Comment from neal
Time January 6, 2008 at 8:56 AM

Well, the Seahawks took it to the Redskins. The Wizards will take it out on the Supersonics. That’s only fair.

Comment from LilGil
Time January 6, 2008 at 11:04 AM

I think we all think the same right there, seattle took it at home, we’re about to take our revenge. While I’m at it amazing return by the skins yesterday…
Go Wizards!!!!

Comment from LilGil
Time January 6, 2008 at 11:07 AM

Oh I almost forgot happy b-day Gilbert

Comment from AUNDRA
Time January 6, 2008 at 12:45 PM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGENT ZERO/HABACHI/GILZERO/BIG BURRITO/ARENAS

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 12:47 PM

starters are posted above…..and indeed happy birthday by gilbert

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 12:50 PM

check this out gang..Wizards guard Antonio Daniels has averaged 11.6 points, 6.2 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game in 16 games as a starter this season. Among all NBA guards with at least 15 starts this season, Daniels joins Jason Kidd, Jamaal Tinsley, Baron Davis, Dwyane Wade and Andre Miller as the only six guards in the NBA that average 10+ points, 6+ assists and 4+ rebounds in games started.

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:13 PM

transition defense..importnat and match up on durant

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:18 PM

durant at 6″9″ will be a challenge for durant

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:20 PM

durant aty 6″9″ will be a challenge for stevenson that is

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM

sonics will come out 3-2 zone

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:44 PM

now wizards showing some energy on D

Comment from Wizards4Life
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:45 PM

dose not look like we are having a problem with there one but i about got lost on the 1pm start

Comment from Dutch Fan
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:48 PM

HAPPY B-DAY AGENT ZERO!!!! HOPE YOU WILL RETURN SOON…

Comment from Dutch Fan
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:51 PM

looks like we are off to a good solid start!
how’s the atmosphere?

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:51 PM

defensive intesnity has kicked in…9-2 fast bbreak points for wizards

Comment from Dutch Fan
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:56 PM

Dave, any idea if the early lead of the wizards will give the bench more minutes?

Comment from Wizards4Life
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:56 PM

haygent 33 lol

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 1:59 PM

dutch fan..i think you will see that if there is abig lead..saw it friday againt milkwaukee

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 2:14 PM

i just caught this..haybet 33 that is funny.. he had the buzzer beater

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 2:19 PM

how about jamison…game gets close..he ask for the ball on back to back possesions and scores

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 2:21 PM

sonics doing a good job on boards…8 off rebounds

Comment from LilGil
Time January 6, 2008 at 2:32 PM

Good first half overall, hayewood played really well.
Did you guys (the ones watching on tv) hear what steve buckhatz just said?? Wizards-Seahawk!! little mistake out there.

Comment from Dutch Fan
Time January 6, 2008 at 2:38 PM

jamison will definitely get another double double….

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 2:39 PM

it would be his 21st double-double

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 2:40 PM

and that would match his total from all of last year

Comment from Wizfan4life
Time January 6, 2008 at 2:53 PM

Wizards need to get closer to the rim after a shot goes up…….on the foul brendan drew, theyre were 4 sonics at the basket around him but no wizards…..i know its good to have spacing but if that wasnt a foul brendan wouldnt have had any help inside to secure that rebound

Comment from Wizfan4life
Time January 6, 2008 at 2:54 PM

and with wilcox out of the game the wizards should be getting every rebound out there

Comment from Wizfan4life
Time January 6, 2008 at 2:58 PM

oh yeah i saw on the wizards website that arenas may be out the entire season??!!! hey dave and glenn after hearing this are the wizards planning any changes to their roster? like trades or signing players??

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 2:59 PM

arenas only out ..if the wizards are out of it

Comment from Wizfan4life
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:01 PM

butler and stevenson have really improved their 3point shooting making them more of a threat to guard

Comment from Wizfan4life
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:02 PM

again another rebound we should have secured

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:04 PM

yeah rebounds…..have kept sonics in this gam,e

Comment from Jason C
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:05 PM

hey guys, just checking in, seems like they are going over the back a lot on those offensive rebounds? Just my opinion though.

Comment from Dutch Fan
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:06 PM

wizards4life, what r u talking about? in his latest blog he says his return will be half feb – half march….

Comment from Jason C
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:06 PM

nice d haywood btw, forcing the 24 second violation

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:09 PM

yes indeed and the wizards are imporved on defense..allowing about 98 a game..after allowing close to 105 last year….

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:09 PM

as for the arenas story toclarify..he mentioned he is targeting m,id-feb-mid march..the only mention of not playing this year was if for some reason the wizards are out of it

Comment from wermol
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:15 PM

Hey all,

I really didn’t know Roger Mason dunks

I know the game isn’t over yet, but it is damn impressive how confidently and consistently we beat teams that we are supposed to beat.

Comment from Jason C
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:17 PM

he must save it for those must dunk situations… jeff green was going to block him if he didn’t

Comment from nubboi
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:18 PM

AD also has a double double now… he is doing awesome

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:19 PM

just talking about that mason dunk.. and a key play as now the wizards have taken off..

Comment from Dutch Fan
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:19 PM

nice block butler…

Comment from Dutch Fan
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:20 PM

it’s the butler who did it!!! lol

Comment from Jason C
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:24 PM

checking the box score…i bet haywood wants to get back in there to get his 10th rebound and double double =)

Comment from wermol
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:29 PM

You know…in games that are so wide open I really don’t want to see Mason do well… He is playing for a new payday and if he keeps even most of what he has been doing up for the rest of the season we very likely won’t be able to keep him.

Comment from Sam
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM

AD also with a double double, too bad brendan couldn’t get one too

Comment from wermol
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM

I can’t recall a single game with more beautiful passing from our side in a long long time. Seems like everyone wants in on a highlight pass-play.

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM

butler had 38 last year in a win over sonics….another big one tonight..and how about daniles since he has been back….13 points 10 asists

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:32 PM

yes 26 assists for wizards

Comment from wermol
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:33 PM

Daniels has indeed been very good since returning, but I have to say that every time he drives and falls hard (which is basically every play he drives inside) I just hold my breath. This can’t go on for too long without any harm.

Comment from Jason C
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:38 PM

good win guys…will be there for houston on tuesday…lets keep it up

Comment from Dutch Fan
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:40 PM

dave & glenn and everyone thanks for comments & discussions! c u next time

Comment from wermol
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:40 PM

Solid win, now lets try to beat the McGradyless rockets.

Comment from LilGil
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:41 PM

Great great game, double double for Daniels!! (and for Jamison indeed). Wiz move to 17-15, see y’all tuesday.

Comment from DJ-WizardsRadio
Time January 6, 2008 at 3:43 PM

gang thanks for being with us..just had anatwn on the radio..said they were not happy with effort in first half…but sustained defense in 2nd half key..again sonics had 15 turnovers in 2nd half

Comment from Reuben
Time January 6, 2008 at 4:35 PM

good game
BTW
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GILBERT

Comment from neal
Time January 6, 2008 at 7:35 PM

I missed the game. I take it we won and looked good doing it. What was the score? I trust it wasn’t an ugly win. Who looked good. Who stunk?

We’ll beat the Rockets at home.

Go Wiz.

Comment from Wiz034
Time January 6, 2008 at 7:49 PM

great game by the Wizards. But they made more difficult in the first had than it needed to be. but good to see they picked it up in the second half and put this team away…
Happy B’Day Agent 0

I also read on the Real GM newsletter that NY1 is celebrating a birthday today..Don’t know how true is it… Steve would have said something about it..

Comment from newposter
Time January 6, 2008 at 8:19 PM

gilbert’s bday is 1/6 nick’s is 6/1, so that might’ve caused the confusion…or maybe europeans and others who reverse the month and date.

Comment from Bridge
Time January 6, 2008 at 8:28 PM

Happy Birthday Gil

Comment from Tom Mandel
Time January 6, 2008 at 9:27 PM

If you look at the line:
http://www.nba.com/games/20080106/SEAWAS/boxscore.html
you can see that we got next to nothing from the bench. Pretty good game from Songaila; otherwise not much. Glad we won, but we need more production from our reserves.

Comment from AUNDRA
Time January 6, 2008 at 9:42 PM

The coach did the right thing at half time because our second unit lost there motivation
and killer instinct. We desperately need our second unit to come into the game focused
and ready to go for the juggler if not the coaching staff will lose confidence in them and then only a 7 man rotation wil be used. This should consist of starters:Daniels,Stevenson,
Butler,Jamison,Haywood and reserves Songalia and Mason. We cannot afford to play the starters over 30 minutes per game without some serious back up from our top notch reserves! I just want AB to settle down and be more consistent with a low post game and not out there on the wing. I would like to see more of my favorite Nick Youngs turn aound jump shots with nothing but net swish!DMAC I know your offensive game is a work in progress but high percentage dunks are very makeable! Lets turn this perception around and give us what we want and that is Balance from all concerned!

Comment from neal
Time January 6, 2008 at 11:43 PM

Thanks Tom. Haven’t heard much from you lately. What’s your take on our guys in general?

I hope Songaila is beginning to get it together. He hasn’t looked good to me on either end of the court this year. We just need for him and Blatche to play up to their potential. Together with Mason that’s all we need for reserves. A dependable eight man rotation is enough. Plus a few minutes here and there for Young and McGuire.

Essentially I agree with you, Aundra, although I wouldn’t worry about 35 minutes for Butler and Jamison. But this 39-40 minutes a game is risky. Plus, we need to develop some other players if we’re going to the next level.

Comment from AUNDRA
Time January 7, 2008 at 9:55 AM

The worlds most famous renaissance man Leonardo Da Vinci had a mentor to mould
him into one one the greatest arts,scientist,engineer of his time! The veterans must
now mould our reserves in the same way. Its all about building a relationship with
professionals with specialized knowledge,who can propel you God given abilities to the
next level. The idea of mixing veterans with non veterans is not new but has worked for
ever there has been a NBA. What is a veteran in my opinion. A veteran is any one with
5 years of on the job training in a specific job or discipline! They have already done the
research and knows what works and what doesn’t work. For example partying the night before the big game is definitely a no no or not getting proper rest before a game would definitely affect you playing ability! They have made thousand of mistakes to get to this level and now have the specialized information to keep them there without any mistakes! I like the idea of mentoring and I know it’s going to be a work in progress but
at the end of ones career you couldn’t have made a better decision by listening to the
veterans knowledge and opinions!

Comment from Tom Mandel
Time January 7, 2008 at 10:39 AM

neal — I agree that a dependable 8-man rotation would probably suffice, although it’d be interesting to look at the stats for minutes played across nba teams and their rosters; I think most good teams go deeper than 8 guys.

Still, what would an 8-man rotation look like? You’d like to have a reliable backup center, a 6th-man type who is a scoring threat, and someone who provides defense. Do we have that at present?

Songaila shoots pretty well, but he commits way too many fouls. To be honest, I don’t think he is all that good a player. Mason is solid defensively, but not really a stopper. He’s a streaky shooter. Blatche, despite being in something of a dip these days, is having a strong season.

Hence, I think we’re really only 1 of 3 in the needs off the bench. As to Nick, I’m really disappointed in his level of play. Dominic is raw, obviously.

On the other hand, I’m really impressed by the level of play of our starting unit in the absence of Gilbert. Caron and Antawn are playing like a couple of the best players in the league, Antonio and Brendan aren’t far behind them, and DeShawn has been solid over the last month as well.

Comment from Tom Mandel
Time January 7, 2008 at 10:52 AM

Another note on our bench:

Guards — ideally, you’d like DeShawn and Antonio to play about 30 minutes each. DeShawn seems to be most productive at that level, and Antonio is in his 11th season. We have a hard time providing the needed 36 minutes of good backup guard play. Some from Roger, yes, but there’s no counting on Nick Young at this point.

Center — w/ Haywood playing 30 minutes, and Blatche 20 we’ve got the 5 position pretty well covered.

Forwards — ideally, Antawn could be at 33 minutes. We back him up w/ Songaila, but it would be nice to have someone better. We have an especially big drop off problem, however, when Caron comes out of the game. Dominic brings athleticism but not much skill at this point, so he doesn’t get many minutes. Nick, as I say, is not ready to be counted on.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we re-signed Mike Wilk just to lessen our need to rely on rookies.

Comment from GrifonRacing
Time January 7, 2008 at 12:52 PM

I don’t think this team should consider shortening the rotation for the reasons stated above. Our young guys all show promise, and, without court time they will never get the chance to reach their potential. Guys like Young and McGuire aren’t solid contributers now, but, with court time they may be toward the end of the season and going forward into next season. Young may not be the best back up at guard right now, but, I’ll still take him over Donnell Taylor. Songaila may not be the best back up at forward, but, I’ll take him over Ruffin. Pesherov, from what I’m hearing, is close to playing. When he comes back it should solidify the rotation at forward. imo our 10 man team this season is a much better team than the 15 man teams we have had in the recent past.

Comment from LilGil
Time January 7, 2008 at 1:39 PM

I definitly think that playing our key players 30 to 40 minutes a game is definitly not the good solution. One of the biggest problem for the wizards these past seasons was the injuries ( well obviously last season it was the main problem…) and we definitly don’t wanna get into it (too much at least) this season. I just can’t imagine the Wizards without Caron or Antawn at this point… Therefore we have to have confidence in our bench, problem the bench is definitly not responding, I mean we can’t get consistent performances… Nick Young, he’s “learning” right now and he needs minutes, but we can’t rely on him. Dominic… well he seems like he’s stressed up when he’s on the floor, it seems like he doesn’t make the right choices even though he knows em…Darius’s fouls too much that’s obvious, but when he’s into it he can score and that’s important as a backup for Antawn. Roger for me is the best player off the bench, he can score, he doesn’t commit too many stupid fouls and he dafinitly can score. Now about Blatche… well he should be a pretty good player, but as Ivan pointed it out in one of his last articles I definitly believe that he doesn’t get into it enough… He needs discipline (I speak about him but the two rooks definitly need some too). I remember reading ChenierFan saying that during the pregame shoot around in New Jersey Blatche was messing around instead of doing what he was supposed to. I know we got good vets in the team and I know they can handle that , the problem is how long’s it gonna take?? If our starting 5 has to play up to 35-40 minutes in the tough games we’re about to face (boston, dallas…) well I hope they stay healthy…
As for now we cannot rely on the bench, as Eddie said it recently they gotta get better… quickly.

Comment from AUNDRA
Time January 7, 2008 at 2:19 PM

Its a experiment for disaster with the starting five playing over 30 minutes every night
but wait until back to back . You will see a huge drop off in production due to over working and no help in sight. We cannot procede in the face of uncertainty like that.
The bench has only one choice and that is put up or shut up. I know it’s harsh but someone has to say it!It might as well come from a concerned fan! The game against
Houston will be extremely hard because we have one of the best centers in the World coming and he has NO Weakness because if you foul him he can make freethrows and
he is very mobile so Haywood Good Luck Buddy! I would like to see the game plan for this game because you have very few options!Mcgrady has back problems but other than that he is unstoppable also!

Comment from neal
Time January 7, 2008 at 6:12 PM

Here’s my idea for playing minutes per game:

PG Daniels 30, Mason 18
SG Stevenson 28, Mason 12, Young 8
SF Butler 34, Blatche 10, McGuire 4
PF Jamison 34, Songaila 14
C Haywood 30, Blatche 18

Pecherov competes with Songaila when he comes back.

I don’t think Butler and Jamison will have any trouble carrying those minutes. Butler is young and tough and Jamison is known for playing lots of minutes w/o getting hurt. At present Butler is averaging 40 and Jamison 39.

Comment from Wiz034
Time January 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM

If you missed the Seattle game, they are replaying it on CSN tonight..7-9:30

Comment from GrifonRacing
Time January 7, 2008 at 10:31 PM

Neal… I hope the coaching staff sees your post. I think those minutes are right on the head for everyone on the team. To remain competitive and also allow for the young players growth.

Comment from neal
Time January 8, 2008 at 12:00 AM

Well, Grifon, I’m sure they’re hanging on every word we say.

Comment from GrifonRacing
Time January 8, 2008 at 1:20 AM

If that were true, they would have fired Unseld from the GM’s job 10 years before they finally did

Comment from neal
Time January 9, 2008 at 5:38 PM

Amen.

Whatever happened to him? Didn’t Pollin say he would always be with the organization?

Comment from neal
Time January 9, 2008 at 5:53 PM

Maybe the commitment got transferred to Unseld’s son.

Comment from GrifonRacing
Time January 11, 2008 at 3:00 PM

I think Wes Sr. has had some medical problems the last few years and isn’t around as much as he once was. I think he will always have a spot in the Wizards front office as long as he wants it. He will always mean a lot to the Wizards after literally putting them on the map along with Big E.

Comment from tonichi_0
Time January 18, 2008 at 11:12 PM

I’ve been missing my favorite player “agent 0″ I hope and I pray that if he comes back to the game, he will perform 100% to his team!

I wish that the Wizards can back to the playoffs and go to the Finals!!!
It’s tough but who knows!

Also I wish that Gilbert will visit into the Philippines!

Go Go Wizards Go!!