More photos » by Susan Walsh - AP Browse more photos » Lots of guys deserve credit for this one. The starters for getting the Wizards back in the game in the second quarter. Gilbert Arenas for battling through a bad shooting game to have a great third quarter. Antawn Jamison for being awesome. But the key was the much-maligned bench guys, specifically Andray Blatche , Earl Boykins and DeShawn...
It was a beautiful display of basketball, the kind that the Washington Wizards assumed would be a regular occurrence when Flip Saunders took over as head coach. The Washington Wizards scored 27 points in little more than seven minutes in the third quarter of their 106-103 loss to the Detroit Pistons on Saturday. The ball whipped around at a neck-snapping pace, with confidence rising as open shots fell....
by Duane Burleson - AP View full size photo » The Essentials: Pistons (4-4) vs. Wizards (2-6) 7:00 p.m. Verizon Center TV : CSN Radio : 106.7 The Fan Notable very early Pistons numbers this season 13th in expected winning percentage (.595) 30th in pace (87.1 possessions per game) 18th in offensive efficiency/offensive rating (105.8) 12th in defensive efficiency/defensive rating (102.9) Notable...
More photos » by Nick Wass - AP Browse more photos » In the spirit of reminding everyone that we're not even one-tenth of the way through the season, let's talk about the one major bright spot of the first eight games -- Andray Blatche . Blatche has arguably been the Wizards ' best player thus far this season. (This is where your jaw drops and you gasp. Do it for effect, please). He has...
by J Pat Carter - AP I hate Quentin Richardson. Enjoy riding D-Wade's coattails, dude. View full size photo » So ... should Gilbert Arenas have played last night? On the one hand, watching the first half, it's clear the Wizards needed him to facilitate the good ball movement that we saw then. Arenas did have eight assists, after all, and most of those came early. As soon as he went out of the...
*** SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO *** (AP) MIAMI -- Dwyane Wade scored 41 points and the Miami Heat remained in first place in the Southeast Division by holding off the Washington Wizards 90-76 on Tuesday night. It's the second time Wade has topped 40 this season, both against Washington: He scored 40 last Wednesday in the nation's capital. Michael Beasley scored 15 points and Mario Chalmers added 13, including...
More photos » by Ned Dishman - NBAE/Getty ImagesSteve Nash points out how many shots DeShawn Stevenson made in 24 minutes of action. Browse more photos » Game Hub | Boxscore | Game Flow Lost in all the hubbub about the team's offensive woes is the fact that this team has turned a corner defensively. Currently, the team is 18th in defensive efficiency. They're not the kind of defensive...
More photos » by Nick Wass - AP Browse more photos » WASHINGTON --Stop me if this seems familiar. With just under five minutes left in the third quarter, the Wizards found themselves trailing the Suns by just six points. The lead had swelled to double digits, but a nice Wizards stretch had cut the lead down. Steve Nash missed a three-pointer, and Caron Butler snared the rebound. Advancing...
More photos » by Nick Wass - AP Amare Stoudemire plays textbook defense on Andray Blatche Sunday. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) Browse more photos » The Washington Wizards and Phoenix Suns entered Sunday's contest heading in different directions. The Suns had just come off of a gigantic win versus the Boston Celtics , and the Wizards had just suffered a verbal thrashing from injured Antwan Jamison...
Next Game Phoenix Suns (5-1) @ Washington Wizards (2-4) Sunday, Nov 8, 2009, 11:05 AM MST Verizon Center Complete Coverage > This game worries me. The Suns are coming off a big emotional win while the Wizards got their butts kicked by the Pacers 86-102 which lead to a team tirade with Agent Zero firing off this chemistry building barb , "We have a team where everybody thinks they should be...
WASHINGTON – Gilbert Arenas scored 32 points, including a halfcourt buzzer-beater at the end of the first quarter, Andray Blatche scored a career-high 30, and the Washington Wizards overcame the absence of both of their regular starting forwards Saturday night in a 123-104 win over the New Jersey Nets. With injured two-time All-Stars Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison on the bench in their expensive
Simple question: What happened out there? Andray Blatche buttoned his shirt, pondered his answer, but the words couldn't come out. He threw on his black bubble-vest coat, still struggling to explain the most troubling loss of the season for a Washington Wizards team that entered this season with high expectations. "I don't know. I swear I don't know what to say after that one," Blatche said....
More photos » by David Liam Kyle - NBAE/Getty Images Browse more photos » Last night, in our emotional game recap , I mentioned that last night's game proved that we're still not there when it comes to the true contenders for the title. It was a bit of a snappy line that was put there in effect, in part because it sounded right and in part because there was something more to it that I needed...
WASHINGTON – Gilbert Arenas scored 32 points, including a halfcourt buzzer-beater at the end of the first quarter, Andray Blatche scored a career-high 30, and the Washington Wizards overcame the absence of both of their regular starting forwards Saturday night in a 123-104 win over the New Jersey Nets. With injured two-time All-Stars Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison on the bench in their expensive dark...