Speeding Bullets: A hero dies & a team rises

Written by Thomas Threlkeld on Monday, 25 February 2013 10:05. Posted in Washington Wizards

DC Pro Sports Report: We lead off with our roundup of this past weekend's Wizards action. It was a fun two games and we've got the words and video to prove it.

Rant Sports: Sharing is caring -- about winning -- and the Wizards are the team to prove it.

The Wizards are 6-2 in their last eight games and get a rematch against one of the teams they lost to during that stretch on Monday. It just so happens that the game they lost against the Toronto Raptors also happens to be when John Wall had his lowest assist output and the team had their second lowest in the last eight games. In the six wins the Wizards are averaging 26 assists per game while in the two losses they only averaged 21. ...

The catalyst for all of the sharing that has been going on for the Wizards, Wall. For his career he averages 8.1 assists per game but has been averaging 9 during this eight game stretch, reaching double digits in assists three times.

One can only hope this marks the final death of hero ball for the Wizards. More on that below.

Wash Post: Wizards guard Bradley Beal is playing like the closest thing this team has to a star.

Wash Post: But the Wiz do not truly have a star yet,so they wisely do not try to create one in crunch time:

But Coach Randy Wittman doesn’t go into late-game possessions determined to set up one individual, relying mostly on his gut while seeking to exploit mismatches on the floor. The hero emerges within the flow of the game, rather than from reputation.

Wittman has managed to make it work in recent weeks, with the team winning 13 of 22 and calling on everyone from Bradley Beal, to Nene, to John Wall, to even the recently-dealt Jordan Crawford, to make a play with the game on the line.

“I coach by feel. I don’t have a set play we will go to every time,” Wittman said after the Wizards (17-37) beat the Houston Rockets, 105-103, at Verizon Center and improved to 3-2 in games decided by three points or fewer since Jan. 7.

Hip Hop DX: Hip hop star Wale discusses his confrontation at a recent Wizards game.

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