Game 48 Recap: Wizards 108, Nets 89

Against all other teams, Roger Mason is a bad basketball player. Against the Nets, he's a star.

Normal game coverage will resume on Friday when the Nets head to Atlanta to take on the Hawks. As for the debacle that was tonight's game, a few lines fairly summarizes what happened. Washington got hot early and stayed hot the entire game and yet again, the Nets let the opposing teams score a ton of points (33) in the 1st quarter and get out to a big lead (8 but with the Nets, 8 points is a big deficit). With a few exceptions throughout the game when the Nets had spurts of competence, the Wizards kept this lead till the end.

Perennial cast-off Roger Mason scored 16 points in 23 minutes, while original Nets draft pick Jordan Crawford dropped in 23. Even new Wizard, Nene, made 9 of his 13 shots for 22 points and 10 boards. To give credit where credit is due, the young-gun and new-look Wizards played extremely well and hit some contested shots but many of them were wide-open jumpers and lay-ups that took one of two dribbles to get to the rim. Like usual, another poor, poor defensive effort by the Nets.

New Jersey's shooting was dismal (37 percent), couldn't defend (Washington shot 48 percent), and really didn't do much else right. I guess the tanking has officially started. However, for the first time in what seems like a lifetime, Avery Johnson showed some emotion and even got ejected midway through the 3rd quarter for arguing calls with the refs. D-Will joined in on the technical party and good for him, he didn't have to deal with the stink of the Nets anymore as he got ejected as well. Then, as one would expect, Washington was able to stretch out its 8-10 point lead to the high double-digits against the scrubbiest of Nets reserves, putting this game out of contention.


The 4th-straight loss for the Nets overall and the 3rd-straight against sub-.500 teams at home. The Gerald Wallace experiment isn't really working too well as of right now; he has yet to experience a win with his new team. Also, another thing I forgot to mention before, we need Jordan Farmar back from his groin injury as soon as possible. Sundiata Gaines is terrible and Jerry Smith isn't much better. Why didn't we sign Gilbert Arenas again? (Nope, just kidding. Actually, I'm not. Anyone would be better than Sundy.)