D.C.'S FINEST - 2011- ATLANTA VS WASHINGTON GAME ONE

testing some stuff... will be playing game 4 probably tonight.

Very tough loss, but Westbrook went off.
Good luck the rest of the way .

John Wall cutout FTW

Very tough loss, but Westbrook went off.
Good luck the rest of the way .

John Wall cutout FTW

haha yeah my awesome gimp skills!!!! (sarcasm i suck lol)

i was watching the alabma lsu game so i'm doing the game tommorow night since my steelers play monday.

i hate the loss, the dude was unmarked made me cry, in the last second as well LOL

LSU baby, screw Auburn

haha yeah goodbye national championship hopes!!!!!!!!!!

if anyone can help on my shoe help please viewtopic.php?f=135&t=76493

The Washington Wizards announced this afternoon that they had signed small forward free-agent Cartier Martin to a 2 year deal worth $2.12 million, with an option of 10% back.

"I'm very pleased to announce my signing with the Wizards," said Martin at the press release. "They're a good team, they're currently in the Finals, it's a great city, good fans, there's some good players in the organization, it's a dream match." The Wizards expressed interest in Seung-Jin Ha and Jamaal Sampson, but with Cartier Martin filling up the last spot, they passed on the two latters. "Were pleased to get the ink done, he's good a good day and a half with us before we see him in game four against the Oklahoma City Thunder," said coach Flip Saunders.

The Wizards currently trail the Thunder 2-1 in the NBA Finals, each game has gone down to the last bucket and literally milliseconds. Martin played collegiately for the Kansas State Jayhawks and was undrafted in the 2007 NBA draft before playing overseas for sometime with Turkish team, Antalya Büyükşehir Belediyesi and an Italian team, Benetton Treviso before returning to play for the Charlotte Bobcats. This season he remained as a free-agent.

Washington face Oklahoma in tommorow's night blockbuster matchup in Game four of the 2011 NBA Finals.

what a game it was, ill be putting the recap up tonight

Thud -- just like that -- the Oklahoma City Thunder hit a Wall tonight, and it wasn't any ordinary Wall -- It was John Wall.

John Wall shot 13 of his 22 field goals, chipped in 11 assists, 4 steals and Keyon Dooling hit 3 of his 5 three pointers as the Washington Wizards tied up the series 2-2 apiece with a 113-104 victory just a couple of hours ago.



"We just stuck together," said Wall who recorded 26 points. "Coming into a hostile environment, it was going to be hard, but we got it done, we blew a 16 point lead, but we re-grouped and we managed to just do our thing."

"Yeah it's a little dissapointing," said Jeff Green who shot just 8 of 22 on field goals. "It wasn't the greatest of performences, we have a lot to improve on, hopefully we win the next game and go back to their court with a 3-2 advantage."

Green wasn't the only off-form player, Russell Westbrook went 9 of 19 on field goals, turned the ball over 8 times, recorded just 2 steals but managed to record 12 assists and 10 rebounds.

"It's hard when Wall comes at you," said Westbrook. "He's easily the fastest guy in the NBA, without a doubt." said the point guard who has been schooled so far this series by John Wall. In response to how fast John Wall just is he replies: "Twice as fast as Kevin [Durant]."

"Oh, yeah... He's a very good player," said Durant who respects Walls game, and vise versa. "Going up against probably the best player in the NBA, it's hard," said Wall, who has predominantly defended Westbrook the majority of the time he is off the bench.

Wizards coach called it nothing short of spectacular when the two collide. "It's like seeing a Peyton Manning-Tom Brady matchup, man it's just exciting to watch, the scary thing is they're very young players, especially Wall, this could blossom into a very nice rivalry."

The Wizards offense converted 53 of their 110 field goals, went 0 of 5 on their free throws whilst the Thunder went 43 of 98 on field goals and 12 of 14 on field goals, so how did the Thunder lose, when they had slighlty better scoring statistics.

"It's a hard game to play," said Durant. "For a long period of time we didn't get anything going, if we had stopped their 16 point deficit and didn't even allow them to get that much, perhaps we might of won, but we have to go look back on tape and do our thing."

Great win man. Kill them in Washington D.C. now!

Theres still one more game in oklahoma, then i go to d.c. for 6 & 7

My bad. Thought 1-1-1.

My bad. Thought 1-1-1.

i should of explained better

The NBA announced today that the 2011 NBA Finals Eastern Conference participant Washington Wizards will play their first two games in the city of London, United Kingdom to start off the 2012 season, it's not known yet if it will be the first game of the season, or just the first for the Wizards and one other team that has not been identified yet.

The Wizards have never tipped-off in another country, and for soon to be one year pro John Wall, it's something new. "It's definitley exciting, there's a lot of sight-seeing, some historic places, we play in the capital of the States, their culture is not that much different, now we get to play in their capital so it's a nice change, definitley we can attract new fans to the game."

The NBA will try to follow something what the NFL did recently until the Collective Bargaining Agreement expired, for four straight seasons the NFL hosted a regular season game in London, the Commissioner of the NBA, want's more than just an opening day visit.

"Were ruling out future teams, Final game appearences, an all-star game could be good, but it really depends on how this goes next October/November, it's still June now." said David Stern, the NBA Commissioner.

watch the game four highlights here ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLZaqyqv-EM

I'm thinking of a new recap layout, any suggestions would be good LOL

2011 NBA FINALS GAME FOUR HIGHLIGHTS - WASHINGTON WIZARDS at OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLZaqyqv-EM

The Washington Wizards are busy prepping for their highly anticipating return to the Thunderdome for game five of the 2011 NBA Finals. The Wizards took the first game of the series before losing two straight typing up the last game. The Wizards were suppose to be one of those 5-24 teams at the start of the year but with the legendary play of rookie phenomenon John Wall, the Wizards entered the playoffs with a 21-8 record and the second seed in the Eastern Conference.

If there is one part of the Wizards' play that is negative, it's their free throwing, it's been terrible this season, one of the worst in the regular season and by far the worst in the post-season. So as John Wall does, he and a few other players come into the arena 3 hours prior practise starts and improves his game. Wall, by no surprise won rookie of the year and was the front runner for the leagues MVP until the Wizards had a lot of bye week's and games from February onwards. Wall this morning took 200 free throws and netted 90%.

"It's not surprising he's in here as early as 6:30am practising," coach said of John Wall. "Sometimes I just walk up to him, joke around if he get's any sleep and if he's doing somethings he's not suppose to be doing, he's got a very strong work ethnic, it's no surprise he's our MVP, I can already claim he's the best baller in the biz, but go ahead and make some media circus around my comments, because I know Wall will back it up."

With Al Thornton still nursing his injury he suffered in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Chicago Bulls, players such as Keyon Dooling and Kevin Seraphin have been stepping their game up in his absence. Wizards coach Flip Saunders told local media this morning whilst leaving the arena for a break that this is "One of the best practises he's had since becoming the head coach."

Other Wizards observations:

• The Wizards are happy that they will tip-off internationally in the city of London, team owner Ted Leonsis told the British media "It's going to be exciting, we want our fanbase to expand more globally."

• The Wizards will wear their Chicago Zephyrs throwback uniforms for Game 6 of the 2011 NBA Finals, they will change back to their usual uniforms if game seven is necessary.

• The Wizards front office has said nothing but great things about the recent aquisition of shooting forward Cartier Martin, he played sparsely in game 4, but will continue to get more minutes if he continues to play well.

• The Wizards attendence throughout the regular season was on average 20,312 capacity, the playoff games average have been 21,034, an increase of 3.5%, and up 4.2% from the previous seasons average attendence.

im just waiting for this new cyberface then i do game 567

Tositos™ takes a look at the keys to winning game five of the 2011 NBA Finals between the Washington Wizards and Oklahoma City Thunder.


•The first three games of the the series were so close it could of been anybody's win, infact if either team had shot one or two more basket's they could be 3-0 up in the series, Washington in game four had Oklahoma's number from the start and looked like the far better side, if they win this game and take a 3-2 series lead, they then have 2 games back on their court to wrap the title up, the Wizards will need to hustle just as much as they did in the previous game.

•Everybody knows that John Wall is the reason why the Wizards are where they are today. Wall has played like a veteran all season long and has looked like an ever better player in the playoffs, he's already schooled Derrick Rose in the Eastern Conference Finals, now's a chance to win the championship that he has long wanted since wanting to be a professional basketball player, the Thunder have a hard time trying to eliminate the advantages of Wall being on the court, if the Wizards can gameplan and execute properly the Thunder might be in for another John Wall showing.

•Josh Howard is one of those underrated players, he hasn't really been considered as one of the reasons why the Wizards are in the Finals, he's made some nice three pointers and has looked great in this Finals, Howard is one of those guys that let's his play do the talking. Howard needs to have a big game tonight if the Wizards want to take control of the series again. Look for John Wall to be feeding Howard with three pointers and also look for Howard assisting Andray Blatche.



•After winning two straight games they played a pretty poor game in game four, it's their last home game of the finals and will need to come out with the win if they want any chance to win the Finals, nobody want's to go back to the team's home court for games 6 and 7 down in the series, it's a recipe for disaster and the Thunder have the talent to win, they have already beaten Washington in D.C. but will preferably want to end the series in 6 games not 7.

•I was speaking to the Thunder's coach last night, he kept telling me that it's absolutely critical that the Thunder defend well and not allow John Wall to have the type of game he want's, the Thunder can't be allowed to slouch as they did the previous game and although they are favorites to win the game tonight to take the series lead again, it's any given game and there is no such thing as an already booked win. Look for the Thunder to double team John Wall all night and limit the points in the paint which has been a huge problem in the Finals this month.

•If the Thunder will want to win, Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant are their go-to-players to get the critical points, Westbrook hasn't had his best games the past two matchups against the Wizards and neither has Durant, however they are still dangerous basketball players and will keep on ballin' even if the team is down by 20 or 30-so points, the Thunder will need to counter-attack the Wizards gameplan it should be easy and is vital since the Thunder has the better roster.

•Tostitos Prediction: Thunder win, 113-102

You can't lose this Finals man!

You can't lose this Finals man!

i wont man!!! well hopefully not lol. Im wearing the golden alternates to see if i can get some luck going.

OKLAHOMA ― For a team that took the lead for just the first time in the game with 7:21 left in the second quarter did quite well not to relinquish the lead again for the entire game.

Behind Kevin Durant's 31 points, Russell Westrbook's 19 assists and Nenad Krstic's 15 rebounds, the Oklahoma City disposed the Washington Wizards, 136-124 in game four of the 2011 NBA finals at the Thunderdome Thursday night to give the Oklahoma City Thunder a 3-2 series lead.



Despite having 48 fewer shots, the Oklahoma City Thunder were far more accurate converting 54% and 45% of their field-goals and three-pointers, the Wizards had one of their most inaccurate performences of the season converting just 42% of their field-goals and 35% of their three-pointers.

"We didn't play too well tonight," said a rejected John Wall who was fouled out of the game with four minutes left to play, Wall recorded 28 points, 12 assists and 7 steals. Wall was held to just five points in the second half but isn't about to make excuses.

"Look we as a team played bad, I didn't play well enough, I could of done a lot better, they shut me down we were'nt able to shut down them, now we have just two opportunities left to get it right, they're a very good team and it's going to be pretty hard."

Even though Russell Westbrook turned the ball over a season high 14 times, the Wizards were not able to take advantage as Josh Howard hit 14 of 30 and Wall 11 of 24, not good numbers, especially for two players, one who's already a superstar and is considered one of the best in the league.

"We obviously didn't gameplan effectively enough for the win, we were beat good by them tonight and now we're going to have to work a lot harder for the win in the next game, the only advantage we have left now is that we have just home games remaining," Washington Wizards head coach Flip Saunders said.

"No Idea what went wrong," said Josh Howard who scored a team high 35 points and played also for a team high 37 minutes, their star player John Wall played for 27 minutes. That effected the Wizards more than they would of thought, Durant, Westbrook and Harden played 35, 36 and 36 minute games, the two former scored over 30 points while the latter recorded 14 points.

"Were going to have to play a lot better now, the season is on-the-line now," said John Wall.

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I'm not surprised you're down in the series as OKC is a tough team to beat. Durant & Westbrook are just killers. And if you do throw extra defenders at them, James Harden is a beast in this game (as he should be IRL)

I'm not surprised you're down in the series as OKC is a tough team to beat. Durant & Westbrook are just killers. And if you do throw extra defenders at them, James Harden is a beast in this game (as he should be IRL)

yeah i cant cover them, they cant cover wall either but that's 2v1 ... when wall got fouled out of the game i had no playmkers

MUST WIN game! Come on bro!!!!

I know it sucks