to open shooters. We had everyone around the 3pt line after they would switch the pick and Wall was one on one with a big who had no help because Stevens was afraid of the 3.

This is the problem teams face. Wall immediatly takes them to the hoop for the win. I just think if you have one big with 3 guys standing at the 3pt line then Wall is the best pg in the league. I think his numbers would be off the chart and we would be suprisingly better on D then you think. I think he is easily a 20 & 10 guy while being effecient