DeJuan Blair Compares Wizards To Bad Boy Pistons
The Washington Wizards added depth to their stout front court of Nene and Marcin Gortat by signing DeJuan Blair and Kris Humphries this off season. The Wizards’ physicality in their front court was a key element to them advancing past the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the playoffs last season.
Well according to DeJuan Blair, his new team should be so much more physical and imposing that they should be considered the new “Bad Boys”, via The Washington Post:
The Bad Boys is back, baby. Tell them the Bad Boys is back.
Wizards general manager Ernie Grunfeld stated,
We feel now we have one of the deeper front lines in the league as far as the four and five are concerned.
And from Wizards head coach Randy Wittman,
We’re big. We should be physical. If we’re not physical, there’s something wrong. We should able to bang with the best of them.
Blair held his contention on his own. The Bad Boys of the Detroit Pistons, of course led by Isiah Thomas, were known for their bruising front line of Bill Laimbeer, John Salley, Dennis Rodman, and Rick Mahorn.
Washington has bolstered this part of their ingrained identity this offseason. We’ll see just how much grit and girth they can exude to the rest of the league and in support of Blair’s theory. As that starts to happen, maybe Blair will establish more defined roles.
I don’t know who [Dennis] Rodman is. We’ll find a Rodman.
