Teams:
1. The Wizards are now with an 11-17.
2. The Wizards are currently 8-7 or 9-7 in home games & 3-10 on the road.
3. The Wizards are now 4-6 (4W & 6L) record without Bradley Beal.
4. The Wizards are now on a 1-3 (1L & 3L) record wearing the Cherry Blossom-inspired designed jerseys at home[. ](https://www.nba.com/wizards/news/wizards-unveil-cherry-blossom-inspired-collections-and-designs)
[For all the expected home games schedule the Wizards will wear it.](https://www.nba.com/wizards/news/wizards-unveil-cherry-blossom-inspired-collections-and-designs)
5. The Nets are 3-0 (3W & 1L) so far in the regular season vs. the Wizards.
6. **The Wizards lost their last 7 games. Since our win over the T-Wolves on November 28th (**[142-127](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202211280WAS.html)**), which was 2 weeks ago.**
**At that time, the Earth continued its orbit around the sun at an approximately average speed of 107,000 km/hr (66,487 miles per hour) or 30 km/sec (18.64 miles per sec) and meanwhile made approximately 35 million kilometers (Almost 22.75 million miles), making about 2.5 million kilometers (About 1.55 million miles) per day.**
7. **The Wizards lost 10 out of their last 11 games.**
8. The Wizards lost their 3rd game in a row to an opponent with a record that is better than .500.
9. It’s the 11th straight game the Wizards let their opponent score 110+ points, giving away 112 tonight.
10. In the last 11 games, the opponent shoots over 40% from FG vs. the Wizards.
11. **Out of 28 games this season, so far, still 22 of them ended up with a score margin of 10 or less (9W & 13L).**
12. **The Nets are now on a streak of 4W, winning 8 of their last 9 games, 7 wins of which were double-digit.**
13. **Despite tonight, the Nets were 50%+ from the field in 10 out of their last 13 games (Including tonight)! Game logs** [(Without tonight, yet)](https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/BRK/2023/gamelog/).**11 out of these games ended up with a W (One L with 50%+ & one with 40%+ FG). They ended up just short of 50% from FG, with 49.4% (44/89).**
14. **Following this game, the Wizards are heading to 6 away games in the West, in the following order: Nuggets, Clippers, Lakers, Suns, Jazz & Kings.**
15. The Wizards shot 76% or less from the FT in 5 out of their last 6 games, tonight we were 15/22 FT (68.2%) vs. the Nets’ 16/18 (88.9%).
16. The Brooklyn Nets came to play tonight, after resting all their top players last game, 2 days ago ([And still won over the Pacers 136-133](https://www.nba.com/game/bkn-vs-ind-0022200388/box-score#box-score)): Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, T.J Warren, Royce O’Neale (Won’t play tonight vs. the Wizards due to personal reasons), Ben Simmons.
In fact, in the game vs. the Pacers, they scored the most points this season in one game (136)!
17. The Wizards were 0/7 from 3PT in the 1st quarter vs. 4/7 by the Nets (57.1%)
18. Despite that, the Wizards & the Nets were both 6/15 from the 3PT by the end of the 1st half, which means the Wizards were 6/8 from 3PT in the 2nd quarter, and the Nets were 2/8 from 3PT. Both teams took the exact same amount of 3-pointer in the 1st (7 each) & 2nd (8 each).
19. **Wizards “big-3” tonight: Barton had 22 points off-bench, KP 20 points (Before injury) & Kuzma with 20 points, combined for 62 out of the Wizards’ 100 points (62%).**
20. **The Wizards had 19 TOV (5 by KP in 24:05 minutes & 4 by Kuzma in 39:01 minutes) tonight vs. the Nets’ 12.**
21. The Wizards lost despite the Nets shooting 29.6% from 3PT tonight (8/27), and the Wizards were 11/31 from 3PT (35.5%).
22. No player scored above 5 points in each of the teams in the 4th quarter (Barton led with 5 points & the rest among all teams had 4 points or less)
Players:
1. Rui Hachimura missed his 11th game in a row, Beal his 4th, Wright his 24th, and Monte his 2nd.
2. T.J. Warren played his only 5th game this season and also, his 5th game in almost 2 years ([The last one was on December 29th, 2020 vs. Boston, as a Pacers](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202012290IND.html)) due to injury (He went through surgery to repair his [stress fracture on his left foot](https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/news-t-j-warren-injury-what-injury-long-for-expected-return-date)).Kudos to him for returning to play!
In fact, he returned to play not so long ago, [on December 2nd, 2022, vs. the Raptors this season](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202212020BRK.html)
3. **KP is in 44th straight games with 10+ points (Career-high each time the streak continues).**
4. **Kuzma scored 20+ points in 11 out of his last 12 games.**
5. **Kuzma scored 20+ points in the last 5 games, including tonight.**
6. **Kuzma with his 23rd game in a row with at least one 3-pointer.**
7. **Kuzma also with 3 games streak with 4 3-pointers or more.**
8. **Kuzma had more field gold attempts than points tonight – 21 FGA vs. 20 points.**
9. Kuzma played the most minutes tonight: 39:01 minutes.
10. Kuzma also was 0/4 from FT tonight after the last game not getting into the free throw line at all!
11. Surprisingly, Kuzma disappeared again in the clutch with 2 points on 1/5 FG (0/2 3PT &0/2 FT), 4 REBS, 1 AST & 0 TOV.
12. **KP scored 20+ points for 9 straight games, including tonight (Career-high as well according to the Wizards’ tonight broadcast stats).**
13. **KP also career-high in straight games he got 20+ points & 1+ blocks, with 8, including tonight.**
14. **KP’s streak of 6 games with 9+ rebounds ended tonight due to early back tightness that left him out of the 4th quarter.**
**He also had 6 straight games with 20+ points, 9+ rebs & 1+ blocks.**
15. **KP is by far the guy who goes to the free-throw line the most – 7.0 FTA (Including tonight) – a total of 152/189 (80.4%) – including tonight.**
**Followed by Beal (79 FTA in 18 games – 69/79 FT – 87.3%) and Kuzma with 3.62 FTA (70/98 – 71.4%) – including tonight (of course!)**
16. Deni’s double-figures streak in points ended tonight with just 8 points, breaking his 3 games streak of 10+ points he had.
And yet, he scored in double-figures in the last 8 out of the last 11 games Beal didn’t play in.
17. Deni with at least one 3-pointer in his last 3 games (Including tonight).
18. Deni made 3 FT tonight. The last time he made 3 or more FT was 9 games ago vs. [the Miami Heat](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202211230MIA.html) (4/6 FT)
19. **Goodwin’s 7 assists are a new career-high for him.**
20. **Goodwin has a 4 career-high in his last 3 games(Twice for steals in the previous 2 games, 2 games ago he had a career-high in points, 19, and now a career-high in assists (7)).**
21. **Goodwin is on a game streak of 10+ points, 4+ REBS, 3+ ASTS & 2+ STLS**
22. **Goodwin in the last 3 games (Including tonight):15.7 PTS on 53.1% FG (17/32), 41.7% 3PT (5/12), 80% FT (8/10), 4 REBS (1.3 Off. Reb), 5.3 ASTS (1.0 TOV), 4.3 STLS, 0.0 BLK in 35:34 minutes.**
23. Nic Claxton had 3 personal fouls in his first 4:44 minutes in the 1st quarter (After just coming back from a timeout as well when he got the 3rd xD).
24. **Barton came back after missing his last 2 games with 12 points on 5/8 FG (2/3 3PT), 5 REBS & 3 assists in 14:27 minutes.**
25. **Barton also scored 12 out of the Wizards’ 15 points off-bench in the 1st half (3 points to Gafford).**
26. **Kyrie had already 20 points when it was 6:07 remaining in the 2nd quarter (13 in the 2nd quarter alone), in just 13:31 minutes.**
**Ended up his 1st half performance 2 minutes later (Subbed out at 4:06 left in the 2nd quarter) with 20 on 7/12 FG, 3/6 3PT & 3/3 FT (All came off AND-ONE) along 1 REB & 1 assist.**
27. **Surprisingly, Kyrie is averaging over 1 block per game for the time in his career – in 20 games he played this season, so far (Including tonight), he has 22 blocks in 20 games (1.1 BLK per game).**
28. **Despite that Kyrie had only 4 points in the 2nd half on 0/5 FG (0/4 3PT) & 4/4 FT.**
He contributed also 5 REBS, 4 AST & 2 BLK as well (1 TOV) in the 2nd half.
29. **Durant had 18 points on 6/9 FG, 2/3 3PT & 4/4 FT. Along with 7 REBS, 2 assists, 1 steal & 3 TOV (Twice due to Deni-Goodwin defensive combo).**
30. **Korey Kispert started horribly in the 1st half: 3 points on 1/6 FG & 1/4 3PT, 2 rebounds, 1 personal foul & the worst plus/minus by far minus 22, in 16:29 minutes.**
31. **Will Barton’s 22 points is a season-high (The previous was 16), he also added 7 REBS & 7 ASTS (1 TOV) and shot 8/15 from FG (4/8 3PT & 2/2 FT).**
32. **Will Barton was also the Wizards’ leading scorer with 22 points.**
33. **It’s Daniel Gafford’s only third double-double this season, the last one was 5 games ago vs. the Hornets** [(116-117 L)](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202212020CHO.html)
34. Kispert’s shooting in the last 3 games: 9/30 from FG, 3/16 from 3PT (18.7%) & 3/4 from FT (75%).
35. Kispert had the worst +/- in the team, with minus 26 (In 35:34 minutes), followed by Porzingis with minus -22 in 24:05 minutes. The rest were minus 6 or better!
36. **Will Barton (+4) & Gafford (+9) were the only ones with a positive plus/minus tonight.**
I’m a bit sick (Not of the Wizards, yet), so I will finish with less than the amount of usual (It took me way longer to do so because of it).
Gotta sleep less than 5 hours & work tomorrow,
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Until next time,
Peace & Witchcraft until the Wizards finally win.
by MrBuckBuck
2 Comments
A nice job as always!
>Peace & Witchcraft until the Wizards finally win.
Yeah it might be a while brother. “Though “Korey Kispert started…” – Corey
>Will Barton’s 22 points is a season-high (The previous was 16), he also added 7 REBS & 7 ASTS (1 TOV) and shot 8/15 from FG (4/8 3PT & 2/2 FT).
Will Barton was also the Wizards’ leading scorer with 22 points.
Tell you what, it still didn’t feel like he had a good game. So many possessions of him just dribbling in circles with nowhere to go. You remember that electric football game from years ago with the little magnet players and the eraser sized ball? And one magnetic player would always just wile out and go in circles by itself while the others “ran” the plays somewhat orderly? Will is that player.
>If Kuzma scored 20+ points in 11 out of his last 12 games.
Kuzma scored 20+ points in the last 5 games, including tonight.
Kuzma with his 23rd game in a row with at least one 3-pointer.
Kuzma also with 3 games streak with 4 3-pointers or more.
Got your notes in here again 😀
Kuz is a monster. Problem is, he plays so wild he loses half the gains, and he doesn’t have teammates who know how to fill in the gaps. When he goes to the basket they watch. When he’s driving they don’t know how to follow misses. When he gets doubled, they don’t dive.
The athletic did an article on how his salary situation means he’s a goner, so I guess we’re just letting him style his way on outta town so we get the max back. #captialboyz
Again, I forgot to change the title to 100-112 L. UFFFFFFFFFFFF