John Wall Continues To Dominate Impact Basketball League

by Mike Prada on Sep 23, 2011 9:58 AM EDT in Links

John Wall continues to kick butt out at the Impact Basketball League, and he's capturing the attention of a ton of people with his play, specifically his improved jump shot. On Wednesday, he led his Wizards-centric team to a comeback from 10 points down, then suited up the very next game and dropped 37 points. In less than four hours, Wall scored 74 points, dished out 16 assists and grabbed 13 rebounds, all in 32-minute games. Holy crap.

Overall, Wall is averaging 40.8 points per game in the league. Now, granted, there's no help defense to stop his drives to the basket, but that's pretty stunning. It's certainly caught the attention of one pro playing in the league.

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Anyway, all this is here to lead into Sam Amick's article on Wall for Sports Illustrated where the Wizards' star gave this quote.

"I had great numbers as a rookie, but I feel like I wasn't myself throughout most of the season," Wall said. "You'd see at the end of this game I had 28 points, nine assists and those types of things, but it's not all about scoring. It's just that that's the type of player I want to be so I can be myself and run my team.

"Sometimes when I wasn't myself I was putting my team in jeopardy and putting myself in jeopardy [because of his ailing health], but I just wanted to play."

Yeah, I know, more rah rah stuff, but Wall makes it so easy.

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Perfect...our all star is turning into the truth and

these owners and players can’t get it together…

A new version of the curse?

Good for the Wizards though..I am loving seeing the explosive JW

by DavidDunn on Sep 23, 2011 10:12 AM EDT reply actions

ovie went through the same thing, though it was before he even put on capital blue and bronze (at the time)

by thewiz06 on Sep 23, 2011 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions

yup

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by sami426 on Sep 23, 2011 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions

I <3 John Wall

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by sami426 on Sep 23, 2011 10:36 AM EDT reply actions

Chanucey had 38pts through 3 quarters vs Wall

so I guess they REALLY are not playing any defense….but it’s awesome to see how explosive Wall is now, physically he reminds me more and more of DWade ’cept he plays point! Could be really something special….man I hope we have a season

by DCrez on Sep 23, 2011 10:58 AM EDT reply actions

Just a small thought

How much do you think losing the season would impact the ability to keep JW once his rookie contract is up? Less chance to bond with teammates, less chance to grow and improve with teammates, less chance to be in the community and set roots in the community, more opportunity to schmooze with better and more committed players and dream.

Just throwing it out there. I actually do think he’d sign a small extension.

by ryasch on Sep 23, 2011 11:01 AM EDT reply actions

I don't see him demanding out at this point...

and that works both ways. If this season for whatever reason were to provide the opposite effect, we could call the missed season a positive benefit. Either way, I don’t want to worry about it too much…he’s working out with the guys and going full speed ahead, other than that, I got nothing

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by Bullet Nation in Exile on Sep 23, 2011 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

The Wiz have cap space

more than enough cap space to sign Wall at what ever amount it takes. If he does try to leave, I have friends who will take him on a little paddle boat ride out in the Potomac and they don’t work for the CIA.

by hambonejackson on Sep 23, 2011 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions

I think

It probably buys the team another year. Not the other way around. I don’t think Wall is sitting around waiting to bolt DC he first chance he gets. Maybe down the road if he is unhappy with what the brass has done, but at this point, I don’t think he’s really thinking about leaving more than he’s just thinking about winning.

It’s kind of an indictment on yourself if you sit around thinking I’m never going to win here. Kinda like thinking I’m not personally good enough to win here. And it shows that Wall thinks he is good enough to win, and do it in Washington.

I'm a Wizards fan. We've been trying to tell you about Lebron for years. Hated the man before it was cool.

by returnofswagger on Sep 25, 2011 6:35 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

any fear of him concentrating too much on scoring? Really wish there was a way for him to practice controlling the half-court during the lockout.

by FTT on Sep 23, 2011 12:53 PM EDT reply actions

Nope.

Wall is already great at opening up his teammates regardless of the situation and he must be a guy on offense where defenses are damned based on what he does. The halfcourt will come with time, but our offense will be uptempo next year to fit with his strengths.

by thewiz06 on Sep 23, 2011 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions

interesting

I hope Wall doesn’t turn into a new sorta Allen Iverson. Its clear he has gotten right physically and has gained alot of confidence now that he can not only be great but dominant.

all good developmens.

by jazzy1 on Sep 23, 2011 1:37 PM EDT reply actions

An Iverson with the size and length to check every PG and SG in the entire league (and some SF)

would be fine by me!

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