Washington Wizards Breakdown: Wizards Are Wall-To-Wall Bad

October 29th, 2010 by Erick Blasco Leave a reply »
Are the Washington Wizards really as bad as they looked during their dreadful 112-83 opening-game loss to the Orlando Magic?

After inspecting their roster, it turns out that they might be.

The Wizards’ defensive rotations were horrendous against the Magic—and JaVale McGee, Andray Blatche, Hilton Armstrong and Yi Jianlian have all been disastrously bad individual and team defenders over the course of their short careers. No wonder they offered no resistance to Dwight Howard or anyone else on the Magic’s roster.

This complete lack of defense extends down to the wings, where Al Thornton and Nick Young were eviscerated by Vince Carter and were habitually absent in their rotations.

John Wall’s idea of defense strictly involves his hands and not his feet.

Cartier Martin had an up-and-down defensive game, but may have made the only adequate defensive rotation—and wound up stuffing Dwight Howard at the rim for a highlight reel block because of it.

The only Wizard who played acceptable defense on the whole was Kirk Hinrich, but with his teammates botching help assignment after help assignment, his efforts had little im ...

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