2009 - 2010 Preseason Game #4 VS Wizards

[Radar]

Are these injuries a joke or what????????

Av and boobie,once again, injured....Are these serious injured???

 

[JayP146]

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Box score for tonight.

 

[Walter White]

I did not realize Jawad had 21. The guy has alot of talent for sure.

 

[wuck]

Are these injuries a joke or what????????

Av and boobie,once again, injured....Are these serious injured???

X-rays were negative on AV's wrist (left wrist contusion), according to Windhorst. Gibson bruised his tailbone and didn't return.

Hopefully, they're minor injuries and they were held out for precautionary reasons.

But there may not be many players available for the upcoming short Texas trip...

 

[rabman_gold]

This is why you can't go off a box score when trying to look deep for players at training camp. The guys who played like they were supposed to were:

• Shaq
• Andy
• Moon
• Parker
• Gibson
• Z

The problem lies with all the other guys who played tonight. Now we truly know who's capable of what and who isn't.

• J.J. is still young. He managed to do some things right, but needs work on defense.
• Jawad seems to be good enough as a 15th invite, but that's only because he was attempting the Allen Iverson role of shooting teams out of their sets. But he did well enough, I guess.
• Andre Barrett and Russell Robinson, as MYoung23 said, are just not the type of point guards we need. Both stunk and couldn't trust themselves with passes and doing the right plays. Moon was a better point guard than they were. We are better off signing one on the market in the case that we need someone to run the team as a in-case-of-an-emergency player.
• Rob Kurz showed us what he lacked. Defense. The ability to be useful in the offense with exception to shooting threes. Yeah, Jawad probably is a better fit for other reasons.
• We know that Luke isn't going to have a single prayer.

Those 4 guys I mentioned... done. We don't need them. Darryl also probably doesn't fit either because there was no effort. That means Jawad and Coby get in by default, right?

Either way, I think something should be done to shore up the point guard even further...

Also, these injuries are killing me. It's always this damn karma. Hopefully Boobie's tail bone doesn't affect his shot, or Andy's injury affect him, or Delonte be affected by his stuff, or LeBron, Darnell, and Coby affected by swine flu, or Mo affected by his groin, or whatever ...

I really don't like seeing this, because it's starting to play out like the 2007-2008 year. We need to get HEALTHY...

Aside from that, it's the f#cking preseason. So whining because we lost is just bull-shit, especially when Mike Brown has too much discipline to not play key guys JUST so we can win. I really don't care about the final result as much as us getting healthy, improved, and prepared. Still, it was at least nice to watch basketball for the hell of it, even though it was ugly.

 

[dirtywax]

2 Boards in 26 minutes for Hickson?

 

[xAusT1n]

Box score for tonight.

Hey how do i take the dumb test? It keeps taking me to imageshack

 

[JayP146]

Hey how do i take the dumb test? It keeps taking me to imageshack

... It's a silly ad included with Imageshack's code. I haven't messed with said code to ensure the original image stays intact.

 

[Marcus]

13 points and 6 boards in 12 minutes for Shaq.

EDIT: I'm retarded, 19 minutes. Still solid production from him though.

 

[QuadrupleDouble]

I thought we did awesome for not having our top 3 ball handlers in the game.

I wish we could have got a win just because it's the Wizards, but we will never see any of those lineups again. We're probably just resting guys more than anything so we can get a look at our garbage pile and see if there's anything worth recycling.

 

[SoundBreaker]

J.J. stunk.


More turnovers than rebounds?


BOOOOOOOOO

 

[wuck]

According to Windhorst:

Gibson and Varejao say they'll be OK, neither injury serious.

 

[Gimme Some Mo]

Gibson with 4 more turnovers. Worst ball handler for a guy his size in the whole NBA.

Didn't get to watch the game. First bad game out of JJ by the stats.

How impressive was Jawad?

How did Boobie and AV get hurt?

 

[NarlCavs]

I didn't see the game but from the box score it looked like Jawad did pretty well. Since he's going to be on the roster that would be nice to see.
How was he defensively? I also noticed the Wizards 2 primary SF's, Butler and Miller, shot 14-18 on FG's and I have to think Jawad was playing a lot of those minutes against them.

 

[Da_James_Gang]

O'neal looked great tonight, the guy is in great shape this season. He has been moving very well. It's also nice to have a guy who you can throw the ball to in the post and he is gonna get you two points the majority of the time. Moon came out firing from three, he hit 3 of 5. His stroke looks a lot better than i thought it was. Parker was a lil more agressive on the offensive end taking it to the basket a couple of times. Boobie's shot is looking a lot better compared to last season, i just hope this lil injury doesn't affect it. JJ struggled not doing much of anything defensively. The one travel call was bs though, he should have had that basket. Overall i wasn't disappointed by this game, i was actually pleased other than the injuries. This teams depth is pretty sick, i expected this game not to be as close as it was to tell the truth. I figured we had too many guys missing for us to have a chance. We would have won if the super scrubs didn't have to play so much, but its the preseason. If our own version of Kobe(Coby) was available for this game, then he would have pulled it out for us.