Can Gilbert Arenas & John Wall Play Together?
When the Wizards won the first overall pick for the draft that is taking place this Thursday, they were overrun with John Wall mania (as they should be). Now, John Wall is going to be the number one pick on Thursday, no doubt about it (they didn’t even work out Evan Turner) so the question becomes can the two play together?
I have only seen this really talked about at length in two places. Kyle Weidie of TruthAboutIt.Net thinks they can play together. Meanwhile, Matt Moore of Hardwood Paroxysm thinks they can’t. Me? Well, I think they can play together and can be very successful doing it.
Before we get down to looking at some game tape, let’s look at some numbers. 82Games.com is a fantastic statistical site, and maybe my favorite aspect of the site is they give you the top 20 most used lineups for whatever team you want. Looking at the lineups for the Wizards, one lineup in particular caught my eye. That one was the most successful lineup (in terms of +/-) with Arenas in it:
