G.A.C.O.L.B.

Underrated in what way?

Yeah I have no idea what you're talking about Brave. That's straight to classic there

On tbe flipside to that, it took us playing like complete **** and being without arguably our best big to lose to a likely-playoff-bound Hawks by 5 points. I think that actually says something positive about our team.

I got a feeling...not a good one. Still, could be worse. Much, much worse: (looking for something in my old ass Photobucket--about as old as the Internets itself--and came across that. Laughed and thought I would share)

Thank the sports gods for the Wizards

Gonna watch the DVR of the game in the AM (used to be, I couldn't watch game recordings--Wiz, Nats, Skins, w/e--if I already knew the outcome but I just enjoy watching this team play so much, that's no longer a factor) . Anyway, what's up with the injuries to Nene and Otto? Nothing serious?

Completely agree. Been thinking about that all day. A legit contender builds off of last night and kicks ass tonight. A young team who isn't there yet gets complacent after last night's big win and lays am egg tonight. Tonight will tell us a lot. Really looking forward to it.

And that has...what to do with what I'm talking about: a Washington Wizards license plate?

Was there a point being made here?

How many people are buying a Virginia ECU plate? How many are getting a "War of 1812" plate? How many are getting a "Friends of Coal" plate? How many are getting a "Class J No. 611 Steam Locomotv" plate? I can go on and on with this... https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/vehicles/#splates/category.asp?category=S And would there be that many more with Caps or even Nats plates if they did have a Bullets/Wizards plate?

You all wanna hear some bull****? At the DMV here in VA this morning (finally replacing the Colorado tags on my car) and was looking at the various plates available. Got the Caps, eh not my thing. Got the Redskins, ugh no thanks. Got the Nats, Hmmm maybe. I really want a Wizards plate though...AND THEY DON'T ****ING HAVE ONE. The only team that doesn't have one. We really need to do something about that. They got a ****ing ECU plate but they don't have a Wizards plate. If I get the process started to get one added, will you all help me get it going? Or if we're starting from scratch on this, maybe work on an old school Washington Bullets plate?

There's been a lot of posters who have been permabanned over the years that i genuinely miss(ed) (including the unquestioned "King of the Tailgate Empire", his majesty, MSF) but I don't think I'd ever get over a Bubble Screen permaban. Hell I'd even consider starting an online petition to present to the ES Mods to get him reinstated. He was such one of the things that made this forum awesome. And honestly, with Irving, with his top-tier Hornets, with the awesome foundation of success Braves, a permaban would be too easy for him (which is why it also wouldn't shock me if it wasn't a permaban, he was reinstated weeks ago and he's just too much of a **** to come back and own it. Shame is something a lot of folks can't get over. They're all pussies of course.

I honestly think Wall and Beal are both on the verge of real suoerstardom but we shall see. And I got to be honest, the Mavs game, I started to write out a post about Garrett Temple has officially become the first player I hate on this team. I stopped myself though. He's a real good guy, a good human being, the type of guy that championship benches are made up with and he's been forced into a position he shouldn't be in. That's not his fault. And apparently he's battling injuries too. So yeah, it was ****ed for me to start to even go there with him: hate. So na, there isn't a single player on the team that even comes close to getting legitimate hate. It's always super-duper awesome when your can say that about your team.

This, this annnnnd this. We completely dominated them in the playoffs last year. We won in 5 games and it wasn't even that close. Did they improve? Probably. Did we improve? Yes. Is a 34-year-old Pau Gasol going to put them over the top on us? Really? Is John Wall going to have issues with a soft and brittle 75%-of-his-former-self DRose? Really? No, the Bulls aren't better than us. If it's going to take us making them our **** in the postseason again for you to see that JoeW, so be it.

I've said it before but I can't say it enough, I just absolutely love listening to John Wall get interviewed after games. The dude flat out gets it. We are blessed to have him. Ditto Beal.

So for those who watched the Wiz/Cavs game right now, you see what I'm saying about not even noticing that Kevin Love played? I just don't see how he signs long term for that.

I know he gets a lot of hate, and deservedly so for the most part, but I think Wittman has been excellent this year at riding the hot hand. That's especially important when you have a team as deep as this one. Beat me to it. Another thing I learned from ESPN tonight: it's the best start for the Wizards in 40 years, since the '74-'75 season...when Paul Pierce was 3 years old

Yeah I really wish Rice had gotten some burn and a look before being sent down to the D League. Oh well. Temple is just horrible though. He needs to be at the end of the bench.

aka The Garrett Temple Effect

I'm watching on ESPN too. I think I mentioned it last time we were on national tv, I always like to watch that broadcast so I can get a taste of what the rest of the country thinks of us, a different look and take on our team. And Steve is right. For the entire first quarter is was basically non-stop Cavs circlejerk. If I was blind and you told me it was the Cleveland broadcast, I wouldn't have thought twice about it. But it's funny, as the game has gone on, as we've continued to play well, be in control and expose these clowns, dude has had no choice but to stfu about Cleveland and start taking us up. That's made it worth it

So ****ing proud of our guys. Now let's close this out, finally fully expose the Cavs as the frauds they are and fully put the world on notice that we're the real deal. Lol, I think someone's got a bit of a mancrush brewing

God I wish I was there. I ****ing pray we, the crowd, give him **** all night. Would LOVE it, so much, to see some old school crybaby and crab dribble signs

Wiggins is a great athlete with great potential to be a basketball player. It's gonna take him some time. But yeah, who knows. (Read an article about Johnny Flynn the other day (remember him?), I pray to God, for Wiggins sake, that every single person who had anything to do with those Wolves team aren't even still in the time zone. Talk about a trainwreck. Wow.) But yeah, like I've said, I've watched three Cavs games and I swear I don't even remember Love playing. I'm trying to think why he would stay there. I'm sure he wants to win but, unlike Bosh, he strikes me as the type who couldn't stand to be the forgotten man, championship or not.

Lot of folks speculating that it's a becoming a very real possibility that Kevin Love bounces this offseason. If he does, how ****ing epic, epically bad, will that trade go down in history? And if Wiggins lives up to the hype and has a HOF career? Man. At some point Cleveland needs to accept that God hates them, right? I mean damn, they've been warned repeatedly when their river caught fire, repeatedly. That's some biblical/Moses/Egypt **** there.

Talking style of play (classic PG, like Paul) and top notch athleticism. I actually thought of Westbrook Pope. Was trying to think of someone a bit older though that he would definitely know. The other name that's come to mind is Stevie Franchise. Francis was on another level though. I don't think Wall is THAT explosive. That's not, in the least, a knock on Wall. At all. It says more about Francis, how epic his athleticism was--the guard version of VC--than it says about reigning-Slam-Dunk-Champ Wall.