Washington @ Atlanta -- 3/16/05

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<font color="navy">The Washington Wizards (34-27)</font> @ <font color="red">The Atlanta Hawks(11-52)</font>
Time: 7:30 PM Eastern
Place: Philips Arena
TV: CSN, NBALP</div>


<div align="center"><font size="5"><font color="navy">Wizards' Head Coach</font></font>

<font color="navy">Eddie Jordan</font></div>


<div align="center"><font size="5"><font color="navy">Wizards' Projected Starting Lineup</font></font>

<font color="navy">Gilbert Arenas- 25.4 ppg, 5.3 apg, 4.4 rpg
Larry Hughes- 21.8 ppg, 5.0 apg, 6.3 rpg
Jared Jeffries- 6.6 ppg, 1.9 apg, 4.9 rpg
Kwame Brown- 5.7 ppg, 1.0 apg, 5.1 rpg
Brendan Haywood- 9.6 ppg, .9 apg, 7.0 rpg
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<div align="center"><font size="5"><font color="red">Hawks' Head Coach</font></font>

<font color="red">Mike Woodson</font></div>

<div align="center"><font size="5"><font color="red">Hawks' Projected Starting Lineup</font></font>

<font color="red">Tyronn Lue- 10.4 ppg, 4.2 apg, 2 rpg
Josh Childress- 8.6 ppg, 1.6 apg, 5.6 rpg
Josh Smith- 7.8 ppg, 1.6 apg, 5.6 rpg
Al Harrington- 18 ppg, 3.3 apg, 7.2 rpg
Obinna Ekezie- 5.2 ppg, .3 apg, 4.1 rpg

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<div align="center"><font size="5"><font color="navy">Bench</font><font color="red"> Factors</font></font>

(<font color="navy">Steve Blake</font>,<font color="red">Tony Delk</font>)
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<div align="center"><font size="5"><font color="navy">Key</font><font color="red"> Matchup</font></font>

(<font color="navy">Kwame Brown</font>, <font color="red">Al Harrington</font>)
Projected Stats
<font color="navy">Kwame Brown: 18 points, 2 assists, 11 rebounds</font>
<font color="red">Al Harrington: 21 points, 3 assists, 9 rebounds</font></div>

<font size="5"><font color="navy">Keys</font> <font color="red">to</font> <font color="navy">the</font><font color="red"> Game</font></font>
<font color="navy">Washington:</font>
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[*]<font color="navy">Build on Win</font>- After slumping a little, Washington handed it to Los Angeles. Playing against the Hawks should be another easy win to build on and get some momentum back.
[*]<font color="navy">No Jamison</font>- He re-aggrivated his injury last game and will be out atleast a week, meaning Kwame Brown will see more PT. He said the other day that he (Kwame) wouldn't be healthy all year and needed a full offseason to heal, but this is no time for him to slouch and give up. We need his rebounding and scoring, I think he will have a good game.
[*]<font color="navy">Gilbert</font>- Our best player has been in a slump shooting the ball lately. He needs to break out of that, take smart shots. He hasn't done that lately and it has hurt the Wizards.
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<font color="red">Atlanta:</font>
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[*]<font color="red">Surprise</font>- Washington tends to take teams like Atlanta too lightly (last week @ the Bobcats). If ATL comes out and gets going early they can keep this game close and winnable, if they don't it could be a very long game.
[*]<font color="red">Don't Let Washington Run</font>-A lot of Washington's success this year has come from running, and lots of it. If ATL can stop Washington from fast breaking (making shots, limit turnovers), they can keep up with Washington.
[*]<font color="red">Force Arenas</font>- Make him force his decisions and rush his shots. Tyronn Lue is most famous for making AI struggle in the finals years back, so he knows what it takes to make a high scoring, offensive minded guard struggle.
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<font size="5"><font color="navy">Random </font><font color="red">Movie </font><font color="navy">Quote</font>*</font>
Uncle Ben: You know Peter. With great power. comes great responsibility.
*Idea taken from Supersonic

<font size="5"> <font color="red">Prediction</font></font>
I don't see Washington losing this one, ATL is a bad team. Washington wins 105-95.

 

Washington with the blowout win 122-93. Everyone was firing from all cylinders. Arenas had 29, Hughes with 23, Jeffries with 14, Kwame with 13. Steve Blake off of the bench with 17, and Etan Thomas off of the wood with 15.

More importantly, Arenas shot the ball very well tonight. 9-15 FG, 4-6 from 3, and 7-10 from the free throw line.

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> ATLANTA (Ticker) -- The Atlanta Hawks provided the remedy for another slumping team.

Gilbert Arenas led six players in double figures with 29 points and Steve Blake scored a season-high 17 off the bench as the Washington Wizards got back on track with a 122-93 rout of the Hawks, who suffered their league-worst 53rd loss.

With just four wins in their previous 12 games, the Wizards entered in search of their first winning streak since capturing four in a row from February 5-11. They got off to a good start in this one, scoring 10 of the game's first 12 points and maintaining a lead throughout the first quarter. </div>

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Kwame was 5-6, I don't know why they didn't look for him more. It also looks like he made Harrington struggle.