Blatche Sent Home From Practice/Suspended 1 game (The Szczerbiak Connection!)

[The Walker Wiggle]

Old news - but Andray Blatche doing his best to fill Arenas's shoes as the Wizards' resident locker room distraction: complained via Facebook about getting no shot attempts against New Orleans ("Never have I played a game and had no shot attempts, they got me all f****d up."); sulked postgame and sprayed the team's trainer with Randy Foye's cologne ("Do I look like I care about my knee?"); got sent home from practice Monday afternoon and suspended for tonight's game against Detroit (The Pistons snapped a thirteen game losing streak.); and joked about it via Twitter ("Atlantic City or BUST!").

I couldn't make this stuff up...

But, as a Celtic fan, what I didn't want to get lost amidst the story's many sordid details was a great opportunity to have a laugh at Wally "World" Szczerbiak's expense. To wit:

"I know he says I didn't get a shot. If you're 6-10, 6-11, you can get an offensive rebound. For anybody who thinks that a coach has to run plays to get you shots, that's a team that's not going to be a good team," Saunders said. "My biggest thing since coming here, I've been to four straight conference championships, I have never ever on those teams had a player ask about shots. And since I've been here, the main thing, my main focus to change is the number of players to say, 'I've got to get shots.' In Detroit for three years, I never had one player ever ask. Same thing in Minnesota. The only player I think I ever had in 14 years, was maybe Wally Szczerbiak, a few times. And Dray is one of them."

Ahahaha. Oh Wally.

[Roy Hobbs]

You know there's real animosity, when your ex-coach is throwing you under the bus out of the blue half a decade after he coached you.

[Lucky17]

LOL.

How funny would it be if Cleveland ended up using Wally in a sign and trade to Washington to get back Jamison?

Talk about an awkward reunion. . . .

[The Walker Wiggle]

You know there's real animosity, when your ex-coach is throwing you under the bus out of the blue half a decade after he coached you.

I like to imagine Saunders remembers Szczerbiak more fondly, maybe with affectionate disbelief.

Same with the story Terrell Brandon once told about Wally stealing his own teammates' passes.

[moiso]

Wally probably deserved more shots back then.  He was very very efficient offensively.

[xmuscularghandix]

I feel bad for Flip, The Wizards seem like a HORRIBLE situation. I'd rather be coaching any number of sub par team over them.

[Bankshot]

So the rumors are true about Wally complaining about playing time and shots.  Who was getting all the shots where Wally wasn't getting enough?  We know that KG is probably one of the most unselfish players in the league.

[moiso]

So the rumors are true about Wally complaining about playing time and shots.  Who was getting all the shots where Wally wasn't getting enough?  We know that KG is probably one of the most unselfish players in the league.

Well there was Troy Hudson, who the team and Hudson himself thought was much better than he actually was.

[housecall]

So the rumors are true about Wally complaining about playing time and shots.  Who was getting all the shots where Wally wasn't getting enough?  We know that KG is probably one of the most unselfish players in the league.

Well there was Troy Hudson, who the team and Hudson himself thought was much better than he actually was.

...and there was those couple seasons they had our old friend Sam Cassell.