Enough gushing over Andray Blatche, a.k.a. the next Kevin Garnett, and to a lesser degeree JaVale McGee, for a moment. As the Wizards head into their rematch with the Bucks, who beat them easily, 100-87, two nights ago, let’s read the tea leaves from tonight’s pregame chat with Flip Saunders:
On McGee’s matchup with Andrew Bogut, who had just two rebounds in Milwaukee: “Tonight’ll be a different story because I’m sure Bogut’s going to want to come out and establish himself early offensively. He’s going through those growing pains. The thing about JaVale, he makes glaring mistakes when he makes mistakes, not getting back on defense, things like that. I thought he’s made very, very good improvement here over the last four games. I don’t want to jinx him, but I think he’s done a nice job. He’s protecting the rim. He’s got people looking for him now inside. The more he plays, the more he’ll gain a reputation from them, from referees because I think sometimes he gets some blocks that are call goal tends because they’re not used to someone his size being as quick as he is up to the rim.”
