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| What a lame blogger I am, I know. Believe it or not I am actually a busy person. Anyway, now that I've recovered from strep throat I'm ready to impart my words of Wizards wisdom on my faithful 3 readers again. 
So...with that said, let's start with the embarrassment of last night in Houston. Looking at the box score all-in-all not a bad game. The one glaring statistic: field goal percentage. Here we have the Houston Rockets, a team now 8 games below .500. A team that normally averages 90.9 points per game, the second lowest in the league. A team that averages a 43% field goal percentage. So far this season the Wizards have allowed them to shoot 55.1% fg percentage in January to go for 123 points and last night the Rockets ended up with 105 points and a 55.7% fg percentage. That is just EMBARRASSING!! This shows the absolute abysmal state of our defense. Yao was unstoppable. I know he's been on a little tear lately...but they were utterly unable to keep the ball out of the paint. Lucky for us Yao has a mild case of SHS (Stone Hands Syndrome for those of you unfamiliar with the disease; first diagnosed in Etan Thomas of the Wizards) and ended up with 7 turnovers otherwise he could've had his first 50 point game. This summer Ernie has to find us a big man that isn't completely worthless. It's so frustrating to see them play so hard against some teams and just fold against others. They have to be more consistent if they're ever going to be any kind of a force in this league.
Ok, that's all for now...I'll try not to disappear for so long again! | | |
| How about those Patriots?!? Pretty amazing to see GMU get this far in the tourney. They definitely have a chance to make it to the Elite Eight considering they beat Wichita State this season in Wichita. Who knows, maybe we can even creep up on UConn since they sure haven't been playing their best ball. It's great to see all the press Mason is getting. Check out this week's SI, it has Lamar Butler on the cover! And make sure you're in front of a TV at 7:27 PM this Friday. | | |
| My dad whipped up this nifty diagram of the weird jump ball formation the guys have been using. Now everyone can see how ridiculous it really is. Check it out...
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| I really enjoyed this column in the Washington Times by Tom Knott. (http://www.washtimes.com/sports/20060306-011635-7238r.htm) It's entitled, "Poet, 7-footer Part of Inferior Interior". It details our persisting problem of non-existent post presence. (Wow, try to say that 3 times fast). Definitely worth the read. | | |
| Has anyone else noticed that the Wizards have started jumping the ball in the weirdest formation? Jeffries (or Haywood- who by the way can jump a total of 2 inches- now that Jeffries is injured) jumps the ball but they have no one standing right outside the circle to jump the ball to. Of course I've never seen them actually WIN a tip doing this. I have no idea what the justification behind this formation is but it makes no sense. How can u win a jump if u have NO ONE standing there to tip the ball to? Very weird... Sometimes I wish I could get into Eddie's mind to find out what the hell is going on in there. | | |
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