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Monday the Wizards fell to 1-12 on the season losing 114-106 to the Rockets. One highlight of the game was an off the backboard alley-oop by JaVale McGee on a fastbreak. McGee thought everything was cool, but head coach Flip Saunders called the dunk unacceptable and John Wall didn’t approve either.
Via Washington Post:
McGee said he tried the self-alley-oop to spark his teammates. “I was trying to get the team hype and trying to make a good play.”
“Apparently, if you get a fast break and throw it off the backboard in the third quarter, and you’re 1-11, you’re not supposed to do stuff like that,” McGee said, unable to grasp why Saunders and some of his teammates were disappointed.
“A dunk is a dunk. I would rather seen him do a regular dunk,” Wall said of the self-alley-oop. “We’re down. We’re 1-11. 1-12 now. So there’s no point in doing any kind of excitement, but he made the basket and that’s all that counts.”
You can check out the dunk below.
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January 16, 2012
