I'm Tired: A Washington Wizards Fan

Deshawn Stevenson

I can still see you. I wish I couldn't, but I can.

I'm tired of seeing you shoot fade away three pointers. Some people call you a defensive stopper. The only thing I have ever seen you stop is the ball from going in the basket.

I'm tired of you playing like it’s a pick up game. Do you ever think of mixing it up? Does the idea that shooting a mid-range jumper could improve your three-point shooting ever enter your beard?

You call out Lebron James, and he stomps us. You give a player that is all power and make him angry. You invite Soulja Boy to a game. He has a song entitled “Booty Meat.” At least you won the beard contest.

Andray Blatche

You have it. I have seen you have it. I've seen the hook-shots, the smooth shot, the blocks, the incredible athletic ability. I've also seen you think you’re the best player on the court. That hasn't been fact since you left high school.

Why can’t you be a big man? Why can’t you play in the post? I’m tired of waiting on you to realize your potential. At least Kwame Brown got us Caron Butler.

Gilbert Arenas

I’m tired of seeing Butler and Antwan Jamison play 44 minutes per game because they have to. Are you the difference between a .500 team and a championship, or a player that might be injured and never be the player he once was? Can you be?

You’ve played only a handful of games in the last two years. You’re a Washington Wizard for life and so am I. So now we live with each other and I wonder.

I hope you come back. I wish it every time I see an offense that struggles to find a shot. It hurts me more when I see Deshawn taking shots you would have taken. I don’t remember you Gilbert, I hope we can be requited one day.

Injuries

I know it happens to all teams, but not like this. This is a higher power looking down and punishing us for allowing Michael Jordan to come back, for making a high school kid the number one pick. For letting Richard Hamilton go. We must pay the sacrifice.

Jump shots

I shoot them because I’m small. You shoot them because you’re the Wizards. Does anyone else run a college offense? I don’t think I have ever seen a pick and roll with Jamison. I see it with Boozer and Williams, but never with one of the best shooting power forwards in the game. Instead, I see one-on-one jukes and fade away jumpers.

I love the Wizards. I have been a fan since Jordan joined. That makes me somewhat of a fair-weather fan, but I have been through the playoff win against the Bulls, through Lebron talking to Gilbert at the free-throw line and so on.

I hope everything I have said will be wrong. I hope the Wizards go undefeated the rest of the season and I hope Gilbert never misses a shot again. Go Wiz.