by Muggsy#6 on Wed May 19, 2004 8:34 pm
Wizards Win 1st Game Of the season
With newly acquired wizards James, Arenas and Battier in the starting lineup the wizards were ready for ther 1st big test of the season against the NY knicks.
1st Quarter
The 1st quarter was al about defense for the wizards. The offense didn't work well in the 1st quarter (Arenas shooting 2-6, james 3-8 and battier 1-4) but the defense did very well. Etan Thomas was grabbing 5 boards en blocked 2 shots and Kwame Brown grabbed 4 rebounds en managed to steal 3 balls.
Score after 1 quarter was 20-19 for the wizards
Top Players Wizards:
Points: 7 Lebron James
Assists: 2 Gilbert Arenas
Rebounds: 5 Etan Thomas
Top Players Knicks:
Points: 6 Allan Houston
Assists: 3 Starbury
Rebounds: 3 Nazr Mohammed
2nd quarter
The 2nd quarter would be the battle of the pointguards. Starbury and Arenas each scoring 12 points on 5-7 shooting. But the main factor for this quarter was Lebron James. With less then a minute to go he scored back to back three's wil grabbing 3 rebounds en blocking 1 shot. The Only bad thing that happened was that with 3 minutes left Kwame Brown left the game with a injury (only out for the game)
Score after 2 quarters 43-39 for the wizards
Top players Wizards:
Points: 17 Gilbert Arenas & Lebron James
Assists: 5 Gilbert Arenas
Rebounds: 7 Kwame Brown
Top Players Knicks
Points: 16 Starbury
Assists: 4 Starbury
Rebounds: 5 Tim Thomas & Nazr Mohammed
1st Half recap:
I think i did a pretty good job in the first half the only thing that wasn't very good is my 3 point shooting 4-13. There was 1 thing that suprised my; the all around play from james and battier (James: 17 pts, 4 rebs 4 ass. & Battier 8 pts 5 rebs 4 ass.) it was very dissapointed that kwame brown is out of the game he had a pretty good game so far (6 pts 7 rebs 3 blocks)
3rd quarter
The wizards came out on fire in the 3rd quarter shooting 8-13 in the first 3.5 minutes. Battier, who wasn't a big factor on points in the first half scored 9 points in that scoring run wile arenas dishing out 4 assists. The knicks came out cold only shooting 3-18 in the first 3.5 minutes. but the last 2 minutes where the minutes of Allan Houston shooting 3-3 from 3 point range & 4-4 from the charitystripe. After 3 quarters the score was still pretty close; 67-59
Top players wizards
Points: 21 Lebron James
Assists: 9 Arenas
Rebounds: 8 Etan Thomas
Top players Knicks
Points: 21 Houston
Assists: 6 Starbury
Rebounds: 6 Nazr Mohammed
4th Quarter:
The 4th quarter was just awesome. The knicks looked like they already lost the game. I began with my starting five but after 2 minutes i substitute the whole team. And the bench players didn't disappoint me they outscored the Knicks starting five (24-12) Jeffries who now was the wizards 3rd Sf came out on fire scoring 9 points grabbing 4 rebounds and blocked 2 shots in 7 minutes of play!!!!
the final score was 109 - 76
Top Players Wizards:
Points: 23 Lebron James
Rebounds: 13 Etan Thomas
Assists: 11 Gilbert Arenas
Surpise Player: Jared Jeffries 9 pts 4 rebs 2 blks in 7 minutes of play
Top players knicks:
Points: 23 Starbury
Rebounds:7 Nazr Mohammed
Assists: 8 Starbury
Suprise Player: Nazr Mohammed 9 pts 7 rebs 6ass.
Player of the Game: Gilbert Arenas 20 pts 11 ass. 5 rebs 3 stls
Next Game vs Hawks (0-3) [/u][/b]