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All Wizards Games to be Carried by CSN
This afternoon Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic and the Washington Wizards announced that CSN would carry all of the team’s 82 regular-season games (72 on CSN and 10 on CSN Plus) and three preseason contests.
CSN went on to announce that its game day broadcast crew would remain intact with the return of play-by-play announcer Steve Buckhantz, analyst Phil Chenier and sideline reporter Chris Miller. This will mark the 15th season that Buckhantz and Chenier have worked together. Ron Thompson will also return to provide analysis on Wizards Postgame Live which will be hosted by Chris Miller.
We will see how many of the 85 games will actually be broadcast due to the continuing NBA lockout.
NewsBullet: Wizards scheduled to introduce Singleton and Mack
Today at 2:30 PM Ernie Grunfeld and Flip Saunders will introduce two of the Wizards 2011 draft picks Chris Singleton (18th overall) and Shelvin Mack (34th overall) at the Verizon Center.
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The Wizards get into Detroit late and play like they need a nap
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Tonight the Washington Wizards went up against another struggling team on the road – the Detroit Pistons. And eerily similar to many of their previous road games they looked as if they were disinterested, in a malaise or completely disoriented.
And I can already imagine the explanation:
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Washington Wizards fall to the Chicago Bulls by 28
Unlike the previous two loses in which the Wizards played well and were able to take away some small moral victories, there would be none taken away from this game. The Wizards were over-matched in nearly every phase of the game and lost to the Bulls 105 – 77. Early in the game, the Bulls were unstoppable in the paint and finished the game with 48 points in the paint. The Bulls were also able to own the boards, pulling down 56 rebounds – 17 more than the Wizards. Following the game, Flip Saunders put it bluntly, “There bigs kicked our butt.” High percentage shots in the paint combined with their success on the backboards enabled Chicago to hit 48% from the field.
Andray Blatche finished the game with a double-double, he led the Wizards with 15 points and 11 rebounds. However those statistics, as they often are with him, are misleading. Andray is rarely in good rebounding position, often is slow getting back on defense and doesn’t appear to be focused when on defense. Those shortcomings can and were exploited by a team like the Bulls. Andray can put points on the scoreboard but they often come at the expense of good offensive flow.
Andray Blatches boxes out with his eyes
Another video against the Spurs. In this short video clip, notice how Andray Blatche quickly looks at the offensive player as the shot is going up. Rather than put a body on him… he looks at him. The rebound goes long and guess who is there to get the ball… no not Andray Blatche. See if you can catch John Wall’s expression at the very end of the clip.
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