"Randy Foye's debut with the Washington Wizards provided a taste of what President Ernie Grunfeld and Coach Flip Saunders had hoped he would become when the team acquired him from Minnesota in June -- a guard capable of spelling Gilbert Arenas or playing alongside him and unafraid to take tough shots with the game on the line.

Foye came off the bench to score 19 points, including eight in the fourth quarter of the Wizards' upset of the Dallas Mavericks, and Arenas immediately compared playing with him to the symmetry he once shared with Larry Hughes.

When Foye started in place of Caron Butler during a win over the New Jersey Nets in the third game of the season, Foye and Arenas combined for 49 points and 15 assists.

"It was amazing. We was talking about it the other day," Foye said of Arenas. "We was running and moving together, just building that chemistry and I was starting to feel how to play with him. I was starting to learn him." "