<div align="center">@ <font color="Navy">The Washington Wizards (20-45)</font>@<font color="Orange">The New York Knicks (30-37)</font> Time: 7:30 Eastern Place: Madison Square Garden TV: Local</div> Season Series NY leads 2-0 All-time Series Wizards lead 143-102 Starting Lineups Gilbert Arenas/Stephon Marbury Juan Dixon/Allan Houston Jerry Stackhouse/Tim Thomas Kwame Brown/Kurt Thomas Brendan Haywood/Nazr Mohammed Sixth Men Etan Thomas/Penny Hardaway Injury Report <u>Washington-</u> <ul>[*]Chris Whitney [*]Larry Hughes [*]Jarvis Hayes(questionable)[/list] <u>New York-</u> <ul>[*]Dikembe Mutombo [*]Cezary Trybanski [*]Frank Williams[/list] <div align="center">Battle of the Point Arenas: 20.5 points per game, 5.2 assists per game, and 5.1 rebounds per game Marbury: 21 points per game, 8.9 assists per game, and 3.3 rebounds per game</div> Keys to the Game <u>Washington-</u> Feed the post Transition D Smart Shots Play team ball, this is not a one man show <u>New York-</u> Isolate Allan Houston on Juan Dixon Run! Run! Run! Grab offensive boards Look for the open man on the perimeter, Washington is horrible at guarding that Prediction Washington lost up in NY about a week ago, I do not see their fortunes changing, NY by 8+
I say NY by 11, I don't know if Washington can really do anything to stop them. Stack just don't hog too much, and if Washington can keep the t.o's down I'll be amazed. 32-29 NY right now
Wow, we played much better than I expected but NY just kept pushing back. The Biggest mistake of the game: Arenas and Stack taking and missing quick jumpers at the 2:01, and 1:52 mark, if they had used more clock the Knicks wouldn't have had those 7 seconds in the end of the game to tie. OT was forced by a tip in from Nazr whose man Ethan Thomas converted on Marbury when he didn't need to, and allowed Nazr to get the offensive board. Arenas had 9 turnovers , and fouled out in OT, but he scored 27 points (8-21), had 6 rebounds, and 8 assists. Kwame had 21 quiet points (8-13) for the Wiz, and pulled down 6 rebounds. Stack had a good day today coming off the bench, and scored 23 points (8-17), grabbing 4 boards and dishing out 7 assists. He was also turnover prone, and turned the ball over 6 times. This was a game Washington should have won and with smarter decisions down the stretch, would have won. Ethan Thomas recorded a double double with 15 points (5-8) and 10 boards, and also had 1 block. 5 players fouled out in this game including Arenas, Jefferies, Nazr, Anderson and Baker. Stephon Marbury was of today but hit 2 big shots for the Knicks in the closing minutes. He missed a pair of clutch free throws though, but the Knicks were abloe to sustain for the win. Marbury finished with 16 points (6-17), 6 rebounds and 14 assists. Tim Thomas was the big man for the Knicks scoring 32 points (11-23) and pulling down 5 rebounds. He also Ice'd the game wmaking 6-6 from the line. Shandon Anderson had 17 points (8-15), Nazr had 14 points (7-10) and 7 boards (6 offensive), and Kurt Thomas was one rebound shy of a double double scoring 11 points (5-11) and pulling down 9 boards. In OT Marbury had a thing going with Kurt Thomas and the 9 foot baseline jumper, and exploited the Wiz with the drive and dish to KT. After than Marbury hit 2 jumpers, and the rest was Tim Thomas. Steve Blake hit a nice three before the end but it was too little too late, and the Wizards dropped this one 114-110. Box Score Recap
