Washington Wizards 2013 - 2014 Season Thread - Thanks for a great season!

Where will the Washington Wizards finish this season?

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  • In 8th place.

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  • In 7th place.

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  • In 6th place.

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  • In 5th place.

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  • I'm delusional and believe the Wizards will finish in 4th place or higher.

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frustrating loss seeing as how we had every opportunity to win it in the last 2 minutes but awful shot selection killed us

nothing more can be said about the free throws, it's like they don't even try (Nene) :x
 
That was a classic inexperience loss, I knew we would have a game like this at some point in the postseason (I actually thought it would come earlier, our guys have mostly been poised). Beal and especially Wall will learn from it.

It might cost us this year, but it will help us in the future.
 
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Like everyone said....FREE THROWS!! good god you can't be 2 for 7 from the line in the 3rd quarter as a team.

But honestly we had every chance to win this game. Hibbert finally showed up and we still were fine. If Wall hits one of those 2 end of game 3s the game is tied and it is a completely different scenario. Can't be too mad we got a win in indiana. Coming home 1-1 is pretty good. Hopefully we play well these next two games at home.

Lance Stevenson hit that big deep two that basically sealed it...he played and shot well last night unfortunately for us.
 
Gave last night's game away...As DT43 said, I had a feeling one of those kind of games would be coming at some point. Bad sequence by Wall at the end of the game...Young guys will learn from it though. Took Hibbert to have his first good game in about 2 months for them to win by 4 at home. I still think we are ok...
 
It took a career night from Dunleavy for the Bulls to beat us, and it took a combination of a career night from Hibbert + poor FT shooting for the Pacers to win. I STILL like our chances in the series and I think DC closes it out in 6. We're the better team. Obviously, the Wizards weren't going to sweep their way through this series. A loss (or two) is bound to happen. It was a winnable game despite how poorly the team played. If there's a silver lining, that's it. I expect them to be MUCH better going forward.
 
still like our chances, but those were some poor decisions by Wall at the end of the game..hopefully he will learn from them next time around.

and goodness we suck at the charity strike :lol: :lol:
 
I'd rather have Johnny Dubbs makin those mistakes in game 2 then at the the end of a game 7. Good to get these jitters, offensive mishaps out of the way NOW, and learn/improve/evolve to better shot selection towards the latter part of this series. Won't beat the Free throw horse anymore, hopefully that gradually improves going forwards as well. A little stung by last night's loss being that we COULD have won, but optimistic about our chances in the rest of the series.
 
Btw Ernie Grunfeld came in 10th in Executive of the Year voting:


1. Buford (SAS)
2. Ryan McDonough (PHX)
3. Neil Olshey (POR)
4. Masai Ujiri (TOR)
5. Pat Riley (MIA)
6. Sam Presti (OKC)
7. Danny Ainge (BOS)
8. Billy King (BKN)
9. Daryl Morey (HOU)
10. Ernie Grunfeld (WAS)
11. Rod Higgins (CHA)
12. Larry Bird (IND)
13. Doc Rivers (LAC)
14. Bob Myers (GSW)
15. Danny Ferry (ATL)
16. Gar Forman (CHI)
17. Donnie Nelson (DAL)


Grunfeld and Wittman are both about to have a career resurgence. after years of screwing up their reputation is gonna do a 180 :lol:
 
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If, for whatever the reason the Wizards decide to let Wittman walk after this playoff run, he'll be one of the hottest coaching commodities on the market. Obviously, he's going to get a multi-year extension, but he's really done nothing short of an amazing job coaching these guys since the playoffs began.
 
I expect a good game. The Wizards have been one of the most exciting teams in the playoffs so far in my opinion.
 
John Wall spent most of the flight home from Indiana late Wednesday night wrestling with regret.
Playing on a loop in Wall’s mind was the three-pointer he hurriedly shot with about two minutes remaining in the Washington Wizards’ Game 2 loss at the Indiana Pacers, immediately followed by the sight of Indiana guard George Hill ripping the ball away from him on an attempted drive in the waning seconds.\


What Wall lamented the most, however, was that the chance to redeem himself wouldn’t come until Friday, when Washington’s Eastern Conference semifinal series with Indiana shifts to Verizon Center for Game 3 tied at one game apiece. To bide his time, the Wizards’ all-star guard did the next best thing — he arrived at Thursday’s practice an hour early and put up shots.


“I’ve been thinking about it all last night and today. The way I played and the way we didn’t play as a team and didn’t play the right way [on] defense,” Wall said of a game in which he had six points on 2-for-13 shooting. “That’s probably the worst game we played in the playoffs.”
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Looking for a bounceback game from JW
 
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This game is terrible. Wall looks spaced out, and Wittman has no idea what he's doing.

Offense is stagnating? Great let's run a bunch of plays that take 15 seconds to develop
 
Just off this game Wittman should be fired. What adjustments did he make at halftime? He doesn't know how to coach, period.
 
Can't play a worse game than that. Wittman MUST make some serious changes to the gameplan on offense because running screens with Nene at the top of the key over and over leads to nothing but bad midrange shots. We're just letting the Pacers camp in the paint and not even attempting to drive on them
 
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Can't play a worse game than that. Wittman MUST make some serious changes to the gameplan on offense because running screens with Nene at the top of the key over and over leads to nothing but bad midrange shots. We're just letting the Pacers camp in the paint and not even attempting to drive on them
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:lol: When have you ever known Wittman to make adjustments? There's a reason why his reputation is what is.


He employs the same strategy over and over, if it doesn't work he says "We just weren't making shots" and continues doing the same thing.

He needs to stop with running our offense through Beal, Indy's perimeter defense is too good. And when Beal/Nene are doing that 2-man game it turns Wall into a spectator since he can't shoot or do anything off the ball
 
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George Karl or Mark Jackson?
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Sam Cassell

Piss poor effort out there tonight. They basically quit in the 3rd quarter. 

Free Throw problem is really embarrassing. Especially from the guards. You can't be a poor FT shooter as a guard in the NBA. That's sad.

I won't make too much about Beal's performance. There were alot of adjustments Indy made on defense for this game and putting Paul George on Beal was brilliant. It's just difficult to get clean looks when you're being guarded by someone 4-5 inches taller than you and just as mobile as you are.

John was pathetic out there...again. They're playing him perfectly by daring him to shoot...but the free throws and the TO's are inexcusable. 

Our bench is absolutely ****. 
 
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