montestewart wrote:Rafael122 wrote:Yeah LBJ says he doesn't care who they face, but I would say he prefers to play Boston rather than the Wizards. Boston are easier to game plan for, they have no bigs and significant rebounding issues which play into Tristan and Love having huge games. But we're getting ahead of ourselves here.
If you don't set yourself up for a let down, what kind of Wizards fan would you be?
Lebron was beating the Wizards with Gilbert 10 years ago. He's probably even better now.The only thing that's beating him and the Cavaliers will be extreme good fortune and perhaps bad luck.
I recall Magic Johnson in his prime suffering an injury. The Lakers didn't win that season. I'm not wishing any injury on Lebron but I do believe both Love and Irving are at less than 100%. I want to see the Wizards make it to the ECFs because they'll be playing with house money from that point on. They can try and run Cleveland into the ground. At that point fitness and injuries start to happen. Nene and Parker showed what attrition does to players over time.
Our starting five can compete with theirs. Our players are generally younger/fitter than theirs. They don't defend any better than Boston. Maybe just maybe time will start to catch up with James IF the Wizards can hold serve the first few games. What I THINK is going to happen is that Cleveland will have at least a one week layover between games. Meanwhile, Washington and Boston are going to end up being a very competitive six or seven game series. The winner of Boston/Washington is IMO NOT going to be swept. If anything, they're going to steal one in Cleveland. I think Cleveland is only vulnerable if injuries happen over a tough, contested series.
I just hope Washington can make it to Cleveland and they can give them a much tougher series than anyone anticipates.
Tre Johnson is the future of the Wizards.
