Celtics Vs. Wizards (Fake) Recap: Five Things We Should Be Talking About

by Mike Prada on Nov 23, 2011 8:01 AM EST in Recaps

In a parallel universe somewhere, the Washington Wizards picked up their third (and most thrilling) win of the year at home against the Boston Celtics. In our universe, this game never happened because of the NBA lockout. The parallel universe sounds more fun, so let's discuss five topics from this game based on that.

(Sorry for no in-game fake thread - had a late call at work and forgot about it).

That was awesome: And I mean the whole experience of it all. There probably won't be a ton of highlights this season, but shutting up those invading Celtics fans at the Verizon Center was so sweet. Someday, those fans won't be there. Until then, we'll have to settle for making them leave unhappy.
Andray Blatche got up for Kevin Garnett: Twenty-five points, 12 rebounds ... not bad, Andray. He always tends to play up to KG's level anyway, and that rang true again in this one. Kudos to Flip Saunders too. For once, he didn't talk about how great KG was before or after the game. Could that have had an effect on Blatche's play? I know I'd be pretty frustrated if my coach was talking about how great one of my opponents was whenever we played them. I'm glad Flip had a change of heart.
John Wall vs. Rajon Rondo: Pretty emphatic win for Wall, I'd say. Rondo's a tough guy to classify of course, and I have little interest in making this a discussion about whether Rondo is overrated (he's not). But Wall definitely did a lot to bite into Rondo's strong defensive reputation.
Nice lift from Jordan Crawford: It's been a rough year for him so far, since he's still shot-jacking even while his teammates have improved. In this game, though, the Wizards needed his competitive fire, especially with Nick Young having all kinds of issues chasing Ray Allen. Still didn't like a lot of his shots, but they went down, and I was impressed with the way he fought through screens on defense.
Why do the Celtics still have Von Wafer? I know they have injuries, but why him? That sequence where he threw it right to Blatche was hilarious, though not as bad as this. Note: I really just wanted an excuse to post this GIF.

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I love how we randomly seem to get up for the Celtics...

Water in the desert the last few seasons…

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by Bullet Nation in Exile on Nov 23, 2011 9:53 AM EST reply actions

First good game for JC....

First bad game for Nick…. especially, like Mike said, on defense; where Young seemed to continually get caught flat-footed just as Ray Allen made a cut off a screen for a 3-pointer.

- Nick needs to get his head in the game on defense.
- He’s got to get better getting around screens, no matter how much Garnett and Big Baby were moving, you still have to make the effort.

Mike was right – Crawford seemed to get back some of his fire tonight… perhaps because it was against Garnett and the Celtics (remember, Garnett slapped JC in the back of the head earlier this year)…. I loved the fact that he didn’t “settle” for contested jumpers (although he took quite a few anyway) – but that at least on some possessions in the second half – he took it hard to the basket…

And Booker !!! Two more monster jams… highlight variety.

As for Blatche – he had a tremendous game – maybe this game will propel him to start playing more consistent basketball… or maybe we’ll just see more of the same old good Andray / bad Andray.

I used to have super powers until my psychiatrist took them away.

by Rook6980 on Nov 23, 2011 10:54 AM EST reply actions