Washington @ San Antonio - 1/17/05

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Time: 5:00 PM Eastern
Place: SBC Center
TV: Local

<font size="5">Team Records</font>
<font color="navy">Washington: 22-13</font>
<font color="silver">San Antonio: 30-9</font></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></div></font>
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<font color="navy">(Gilbert Arenas, Jarvis Hayes, Jared Jeffries, Antawn Jamison, Brendan Haywood) </font></div>

<div align="center"><font size="5"><font color="silver">Spurs Head Coach</font></font>

<font color="silver">Greg Popovich</font></div>

<div align="center"><font size="5"><font color="silver">Spur's Projected Starting Lineup</font></font>

<font color="silver">(Tony Parker, Brent Barry, Bruce Bowen, Tim Duncan, Rasho Nesterovic)
*Manu Ginobili is questionable</font>
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<div align="center"><font size="5">Bench Factors</font>

(<font color="navy">Jaun Dixon</font>,<font color="silver">Devin Brown</font>)
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<div align="center"><font size="5">Key Players</font>

(<font color="navy">Gilbert Arenas</font>, <font color="silver">Tim Duncan</font>)
<font color="navy">Gilbert Arenas:</font> 23.2 ppg, 5.0 apg, and 4.2 rpg
<font color="silver">Tim Duncan:</font>21.9 ppg, 2.5 apg, and 11.7 rpg</div>

<font size="5">Keys to the Game</font>
<font color="navy">Washington:</font>
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[*]Where Will the D Come From?- With Larry Hughes, the Wizard's best defender, being out for 4-6 weeks, guard Gilbert Arenas needs to step up huge on defense, especially because that word is not in Jarvis Hayes' vocabulary.
[*]Step Up- Jarvis Hayes and Jaun Dixon will more than likely split Larry's minutes. Dixon has been on a roll lately, unfortunately...Jarvis has not. Dixon needs to continue to keep his game on and Jarvis needs to find away to get his started.
[*]Arenas- Arenas will now do all of the ball-handling, he needs to step up and be the leader and triple-double machine he was last year. He will be running everything and needs to watch out for turnovers.
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<font color="silver">San Antonio:</font>
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[*]Duncan- Going against one of the worst defenders in the league, need I say more?
[*]Take Advantage of Hughes Being Out- Brent Barry, or Manu if he plays, should be able to have their way with Juan Dixon, who is very small, and also Jarvis Hayes, who as stated earlier, doesn't carry the word Defense in his vocabulary.
[*]Don't Sleep- This is a new Wizard's team, a team on the brink of becoming an elite team, do not sleep on them. They can surprise you, this could be an easy win for San Antonio or a dog fight...they will choose which one with their defensive play.
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<font size="5"> Prediction</font>
Without Larry Hughes, the Wizards will be exposed on defense, I am taking San Antonio in this one to end Washington's 7 game win streak...101-93.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting hpman247:</div><div class="quote_post">101-93 I wish K8B. This game was TERRIBLE. Lost by almost 30. If this is what its gonna be like w/o LH then I feel sorry for the Wiz.</div>

Suprisingly, I am not even dissapointed by this loss, the Spurs have been dominating teams as of late, and without one of our playmakers...no surprise. The Spurs have just been playing amazing ball lately, all we can do is take this L and move on...22-14...lets hope that we can get some wins without Hughes though.