Anomalies Abounded

by JakeTheSnake on Nov 25, 2007 3:27 PM EST in Recaps Comment 9 comments

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Should've kept Navarro (either with the Wizards or in Europe) camp:
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Making the trade was the right move camp:
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We could argue about the whole JC Navarro thing until we're blue in the face, and while it would be entertaining to watch the point of the matter is that the Spanish mafia was not going to stop until JCN and Pau Gasol were paired together and the Wizards still got a conditional 1st round pick out of the deal which might be the last piece to complete a deal at the trade deadline or before the draft.

Instead of getting into all of that, I'd like to talk about how weird this game was:

The Wizards made six more field goals and had four less turnovers than the Grizzlies and still lost by six.
Antawn Jamison played 35 minutes and was a +16 (highest on the team) for the night, Caron Butler played 41 minutes and was a -23 (lowest on the team).
Darius Songaila had more blocks than Hakim Warrick and Dominic McGuire combined.
Antawn Jamison shot 82% from the field and 75% percent from the line.
I think the thing that really needs to be discussed after tonight's game is how the Wizards couldn't hit anything on the left side of the court. Outside of two three pointers from Antonio Daniels, the Wizards did not make a field goal any further left than the edge of the paint. The shot chart doesn't lie, the left side of the court was like the Bermuda Triangle for the Wizards last night.

Remember that image the next time you're sailing in Tennessee.

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We'll see

I've got a lot of respect for your opinion, Prada, but I'm still not sold on the JCN trade. If that pick does turn in to the last piece in a great deal, then terrific. I will be thrilled to have been wrong. Seriously, I'll gladly dance the Soulja Boy, film it, YouTube it and send Jake the link for hosting here if that happens. But at this point, I'm not very worried that I'm gonna have to learn the steps.

And while the only way we could have had a chance at JCN ourselves would have been not to sign Stevenson (which I agree was the right move and has paid significant defensive dividends already), we did have a third option for JCN -- nothing. Let the dude sit in Europe and never hurt us. Losing one game like Saturday's already seems like to steep a price in return for the pick we got.

P.S. It's rude to ask questions like, "Why would anyone want to see a middle-aged man dance the Soulja Boy?"

"Now, obviously individual production does not unilaterally equal better team production, but there's a high level of causation."

by Vanilla Gorilla on Nov 26, 2007 9:29 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'm gonna hold you to this.

...but I can see the argument for keeping him in Europe. At the same time, he doesn't seem to really be helping a crappy out-of-conference team (except against us, of coure), so I'm not really broken up about it.

I mean, did anyone really see JCN putting the Grizzlies over the top?

The Washington Wizards: providing career scoring nights for unknown opposing bench players since 2004.

by mamemimo on Nov 26, 2007 11:16 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

My point

I don't really care how much JCN is helping Memphis, EXCEPT against us. I don't see him putting them over the top, but on a night when Damon Stoudamire was about as useful as a football bat, JCN's shooting was perhaps the biggest contribution to a Grizz win over the Wiz. Just that one game -- that one win that the Wiz didn't get -- seems like more than we got in compensation in the trade. Maybe it'll turn out that we'll use our conditional first-round draft choice as a part of a trade that makes us better, or maybe we'll get the pick some time in the coming seasons, and Ernie will use it to land an overlooked player who goes from the middle of the first round to superstardom, a la Karl Malone or Shawn Kemp.

Until then, I'm thinking one loss is more than we got for JCN.

Am I missing something, or are you not really Jake?

"Now, obviously individual production does not unilaterally equal better team production, but there's a high level of causation."

by Vanilla Gorilla on Nov 26, 2007 1:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not Jake. I'm Gabe.

Take that!

The Washington Wizards: providing career scoring nights for unknown opposing bench players since 2004.

by mamemimo on Nov 26, 2007 4:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Jake wrote that

Not me.

You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on Nov 26, 2007 11:38 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ooops

Jake pointed to Prada's support for the trade, so I addressed Prada in my comment. Then Prada followed Mamemimo's comment by pointing out that Jake wrote the original post, and I thought he was addressing mimo as Jake. It's obvious my brains move too slow to keep up with these internets.

"Now, obviously individual production does not unilaterally equal better team production, but there's a high level of causation."

by Vanilla Gorilla on Nov 26, 2007 1:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I am who I thought I was!

And I let me off the hook!

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by JakeTheSnake on Nov 26, 2007 3:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

thoughts

JCN: not worth arguing about.

"we're seeing segababa legs right now": what does segababa mean?

memphis game: i suppose it was 4th game in 5 nights, but memphis looked downright awful to me. i'm very disappointed with that loss.

rotation: i'm already confused about BTH's minutes. i have no idea who is going to play on a given night or what lineups jordan is going to throw out there. it rarely makes sense to me.

opposing teams' 3-point shooting: if this becomes a trend, we're in trouble. i don't think it's solely dribble penetration. imo, it's also bad lineups, needless double teams, and bad switches. maybe the memphis game was mostly tired legs.

backup point guard: this is looking problematic. what happens if AD sprains his ankle?

future: the defense looked pretty bad against golden state and memphis. i'm concerned that butler and jamison had monster games and we still dropped two in a row. i still have expectations of a .500 team without gil. if EJ doesn't go around .500, i suspect grunfeld will can him. i hope the team comes together and starts playing well on both ends of the floor. i could see this going south though.

by DarrellWalkerFan on Nov 26, 2007 1:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs