GT #68: Bulls @ Wizards 7 PM (CSN/NBATV/1500 AM) [3/17/17]

[FAH1223]

YOUR Washington Bullets are reeling after a great road trip!

For some Friday night hoops, they play one of their last home games of the regular season. The Wizards have been AWFUL defensively since the All-Star break. Breakdowns, lack of effort, and the insertion of bad defensive players like Bojan have contributed to the crap defense we have seen.

Does Brooks play more of his defensive specialists such as Oubre and Mahinmi to compensate for this?

The Bulls are on a nose dive and just lost D-Wade to season ending fracture of his elbow. So, its Jimmy Butler and a bunch of...?



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LAST GAME

Mavs vs. Wizards (L) 112-107
Grizzlies vs. Bulls (L) 98-91

Lineups:











Bench:

[montestewart]

Which Rondo will show up?

This one?



or this one?

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[Tricky_Kid]

All games against Chicago must being a win! Losing to this team bunch of nobodies would be shameless. Go Wiz!!!

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[Tricky_Kid]

[dckingsfan]

Okay boys, time to stop screwing around.

[ClutchDJ]

Highly doubt Toronto is gonna catch us, tbh.

[stevemcqueen1]

I recognize Rondo Hatton as the "Hoxton Creeper" from Sherlock Holmes: The Pearl of Death. Interesting note, he was 5'9 and normal looking as an adult before he developed a disorder of the pituitary gland that caused his disfigurement and extreme growth in height. It eventually led to him dying of a heart attack at 51. The guy had an interesting life. Fought in the Pancho Villa border expedition and in WWI, where he survived mustard gas poisoning.

[dckingsfan]

No Wade...

[Meliorus]

No Wade...

Bad thing or good thing? They have a better record without him anyways.

[dckingsfan]

No Wade...

Bad thing or good thing? They have a better record without him anyways.

Yeah, I can't decide. I guess since it is an away game it is a good thing?

[payitforward]

Well... the team that lost to the Mavs didn't look like it would get very far in the playoffs, so I guess that makes this a big game -- at least it will be one if we play better defense.

OTOH, w/ only 15 games left it's hard to imagine us passing Cleveland. Plus, Boston has a much easier schedule than the Wiz the rest of the way, so it doesn't look likely we'll pass them either -- beating them in their house would make it easier, but it'd still be unlikely IMO.

All the same, a loss tonight would be pretty demoralizing. So it's a big game.

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Must win tonight

[nuposse04]

I was at the Memphis v. Bulls game on Wednesday. Valentine played pretty well to help them make it close in the 4th. Rondo hit some clutch 3s... odds are Wall sags off of him as per usual. Wade is a disaster defensively, probably better for them he doesn't play. Nikola was playing well and hitting some absurd shots until they took Z-Bo off of him and put back in J. Green. Butler didn't have a very good game either.

That all being said I expect them to drop quite the shots on us since our defense has been abominable lately. Bojan and Jennings are horrible to watch on the defensive end.

Lastly, I think CHI sports fans are about as deluded as WAS sports fans. Heard quite a few saying stuff like they don't want Butler to be traded... Well when your squad is going nowhere fast, might want to hit the reset button guys.

[nate33]

One good thing is that Chicago doesn't base their attack on the pick-and-roll. Wall can just go under the screen and dare Rondo to beat us from 18 feet.

[gambitx777]

I think our team will play better D in the play offs, play off D is much different from RS D

[dckingsfan]

Big game for Gortat?

[BigA]

Watch on YouTube

[TheKingOfVa360]

Must win game, can't lose 3 straight. I Thomas is out for 2 games for the Celtics, they might drop that game vs the 76ers. Wizards can gain ground on them and create a gap between Toronto. Time to buckle down and play defense.