Keys to the Palace: Tweet Evaluations

by JakeTheSnake on Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM EST in Keys To The Palace Comment 5 comments

Yes, the Wizards used first round picks on both of these players.

2-1 record for the week. Not bad. Then again, the Wizards' wins this week came against the Knicks and the Nets and their loss came against the defending champion Lakers.

In a week where the Wizards played opposite ends of the talent spectrum, it's hard to come to a fair grade on most of the players this week. To aid our efforts this week, we're using two new tools. First, we have a new grade for evaluation. Players who fall in the gap between receiving a golden key and a red lock of shame will be given the blue guest pass of indifference:

Additionally, this week we'll be relying on commentary from Twitter for each player. Enjoy!

Andray Blatche

Twitter / Michael Lee
Odd night in NJ. The Wiz have 41 of 71 pts from the bench. Andray Blatche has 14. He's bounced back from those terrible reverse layups.

Earl Boykins

Twitter / SmokeyCloud
Earl Boykins's Last Second Heroics would be a great band name.

Caron Butler

Twitter / J. Darnell Tillman
Caron Butler pump fakes more than Ben Roethelisberger...with FAR less results

Randy Foye

Twitter / Doc Funk
Randy Foye is hitting parts of the backboard I didn't even know existed.

Brendan Haywood

Twitter / Jared Wade
Haven't seen that drop-step dunk from Brendan Haywood in some time. Then again, who actually watches DC play?

Mike James

Twitter / Mike James
Throw this old pitbull a bone. I'm hungry.

Antawn Jamison

Twitter / George V. Panagakos
They should sell Antawn Jamison undershirts at the Wizards store

JaVale McGee

Twitter / Truth_About_It
JaVale McGee, the human loss cigar checks in, looked "thrilled" on his way to scorer's table. Checks in w 30 secs. left, Wiz down 15.

Dominic McGuire

Twitter / Desmond D Dubs S.
all this lebron wade and melo talk! wat about the real ballers like Dominic McGuire lmfao!!

Mike Miller

Twitter / Lyle Ishida
Dear Ernie Grunfeld: Plz re-sign Mike Miller to a 3-yr extension over the summer. Thanks a lot.

Fabricio Oberto

Twitter / Sham's Ports
By recording 2 points, 0 rebounds and 6 fouls tonight, Fabricio Oberto has upped his season totals to 36 points, 43 rebounds and 63 fouls.

DeShawn Stevenson

Twitter / Tas Melas
I'd like to make a joke about DeShawn Stevenson entering the game, but he does a pretty good job on his own. #wizards #nba

Nick Young

Twitter / Mike Prada
In case you're wondering, Nick Young is inactive tonight. I can't even see him on the bench at the moment.

Flip Saunders

Twitter / Jonathan Grella
Flip Saunders at the Rookery. Geez...

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So Nick Young doesn’t play in the only Loss for the week – - – but puts up 20 points in the last two games, playing pretty good defense…..while hitting 50% of his 3-pointers……. and the Wizards win both games (in no small part due to their bench play). He plays only about 17 minutes per game – and he gets Locked out?

Pretty tough place to get into… this Palace….

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by Rook6980 on Feb 1, 2010 1:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I noticed Jamison "got his" though...

even though he stunk up the joint in the NJ game….. and couldn’t do squat to keep the Wizards from losing to the Lakers….

Oh – but he DID manage to come up with some huge stats in the win against the Knicks with 23 points (on 38% shooting…. ) and 23 rebounds (with like 10 missed offensive tips)….He managed to miss his only 3-pointer and shot a dismal 33% from the FT line. But he did have 3 assists (is that a career high for AJ?)

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by Rook6980 on Feb 1, 2010 1:42 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

And

Haywood shoots 72% for the week, averages 8 rebounds per game….a shade under 9 points per game (right around a point less than his yearly average of 9.7)… and he can’t get a key?

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by Rook6980 on Feb 1, 2010 1:51 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Oh tweet mystery of life....

I am with rook, BTH deserves a key this week and Nick should get the blue card,

by khrabb on Feb 1, 2010 6:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

In response to everybody

The reason I gave Nick a lock was because of the DNP against the Lakers. Yes, he played some inspired ball in the final two games, but I can’t shake that the reason he played so well is because he was motivated to show he could play after getting benched. It’s just a vicious cycle with the bench where they play poorly until Flip takes away their playing time, then they play well again to get their minutes back, get complacent, and lose their minutes again. I guess more than anything I gave Nick a lock because he can’t get out of this cycle, but he did very well in the final two games.

Jamison got a key because a 20-20 game is a 20-20 game. Yes, it was due in part to missing a bunch of shots, but he was there co clean up his mistakes. Missing a shot, collecting your own rebound, and then putting it in leads to just as many points per possession as scoring on the first shot attempt.

Haywood getting a guest pass was a victim of grading on a curve. He had a good week, but there have been so many other weeks where he’s really blown me away and this week he was solid, but not spectacular.

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by JakeTheSnake on Feb 2, 2010 8:40 AM EST reply actions 0 recs