Video: Javale McGee with the nice dunk, and team-wide embarrassment

January 17, 2012   ·   0 Comments

Video: Javale McGee with the nice dunk, and team-wide embarrassment

This year’s version of the Washington Wizards are terrible. Not only have they slung their way toward the bottom of the NBA‘s pool, but the team also appears to be on pace for an NBA-worst won/loss percentage. Worse than even that (a historically-bad record only guarantees a 25 percent chance at the top overall pick in the NBA draft), this squad has long been regarded by observers both strident and fanciful as the absolute dumbest team they’ve ever seen.

Monday’s showing topped all that off. We’ll let the Yahoo! Sports Minute take it from here:

Tossing down an alley-oop to pull your team to within 14 points with nearly 22 minutes to go? It’s not nearly as embarrassing as the nonsense he attempted 10 months ago while shooting for a needless triple-double, and a 14-point deficit is well within even a team like Washington’s reach when facing a defensively-challeneged squad like the Houston Rockets.

It’s Javale McGee, though. And it’s Washington. Long-term context counts, and I can understand if this was Wizards’ coach Flip Saunders’ last straw. The Washington coach certainly acted as if it was, and considering what this man has had to work through in D.C.? We can’t blame him for benching McGee after a failed pick and roll rotation 90 seconds into the first quarter. Much less a needless alley-oop performed with his team down double-digits.

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