After Cleveland’s 100-97 victory over Washington on Sunday, head coach Eddie Jordan has to now be asking himself the proverbial question, “What else can I do?”

Jordan challenged his team to play harder and smarter prior to Game 3, and the Wizards came out and absolutely spanked the Cavaliers, 108-72. At the start of the Game 4, it seemed like they had maintained that momentum. DeShawn Stevenson was hitting big shots and defending LeBron James with intensity. Gilbert Arenas was getting the ball to his teammates in their sweet spots, and Roger Mason Jr. was hitting big shots off the bench. The Wizards were turning the ball over much more than they had in Game 3, but they still looked like a team on a mission. They weren’t blowing out the Cavs like they had in Game 3, but they were playing intense playoff basketball.

And then it happened.

With about 2:49 left in the second quarter, James drove hard to the basket as he’s been doing all series. Stevenson wildly swung at the ball, hoping to get a block from behind, but he missed badly and hit James on the side of the head, knocking his headband off. James immediately got up off the floor and charged towards Stevenson, but his teammates came and blocked his path. Stevenson didn’t back down and he attempted to get right in James’ face before he too was derailed by his teammates.

At that point in the game, it was 42-39 Cleveland.

Right after that mini-confrontation, James and his teammates seemed to get a shot of energy. Suddenly the ball movement was better, James was getting to the rim, Daniel Gibson and Delonte West found their respective strokes, and Cleveland upped their lead to 10 points at halftime.

The Wizards eventually made the game closer late in the third quarter and again in the fourth, but the damage of the earlier confrontation had already been done. The near fight with James and Stevenson somehow served as a catalyst to not just James, but his teammates as well. Through the first four games in this series it had been James who had done the majority of the damage for the Cavaliers. But in this game, especially from the second quarter on, his teammates did just as much damage. Even at the end of the game it was West, not James, who took and hit the winning shot.

Eddie Jordan has to be asking himself, what do I do?

Jordan got big shots from Antawn Jamison and Caron Butler throughout the game. Brendan Haywood played a solid game and hit some big free throws. Roger Mason Jr. and Antonio Daniels gave the Wizards solid play off the bench, and even the gimpy Arenas came up with some timely shots late in the fourth quarter big quarter. But it wasn’t enough, and now Washington is down 3-1 heading back to Cleveland.

Ironically enough, Jordan may have to rely on the very player he has not wanted to rely on the entire series and that’s Arenas. Towards the end of the fourth quarter, Arenas seemed to finally find that balance between being a solid teammate and taking and making the big shots. If he can maintain the momentum on the road in Game 5, it will definitely catch the Cavaliers off guard and force them to relax. If this happens one of the more popular players in the NBA will become Eddie Jordan’s secret weapon.

But if the secret weapon fails to come through for Jordan and the Wizards they will be sent home by James and the Cavaliers for the third straight season.