Back at it

Coach Eddie Jordan gave his players Sunday off after they played three games in four nights but the team is back on the court today for a practice at the VC. They'll have three days to get some things fixed before playing Thursday night at New Jersey, where the Wiz have only one win in the last 13 visits.

After that, things won't get easier because Denver is in here Friday night and then the Wiz play at Atlanta against a pretty decent looking Hawks squad on Sunday (the Hawks pushed Detroit to the brink last night but old friend Jarvis Hayes hit a couple of big baskets down the stretch and the Pistons emerged).

The key will be creating some kind of offensive flow. It's hard tojumpers when defenses would collapse on Gilbert.
The problem now is with the big three. When they start clicking, the rest of the team will too.

And Brendan is looking like a different player. And its not just the increased minutes and lack of Etan. His footwork is better, his vertical is higher, he seems in better shape, he almost seemed explosive at times, which is a word I never would have used to describe him in the past. Hope he keeps it up.

Hey everybody, look at what Gil has to say about Kobe wanting a trade. It was in the LA Times.

Arenas, who grew up in Los Angeles, compared Bryant unfavorably to Michael Jordan and Allen Iverson.

"I've never seen Jordan act like that," Arenas told Sports Illustrated. "I didn't