Wizards point guard John Wall scored a career-high 52 points during Tuesday night’s game against the Magic, but it still wasn’t enough for his team to emerge victorious at Verizon Center.
The Wizards found themselves down 13 points at the half, and were never able to climb all the way out of the hole they dug.
Wall did all he could to keep his team in the game, as he made 18 of 31 field goals he attempted, and drained five of eight three-pointers. The Wizards guard put forth quite the effort, but he didn’t seem to feel that it was matched by his teammates, judging by what he told reporters after the game (via Brian Tinsman of CBS DC).
“Not even defensive effort, just playing hard,” he told the media, clearly exasperated. “Our job is to wake up and just play hard.”
He then continued to further iterate his point:
“Before you made it to the NBA or got a college scholarship, you played hard every day to get where you wanted to be,” Wall said. “To still be talking about playing hard, that’s something that you should be able to do after just waking up.”
Wall is the team’s leader, and if he feels that the effort level from his teammates isn’t where it needs to be, he’s going to let them know about it.
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