Pacers Fans Bored To Sleep By Wizards Basketball

Indiana lead from the first basket Thursday night and really had no trouble rolling over the Wizards 89-81 for their ninth straight win.  Randy Wittman looks like his soul is now gone, commenting about not having enough timeouts to fix all the problems.

"I'm gonna call [David] Stern tomorrow and see if maybe I can buy some, I'd pay a lot for a couple more extra timeouts" - Wittman

Paul George lead the Pacers with 29 points he also snagged 14 rebounds. George added his name to a long list of players that have feasted on Washington's lackluster defense.

The Wizards fought back from another defecit, this one 17 points.  They even trailed by just two in the fourth, proof that effort is not the problem with this team. Having a lack of talent on the other hand, is a clear disadvantage.

Here are three Bros in the crowd that aren't into the Wiz talent.  As you can tell they are more than thrilled to be watching their Pacers play the bottom-feeding #Wizards.

Jordan Crawford once again lead Washington in scoring with 20. Crawford has come off the bench in the last two games but it's clear for this Wizards team to win, they need as much Jordan Crawford as possible, he's the only consistent scorer on the team. (He also shot this airball)

The Eastern Conference rookie of the month, Bradley Beal had 14. And yes he did win that award, we are currently checking the archives to see if there is in fact, another rookie in the Eastern Conference.

Chris Singleton saw action tonight after not playing a minute in the previous three games. He had just four points. Combining that with Jan Vesely's zero points that means the 2011 first round picks for the Wizards had a whopping four points in just 19 minutes of play.

Other than Crawford, Nene is the only other player Wizards fans can rely on night in and night out. Nene had 15 points and six rebounds for a Wizards team that desperately needs more help in the post.

Andray Blatche returns to Verizon on Friday...

Jordan Crawford Does The Most Jordan Crawford Thing Ever

Here is Jordan Crawford shooting a wacky airball on an 8 foot "shot", catching the ball in the air, and scoring the basket on the self-alleyoop in Wednesday night's game against the Indiana Pacers.  You have to watch it below.  It was the most Jordan Crawford play ever.  Mostly because it was an airball travelling and didn't count.  Pure Steez.

Steve Buckhantz has a wonderful reaction to the play.

Steve Buckhantz:  "If anyone is allowed to do that it is Jordan Crawford"

Phil Chenier (actually puzzled): "Why is that"

Steve Buckhantz: "Because he is a circus player and he made another circus shot"

Later in the game, Buck repeated that the refs "took away a basket" from Crawford...lol.

Here is a GIF of the play:

Pacer Misses Dunk Badly, Crashes To Floor

Here is, shockingly, not the Washington Wizards missing a dunk attempt and falling on the ground!  It is Lance Stephenson of the Indiana Pacers, and he may have been pushed a bit.  He gets rejected by the rim and almost hurts himself:  GIF:

John Wall: Opposite of Clutch

The Washington Wizards kept it close with the Indiana Pacers, but John Wall once again disappeared in crunch time and the Pacers took home the win 93-89.  Wall had an offensive foul, a missed elbow jumper, and a terrible backcourt violation, all on key possessions in the final 5 minutes of a 2 point game.

Wall recently couldn't get the game tying shot off against the Pacers, then bricked a terrible game tying 3 pointer against the Hawks, then couldn't sink a game tying shot against the Pistons.  Wall is not a clutch player, and at this point in his career is not the guy you want with the ball in his hand.  I want to jump off a bridge saying this, but it has to be Jordan Crawford.

The Wizards blew another second half lead, this time only 8 points, and lost their 5th straight game, 4 out of 5 were close.

John Wall was mediocre as usual, Jordan Crawford led the scoring with lots of terrible shots, and Nene played the way he does every other game with a double double.

NOBODY was at the Pacers game.  Their record?  30-20.  Man Verizon would be so packed with that record...

Buckhantz Quote of the game:  "You know this is going up...Jordan Crawford…no he lays it off!”

Wizards Collapse & Get A Typical Result

The Washington Wizards led by 20 at the half and were making the Indiana Pacers look like the Washington Wizards, but a typical Wizards 4th quarter collapse, specifically an 8-0 run for the Pacers in the final two minutes, caused the Wizards to fall short and pick up another loss.

The Wizards had a chance to overcome the Indiana push and at least tie the game with 8 seconds left, but John Wall dribbled the ball for 1 second too long and as his running jumper left his hands to tie the game, the buzzer had already sounded less than a second before.

Jordan Crawford led the team with 21 points and his two different fade away 30 foot airball jumpers with the shot clock expiring were a thing of beauty, if you are into that Wizards style sadomasochism.

John Wall is making more of his elbow jumpers but they are few and far between and typically they are not a product of the offense, they are a product of defenders playing 5 feet off of him.  Because Shelvin Mack played terribly last night, Wall had to play 40 minutes, despite the Wizards leading for about 47 minutes.

As expected, NeNe calmed down a bit, Seraphin contributed efficiently once again, and Jan Vesely wacked and hacked.  Singleton ended up with a nice scoring night putting in 16 points.

I don't even have much to say about the Pacers because they played terrible.  The reason they won is because the Wizards played atrocious 2nd half basketball, and the poor play of Indiana wasn't poor enough to lose.

Next up Saturday at home vs the Hawks...