[MJG]

This game looks all but gone for us at this point. Davis and Miles are both on fire; they're making jump shots like there is no tomorrow. No one on our team has played especially well this half.

[NorthEast Wiz]

Like I said earlier I am not surprised that we lost this game. It wasn't like past losses in that we played hard and not scared. I assume Arenas was disciplined in the 3rd quarter for something.

Overall I am not disappointed.

On Kwame, I am beginning to believe that he is a one on one player and has no real court awareness.

[jazzy1]

This game played out pretty much how I figured it would. The Cavs were more desperate to win and the Wizards were an opponent they felt they could beat.

Laet,Hughes,JJ and Kwame played terribly.

Our interior defense outside of Etan was terrible and the perimeter guys were waiving goodbye to guys all night long.

Kwame doesn't seem to be giving all out effort. He seems to get discouraged to quickly. If he misses a shot early in the game he seems to take himself out of the fold. He needs to start giving effort or get benched its simple as that.

I'm a Kwame guy and think its far too early to give up on him but he's not being aggresive enough on the court . He's playing far too passive on both ends.

Northeast mentions court awareness maybe I think its more his thinking that the ball isn't coming his way so he starts standing around.

Its still early though.

Not a real bad loss though just another one of those games. I expect them to come out against Philly with a ton of effort.

EJ got it wrong benching Arenas. This isn't college ball you don't need to teach anyone lessons thats why we have fines you don't cost your team a game possibly teaching someone a lesson about someting he already knew better about doing. EJ is gonna be judged by the bottomline wins and losses he needs to keep that in mind.

Playing Whitney I thought stalled our offensive rhythm .

All will be fine. Just a loss against a desperate team.

[MJG]

One thing I like is that we didn't give up at the end. When I made my last post, we were down by 14 with 4-5 minutes left in the game, and the Cavs were in the middle of their big run. At that point, I was expecting a lot of garbage play. However, we kept at it and managed to cut that lead in half before they pulled it back up again. It may not seem like much, but it shows some passion which we haven't always had in years past.

I'm also getting more impressed with Dixon's play with each passing game. He is not nearly the black hole that I felt he was last year, and his play on both sides of the court is really perfect for the role he's basically created for himself. Considering a lot of us (myself included) felt that he would have to fight just to get minutes this year, he has really been a plesant surprise.

[JarvisHayes24]

Jarvis had a career high