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Post by SSHoya on Dec 27, 2018 20:11:41 GMT -5
On Wednesday night, footage of the Detroit Pistons-Atlanta Hawks game played inside the Washington Wizards locker room. Otto Porter Jr., dressed in warm-up clothes with AirPods in his ears, sat and watched to better understand the Wizards' next opponent, the Pistons. The room was nearly empty since most of his teammates did not hang out to watch the scouting video, so Porter was essentially talking to himself. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/12/27/wizards-are-feeling-absence-glue-guy-otto-porter-jr/
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Post by MCIGuy on Dec 27, 2018 20:51:57 GMT -5
Okay, please stop posting about Jaren Jackson Jr. That makes two of the last three posts. When I see this thread has been updating I'm hoping to come across info regarding former Hoya players, not some would-be-legacy guy who thought the program wasn't good enough for him. I wish JJJ good fortune but I don't think we should be publicizing his oncourt exploits in this particular thread. Cut me some slack MCI! I mostly post about Otto Porter, Jr. He's been out 8 games now with a knee injury. Well, I did say please. I feel ya about the lack of news. Its not like we are pumping a lot of dudes into the NBA. Nevertheless I don't know why any of us would be interested keeping tabs on JJJ. Hell, its not as if he is the only guy in the NBA whom the Hoyas lost out on.
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Post by Hoyas4Ever on Dec 28, 2018 2:38:20 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Dec 30, 2018 11:57:37 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 2, 2019 7:13:28 GMT -5
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Post by McBricks on Jan 2, 2019 11:35:42 GMT -5
Derrick son got to play 3 minutes for the actual Warriors in the New Year’s Eve game. Had 2 points on 2/2 free throws and 1 board.
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Post by zxhoya on Jan 2, 2019 18:11:03 GMT -5
Otto expected to make his return tonight vs the Hawks @ Cap-One.
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 3, 2019 6:40:32 GMT -5
And Jeff Green with 22 points. It will be interesting to see how the Wiz play without John Wall the rest of the season. The Wizards earned a second consecutive victory for the first time in nearly a month with a 114-98 win over the Atlanta Hawks at Capital One Arena, and the game both illustrated how Washington (15-23) can move forward without John Wall, who needs season-ending heel surgery and missed his third straight game, and reintroduced Otto Porter Jr. to the lineup. Porter came off the bench to play limited minutes in his first night back after missing 10 games with a quadriceps strain. He finished with nine points on 4-for-8 shooting in 14 minutes after a slow start — the wing didn’t get going until late in the first quarter when he finally hit a pull-up jumper to find his groove. While Porter was a welcome addition to Brooks’s rotation, a late-game surge from Beal and Jeff Green pushed the Wizards to victory. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/with-otto-porter-jr-back-in-the-fold-wizards-beat-hawks-for-second-straight-win/2019/01/02/6233de80-0ec1-11e9-84fc-d58c33d6c8c7_story.html
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Post by emkmd on Jan 6, 2019 7:55:17 GMT -5
[twitter url=“ From SBNation: Rebekkah Brunson joined the Timberwolves broadcast team Hey, it’s like the NBA has finally started to realize the WNBA has a ton of talent that should be given opportunities! (Next step: paying them a livable wage for those chances).
Anyway, this is dope because Brunson is a five-time WNBA champion, the league’s all-time rebound leader, owns a food truck, is a mother, and now an NBA broadcaster.”
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 6, 2019 21:19:26 GMT -5
I believe the Wizards are 3-0 since John Wall out. Otto Porter, Jr. with 20, 6 and 5. Jeff Green 16, 6 and 2. Green started as Porter still coming back from quad injury. www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=401071264
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Jan 6, 2019 21:38:11 GMT -5
Wall is toxic. Team will never win with him on it.
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Post by iheartdurenbros on Jan 6, 2019 21:42:24 GMT -5
I believe the Wizards are 3-0 since John Wall out. Otto Porter, Jr. with 20, 6 and 5. Jeff Green 16, 6 and 2. Green started as Porter still coming back from quad injury. www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=401071264They lost to Heat the other night. Regardless they are easier to watch and more consistent without Wall. Everybody eats.
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 6, 2019 22:25:21 GMT -5
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Post by MCIGuy on Jan 6, 2019 23:09:08 GMT -5
[twitter url=“ From SBNation: Rebekkah Brunson joined the Timberwolves broadcast team Hey, it’s like the NBA has finally started to realize the WNBA has a ton of talent that should be given opportunities! (Next step: paying them a livable wage for those chances). 1- The NBA does pay them a livable wage by the standards of the vast majority of Americans; it just doesn't pay them the millions it does the men (most men). WNBA players should get a good enough bump to keep them from having to play overseas during the WNBA offseason. At least three dozen should be getting seven figures per season IMO. The issue though are WNBA players who think they should have a contract similar to NBA players either in percentage of revenue or in matching dollars. That is absurd. WNBA doesn't generate anywhere near the dough the NBA does and is frankly subsidize by the NBA at this point. Its all about demand and what people want to see. 2 - The NBA have been incorporating WNBA former players and current or former female basketball players in general in executive positions, broadcast positions, as referees, in All Star weekend festivities and now increasingly in coaching opportunities in the NBA. What more do you want? For them to play on NBA teams? The NBA has done more to provide more avenues of entrance and success for women than any other major league sport in America if not the world.
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Post by MCIGuy on Jan 6, 2019 23:17:44 GMT -5
Wall is toxic. Team will never win with him on it. Still doesn't excuse Porter's passiveness and passing up shots when Wall is healthy. And Wall's "toxicity" has nothing to do with Porter getting inconveniently injured so often.
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Post by LCPolo18 on Jan 7, 2019 8:37:28 GMT -5
[twitter url=“ From SBNation: Rebekkah Brunson joined the Timberwolves broadcast team Hey, it’s like the NBA has finally started to realize the WNBA has a ton of talent that should be given opportunities! (Next step: paying them a livable wage for those chances). Anyway, this is dope because Brunson is a five-time WNBA champion, the league’s all-time rebound leader, owns a food truck, is a mother, and now an NBA broadcaster.” So exciting for Brunson! I went to almost every WBB game while I was at Georgetown and she was so much fun to watch play. Just an absolute force.
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Jan 7, 2019 12:19:50 GMT -5
Otto is a team player, not a ball hog. He may never be “the man”, but he shouldn’t have to. Wall is the problem.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jan 8, 2019 16:05:17 GMT -5
Porter had been playing sparingly since coming back from a right knee contusion. He came off the bench and made 7 of 17 shots and 4 of 6 3-pointers.
"I am still trying to get the rust off," he said. "Coming off the bench allows me to add scoring coming off the bench. I'm doing whatever I can."
Porter started every game he played the previous two seasons, but Brooks is considering keeping him in a reserve role.
"Otto just wants to play and play well and play the right way," Brooks said. "If we keep him there for a while, who knows. But we have been playing some good basketball. I know we haven't won every game, but we've been playing hard, and we have to keep doing it. But he has a nice rhythm coming off the bench the last few games."
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