first personal on brendan haywood.at it. >> phil: not much reaction give -- he trie give get a pair of free throws. nice block with jamison running the ball down. rose couldn't get there in time. >> steve: says a lot about his core awareness. he knew contact was coming and made sure the initials knew. >> phil: probably knew he didn't have enough time to get himself set for that last shot. >> steve: penalty situation, and antawn can't get that first one and a 20-second time-out taken by vinny del negro. jamison will have one more free throw and a chance to give the wizards a 2-point lead. antawn does in fact have now another double double. >> phil: over a three-year period, four games last year. >> steve: amazing. >> phil: you think about the stretch he's been on over the last couple of weeks. and again, this team really hit by a lot of off-court distractions and he's had to be the leader, he and caron and look at the numbers he's put up at that time and increased his minutes. he's responded well. >> steve: shooting alm

washington brendan haywood with a slight advantage. 6.6 rebounds. five points, five rebounds. >> steve: hawks had four steals. they ran 15 total fast break points and 22 points in the paint. so they are very talented young team. we noticed this last year, even the year before you can see it coming year by year building by some of these layers led by joe johnson. now pick up jamal crawford. so they are very dangerous inside and out. >> phil: one thing i noticed looking at their numbers. they have only two changes in their starting lineup. of that one game against the nets. marvin williams was out with the flu. i believe that maurice evans came in for him. certainly right now really lends itself. >> steve: it helps. wizards have had about 16 different starting lineups. antawn jamison has been one f the constants for washington. he has 13 rebounds in the first half. wizards trail the hawks by 12. winning six straight against washington including a sweep last season in four games and they lead by 12 here as we get set to start the third quarter from atl

foul called on brendan haywood. jamison holds his arms apart as if to say couldn't have been me. >> phil: brendan haywood came out with the same attitude. you are not going to win with that one. tony brown making the call. williams making a very aggressive move to the basket to make sure he got some contact. >> steve: hawks ranked 16th in the league in free throw shooting. >> phil: williams shooting his best in his career from three- point range. he is another one of the listed players with this atlanta team that is knocking down threes. >> steve: hawks by four. could have had a huge lead had they made some shots. of course the wizards could be in the lead as well. jamison loses it. has it stolen by joe johnson. jamal crawford is in the lineup. that goes off the rim. atlanta gets the offensive board. here is crawford. challenges. nice pass. fouled by butler. first personal on caron and that's going to send jamal crawford to the free-throw line to shoot a pair. correction - throw line. >> phil: nice pass from crawfor

and now brendan haywood comes back into the lineup for the wizards replaces fab oberto. il: beauty of having somebody like andray blatche i can play him in place of brendan or play along with him. steve: spinning move hit out of bounds by lopez. washington's ball with a new 24 @@ boykins for the open jumper. phil: great concentration. it's so hard to keep your concentration when somebody falls down. it has a way of distracting a shooter. that was good concentration by boykins. steve: one point new jersey lead. . dueling drives for lopez, and he is fouled correction three second violation. phil: have to get those hands together. you see all kind of stuff coming from over there. steve: yi is back in the game replaces chris humphreys. wizards get it back with a chance to take the lead. phil: good thing. traveling violation by lopez. saw how quickly the defensive players reacted to him. just really smothered him. steve: boykins will take another jumper that's well off. blatche keeps him alive and boykins gets it back. underneath for haywood. he got fouled, and the wizards mov

antawn jamison and brendan haywood will start at the center position. flip talked about a total mindset change. they have gone through the last two days working on the defensive end. the san antonio spurs is a staple of that. what they allow and what teams are scoring. it's impressive on the defensive end. some of the numbers, 11th in the nba and giving up field goal percentage at 45%. the wizards are at 10th. they do a pretty good job there. but the totality of the spurs' defense, opponents 37 which ranked number one in the nba. the wizards are 25th in that department. michael, that's the story here at the verizon center. there is a lot of roll and national media here as and you can expect for those distraction. >> if both parties end up being found guilty and you are reporting no guns, what would the league ramifications if this did take place. >> reporter: gilbert arenas did have guns. he has confirmed that. that is where the problem really lice. all the other information that that's being leaked out now, no one can confirm that because the people in

but brendan haywood tying his career-high, foye having a great night. we've seen some exciting play and guys with some new highs. >> steve: game that be tied 29 different times. chicago 11 games hiengd cleveland coming -- behind cleveland coming into this game tonight with second place in the central division. they've won three in a row, seven of their last ten, they're getting ready to go out and play seven games on the road while the wizards will come back and play a stretch at home beginning tomorrow night against sacramento. standing ovation for the bulls. 3-second difference between game and shot clock. derrick rose with a career high 35. spins, shoots and scores. >> phil: so nefs a straight 1- 4 offense, everybody pretty much had to stay home. foye was going on one un -- one on one. one-hand push shot from derrick rose and he gives his team a 2- point lead. here's the play again. forced him to turn around. you can see that's a tough shot. where i hit this clutch shot. and chicago hangs on to win it 121-119. despite 34 from jamison, 27 from butler

brendan haywood has invoked a wizards man law from this moment forward meaning the way the wizards are shooting the basketball in the first quarter and the -- of it, 20 jump shots in the first quarter against the clippers. they missed 15 of them. >> that's far too many. brendan hit nail on the head. anytime you're struggling for at the perimeter, you attack the basket, try to put your defense in a good situation where they're on their heels. you put yourself in a situation where you can try to get to the free-throw line. the wizards especially as of late have been struggling mightily to make shots. the counter to that is try to get to the basket and get lay- ups. >> you might notice flip saunders has been calling a lot of time-outs early in the game. according to ali us we didn't know he called a lot of these in the month of january. >> he's called 14 time-outs in the first 4:00 the gave -- of the game. nine have come in the month of january. what's that saying is you're not listening to the game plan. they're take too many jump shots. he's trying to prevent the game from getting out o