The Washington Wizards beat the Memphis Grizzlies last night, 130-122. Kevin Broom is still out due to travel. So you get to deal with me. Let’s get to the Four Factors.

Team

eFG%

TOV%

ORB%

FT/FGA

ORtg (not officially in 4 Factors)

Pace (not officially in 4 Factors)

Wizards

0.561

10.5

40.8

0.192

129.1

100.7

Grizzlies

0.53

11.3

35.8

0.16

121.2

100.7

Here are the good things that stood out.

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Veteran and young players contributing: Kyshawn George and CJ McCollum scored 28 points each. It’s great to see both a core young player AND one of Washington’s established veterans come up big in a win like tonight.

Alex Sarr has another double double: The sophomore center had 18 points and 11 rebounds.

Winning in ALL of the Four Factors areas: When a team has a better effective field goal percentage, rebound rate, free throw rate AND a lower turnover percentage, that team usually wins the game.

The Wizards had those Four Factors because of a dominant second half: Washington shot 52 percent int he second half, made 14 of 15 free throws, shot 11-of-22 from the three points line and outrebounded the Grizzlies 28-22. The Grizzlies shot just 40.8 percent from three in the second half and were struggling to make free throws.

Here are some of the not-so-great things we saw.

20 points: This is the largest lead the Grizzlies had against the Wizards last night at home in Memphis. While the Wizards won last night, in the vast majority of circumstances, they wouldn’t.

The first half as a whole: I didn’t write this in the quick recap from yesterday. But the Wizards were down by 15 heading into the halftime break. They only shot 42.9 percent from the field while the Grizzlies shot 49 percent. Really, the Wizards in most cases would have given up.

The Wizards will host the San Antonio Spurs today, so let’s hope for another upset.