<div align="center"> (39-36) @ (32-38) When: April 7, 7:30 eastern time Where: New Jersey, Continental Airlines Arena <u><font size=""2"">Nets' Starting Lineup</font></u> PG: Marcus Williams, SG: Vince Carter, SF: Richard Jefferson, PF: Jason Collins, C: Mikki Moore <u>Nets Leaders:</u> PPG: Vince Carter (24.7) RPG: Jason Kidd (7.8) APG: Jason Kidd (9.1) <font size=""2""><u>Wizards' Starting Lineup</u></font> PG: Antonio Daniels, SG: Deshawn Stevenson, SF: Jarvis Hayes, PF: Antawn Jamison, C: Etan Thomas <u>Wizards Leaders:</u> PPG: Gilbert Arenas (28.4) RPG: Antawn Jamison (8.0) APG: Gilbert Arenas (6.0) <u>Keys to Game:</u> <ul> [*]Slow down Jamison. Wihtout him the rest of the team would have to take over which they are not capable of doing without their stars. [*]Rebound the ball [*]RJ step up with scoring. [/list] Bottom Line: Without Gilbert Arenas and Caron Butler the Nets must win this at home. Prediction: Nets 103 Wizards 91</div>
Wiz are 39-36, Legacy...anyway, there's 4 games seperated in the standings between the Wizards and Nets and if the Wizards don't want the Nets to take their 6th seed, they need to win at least 1 of the two meetings they'll have against each other. Eddie Jordan learned last night that Antonio Daniels and Deshawn Stevenson can't 42+ minutes every night with Arenas and Butler out. Look for him to rely on players off the bench like Roger Mason, Donell Taylor, and even Mike Hall to come in and give these guys a rest. I think in the fouth quarter after giving 3 hard effort quarters.
<div class="quote_poster">Will637 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Wiz are 39-36, Legacy</div> My bad, I copied and pasted from my last game thread and forgot to change it.
Good start for the Wizards thus far. Everybody's sharing the ball, and making their shots while they're at it. The only player off though is our number one scoring option Jamison, so he's gotta pick it up in the second quarter. We've only committing 2 turnovers so far, which is great to see. If they can keep them under 40% shooting and keeping VC in check, we'll be fine.
Half time. Nets 52 Wizards 51. Vince with 27 points. Kidd with 12 assists and 8 rebounds. RJ with 16 points. Everyone else must step up if we want to win, or Kidd could just kick it to Vince for threes.
I think Arvis Hayes is finally earning the J in his name, lol. Imagine if he shot like that the entire season, than rather missing most of shots in every game... Wiz up by 4.
You look at the stat sheet, and you would figure it was a blowout. Two Net triple doubles, and an overtime was needed to beat a team without two of it's best players. Weird....but a win none the less. Kidd 10 pts 16 rebs 18 asts Carter 46 pts 16 rebs 10 asts Jefferson 27 pts Moore 17 pts Robinson 10 pts Boone 6 pts 5 rebs Source
That was pretty bad game for the Wizards. They let the Nets as a team shoot 17-36 from 3 and allow Jason Kidd and Vince Carter to score triple doubles. The Wizards did a terrible job rebounding, as they let the Nets ruin their opportunity to win the game like when Mikki Moore missed both ft's, but Vince Carter got the board, or when Jason Kidd missed a 3, but saved it out of bounds by hitting it off Jarvis. The final statline was the Nets boarded 55, 17 more than the Wizards. On the bright note though, if that Arvis Hayes learns to keep his jumper up though, he may earn his J back, lol. But what an amazing career night for him with 29 points, he looked as if he couldn't miss. That's the type of scoring that we need from our role guys now that Arenas and Butler are gone. It's important now that we keep building on the team's game going towards the playoffs and build the role players' confidence up. As long as we get 2-3 more games before the season ends, we should be in the playoffs.
