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Offline OldChelsea

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #525: March 18, 2013, 08:30:09 AM »
Wizards are now 23-42 and only need to go 4-13 the rest of the way to set a record for wins since the False Spring (recent playoff era) ended in 2008 (best since then was 26-56 in 2009-10).

That's how dire it's gotten since the heyday of the Big Three.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #526: March 20, 2013, 10:06:44 PM »
Jeff van Gundy just cheap shot the Wizards, talking about Andre Blatche.

"In Washington, he would have given up on the play.  Here in Brooklyn, competing so much harder with so much more purpose."

Part of the reason there was so much less purpose in Washington was Andre Blatche.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #527: March 20, 2013, 11:16:50 PM »
I don't think that's a cheap shot at the Wizards.  It sounds more like he's saying that Baltche was lazy when he was in DC.

Still, the Wizards have earned their fair share of cheap shots and ridicule.  They still employ Ernie Grunfeld, who thought Jan Vesely was a good basketball player.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #528: March 23, 2013, 12:49:58 AM »
Crazy game.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #529: March 23, 2013, 10:49:51 AM »
For the past month or so, John Wall has been everything people thought he'd be when he came out of Kentucky.  He's been one of the best players in basketball.  In a game that featured Dwight Howard and Kobe and Steve Nash and Gasol, John Wall was, by a fair amount, the best player on the court last night. 

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #530: March 23, 2013, 11:35:54 AM »
so do you offer him a max contract next year?

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #531: March 23, 2013, 07:57:13 PM »
If he plays the rest of the year like he has been playing, then you have to.  He's been off-the-charts good the past several games. 

They still need more help in the front court.  It's too bad they got nothing out of Vesely and very little out of Booker and Singleton.  Those are three first round picks.  They also got rid of Crawford for nothing.  Those are all reasons I'd still fire Grunfeld.  His weird fetish for Euros that can't play - Satoransky, Pecherov, and others I'm forgetting.  If you let Grunfeld pick who to draft again, he'll blow it on another soft Euro with no skills. 

At least Seraphin is coming around.  He, Nene, and Okafor are a solid rotation but they need another good player there since Nene and Okafor are old and injury-prone. 

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #532: March 25, 2013, 10:12:31 PM »
 :worship: for Wall tonight:  47 points, 8 assists, 7 rebounds, leading Wizards to a 107-94 victory against the Grizzlies with Nene, Beal, Ariza and Webster all DNPs.  Amazing!

I can't wait to see Wall and Beal play together regularly next year.  If we can somehow acquire a really good big man in spite of Grunfeld, we could really be good next year.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #534: March 26, 2013, 08:54:33 AM »
I missed the game last night and checked the box score this morning and saw 47 points and all the rebounds and assists.  And more importnatnly, the win over a quality Memphis team despite being short-handed.

Give the man a max contract.  I'm convinced tthat he's for real.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #535: March 26, 2013, 09:14:46 AM »
Amazing win last night despite potentially crippling player absences...and in front of a surprisingly good-sized crowd for a Monday despite no promos on. Our magic (tragic?) number for playoff elimination with 22 days left in the season is 4 (back in December it looked like we'd be mathematically out by Valentine's Day)...if we hadn't had those horrific first two months with Wall out, and if we hadn't thrown away a few winnable matches since then, we'd be making playoff plans now. I'm already excited about next season.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #536: March 26, 2013, 12:21:31 PM »
I missed the game last night and checked the box score this morning and saw 47 points and all the rebounds and assists.  And more importnatnly, the win over a quality Memphis team despite being short-handed.

Give the man a max contract.  I'm convinced that he's for real.

From the DC Sports Bog:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2013/03/26/john-walls-47-points-the-video/

"Only 26 times since 1985 has an NBA player scored at least 47 points with at least 8 assists and at least 7 rebounds. The players who have done that: LeBron James (6 times), Kobe Bryant (3 times), Michael Jordan (3 times), Larry Bird (3 times), Dwyane Wade (2 times), Gilbert Arenas (2 times), Dale Ellis, Devin Harris, Allen Iverson, Tracy McGrady, Tony Parker, Paul Pierce, and John Wall. (@bulletsforever)"

That's rather elite company, I would say.  And he's still only 22! 

(I must admit, I thought he'd be a very special player - even during his mini-slump earlier this year - but I never thought he'd be this good this soon.)

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #537: March 26, 2013, 04:14:34 PM »
He's on freaking fire. Get that man some targets.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #539: April 01, 2013, 08:42:41 AM »
Wizards' win over Toronto yesterday was their 27th of the season, their highest win total since the False Spring. This also runs their home record this season to 20-17...just one more win from their remaining four home fixtures (Chicago tomorrow, Indiana on Saturday, Miami on Wednesday 10th and Philadelphia two days later) clinches a winning home record for the season.

To be sure it's nothing on the scale of actually returning to the playoffs and winning a series or two...but back in the horrible November/December...whodathunkit?

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #540: April 03, 2013, 08:32:14 PM »
I hadn't watched the few games prior to Wall's 47 point outburst.  Did his killer jump shot just pop out of no where?  Because it got really really good all of sudden.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #541: April 06, 2013, 10:33:12 PM »
We’ve achieved the rare Papa John’s Trifecta:

NATS50 – Nationals score 7 or more runs and win (scored 7 runs and won)
WIZ50 – Wizards score 100 or more points and win (scored 104 points and won)
CAPS50 – Capitals score 4 or more goals and win (scored 4 goals and won)

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #542: April 07, 2013, 06:38:02 PM »
I hadn't watched the few games prior to Wall's 47 point outburst.  Did his killer jump shot just pop out of no where?  Because it got really really good all of sudden.

Yes, a few weeks ago, it just kind started to look a lot better.  Pretty amazing transformation.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #543: April 29, 2013, 02:48:19 PM »
Jason Collins came out as gay.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #546: May 20, 2013, 11:57:43 AM »
As a wizards fan, this makes me sad

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/62485/the-kawhi-leonard-conundrum-and-why-life-is-unfair

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Rooting for a perpetually hopeless franchise will drive you insane for a number of reasons. You know this. But you know when it gets really bad? The playoffs, when you have to watch players your team passed up dominate on another team. Actually that's not it, either. It gets REALLY bad when you watch someone like Kawhi Leonard dominating for the Spurs and realize that this never would've happened if he'd landed with your team.

This epiphany is the most crushing truth of them all.

I'm speaking from experience as a Wizards fan, and after a month of watching the NBA playoffs, we need to talk about this for a minute. The Wizards passed on Leonard to draft Jan Veseley in 2010. It seemed crazy at the time and has only gotten worse as the years have passed. But if we're being honest here, watching Leonard blossom into a two-way star for the Spurs isn't even what's frustrating. It's knowing that if Veseley had been the one who was drafted by the Spurs, he'd probably turn into a weapon for years to come, and if Leonard went to the Wizards, he'd probably turn into an über-athletic wing with limited skills who becomes indistinguishable from about 50 other wing players in the NBA.

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #548: May 21, 2013, 10:58:19 AM »
Yep that article is spot on. Leonard would suck here. Vesley would be a double double dunking machine in San Antonio.

Draft lottery tonight. A regular occurence for the Wiz. Lets hope we get lucky and can move into the top 3...

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Re: NBA Washington Wizards 2012-2013 Season
« Reply #549: May 21, 2013, 11:05:18 AM »
Who would the Wizards take at #1 if they got it? Nerlens Noel nor Ben Mclemore make sense in the short term, I think. Otto Porter is the best fit for this team, on and off the court.