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 Posted: Sat 4:53, 31 Aug 2013 Post subject: Wizards Arenas to Raptors |
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Wizards Arenas to Raptors,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
nightclub Friday just after you've shredded the Los Angeles Clippers for 35 points and heard the fans chant "M-V-P! M-V-P!" when you stand on the free-throw line.
You've also recently scored 60 points on the Lakers and 54 on the Suns and hit a buzzer-beater against Milwaukee that you turned your back on when you let it go, so certain it was good.
Your Washington Wizards are among the hottest,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], highest-scoring teams in the NBA,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], sort of Phoenix East with their penchant for high-scoring games that delight fans and disgust defensive purists.
And when the coach of the team you'll face today is asked what he thinks of you,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the only word he repeats in a five-minute conversation is "scary."
Not bad for a former second-round draft pick who seems to revel in putting beat-downs on teams that ignored him or showed him some level of disrespect.
"Whatever they did to him, he's playing at an unbelievably high level,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Sam Mitchell said of the guy the Raptors will have to corral this afternoon at the Air Canada Centre.
"The scary thing about it is you assume he's going to get 30 on a bad night,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. On a good night he can go for 50 or 55. That's what's scary."
Arenas seems to be on a mission to correct snubs - real and perceived - he's endured over the years. He wears number 0 because, he says,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he comes from nothing. His 54-point outing against Phoenix was a shot at Suns coach Mike D'Antoni, who was an assistant on the American world championship team that cut Arenas last summer. The 60 against the Lakers? Might have had something to do with Kobe Bryant being on the other team.
Arenas gives away his game jersey after every home game, tossing it into the stands, and will give away 20,000 replica jerseys at a Wizards game later this season.
He sees himself as the Everyman of the NBA, a guy whose rise from less-than-humble beginnings gives hope to kids from all backgrounds.
But more than anything,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], what makes Arenas unique right now is his explosive offence. He has no conscience on the court, hoisting shots from every imaginable spot. He may be a volume shooter,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but he's a volume maker,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], too.
"He takes a lot of shots and he hits a lot of shots,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Toronto's Chris Bosh said. "You don't think they're going in, but he practises them every day and hits them on a regular basis.
"You can't expect him to miss some of the shots he takes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]."
How the Raptors are going to stop Arenas today is anyone's guess. Ford, who said yesterday he expects to return today from an ankle injury. Anthony Parker, who has become Toronto's most effective outside defender, is going to get some time on him and Joey Graham, if he brings the same type of energy and effort he had on Friday, would be a natural defender on Arenas.
The Raptors,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who will have to wait until game time to see if Jorge Garbajosa's sore right calf will allow him play,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], have also used an effective zone defence in recent games.
"We can't give him easy baskets and we can't put him on the foul line," Mitchell said. "He's shooting a lot of free throws. If we keep him off the free-throw line,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he might get 27 but he won't get 40."
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