Rule 76 Part 2: Wizards vs. Cavs

Wizards vs. Cavaliers

Oh those last five minutes. They can be just a bitch can’t they. I only saw that this game was interesting at half time of the Bulls-Pacers, and picked up with 5 minutes left to go in regulation. At the time the Wizards were winning.

I don’t know who that white guy was on the Cavaliers, his name might have been Bellanueva, but he totally owned the Wizards and cut the lead late in the fourth quarter. That has to be the biggest moment of that guy’s life (he would later brick a three). Next there was a pretty gross Wizards possession that ended with Nene taking a 15 footer and missing, Gortat rebounding and missing the put back. The Cavs scored again and the Wizards’ next possession ended with me saying “Oh no not that”

The possession showed a lot of nice movement of the ball, which was nice and ended with John Wall 20 feet from the basket with a wide open look. The 20 footer if you don’t know is statistically speaking the worse shot in basketball, one of the main reasons that Michael Jordan was Michael Jordan is because of how deadly he was from such an impractical shot. John Wall is most certainly not Michael Jordan, and an offensive play and more specifically an offensive play in a tie game in the waning minutes of the fourth game should not end with John Wall taking a twenty footer. Which is why I groaned “oh no not that.” I should mention that I don’t listen to these games, I’d rather listen to a pod cast or music that local play by play if it’s not Harry Kalas. So though Wall missed (as statistically predicted) he was bailed out by a questionable foul and got to the line.

Next in the ugh category came from my fantasy team (the newly minted “Entertainment 7wnty”) sleeper Bradley Beal. Kyrie Irving had just coughed the ball up with under a minute to go with the Wiz up 1. Brad Beal received the pass at half court with a step on the Cavs defense. Just him and wide open space. Then he miss dribbled and the ball went to the token white guy Cavalier and  Cleveland took the lead.

Do you know why it’s called a free throw? Neither does Nene. I’ve been making that joke about Dwight Howard for years, but Nene blew a free throw to take the lead.

Then he made up for it. The Cavs had the ball in a tie game with 24.1 seconds left (enough for the shot clock to stay on at least don’t quote me). Kyrie Irving starts doing Kyrie Irving things, beats his guy, raises up and then Nene pokes the ball out to a Wizard who immediately call time out (with 1 second left). That ball poke was legit clutch and reason number 3432674 why the Wizards are way better when Nene is in the line-up.

Honesty Time: I didn’t watch overtime. The streaming is terrible on my computer, I’ve mentioned this. So I switched from Washington back to the Bulls game, but didn’t realize that the ninety times my stream minorly froze meant I wasn’t live and so when I switched, I saw that the Wizards were already down 7 in Overtime. I didn’t switch back. 

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