Wizards head coach Flip Saunders finally got to gush over No. 1 draft pick John Wall on Friday the way he’s clearly wanted to for the last month, ever since Washington won the NBA Draft Lottery.
Like a proud father – and, in Wall’s case, since he doesn’t have his father anymore, Saunders is certainly expected to be some sort of patriarch-type figure – he interjected during the introductory press conference to make sure Wall’s 3.5 GPA last semester at Kentucky was related to the crowd of media and spectators at Verizon Center, as well as using his trademark line that “point guards aren’t made, they’re sent from heaven,” and a reminder that while he’s worked with a number of outstanding point guards in his coaching career (Chauncey Billups, Stephon Marbury, Terrell Brandon), Wall could be the best of them all.
