Washington was on five straight wins, Washington was in first place in the Eastern Conference, all was well and Wizards fans were already starting to order champagne for next spring. But that night, a swarm of hornets came to bring all these beautiful people to reality and the players of the capital leave Charlotte with an 87-97 defeat.
The principle of a series is that it has a beginning and an end, it’s almost scientific and the Wizards paid the price last night against the Hornets. The foul essentially has an absolutely awful 3-point hit percentage (8/42). The gold trowel is won by our friend Kyle Kuzma who threw an ugly 1/8 of the parking lot, thus regaining its true level of the last seasons. But his teammates do not have to be ashamed with a 1/7 for Deni Avdija, a 0/5 for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope or even a 0/4 for Spencer Dinwiddie… in short, everyone participated in the construction of this defeat. And yet, the Magicians had found the solution elsewhere at the start of the match: inside. Indeed, in the first minutes we thought that Daniel Gafford and his beautiful eyes had transformed into Wilt Chamberlain: 10 points at 5/5 shooting in two steps and three movements, 2 rebounds and a huge dunk on the hive , all this in … five minutes and dust. Behind him it is the beast Montrezl Harrell who will take over and do a lot of harm to Mason Plumlee and in the end the two interiors will end the match with 20 points for Dan and 15 pawns for Trez but above all the feeling that they could have easily score 40 pawns each tonight. Because the Wizards did not insist inside and they can regret it.
.@Dan_G33 ain’t playing around!
As if the poster wasn’t gnarly enough ???? pic.twitter.com/l8lXcFnW5m
— Washington Wizards (@WashWizards) November 18, 2021
Because in this match, Bradley Beal’s teammates will have been in the lead without necessarily widening a consistent gap, and it is still a fatal error of the players of the capital. In the third quarter, the Hornets stick a huge expelliarmus run to the Magicians, 19-2, Kyle Kuzma and his friends will not recover and after a last quarter where the two teams neutralize each other (22-22) they will finally leave the victory to the protected Michael Jordan employees. Among them an awkward LaMelo Ball but in record mode since the young prodigy delivered 14 assists this night, his career record in the category. Quite a few caviar intended for his homie Miles Bridges, who as usual went to forage high in the sky, the outfielder finishing with 17 units, 10 rebounds and 5 assists on the counter. The Hornets’ leading scorer? Dragster Terry Rozier with 19 points including 11 in the last quarter, and yes Terry likes the smell of blood and quite naturally it is thus he who came to finish the work started by the Hornets. A collective victory for Charlotte who has six players with more than 10 units, everyone has contributed to the edifice and the Hornets thus glean a fourth success in a row. Memphis, New York, Golden State and Washington, it’s got a lot of punch and the Hornets are this morning in fifth place in the East for nine wins and seven losses.
The misfortune of some makes the happiness of others, it is well known. The defeat of the Wizards allows the Hornets to chain a fourth success in a row thanks to its collective, but Washington can still have regrets in view of its catastrophic address and its little used domestic domination. But at least… we saw the real Kuz again, and we missed it.
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