Wizards links you must read today
by Mike Prada on Oct 12, 2010 2:53 PM EDT
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PrintThe Wizards play the Hawks tonight in a home preseason game, and CJ and I will both be there covering it. The game thread will probably go up a bit later than usual (guessing 6:15 or so) so we can bring you some pregame tidbits.
In the meantime, some links to read:
- In case you missed it, here's CJ's shootaround report. [Bullets Forever]
- Pretty awesome video of Sam Cassell working with John Wall on post-up moves. [Truth About It]
- With the NBA season just two weeks away, I decided to rank all the NBA head coaches. Flip Saunders came in 14th, between Alvin Gentry and Avery Johnson. [SB Nation]
- Sebastian Pruiti is probably the best NBA writer nobody knows about. Here, he uses video to break down the pros and cons of the Wizards' three-guard lineup. [NBA Playbook]
- More outstanding stuff on the three-guard lineup. [Bradford Doolittle, Basketball Prospectus]
- How will the home fans respond to Gilbert Arenas' first home game since GunGate? My guesses: 1. positively, and 2. it's preseason. [Michael Lee]
- Yi Jianlian was at the Capitals' game last night, and he seemed overwhelmed by the whole thing [SB Nation D.C., with a picture from Capitals Outsider]
- Want to know more about the history of the "Bullets" nickname? Then this is a must-read. [DC Sports Bog]
- And here's the Washington Post editorial from over the weekend strongly arguing against changing the name back to the Bullets. Flat out, the editorial states "we don't care how much fan clamour there is for it." [Washington Post]
- Andray Blatche took the conditioning test and passed it with three seconds to spare. [Stouffer]
- Ted Leonsis talks about his desire in owning his own television channel one day. Good stuff. [John Ourand, Sports Business Journal]
- Leonsis is also embracing social media, which is great. [Gene Wang]
- Why Gilbert Arenas deserves to stay in Washington D.C. [DMV Sports]
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Apparently NBC News just reported Gil isn't playing.
Or maybe he just isn’t starting. They said Wall, Hinrich, and Young are starting tonight.
Well it is important for Nick...
to get some run with the first unit. The legion of Gilbert watchers will, of course, have a field day with this.
The two analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of the three-guard unit were execptionally fine, thanks, Mike!
Given the need for the bigs to crash the boards in this alignment, it may wel be that JVM should NOT always be the center in that instance. An experiment with Seraphin and Blatche, Seraphin and Armstrong, Blatche and Armstrong or even Seraphin and Booker as the bigs might be in order.
Loved the Sam-Wall video. Aside from the obvious fact that Wall needs to work on his outside shot, it was interesting to see that Sam also seemed to give Wall some problems when he forced him to go deep under the basket and try to hit the reverse layup.
Interesting take on the name origin
from one of the Post posters:
Posted by: dgresh | October 12, 2010 5:43 PM | Report abuse
Here is a paper I have done on the origin of the Bullets. It has color pictures, but your email option won’t show them, so I provide links to the photos instead.
The T. & A. Bata Shoe Company was founded in 1894 in Czechoslovakia by Tomas Bata. It is still going worldwide today.
In 1934, Bata opened a factory/city with worker housing in Belcamp, Maryland, in Harford County MD, just north of Baltimore, becoming a haven for many Czechoslovakians fleeing Nazi invaders. Founder Thomas Bata had brought the shoe business to the United States, to Belcamp, for just that reason, and encouraged others from his homeland to follow. The Bata Shoe Co. buildings were considered architecturally significant because they were among the early examples in the United States of the Bauhaus school of design.
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