Game Thread: Wizards @ Knicks

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<div align="center"><font color="navy">Washington Wizards</font>@<font color="orange">New York Knicks</font></div>



Time7:30 p.m.
PlaceMadison Sqaure Garden


Last Meeting

Knicks won 99-86


Starting Lineups

Gilbert Arenas/Stephon Marbury

Juan Dixon/Allan Houston

Jarvis Hayes/Tim Thomas

Kwame Brown/Kurt Thomas

Nazr Muhommed/Brendan Haywood

Sixth Men

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Mike Sweetney and Etan Thomas

Key Players

Gilbert Arenas

Stephon Marbury

Washington Keys To The Game

-Control the boards
-Keep a big lead
-Make wise shot attempts

New York Keys To The Game (Pretty much same as last time)

-Get the offensive rebounds
-Score in the paint
-Double Kwame in the post
-Contain Gilbert Arenas and Juan Dixon


Things to know

Knicks(30-37) are 7th seed in the east behind the Cavs(30-36) and with the cavs losing against the bulls on tuesday and Knicks beating the wizards tuesday, Knicks will reclaim the 6th seed. Easy as that.


My prediction: Knicks have some major confidence from the 26 point deficit victory against the Bucks and the Wizards has been struggling, so i'm going to favor the knicks by 9.

 

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Boxscore


At the end Tim Thomas made the tip-in to force OT and the Knicks ended winning this one.

 

[jbbKing James]

Nazr Mohammed* made the tip in to force the OT.

That's 2 errors I pointed out, I'll leave the rest to someone else.

 

[Henacy]

The dumb play in the game on the Knicks trip that one, when Arenas fouled Steph on his lay up attempt with less then 7seconds to go. He should have just let him attempt the off balance layup they were up by 3. Instead he stop the clock & Steph made both of his free throws.

 

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<div class="quote_poster">Quoting King James:</div><div class="quote_post">Nazr Mohammed* made the tip in to force the OT.

That's 2 errors I pointed out</div>


I typed forced into OT.

 

[og15]

Jarvis Hayes is injured and wasn't playing, and so is Juan Dixon.



Wow, we (Washington) played much better than I expected but NY just kept pushing back.

The Biggest mistake of the game: Arenas and Stack taking and missing quick jumpers at the 2:01, and 1:52 mark, if they had used more clock the Knicks wouldn't have had those 7 seconds in the end of the game to tie. OT was forced by a tip in from Nazr whose man Ethan Thomas converted on Marbury when he didn't need to, and allowed Nazr to get the offensive board.

Arenas had 9 turnovers

, and fouled out in OT, but he scored 27 points (8-21), had 6 rebounds, and 8 assists.
Kwame had 21 quiet points (8-13) for the Wiz, and pulled down 6 rebounds.

Stack had a good day today coming off the bench, and scored 23 points (8-17), grabbing 4 boards and dishing out 7 assists. He was also turnover prone, and turned the ball over 6 times.

This was a game Washington should have won and with smarter decisions down the stretch, would have won. Ethan Thomas recorded a double double with 15 points (5-8) and 10 boards, and also had 1 block.

5 players fouled out in this game including Arenas, Jefferies, Nazr, Anderson and Baker.

Stephon Marbury was of today but hit 2 big shots for the Knicks in the closing minutes. He missed a pair of clutch free throws though, but the Knicks were abloe to sustain for the win. Marbury finished with 16 points (6-17), 6 rebounds and 14 assists.

Tim Thomas was the big man for the Knicks scoring 32 points (11-23) and pulling down 5 rebounds. He also Ice'd the game wmaking 6-6 from the line.

Shandon Anderson had 17 points (8-15), Nazr had 14 points (7-10) and 7 boards (6 offensive), and Kurt Thomas was one rebound shy of a double double scoring 11 points (5-11) and pulling down 9 boards.

In OT Marbury had a thing going with Kurt Thomas and the 9 foot baseline jumper, and exploited the Wiz with the drive and dish to KT.

After than Marbury hit 2 jumpers, and the rest was Tim Thomas.


Steve Blake hit a nice three before the end but it was too little too late, and the Wizards dropped this one 114-110.


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