[Happy Pi Day! (3.14)!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day)
[A song for the current mood.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ0dyRJnNVk)
Teams:
1. The Wizards are now on a 32-37.
2. The Wizards are currently 16-17 at home games & 16-20 at road games.
3. The Wizards are now 16-16 in the year 2023 (16W & 16L) – from 16-21 to 32-37.
4. The Wizards are now 4-7 since the All-Star break.
5. The Wizards are now 11-11 since the trade with Rui Hachimura (11 W & 11 L).
Before the trade, the Wizards were 17-13 (17 W & 13 L) with him (in games he played), and 3-13 (3 W & 13 L) in games he wasn’t playing.
Overall, the Wizards were a 20-26 record before this trade.
6. The Wizards are now an 11-3 when Deni Avdija scores 13+ points.
7. The Wizards won after 3 straight losses, including 5 out of the last 6 (well, now it’s 5 out of the last 7).
8. The Wizards won the Pistons in their last 16 home games.
9. In a rare coincidence, the Detroit Pistons won a night before the Pacers [117-97](https://www.nba.com/game/ind-vs-det-0022201020/box-score#box-score), and tonight loss in the same result they won – [97-117](https://www.nba.com/game/det-vs-was-0022201028/box-score?type=traditional).
10. The Wizards are now 24-4 when allowed 111 points or less, including 15 wins in their last 16 when it happens.
11. The Wizards won the Pistons in all of their last 8 games of head-to-head matchups, including 10 out of the last 11.
12. The historical head-to-head matchup during the regular season – Wizards vs. the Pistons: 141-157 to the Pistons.
13. The Pistons are now 3-10 in the 2nd game of back-to-back games.
14. The Pistons lost 12 out of their last 13 games, including 15 out of their last 17 games.
15. The Wizards are now 16-6 (16 W & 6 L) when Beal takes between 9 to 17 FGA in a single game (including 17 & 9) – making anywhere between 13 to 29 points.
He had 15 FGA & 36 points tonight.
The “funny” thing is that in all the other scenarios (Including when he too twice 7 or fewer FGA because he got injured), the Wizards are still now 6-17 (6W & 17 L) – making 8 points or fewer, or 20 points or more (he had two 20 points game, once 21 points, once 24 points, the rest that isn’t 8 or less, or are 25 points or more).
16. The Wizards had their 21st game shooter below 30% from 3PT, finishing with 6/26 from 3PT (23.1%) tonight.
17. The Pistons shot 38.4% from the field vs. the Wizards tonight – the 3rd lowest FG% an opponent scored vs. the Wizards this season. It was also the Pistons’ 4th worst FG% game of the season.
18. The Wizards were 21.9% (7/32 3PT) from the 3-pointer tonight – 2nd worst 3PT% at home. Our worst 3PT% at home was 21.4% 3PT vs. the Cavs that we’ll meet next game (but this time, on the road).
19. It’s the first time the wizards win this season when they are below 23.8% from 3PT, with a 1-6 record now.
20. The Wizards made only 6 3-pointers tonight – tying their 2nd worst of the season in a single game, for the 4th time (Overall, we had 5 games with 6 3PTM & 2 with 3PTM (won both 5 3PTM games, lol)).
21. The Wizards never lost their lead this game – leading throughout the whole game – with the lead growing as much as 25 points, after the last game where we were having exactly the opposite (not leading even once & being down as much as 25 points in the [93-112 L](https://www.nba.com/game/was-vs-phi-0022201016/game-charts) vs. the 76ers on March 12th, 2023).
22. The Pistons tied their season’s 2nd best offensive rebounds in a single game, with 19 offensive rebounds (vs. just 10 by the Wizards).
23. The Wizards were perfect from the line tonight 22/22 (100%), for the 2nd time this season, though last time it was 12/12 FT in the [109-115 L](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202302240WAS.html) to the Knicks on February 24th, 2023.
24. Almost both teams ended with 100% from the free-throw line – the Wizards were 22/2 from FT & the Pistons 11/12 from the FT – 91.7% ([Omoruyi missed this FT in the 3rd quarter](https://www.nba.com/stats/events/?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=424&GameID=0022201028&Season=2022-23&flag=1&title=MISS%20Omoruyi%20Free%20Throw%201%20of%201)), as they combined for 33/34 from the free-throw line – \~97.1%.
25. The Wizards had 58 points in the paint vs. 44 points in the paint by the Pistons, the Detroit had 19 2nd chance points vs. 17 2nd chance points by the Wizards, and the Wizards had 15 fastbreak points vs. 11 fastbreak points by the Pistons.
Players:
1. Kyle Kuzma didn’t play tonight due to a knee injury, missing his 7th game of the season It’s the first time he missed a game since March 7th.
2. Kyle Kuzma missed only a [single game](https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/wizards/kyle-kuzma-less-wizards-lose-jayson-tatum-less-celtics-third-straight-loss) in his first 52 games of the season. Since then? He missed 6 out of his last 17 games, including tonight.
3. The Pistons missed 8 players tonight: Cade Cunningham, Alec Burks, Jaden Ivey, Isaiah Stewart, Bojan Bogdanovic, Isaiah Livers, Marvin Bagley III & Hamidou Diallo.
4. Jay Huff player for the first time in the Wizards’ jerseys. Sadly, he had zeros & 2 turnovers in 3:15 minutes.
5. Bradley Beal had a season 2nd best of 35 points (season-best is 36 points), and a season-best of +/-, with +38 (previous season-high was +25).
6. Bradley Beal had his most efficient shooting night this season – 13/15 FG (86.7%) & 102% TS%, as long as you don’t count 1/1 FG (100%) on December 4th, 2022 -[119-130 L](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202212040WAS.html) to the Lakers in 3:29 minutes before being injured, that is.
It was his highest FG% since February 13th, 2017 – [120-98 W](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201702130WAS.html) over OKC 7/8 FG (87.5%), and the 2nd other instance is April 2nd, 2014 – [118-92 W](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201404020WAS.html) over the Celtics – 7/8 FG as well (87.5%).
7. Bradley Beal had a career-high FG% in a single game in that he took more than 8 field goal attempts – 13/15 FG (86.7%) tonight – including regular-season & playoffs.
8. Bradley Beal is now 219 points from breaking Elvin Hayes’ franchise record in points (regular-season), with 15,533, as Hayes has 15,551 points.
9. Bradley Beal has 5 straight games with a single block in each one for the first time in his career.
10. Bradley Beal tied his career-high of straight games with a single block or more for the 2nd time (He had 4,2,1,1,1 at the beginning of the [2018-19 season](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bealbr01/gamelog/2019), and he had 1,2,1,1,1 in the [2016-17 season](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bealbr01/gamelog/2017), games 2 to 6.
11. Bradley Beal also has a single block or more in 6 out of his last 7 games (6 times with 1 block, once with 0 blocks & once with 2 blocks).
12. Deni had 11 points in the first half alone, that’s the same amount of points he scored in his previous 3 games, combined (5, 4 & 2)!!.
13. [Here’s Johnny:](https://youtu.be/WDpipB4yehk) Johnny Davis had his 15th game of the season with the Wizards.
14. Johnny Davis played 18 minutes tonight, and if you add it up to the season total minutes (89), it means that he played 20% of his career NBA minutes in a single game.
15. **Johnny Davis had careers his in points – 11 points (previous 3), in FGM – 5 field goals made (previous was 1, in 6 different games out of first 14 games ), in FGA – 11 field goals attempted (previous was 3, 3 times), rebounds – 5 rebounds (previous was 2 rebounds), and in minutes – 18:32 minutes (previous 8:17 minutes played).**
16. Johnny Davis had 11 field goal attempts tonight. Before tonight? He had 19 field goal attempts in his 14 previous games, COMBINED!
17. Johnny Davis scored for the first time since February 14th, 2023 – [126-101](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202302140POR.html) W over the Trail Blazers.
18. Johnny Davis had his 2nd career offensive rebound, the first one since November 4th, 2022 – [86-128 L](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202211040WAS.html) to the Nets.
19. Johnny Davis had his 4th FT of his career. He is 100% so far this season – 4/4 from FT!
20. Johnny Davis had a season 2nd worst of +/-, with -12.
21. Corey Kispert had a season-high 14 field goal attempts (the previous was 13).
22. Corey Kispert was in the starting lineup for the 33rd time in the season.
23. Kristaps Porzingis had 4 blocks tonight, tying his season’s 2nd best.
24. It’s the first time in Kristaps Porzingis’ career that he had 3 steals & 4+ blocks in a single game.
25. Corey Kispert scored 10+ points in 7 out of his last 8 games.
26. Kristaps Porzingis scored a 20+ points streak ended after 7 straight games, though he still scored 20+ points in 9 out of his last 11 games.
27. It was only the 7th game this season Delon Wright didn’t have a single steal (out of 40 GP).
28. Kristaps Porzingis scored 14+ points in 27 out of his last 28 games.
29. Kristaps Porzingis had his 32nd game with 2+ blocks this season.
30. Kristaps Porzingis tied his worst season’s 3PT% game without scoring any – 0/6 from 3PT tonight, for the 3rd time this season.
31. Bradley Beal had his 45th game this season scoring 12+ points.
Either way, in two games he scored below 10 points this season due to an injury during the game.
32. Out of 61 GP this season by Kispert, he was 0% from 3PT only 6 times, & 5 times between 0% to 20% – including tonight’s 2/8 3PT (20%), 8 times shooting 33% from 3PT out of 16 games shooting between 20%+ to 40% (not including 40%).
Overall, he has 34 games shooting 40% or higher this season.
33. Daniel Gafford tied his season-high of 2 steals (he had 3 games like this season, so far, including tonight).
34. Deni Avdija had his 25th dunk of the season – a new career-high in dunks for a single season.
35. Deni scored 10+ points (11 points by the first half already) after 4 straight games scored 7 points or lower, including 8 out of his last 9 games.
36. Deni Avdija scored 10+ points only in 2 out of his last 10 games (the last time was 17 points in the [111-117 L](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202303050WAS.html) to the Bucks on March 5th, 2023).
37. Deni scored fewer than 10 points tonight for the 4th straight game, including 8 out of his last 9 – scoring anywhere between 0 to 8 points. He had 4 points tonight on 1/8 FG, 0/2 3PT & 2/2 FT.
38. Deni Avdija had only one block in his last 14 games. The last block was on March 2nd, 2023 – [119-108 W](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202303020WAS.html) over the Raptors.
39. Daniel Gafford had 3 blocks tonight, for the first time since February 28th, 2023 – [119-116 W](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202302280ATL.html) over the Hawks. 3 blocks also had in his previous 7 games, combined (!!!) – having a single block in 3 out of the previous 7 games.
40. Delon Wright had 0 points tonight, for the first time since February 6th, 2023 -[91-114 L](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202302060WAS.html) to the Cavaliers.
41. Kendrick Nunn didn’t play in 3 out of the last 4 games despite being fit to play.
42. James Wiseman had his 4th double-double of the season (points & rebounds) all of them were with the Pistons (none with GSW).
43. James Wiseman tied his career-high & season-high in offensive rebounds with 5 offensive rebounds (half of his 10 rebounds tonight).
44. Jalen Duren had more offensive boards than defensive rebounds – 5 offensive rebounds vs. 3 on defense.
45. Killian Hayes had his 4th 20+ points of the season & 6th of his career.
46. Killian Hayes had 20 points tonight (10/21 FG – 47.6% & 0/2 3PT), scoring 20+ points for the first time since January 8th, 2023 – [111-123 L](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202301080DET.html) to the 76ers.
47. Killian Hayes had his worst +/- of the season, with a plus/minus of -29.
48. Rodney McGruder scored 11+ points in his last 3 games (16 points tonight), including 9+ points in his last 5 games.
49. Corey Joseph scored 11+ points in his last 6 games, he had 4 games with 11+ points beforehand this season (not including his 3 times 10 points).
50. The rookie Jared Rhoden had a career-high of 7 points (the previous was 4 points), a career-high in minutes – 17:19 (the previous was 12:00 minutes), a career-high 1 steal & first one of his career (never had one before), a career-high in free throws 2/2 FT – he never went to the free throw line before, tied his career-high in rebounds with 4.
51. Jared Rhoden scored 7 points tonight, almost as much as he sold in all the 5 games until now – 8 points (2,2, and 4). [games log.](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rhodeja01/gamelog/2023)
52. The rookie Buddy Boeheim (4 GP, including tonight) had a career-high of 8 points (the previous one was 3 points), rebounds – 2 rebounds (the previous one was a single rebound), a career-high 2 assists (the previous one was 1 assist), a career-high 2 personal fouls (the previous was a single foul), and a career-high in minutes – 22:41 minutes (the previous one was 22:34 minutes in the previous game). He also had his first career free throws – 2/2 FT.
53. Buddy Boeheim’s 8 points career-high is more than what he scored in the first 3 games, combined (6 points). [Game log.](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/boehebu01/gamelog/2023)
It’s like taking a restaurant that just opened – it looks good but is suspicious.
Peace.
by MrBuckBuck
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Johnny Davis rising