ORLANDO, Fla. - If you hated last season's big dance craze, you had to love the Wizards' opener Thursday night. It marked the official end of the John Wall Dance.There's not much to cha-cha about when your team is down by 35 points entering the fourth quarter. Orlando went on to wipe out Washington 112-83, all of which just drove home what we all knew.
Wall is good, and is going to be very good. But nothing the No. 1 pick does in the next three or four years will amount to more than top-10 plays on SportsCenter.
"We came out and didn't play together as a team," he said.
Wall will probably repeat some version of that about 60 times this season. Even if the Wizards play together, they won't make much of a team.
It's almost a shame the best rookie always ends up on the worst team, but that's how the draft works. Players like Wall give teams like Washington hope. But when you see the gulf between the Wiz and the Magic, you wonder whether Wall will eventually give up and try to hitch a ride out of town with Albert Haynesworth.
"We played scared at times," Wizards coach Flip Saunders said.
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