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Why not, #######? Seems like they can't stop blowing teams out, and now they're only two games back of the Cs (and the 2 seed) with three very winnable home games on the schedule this week.
Certainly is the biggest game of year for the Zards and will tell us if they are contenders or just pretenders.The Caps and Zards both haven't lost at home since the start of the calendar year with the Zards going almost back to the start of December.Best run of home play of both teams combined I can ever remember so let's hope they keep the ball rolling tonight and put on a good show.I did hear Wall complaining again about the Lakers fans invading the booth so I fully expect the Lebron cheerleaders to show up in force tonight as well but it's not like Wall needs any motivation to play hard because he gives it all he has night in and night out.
Yeah, the Lakers fan started making some noise when they went on their mini-run the other night. I'm imagining there will be a lot of LeBron fans there as always. I was just looking up tickets and they are pretty reasonably priced for tonight, more so than LeBron/Cavs games I've looked at in the past. (I'm not sure if I have enough goodwill to spare with the spouse though.)
Unless LBJ has a season ending injury, there's no way they can win the east. Getting back to the second round of the playoffs though? I think that would have to be considered a pretty successful season.
I posted that when Love was sidelined and limited, but he looked fine last night. He's such a mismatch, and the Wizards couldn't find anyone to guard him effectively. I'm kind of hoping the Cavs trade Love for Melo.
I haven't seen any official trade rumors out there. Lou Williams is one of the popular names being discussed by fans. I've been listening to Ben Standing's "Locked on Wizards" podcast. He just posted a trade episode, which has Lou Williams mentioned in the description, but I haven't listened to that one yet. He talked about a couple of other trade possibilities a week or so ago too (mentioned Brandon Jennings and Joakim Noah, but those seem questionable fits to me).
Will Barton is another. He's on a cheap deal that takes him through next season, though, so it definitely would cost them a first round pick. And they need to start thinking about finding some big man depth in the draft soon- Gortat is great and has surprisingly few miles on him for his age but you still have to assume he's gonna slow down fairly soon. If the plan is to keep Wall, Beal and Porter together all at max money for the foreseeable future you're gonna have to draft big guys.
They have their 2017 and 2018 first rounders. One of those should be enough to get a bench scorer without dealing Oubre, I hope.
Yup. Jennings isn't really good, but he's better than what we've got now and he fills a glaring hole.\
First half of the game was the beautiful part. Second half was cruise control once they stretched out the lead in the first few minutes.
I would say Wall is a great scramble defender but when he is locked down on someone he just looks very average at best and gets blown by quite often.Will say last night though he did look more engaged and I remember back to an early part in the season when Brooks called Wall out as the worst defender on the team so clearly something is going on here but with how he is playing on the other end it really does feel like I'm nitpicking his game.Life as a D.C. sports fan tends to do that to you
I was close to turning the game off after the third quarter. Glad I stuck with it.tom22406 said:
Both Friday and Saturday night I started to go to sleep when they were down big, checked my phone one last time, and then ended up staying up until the bitter end to enjoy the heroics. I could barely function on Sunday, because of the Wizards. It's a brave new world.
So it could be the C's can grab the 1 seed given the way the Cavs have looked lately which we don't want either.I'm honestly just happy to finally see a winning team who looks to be a contender in the conference.
The Cleveland win brought it back into play. If they win the game @LAL they have a decent shot at it. If they win that one and steal an upset @LAC, @UTA or @GSW (ha!) I think they'll get there for sure. Otherwise they have to go 4-1 over the final 5 to do it. Last 5 are tough to call, depends how much they want to prioritize winning 50 vs getting some rest, where the Pistons and especially Heat are in the playoff race (two of last three vs MIA), etc.
Should be an exciting finish. Much needed comeback win last night.@Knicks,vs Heat,@Pistons and @Heat to finish off the season and needing 3 wins to hit 50.Still plenty of questions as to where they land seeding wise as well.
Playoff sweat is about to begin
That third quarter was magical. There's nothing like seeing your team go on a run in an NBA playoff game.tom22406 said:
I had the Wizards game on my TV and Caps on my tablet, but ended up watching mostly the Caps too (I tried streaming the Nats too, but discovered that Nats aren't available for streaming, which is kind of absurd).
Does this surprise you as a long time fan?
It did surprise me a bit here since we have some active posters who follow the team but we all get busy so no worries.Been a very long time since anybody should be this excited about the Zards in a playoff run and with how things are shaping up they have a great shot at the ECF's now but as well all know nothing comes easy in the DMV with sports teams so I have little to no doubt I'm in for some heavy drinking with the Zards and Caps.
