Re: Arenas uncertain if he's able to play wednesday night. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Washington Times)</div><div class='quotemain'>Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas took one shot -- a short jumper -- at practice yesterday and was promptly ruled out of practice after the ball missed the rim by about a foot. "I took a 15-footer, and it wasn't even close," said Arenas, who suffered a shoulder injury in the first quarter of the Wizards' 119-102 loss to Milwaukee on Saturday. Arenas hurt his shoulder when he collided with Bucks forward Ruben Patterson. Last night Arenas, third in the NBA in scoring (30.3 ppg), was planning to test out his shoulder again at Verizon Center. He was uncertain how many shots he would get up but expressed that if it felt the way it had in the morning he would not be shooting for long. Asked whether he would be available tomorrow for the Wizards' rematch with the Bucks, Arenas said he was "75 percent" certain he would be able to play. "Hopefully it will feel better by then," Arenas said. "I've still got 48 hours to go before we play. Right now it's very painful." Arenas has yet to miss a game this season. If he isn't able to play, he will join a long list of injured players. Still out are Wizards big men Etan Thomas (ankle), Michael Ruffin (foot) and Darius Songaila (back). Center Brendan Haywood missed Saturday's game but said following the game he expected to play tomorrow.</div>I hope he's able to play tomorrow, but if it means missing tomorrow night's game so his shoulder won't get worse and miss more games in the future, then so be it. That'll be our fourth player on the injured list. Haywood's expected to pl ay tomorrow
Re: Arenas uncertain if he's able to play wednesday night. This is just ridiculous another superstar injured during this season?, My god the bucks on saturday were basically playing our bench. This is what are starting lineup should be. PG- Antonio Daniels SG- DeShawn Stevenson SF- Caron Butler PF- Antawn Jamison C- Brendan Haywood No Hibachi??!?!!??, okay this means that Caron/Jamison will have to step up for this win. Hopefully our fans will be giving us great support tommorow. I want this win, I don't want to lose the season series to the Bucks.
Re: Arenas uncertain if he's able to play wednesday night. we're capable of beating Bucks without Hibachi. OUr bench just needs to be productive.
Re: Arenas uncertain if he's able to play wednesday night. He has a shitload of time to get back and healthy for Wednesday's game against the Bucks. GA you're overreacting. Gil ususally plays through his injuries, and he just seems to recover from injuries quicker than most players. I really want the Wizards to win this game against the Bucks on our home floor, and I want Gil to play. He has to counter Redd's, Williams' offensive games.However, if Gil doesn't play. AD gets big minutes. He can definitely handle it.
Re: Arenas uncertain if he's able to play wednesday night. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Zards @ Jan 2 2007, 11:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He has a shitload of time to get back and healthy for Wednesday's game against the Bucks. GA you're overreacting. Gil ususally plays through his injuries, and he just seems to recover from injuries quicker than most players. I really want the Wizards to win this game against the Bucks on our home floor, and I want Gil to play. He has to counter Redd's, Williams' offensive games. However, if Gil doesn't play. AD gets big minutes. He can definitely handle it.</div> Plenty of time? The game is tommorow. Gil does play through his injuries often but I'd rather him sit out and get better quicker than stay in and slowly heal. Antonio Daniels last year was very capable of those minutes, I'm not sure about this year however. The problem is if Gil is out our backup PG will be Donnel Taylor.
Re: Arenas uncertain if he's able to play wednesday night. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GArenas @ Jan 2 2007, 02:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Plenty of time? The game is tommorow. Gil does play through his injuries often but I'd rather him sit out and get better quicker than stay in and slowly heal. Antonio Daniels last year was very capable of those minutes, I'm not sure about this year however. The problem is if Gil is out our backup PG will be Donnel Taylor.</div>Hold your horses here, buddy. First off, Daniels hasn't been performing that badly this year to have Taylor starting ahead of him.. even guys like Mason Jr. and Blatche have been outperforming him this year. Daniels racked up 8 pts and 6 asts last game. Taylor usually doesn't even play in games, anymore. Remember, this is what we were saying the beginning of last year, but Daniels turned on the engine later in the season. He can definitely handle big minutes. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Plenty of time? The game is tommorow.</div>For that serious of an injury, I'm sure 24 hours is plenty of time for a minor shoulder injury. He's just got to rest 3-4 hours before the game, and take it a little easy during shootaround.
Re: Arenas uncertain if he's able to play wednesday night. I'm not saying Taylor will start, I'm saying he'll be getting good minutes however due to the lack of depth we'll be going into this game with. Of course Daniels will start.
