Going into this one, the Wizards were riding one of their best stretches of the past several seasons.<\/p>\n
They had just beat the Bucks in Milwaukee with a CJ McCollum buzzer-beater, they\u2019ve won four of their last seven, and three of their last four games. With a 119-99 win over the Brooklyn Nets, make that four wins in the last five \u2014 an impressive turn-around for the young Wizards.<\/p>\n
Especially impressive has been the rise of Alex Sarr, who had a couple terrific games lately. More on that below.<\/p>\n
The Wizards stormed out of the gates against the lowly Brooklyn Nets, hitting all kinds of shots from all kinds of ranges, and built a 37-24 first quarter lead when Justin Champagnie hit a three-pointer at the buzzer.<\/p>\n
McCollum continued right where he left, connecting on 4-5 from the field for 10 points in just eight first quarter minutes.<\/p>\n
The second quarter remained balanced, with the Wizards edging the Nets 27-26 in that period, with the teams going to the locker rooms with the Wizards up by 14.<\/p>\n
The improved defense from the last several games carried over to this first half.<\/p>\n
The third quarter was pretty much a replay of the first quarter, with the Wizards outscoring the Nets 32-23 and take a 23-point lead. The scent of garbage time came early in this one.<\/p>\n
In the fourth quarter, the Nets took a take page out of the Wizards book and had one of those patented Wizards\u2019 \u201ccome-from-behind\u201d runs to cut the lead a bit, but never seriously endanger the outcome of the game.<\/p>\n
McCollum scored a calm 17 points in 31 minutes (that does seem a lot given how much garbage time was available for the youngsters). Sarr had another solid game with 19 points and 6 rebounds. The leading scorer was Champagnie off the bench. He scored 20 on 9-12 shooting from the field.<\/p>\n
For the Nets, nobody had more than 14 points. Interestingly, four different players scored 14: Ziaire Williams, Day\u2019Ron Sharpe, Terance Mann, and Drake Powell.<\/p>\n
Next, the Wizards continue their home stand against the the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Going into this one, the Wizards were riding one of their best stretches of the past several seasons.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,6,671,14947],"class_list":{"0":"post-513227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nets","14":"tag-washington-wizards-recaps"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115829338644372923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}