Candace Buckner: John Wall explaining his encounter with Serge Ibaka: “I just told him to keep his hand out of people’s face. He was just pointing at everybody’s face. I told him get his hands out of people’s face and he went into a little rage.”
Position: G
Born: 09/06/90
Height: 6-4 / 1.93
Weight:194 lbs. / 88.4 kg.
Salary: $18,063,850
Born: 09/06/90
Height: 6-4 / 1.93
Weight:194 lbs. / 88.4 kg.
Salary: $18,063,850
“Brad needs to help create himself more opportunities,” Brooks said. “John needs to do the same, I need to do the same. That’s with all of our guys. I’m more concerned with who’s playing better whether you get shots or get points, are you playing well.”
Ohm Youngmisuk: John Wall on what he’s learned being down 0-2 coming home last postseason against Boston that he can apply against Toronto: “I’m always cool. Just be cool. [Stay] cool.”
Chase Hughes: Scott Brooks said he met with John Wall and Bradley Beal about getting Beal more involved in the offense. Also said Otto needs to take more shots. Otto did not have a three-point attempt in Game 2.
Ohm Youngmisuk: John Wall and Scott Brooks say a major emphasis for Game 3 is getting off to a stronger start. Toronto jumped out to leads of 10 and 22 in each of the first quarters of Games 1 and 2. Expect the Wizards to try to feed off of the DC crowd early and try to jumpstart Bradley Beal.
But it doesn’t take stats to see that Beal was out of his normal smooth-shooting rhythm, especially when the game was on the line. Though he shot 8-for-17 and scored 19 points in Game 1, he went 3-for-11 from behind the arc combined in the first two games in Toronto. In the fourth quarters of this series so far, the Raptors have held Beal to a total of two points on 1-for-7 shooting, including 0-for-4 from 3-point range. “I really won’t know what to say, that is up to Brad to tell you,” Wizards point guard John Wall said when asked about what might be wearing on Beal. “He’s been our MVP this year, he’s held it down a lot while I have been out. He is not going to make excuses about playing the most minutes [of his career] or being fatigued. “We have to do a better job, and me as a point guard, of getting him involved and trying to find him shots to make it easier on him. And I know he will be very tough on himself; he is definitely going to get in the gym and get up extra shots and find ways to be more aggressive. We definitely need his scoring and his ability to create for others to make our team better and compete against this team.”
