The Washington Wizards blew right past the Sacramento Kings on Sunday to stay undefeated in NBA Summer League play. The Wiz kids won 104-85 in front of a substantial crowd packed inside the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nev.<\/p>\n
AJ Dybantsa started the game off with a made triple after missing all 5 of his three-point attempts during Washington\u2019s Summer League opener. He seemed to be hunting for outside looks early, in what briefly felt like a prove-it move to silence his critics. He finished the game 1-for-6 from distance.<\/p>\n
Anyone bothered by AJ forcing his jump shot need only watch him block Acuff\u2019s three on one end, then race down the court on the other end for a layup to feel better.<\/p>\n
The Wizards were not as sharp when the starters came off the floor. The bench unit only scored 4 points in the final 3:51 of the first quarter to fall behind 24-18.<\/p>\n
Dybantsa started the 2nd quarter and set the tone on defense. He was hounding ball-handlers and forcing deflections, which helped keep the Kings scoreless for nearly three minutes.<\/p>\n
AJ\u2019s offensive gravity helped open up the offense, sparking a 12-0 run to begin the period. He made a few good passes that did not result in assists on the box score. Will Riley got hot in the second as Washington raced out to a 54-41 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n
Dybantsa also had a fantastic finish at the rim, once again contorting his 6\u20199\u201d frame to guide in a layup. He got to the line 4 times and made every free throw, giving him 17 before the break.<\/p>\n
The second half belonged to Riley. The second-year swingman went supernova on Sacramento, scoring 25 of his 32 points after the break.<\/p>\n
Riley got red-hot from three-point range. He finished the game 6-for-8 from deep, including a couple of And-1s that made it seem like he had a magnet guiding the ball through the rim.<\/p>\n
Riley led all scorers with his 32 points on 9-for-14 shooting. Dybantsa, despite short-arming his jumper for most of the night, still stuffed the stat sheet with 23 points, seven rebounds, two assists, three steals, and two blocks.<\/p>\n
Washington will be back in action again on Tuesday in a duel against the Chicago Bulls and No. 4 overall pick Caleb Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards blew right past the Sacramento Kings on Sunday to stay undefeated in NBA Summer League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,4056,6,986,477,4055,14947],"class_list":["post-785448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento-kings","tag-basketball","tag-kings","tag-nba","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramentokings","tag-washington-wizards-recaps"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116912043051851622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785448","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=785448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}