Washington Wizards Fall to Houston Rockets But Learn To Rock Out

My favorite recap ever!!!!

in other words, not happy with tonight’s game.

Maybe we’re missing a drummer? Or a bass player for that matter. Shard is definitely some easy listening. Dray is dirge music.

Nice

and finished with those same numbers.

and hang our heads. This is what he promised.

Even on rebounds he looks very awkward.

23 straight points over the 3rd and 4th. That was unbelievable. A few minutes after they finally broke it I turned the game off because I simply lost interest (I almost never do that). Not sure how you can take anything good from this. They came out and played with energy for a half, but then once a few things went wrong they completely lost focus and folded like a cheap suit.

For the first time this year, I’m back to thinking Javale is hopeless. I thought I was off that merry-go-round…
And how could I think Crawford has potential. Does he have the slightest clue what he’s supposed to be doing out there?
I hope they can beat Charlotte tomorrow and wash away the stink of this one.

run, gun, shoot self in foot, repeatedly. An interesting way to get blown out to say the least.

I’m with Sean. Let’s see what happens in Charlotte ce soir.

The news from elsewhere is equally bizarre. The Knicks decide to brazen it out with a three point barrage against the Heat, and for a while damned if it actually did not work.

Magic lay an egg against the Hornets. Dwight Howard chews his teammates out for quitting on him. Neat strategy. Stan Van Gundy must be scarfing valium by now.

Burn that midnight oil, Ernie. Javale and his mom to Hornets for Kaman and a top three protected first rounder in 2012, or unprotected first rounder in 2013? There’s one to dream on. Probably some better options elsewhere.

In no particular order but soon please:

1. start vesley, singleton, wall, mcgee and crawford. run,run,run.
2. trade Blatche maybe package with a future lotery protected pick for something. He has reasonable contract and is a big so he must have some value.
3. Target Josh Smith in a trade. He is defensive monster, loves to run, can score a little and would compliment mcgee very well. Atlanta is looking to move Horford to PF position so maybe they take Blatche and a pick bc Blatche can play center?
4. Trade Young soon. He should have value as a shooter off the bench on a playoff contender like Chicago or Boston. Get a late 1st rounder?
5. Hire Patrick Ewing as coach. Keep Sam Casell as assistant and fire everyone else.
6. Hire Larry Brown as President (if he will come over that way but not as coach) and fire Ernie. Ernie its time to change the culture and you have been here too long with very mixed results.
7. change name of team back to Bullets
8. Attract a veteran free agent who can score or use cap space to take one ina trade. Target guys like Grant Hill, similar play the right way types.

That was easy eh?

These comments are SO negative; I think all of these comments are made by depressed fans who only remember the second half.

My Take: If the team repeated their performance in the first half in the second half everyone who be smiling and jumping up and down. I saw a VERY TIRED group of guys who simply ran out of gas and became the “little engines that couldn’t”. So much for the idea that young teams would win over the old teams. Think I would take them out to the high school race track and have them race around for 15 minutes in the AM and 30 minutes in the PM and the next day 30 minutes in the AM and 45 minutes in the PM and the third day 45 minutes in the AM and 60 minutes in the PM AND do this pattern over and over until they can run for 60 minutes without Huffing and Puffing.

OK, maybe this is a bit extreme, but objectively I saw an energetic team that played team ball, good defense and lots of assists and looked very good for 1 and 3/4 quarters and began to lose the Mojo as they approached the half. Too pooped out to even lift up their arms.

It showed me that they need to work on the pass. Many turnovers occurred when they were under the basket when efforts to pass were picked off. If these all worked out we would all have smiley faces. Turnovers also occurred when two or three of the players went up for a rebound and the lack of coordination gave the rebound to the opponents. So, with more endurance and working on assists and how can one player get the rebound or how they can work together to get these rebounds should resolve these issues.

This game clearly demonstrated the team’s strengths and weaknesses; what to build on and what needs work which is a good thing.

Again, I will campaign for trading Blatche for a shooter like Allen or Hill and a power forward who can play PF or Center. Blatch and the team may be helped by him being traded. Then we can look for a shooter and Sullinger in the draft.

I think we will mourn if we trade Young and McGhee because such a trade would come back to bite us. Don’t worry that trading Blatche as this would NOT have the same result.

Would you take Dray for Blake and the Walton contract you’re dying to get rid of? They love Morris (who looks like a player) and Dray at least has the potential of being a poor man’s Odom. It gives us a vet backup for Wall a servicable scoring 3 on the bench and two guys that spent years & years in a winning organization. Plus, I’m curious to see Kobe’s reaction if he ends up on the same floor with Dray and Gil. That could be high comedy.

Washington trades with Indiana.

Washington sends: Javale McGee, Nick Young, and a 2013 1st round draft pick.

Indiana sends: Paul George, Roy Hibbert.

The reason we have to send the 1st in the trade is because as athletic and young as Javale is I don’t think the NBA is entirely in love with McGee and there for we need a deal breaker because both George and Hibbert are more developed and NBA ready. George fits our new scheme to a T, and Hibbert brings that real low post presence defensively not as gifted as McGee but he can hold his own and Offensively everything we dream of McGee being. Hibbert just rejected his Extension so I think it wouldn’t hurt to inquire about it.