Hypothetically Speaking... 5-on-5, who wins?

by sierradave on Dec 22, 2007 10:45 PM EST

So with Caron's recent injury, the Wiz are back to a 9-man squad. The offense is mired, which is no suprise since we're missing not just our top two scorers, but also our top two point guards, meaning there's no one to act as distributer and get people open looks in the Princeton. We don't know for the time being how long Caron will be out, but in the meantime, I thought it would be worth speculating on the outcome of a 5-on-5 game between our injured list and our active list.

Injured starting 5:
PG: Antonio Daniels
SG: Gilbert Arenas
SF: Caron Butler
PF: Oleksiy Pecherov
C: Etan Thomas

Active starting 5:
PG: lookin' like Roger Mason these days
SG: Deshawn Stevenson
SF: Antawn Jamison
PF: Andray Blatche or Darius Songalia
C: Brendan Todd Haywood

My money's on the injured squad. The active squad has a height advantage along the front line, but I don't know if anyone manages to get the ball to them consistently. Gil and Caron would manage 5 steals apiece and Gil would eventually start jacking up 1-handed 3s over DeShawn. Antonio would also drive past Mason all day and get to the free throw line every time after drawing contact from Andray on the help defense.

[This is, of course, in extended way for me to say "meh" to tonight's loss. The Wizards aren't such a good team when you take away half of our core players, but neither is any other team in the league. Hell, we're more injured right now than we were at the end of last year. Somebody sacrifice a chicken or something, right quick!]

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Who would win?

The injured 5

16 votes

The active 5

1 votes

17 votes | Poll has closed

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Fixed the poll

Unless you wanted it the way it was, in which case I'll fix it back. I'm taking the starting 5 by a good margin. The healthy 5 would have a good hold on the boards like you said, but I don't think there's going to be too many misses to rebound with that group. Especially if Thomas and Haywood got into it off-court.

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by Jake Whitacre on Dec 23, 2007 12:29 AM EST reply actions

Thanks

I hadn't actually meant to create a poll, so whatever was there was just the ghosts in my mac trying to find their final resting place.

by sierradave on Dec 23, 2007 1:03 AM EST up reply actions

Injured 5

Although the healthy group has better defenders as well as rebounders.

The really frustrating part for me is how many games we lost in years past to teams without their core guys. NBDLers in Toronto. Post-fight skeleton crew in Denver. It's a sad list.

As for sacrificing a chicken, I just sacrificed some sausage and eggs -- think that works?

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

by Vanilla Gorilla on Dec 23, 2007 9:55 AM EST reply actions

Maybe

Let's work as a community and get full coverage on this thing. Someone else, go sacrifice some bacon. Later this afternoon, maybe we can get a tuna salad sacrifice working.

I'll go handle the french toast sacrifice right now. Gotta cover all the bases.

Oh, for Caron, maybe we should also sacrifice many, many straws...

by sierradave on Dec 23, 2007 11:40 AM EST up reply actions

Hmmm

Think the injury gods care whether a sacrifice is made with leftovers? If they do, my recent chicken and mashpo sacrifice may spell further doom. If Blatche misses a few weeks recovering from ebola, it might be my fault.

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

by Vanilla Gorilla on Dec 23, 2007 1:31 PM EST up reply actions