Gilbert "Ice Cold" Arenas.

As in "How was Gilbert's shooting night?" before he hit a jumper with time expiring to give the Wiz an incredible 112-110 victory in Chicago last night. 4-13 to be exact. Nonplussed, Arenas got the inbounds pass outside the three point arc with just over five seconds left and drove on Kirk Hinrich before pulling up for the winning jumper.

"I knew I was going to make it. I shoot those shots every day," Arenas said. "You dream about it when you are growing up and when you get that chance, you don't want to blow it."

Gilbert's jumper gives Washington a 3-2 series lead over the Bulls with Game 6 scheduled for Friday night at the MCI Center. A win (the Wizards have beaten the Bulls in 10 straight home games) will get the Wiz to the second round of the playoffs for the first time since 1982. Also worth noting is that last night was Washington's first playoff road win in 19 years.

It's good to put a game like this in context like that, because this was a game for the ages. The Wizards cruised to an early lead and held off a late Bulls rally by the hair of their chinny chin chin. The bulls used a Todd Leary-like 10 points in three minutes from reserve Jannero Pargo (see, there's that important bench play coming up yet again) to erase a 22 point Wizards lead before bowing in the final seconds.

We'd love to be a fly on the wall at Eddie Jordan's practice today. DCist can imagine that the Wiz will spend plenty of time on the free throw line, since their six misses in the last two minutes helped set the stage for Chicago's near miracle comeback from 10 points down with 42 seconds to play.

As great as last night's win was for the franchise, they know they still have work to do. "I said it before, the team that is able to win on the opponent's floor puts themselves in the driver's seat," Antawn Jamison told the Post. "We know how hard it is to finish off a series. It's going to be tough."