"Keep sleeping on us" The Official Wizards vs. Pacers Round 2 Thread

[humble Hermit]

Wizards in 7

 

[baltimore]

wizards dont match up nearly as well with pacers but still got wizards in 6 at most.. still got the more complete team and john wall still the best player in the series

 

[Mr swag]

Wizards in 6.

Hibbert not playing in the 4th will hurt them. I think he is hurt also by the way

 

[No..Money..Mo..Problems]

nene will have hibbert in foul trouble all series, if ariza can lock up george we got this. and hopefully nene doesn't get suspended for smacking lance

And why would you wanna have Hibbert in foul trouble? When Hibbert is in the game the Pacers are trash and they've been trash for the past 2 months and Hibbert isn't gonna turn on a switch and be decent again he is done. If I'm the Wizards I want Hibbert on the floor at all times.

 

[No..Money..Mo..Problems]

wizards dont match up nearly as well with pacers but still got wizards in 6 at most.. still got the more complete team and john wall still the best player in the series

This isn't the same Pacers team from earlier in the season everybody and I mean everybody has been getting the better of them since February so it's not just the Hawks. As long as the Wizards move the ball and play competent defense they will win in 5 or 6 games. Indy's offense makes the Bulls offense look like the Harlem Globetrotters. Pacers can't score and unlike the Bulls they are mentally weak and break down easily. Wiz kids in 5 maybe 6 games.

 

[Danie84]

I can't wait for Nene to capoeira Herbbert

...and John to run the rest of the fukkbois into a Wall

 

[Snitchin Splatter]

This isn't the same Pacers team from earlier in the season everybody and I mean everybody has been getting the better of them since February so it's not just the Hawks. As long as the Wizards move the ball and play competent defense they will win in 5 or 6 games. Indy's offense makes the Bulls offense look like the Harlem Globetrotters. Pacers can't score and unlike the Bulls they are mentally weak and break down easily. Wiz kids in 5 maybe 6 games.

The pacers are back. Yall in for the same type of losses the wizard took in the regular season. And we have a new proven small lineup. Wizards just don't match up well hawks were a much worst one

 

[Recca Gatsby]

Bullets in 6. John Wall gonna destroy George Hill. Atleast until paul George switches onto him.

 

[No..Money..Mo..Problems]

The pacers are back. Yall in for the same type of losses the wizard took in the regular season. And we have a new proven small lineup. Wizards just don't match up well hawks were a much worst one

Pacers been bad for months breh matchups won't save them. I gamble on NBA games for a living and the Pacers have been a non playoff team for the past 2 and a half months. I've watched nearly all there games and it's not something they can fix over night. To be honest I don't even know how they started so hot and gotten to the point where they are now everything about them looks like a train wreck. George Hill has always been shaky and fragile but now he's totally given up and lost all his confidence every time he shoots I assume he's going to miss. Roy Hibbert was a by product of the Miami-Indy hype and the fact is he's never been a good center he was just an average center who had good games against the Heat who didn't have a center to guard him. The Pacers thrived because nobody expected much from them the past couple of years and the East was garbage. Now they are expected to get to the conference finals if not the Finals and Paul George is expected to be a superstar night in and night out. Paul George is not a superstar and the Pacers are not a championship level team and Frank Vogel is not the genius people thought he was. You can only front for so long before you get exposed and the Pacers have been exposed. Let me put it this way if the Pacers beat the Wizards this series I will take a permanent ban. Hawks had a decent lead in every single game that's not a fluke the Pacers are just a bad to average team at this point and the Wizards will not play around like the Hawks who were just happy to be there did.

 

[mastermind]

wizards dont match up nearly as well with pacers but still got wizards in 6 at most.. still got the more complete team and john wall still the best player in the series

we actually do match up well.

We had incompetent coaching against them in the season.

 

[Snitchin Splatter]

Pacers been bad for months breh matchups won't save them. I gamble on NBA games for a living and the Pacers have been a non playoff team for the past 2 and a half months. I've watched nearly all there games and it's not something they can fix over night. To be honest I don't even know how they started so hot and gotten to the point where they are now everything about them looks like a train wreck. George Hill has always been shaky and fragile but now he's totally given up and lost all his confidence every time he shoots I assume he's going to miss. Roy Hibbert was a by product of the Miami-Indy hype and the fact is he's never been a good center he was just an average center who had good games against the Heat who didn't have a center to guard him. The Pacers thrived because nobody expected much from them the past couple of years and the East was garbage. Now they are expected to get to the conference finals if not the Finals and Paul George is expected to be a superstar night in and night out. Paul George is not a superstar and the Pacers are not a championship level team and Frank Vogel is not the genius people thought he was. You can only front for so long before you get exposed and the Pacers have been exposed. Let me put it this way if the Pacers beat the Wizards this series I will take a permanent ban. Hawks had a decent lead in every single game that's not a fluke the Pacers are just a bad to average team at this point and the Wizards will not play around like the Hawks who were just happy to be there did.

ever heard of paragraphs

pacers been the best team in the east all season which is why they're the #1 seed. The Wizards simply can't put out a lineup of 5 3 point chuckers which is the only thing that gave the pacers issues with atlanta

Wiz just don't match up. Teague as a scorer offered more problems than wall will. David west is gonna beast whoever is on him and so will the best player in the eastern conference playoffs so far paul george

 

[FAH1223]

Wiz matchup very well. I don't see the mismatches everyone is talking about.

 

[Black]

 

[baltimore]

we actually do match up well.

We had incompetent coaching against them in the season.

i mean as well as we did with noah and the bulls tho.. even then i looking at this as another 5 game wiz series..

george paul aint averaging 30 on ariza and wiz team defense way better..

lol @ teague being more of a problem breaking down their defense than wall.. we'll see about that one

 

[FAH1223]

By the numbers, the Wizards are in trouble against the Indiana Pacers. Not that Washington feels that way heading into Monday's second round series opener in Indianapolis.

"We’re really confident," center Marcin Gortat said following Sunday's practice at the Verizon Center, the team's first since officially learning the identity of their next foe.

Gortat maintained the glass-half full approach even with the reality that Indiana held Washington to its two lowest scoring games of the season. The Wizards lost 93-73 on Nov. 29 and 93-66 on Jan. 10. Both of those games were in Indianapolis, where the first two games of the series play out. In the final regular season meeting, Washington triumphed 91-78 at the Verizon Center.

“We had two actually pretty good games over there that we lost," Gortat said of the road losses. "We played hard for 48 minutes, but we just couldn’t make a shot. Later on we had a third game at home and we took care of the home game.”

The advanced stats back up Gortat's claim. In the first meeting, Washington shot 10 of 40 on uncontested field goal attempts, which NBA.com's Sports VU technology deems as when a shooter does not a have a defender within four feet.

Drilling down further, Trevor Ariza and John Wall each went 3 for 10 in such shooting scenarios, Gortat and Martell Webster 1 of 4. Bradley Beal did not play due to an injury and ex-Wizard Jan Vesely started.


Speaking of individual numbers, Wall shot only 34 percent in three games versus Indiana. That represents his worst clip against any Eastern Conference team. The point guard also averaged 13.7 points, nearly six below his regular season average.

Therefore, a question was put to head coach Randy Wittman about Wall's production versus the Pacers. More specifically, what does he need to do for a turnaround?

“What does he need to do to turn that around?" the coach incredulously barked back. "He just needs to play. There is nothing he has to do. Hey, you’re going to have ups and downs this season. What did we play them, 25 times this year? No, we played them three times. He’s had three games. We won one of them."

The Wizards downed the Bulls 4-1 in large part to Wall staying calm and cool despite the intensity going up several notches. He found open teammates with the pass and took the shots as needed. Wall scored a team-high 24 points in the series clincher against the Bulls last Tuesday.

"He’s got to continue to be who he is, control tempo of the game, understand and control what we do from an offensive standpoint. Listen, guys, there is no magical wand here. ... John doesn’t need to do anything differently. I think John is playing extremely well right now and that’s all he need to worry about.”

Certainly don't worry about the numbers - or the past against Indiana even if that includes no road wins since 2007.

"The first thing we said after we came back from the locker room is that this team is definitely beatable, " said Gortat about postgame thoughts following one of the earlier losses at Indiana. "We just didn't make shots. We played awful. Missed early layups, too many turnovers. We played too wild.

"It was early in the year. Now we're definitely a better team. We have different mentality. I'm sure we're going to come ready to play. I'm sure it's going to be a totally different team."

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