Stunning
Now that was a crazy win. The Wiz erased a 20-point deficit and beat the Bulls 97-91 tonight thanks to a 22-1 third quarter run and a fortunate bounce that allowed Antawn Jamison to make a crucial three-point play with 27 seconds remaining. Wow.
But here's the really funny part about covering this team: while we were interviewing Coach Eddie Jordan just outside of the Wiz lockeroom after the game, we could hear loud shouting and cheering coming from the Wiz locker room. "Wow," I thought. "These guys are really fired up. What an inspiring win." Not exactly.
When we walked in, most of the players were crowded around a television repeatedly watching a replay of the dunk Andres Nocioni threw down over Wiz rookie Oleksiy Pecherov in the third quarter (if you didn't see it, watch sports center. I mean, wow. Nocioni crushed him the way Tom Chambers did Mark Jackson. The world hasn't seen white on white crime like that since the civil war).
You guys may not have seen this because it was on a local broadcast, but not long after the dunk, the TV crew here threw up a freeze-frame shot of the dunk with the face of Stewie from Family Guy superimposed over Pecherov's head. Nocioni was swinging over Pesh/Stewie with his arm in the rim. Unreal. When that came on, the entire locker room lost it.
Pesh took it all stride. "I don't mind zo much," he said. "It happens you know? Darius Songaila was getting dressed next to Pesh and just shook his head and offered some veteran advice. "You are my brother but, you have to foul in that situation. You can't let that happen."
So funny. It's going to kill Steinberg that he wasn't here to witness it. Anyway, classic win for the Wiz and a brutal, brutal loss for the Bulls. Maybe a season killer.
FYI: Jordan said Songaila would continue to start for Andray Blatche in coming games. Blatche handled the move well tonight and finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds.
By Ivan Carter |
February 29, 2008; 11:59 PM ET
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Posted by: Rob P | March 1, 2008 01:26 AM
Is he a great shooter historiclly? No (although on the season, Kidd shoots about 36% from three, which is pretty good), but (A) that's not really news, the Mavs knew that when they traded for him and (B) doesn't matter how good a shooter a guy is if he can't get a shot off, and neither Terry nor Nowitzki could. You don't put Kidd in to make a shot (although he's taken and hit a sh*tload of big shots in the clutch), you put him in to create a shot, which is why they got him in the first place. If they don't have confidence in his ability to do it (esp. in a midseason game against a division rival), then how much confidence will they have in him in a similar situation in the playoffs?
Posted by: kalorama | March 1, 2008 01:32 AM
Ooops ... posted that one in the wrong thread. Move on, nothing more to see here.
Posted by: kalorama | March 1, 2008 01:35 AM
Anyone who was watching at Chicago - why was Deshawn given two technicals? What did he say? Can't be just complaints?
Posted by: rgz | March 1, 2008 03:42 AM
"Anyone who was watching at Chicago - why was Deshawn given two technicals? What did he say? Can't be just complaints?
Posted by: rgz | March 1, 2008 03:42 AM "
He told the refs that they'd bettah recognize that he's a true warrior, a true pro, a man....unlike them. He deserves MJ type foul calls. To go ask their wives, check the dictionary, or ask anyone what a real man is.
The refs then told DS to go take his true warrior, true pro, and man ass into the locker room.
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"He's had some ailments but he just comes out every day," Jordan said of Stevenson, who has been playing on a sore knee but has started 223 consecutive games. "He's a warrior, man, a true warrior. His confidence is growing -- he's making threes -- he's just a true pro. This is a man's league and he is man. In the dictionary next to that word there is a picture of DeShawn Stevenson."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/25/AR2008022503221.htm
Posted by: DC Man88 | March 1, 2008 08:44 AM
DCMan you make me chuckle...
Posted by: oddjob | March 1, 2008 01:00 PM
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Ivan, I was watching from Minneapolis as usual on the NBA package and the Bull's broadcasters were calling Pech Stewie all night. Then that dunk happened and they superimposed the cartoon face on that dunk and it was hilarious! Poor guy!