<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Antonio Daniels stood in the hallway outside the Washington Wizards' locker room at Verizon Center last May 8 and attempted to verbalize the disappointment he and his teammates felt about their first-round playoff series loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. "Losing three games in one playoff series by one point? Unbelievable," Daniels said three days after their season ended. Daniels quickly shifted focus to the future -- specifically the 2006-07 season, which tips off tonight for the Wizards and Cavaliers in Cleveland. "I just hope the front office keeps this group together and allows us to build on this," Daniels said. "We have something good going here. You just can't go out and rip your team apart every year and expect to have success in this league. It doesn't work that way." Coming off an up-and-down season during which the Wizards finished 42-40 and earned the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs, owner Abe Pollin and President of Basketball Operations Ernie Grunfeld took precisely that approach.</div> Link They certainly have the chemistry part down. DeShawn Stevenson was able to bond with the team easily and learn his role for this team, so I'm excited for him. From what I saw in that first pre-season game against the Raptors, they were able to force bad shots, create turnovers, and guard big men in the post, but with publications who still rank the Wizards pretty low, they're going to be wishing they haven't wrote it.
