WHEN THE NEWS broke that John Wall would miss six-to-eight weeks with another knee surgery, the reaction was predictably morbid. There goes the season. The Wizards are done. The playoffs are no longer guaranteed.
But I felt differently.
That’s because the doomsday prognosticators were ignoring two very important things: 1) the Wizards were playing rather poorly with John Wall and 2) Wall’s replacement, Tomas Satoransky, has a very unique set of skills that is perfectly suited to cure what ails the starting lineup.
On the first point, the Wizards were performing below expectations the 49 games of the season.