Wizards head coach Flip Saunders wouldn’t commit one way or the other when asked prior to Washington’s game on Tuesday if John Wall would travel with the team later that night to Boston, where the Wizards face the Celtics on Wednesday.
“We’re going more on a day-to-day basis,” said Saunders regarding Wall’s left foot sprain. “You’d have thought even this afternoon that he might’ve been able to go, but he can’t so we’ll just have to wait and see.”
Yi Jianlian, meanwhile, said his right knee, which was hyperextended and had a bone bruise, felt better, and he expected to go with the team to Boston.
But the bigger adjustment the Wizards will have to face tonight is being without Wall, a player that Saunders has leaned on heavily from the moment training camp started.
“We’ve played preseason, and we’ve played regular season, and John’s averaged close to 40 minutes a game,” said Saunders. “We’ve put the ball in his hands, and he’s been our distributor, been the key to creating a lot of turnovers defensively, and so you take that out of your lineup, and you have an idea of what you’re going to do, but you’re not totally a hundred percent sure.”
And so the Gilbert Arenas as starter era starts again.
