Judging from the SportsTwo Sportsbook this game is pretty much a coinflip. But here's why I think the Warriors will win, and it's not because Agent 0 is injured, since the Wizards have been winning games without him. Antonio Daniels (damn you Shape! for picking him on fantasy bball) and Blatche are playing well. Plus they still have Jamison and Butler. The advantage for the Warriors is turkey. Turkey is the reason the Warriors will win, will destroy the Wizards. Plus everyone knows that the Warriors always beat the Wizards in fantasy stories. And plus how can anyone root for the bad guys? To further explain the turkey advantage the Warriors have in this game, is that the Wizard's players most likely spent the evening with their own families, relaxing and eating, yes, eating turkey, that is unless they have no friends and family (yes, I'm talking about you Oleksiy Pecherov! [name taken from the Wizards forum sidebar with all the roster names]). Pecherov will be ready. He'll be angry and ready to ball because he got no turkey last night except for some Swanson's , make that two, Swanson's Hungry Man Turkey Dinners. Too bad he will not play. He will be buried at the end of the bench with a towel over his head by the fourth quarter, thinking they should have put me in, I would have burned the Warriors with my fireball spell. Of course the opposite may happen. Maybe a relaxing day off will strengthen and focus the Wizards instead of weaken them. Maybe Turkey is HGH. Then the Warriors will be in trouble. A lot of trouble.</p> Also the over/under on this thread reaching beating out the SportsTicker Game Thread is +21.5 (which I think means that the SportsTicker thread will have 22 more posts at least.</p>
Gohn I think you need to trademark the Butterball-Turkey Matchup I. Great stuff!</p> I was quick on the waiver wire picking up Daniels because I'm in point guard purgatory until Bibby comes back.</p> The Wizards will also be without Brendan Haywood and don't have any size to clog the paint.</p> This should be a highscoring game and uptempo basketball favors the Warriors against almost every team in the league. The Biedrins-Blatche matchup should be interesting to watch. Blatche has put up some big numbers since Arenas went down with his injury. He's an active shotblocker and gets after rebounds similar to Biedrins. Blatche has the big man syndrome of camping out on the perimeter still instead of using his length on the inside. Biedrins has to respect his shot, but also bait him into staying on the outside because long missed jumpers lead to Warrior fastbreaks and Biedrins can sprint down the floor from the backcourt instead the frontcourt.</p> These are the type of games against lesser teams the Warriors must win.</p> </p>
I think the Warriors might actually win because of the guard matchup, but then again it's a roll of the dice how we'll deal with their forwards (Butler, Jamison, Andray Blatche). Come on Nelson, play Brandan Wright! And cut the DJ Benga-my-head-on-the-table substitutions!</p>
Wee... Triple-Double by Davis, and we finally shot 3 pts well. 3-1 and first winning 5 games Eastern road trip in 20 years? Tomorrow game can be tough purely because this is 4th game in 5 days. At least, Philly played tonight, so I guess we should have a chance to win it...</p>
Good win by you guys. You kept running and running, the Wizards couldn't keep up. We shouldn't have let it turn into a no-defense track meet because once we do that, it's obvious that Don Nelson's team will win. I was at this game so everytime Stephen Jackson and Baron Davis would hit a three my heart would drop at the lack of defense when there were chants of "defense" going on. I didn't realize that Caron or Baron had a triple double until late in the 4th quarter. I'll put other observations in my game thread on the Wiz board.</p>
Good close game with lots of scoring. Andray Blatche is looking like a player.</p> How about Bdiddy with the triple double?</p>
Andray Blatche was awesome. Nice to see that asshole succeeding, finally. (He should've gone to college!!)</p>
Finally a win, but I was expecting more of a blowout from us. Without Arenas they could be one of the worst teams in the league, railing up the score in the end didn't make me completely satisfied. We hit so many threes and only won by 10. It should really say something.</p>
