The Wizards purpose to snap a six-game shedding streak on Monday after they host the Brooklyn Nets in Washington, D.C.
Washington capped its longest successful streak of the season on Feb. 5 when it beat Brooklyn on the highway, 119-102. Seven Wizards scored in double figures in that recreation.
Since then, Washington has dropped six in a row after Sunday’s 110-90 rout at Orlando. Malcolm Brogdon missed Sunday’s recreation with an ankle damage, and Khris Middleton — acquired in a commerce that despatched Kyle Kuzma to Milwaukee — was out along with his personal ankle damage.
“We can’t use inexperience as an excuse round right here,” Washington coach Brian Keefe stated. “Classes to be realized; come out higher within the third quarter.”
The Wizards’ present skid is their third longest of the season behind a pair of 16-game slumps that spanned from Nov. 2 by means of Dec. 5 and Jan. 3-30.
Sunday’s 90 factors had been the fewest Washington scored since placing up simply 82 towards Toronto within the fifteenth lack of the Wizards’ second 16-game hunch on Jan. 29.
As for Brooklyn, it recovered from the loss to Washington to win 4 of its final 5 video games, together with a 105-103, buzzer-beating defeat of Philadelphia on the highway on Saturday.
Nic Claxton’s put-back bucket on the horn secured the win, bettering the Nets to 7-2 over their final 9 video games. They’ve moved to inside a half-game of Chicago for tenth place within the Japanese Convention and the ultimate play-in spherical berth for the playoffs.
“He is been working actually,” Brooklyn coach Jordi Fernandez stated of Claxton. “It was a bit of little bit of an up-and-down (season). Proper now, constantly, he is been getting higher and higher and higher, being the anchor of the protection.”
Claxton’s 16 factors on Saturday marked his fourth double-figure-point outing in Brooklyn’s final 5 video games. He additionally has a minimum of 9 rebounds over the identical stretch, bettering his season averages to 10.2 factors and seven.6 rebounds per recreation.
As for Claxton’s function anchoring the protection, as Fernandez described, Brooklyn ranks eighth within the NBA in factors allowed per recreation at 110.8.
Washington, in the meantime, is surrendering an NBA-worst 121.4 factors per recreation. The Nets will attempt to exploit the Wizards’ season-long defensive woes, however Brooklyn has had its personal struggles producing constant offense.
The Nets rank No. 29 within the NBA in factors scored per recreation at 104.9. Brooklyn has cleared that mark simply twice over the past 9 video games, however has restricted six opponents to fewer than 100 factors over that very same stretch.
Washington’s main scorer, Jordan Poole at 21 factors per recreation, is the one Wizard averaging greater than 13 factors a contest this season in Washington with Kuzma gone. Bilal Coulibaly is producing simply over 12 factors per recreation.
Cam Thomas was placing up 24.7 factors per recreation when he final performed on Jan. 2. Cameron Johnson, averaging 19.1 factors per recreation, went for 23 to prepared the ground within the win at Philadelphia.
–Area Stage Media
