Wall’s Passion Starting to Show Again

After a generally slow start to his sophomore season, the Wizards’ 2010 number-one draft pick John Wall is starting to show that he is not willing to just sit back and take loss after loss. Wall, like any other superstar (and yes, I do consider John Wall to be a superstar in the NBA), has had his share of extremely slow games in the past couple of weeks. His most recent poor outing came on February 1 versus the Orlando Magic where he had a dismal 2 points and could not buy a foul call. For a while, I had John Wall off of my radar as there were plenty of other distractions (criticisms of Blatche, Young, Lewis and McGee—take your pick). The guy’s a superstar, he should be averaging at least 16 points a game. Maybe the hype was gone. Maybe I was getting too used to the unbelievable speed and agility of the young point guard. Maybe I was just tired of John Wall on a losing team. But with Rashard Lewis and Andray Blatche sitting out with injuries, I’ve decided to hop back on the J...