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Wizards Insider - Wizards no longer timid, but remain winless Page 1 of 10 Sign In Register Now Subscribe Mobile Multimedia Today's Paper Going Out Guide Jobs Cars Real Estate Rentals Classifieds NEWS LOCAL POLITICS OPINIONS SPORTS Business Arts & Living Search The Washington Post washingtonpost.com > Sports > Wizards > Wizards Insider Complete coverage • Wizards home • Wizards roster • Free agent tracker On Twitter: MrMichaelLee and PostSports | Facebook | E-mail alerts: Redskins and Sports | RSS NEWS ALERTS Wizards no longer timid, but remain winless For breaking sports news The difference between the Wizards that showed up in Atlanta, and the alerts, text "SPORTS" to 98999 ones that failed to show up against the Orlando Magic was evident in the third period, when JaVale McGee got the ball near the foul line, drove INSIDER ON TWITTER around Hawks forward Josh Smith and dunked on him . Even more Wizards info - Hard. Like he was trying to break - in short bites the rim hard. @WizardsInsider Every player on the Wizards @MrMichaelLee bench shot up, whooped and waved towels, and McGee gave SEARCH THIS BLOG them a salute. John Wall smiled and shook his head after the Go vicious attack on the rim. Smith said after the game that players don't usually got at him like that, RECENT POSTS but after watching replays and John Wall: "It was a hearing how terrible they were great effort. We fought hard" after that nationally televised 29- Wizards no longer timid, point shellacking in Orlando, the but remain winless Wizards had no more room for Open thread: Wizards timidity. (0-1) at Hawks (2-0) Before the Wizards proved that Okay, you got me now Josh. Wait 'til later. (AP Flip Saunders pleased Photo) with small forward they aren't nearly as bad as they production looked two nights before, Wall repeated what has been the theme for his John Wall putting in team since training camp began. "We're a young, talented team, but extra time to work on we've got to compete and play harder than our opponents," Wall said. his jumper "That the key thing for us." Entries By Category The Wizards were much more competitive on Saturday against the Add category Atlanta Hawks, but they learned that there is a difference when you have Al Thornton two all-stars on the court to finish a game and when you don't. Hawks all- Andray Blatche stars Joe Johnson and Al Horford combined to score nine points during Flip Saunders the decisive 11-3 run that kept the Wizards winless and extended their Gilbert Arenas domination over them to 10 games. Hamady Ndiaye "Coach was telling us, the game is going to be won the fourth quarter," Hilton Armstrong Wall said after scoring 28 points with nine assists with five rebounds in a JaVale McGee 99-95 loss. John Wall Josh Howard But sometimes, the game is lost before that. 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"If I hadn't got Full Category Archive in foul trouble, we probably would've won." http://voices.washingtonpost.com/wizardsinsider/2010/10/wizards-no-longer-timid-but-re.... 11/1/2010 Wizards Insider - Wizards no longer timid, but remain winless Page 2 of 10 McGee had a career-high seven blocked shots and was in his Entries By Date You need to be logged into Facebook to see your opponents' heads early on, when he picked up a goaltending on a short Login RSS Full Weekly Archive friends' activity jumper by Horford. He had no problem swatting the next Horford offering. Feed Subscribe to The Post He later had two blocks in 13 seconds, chasing down Jeff Teague to Study: Alcohol more lethal than heroin, SUBSCRIBE send a shot into the second row and another rejection of Zaza Pachulia. cocaine 1,559 people shared this. Select ... McGee had as many blocks by halftime (four) as the Hawks had the entire game. The war recovery? 664 people shared this. 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I felt confident shooting it and knocked them down." The Wizards didn't have much production from the bench, with Yi Jianlian scoring all 10 points for the second unit. They also made several mistakes defensively down the stretch, including letting the slow-footed Mike Bibby drive inside and make a critical layup. But Blatche was pleased by the overall effort. "The only thing I'm seeing from us is us getting better and better," he said. "It's always disappointing when you lose. At the same time, I'm kind of proud, we stepped up. A lot of guys showed what they were capable of doing. We're a young team, we're going to make mistakes. Our thing is to improve and continue to get better." By Michael Lee | October 31, 2010; 12:14 AM ET Categories: Andray Blatche , Flip Saunders , JaVale McGee , John Wall Recommend Be the first of your friends to recommend this. Save & Share: Previous: Open thread: Wizards (0 -1) at Hawks (2 -0) Next: John Wall: "It was a great effort. 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