{"id":27068,"date":"2021-01-04T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T09:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=27068"},"modified":"2024-11-03T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T09:31:18","slug":"wizards-pull-off-impressive-upset-over-nets-while-deni-avdija-sits-in-fourth-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wizards-pull-off-impressive-upset-over-nets-while-deni-avdija-sits-in-fourth-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards pull off impressive upset over Nets, while Deni Avdija sits in fourth quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Wizards are 2-0 in 2021 as they have so far successfully turned the page on their 0-5 start to the season in 2020. Their latest victory comes against an impressive Brooklyn Nets team that Scott Brooks describes as ready to win a championship this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hoop_District\/status\/1345905407877906434?s=20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bradley Beal and Thomas Bryant were able to convert offensively late<\/a> in the game and survived potential game-winning shot attempts from both Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant. On his 20th birthday, Deni Avdija had just three points on 1-for-4 shooting, a rebound, an assist, a steal, a block, and a turnover, in just 16 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"no\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie Irving stuffed by Deni Avdija! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BB8hYbpQLp\">pic.twitter.com\/BB8hYbpQLp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sports Rabbi (@thesportsrabbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesportsrabbi\/status\/1345871940309889024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe 23-year old center, Bryant is on an efficient tear in his last three games, totaling 57 points on 26-for-30 shooting. Against Brooklyn, Bryant had 21 points on 9-for-12 shooting and 14 rebounds in 28 minutes. The Nets went small with former Wizard Jeff Green playing center and Washington made them pay with the game-winning basket. Bryant had also grabbed the offensive rebound to set up the drive and dish by Beal as Brooklyn had no one on the floor to block out Washington&#8217;s big man. Beal shared after the game that the game-winning roll and bucket came as an adjustment after Bryant did not roll the previous time.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_27078\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27078\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/w_56598915.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/w_56598915.jpg 562w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/w_56598915-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Durant (R) looks to put up a shot over a defending Washington Wizards center Thomas Bryant (L)  EPA-EFE\/JASON SZENES<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&#8220;He&#8217;s just growing up and it&#8217;s fun to coach him.&#8221; Brooks said about Bryant. &#8220;He&#8217;s emotional. Sometimes last year it was not to our advantage. This year, he&#8217;s controlling it. We talked about it, him and I have some things going on that we&#8217;re connecting on ways I can control that and channel that because we don&#8217;t want to waste what you have in your energy tank on something that you can&#8217;t control. I think his growth in that area has helped us and it&#8217;s going to help us win a lot of games this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"tl\" dir=\"ltr\">Deni Avdija Birthday boy buckets! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8yxIYrvNIW\">pic.twitter.com\/8yxIYrvNIW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sports Rabbi (@thesportsrabbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesportsrabbi\/status\/1345871316797239297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/38WUfwn\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coming off of his highest offensive scoring game of the season in Minnesota<\/a>, Avdija played just 16 minutes on Sunday as Davis Bertans (31 minutes) ate up some of the rookie&#8217;s minutes. It was the second time in three games Avdija did not see fourth-quarter playing time with Bertans closing the game with the rest of the starters. With Rui Hachimura as Washington&#8217;s primary defender on Kevin Durant, the Wizards must have felt they could do without Avdija&#8217;s defense in favor of experience and theoretically shooting. The results may justify the means in this instance, but for a team that struggles defensively, Avdija should be getting burn in the final quarter moving forward. It should help the Wizards&#8217; transition defense that surrendered 28 fast-break points to Brooklyn.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_27082\" style=\"width: 930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27082\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/w_56598908.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/w_56598908.jpg 920w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/w_56598908-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/w_56598908-768x517.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Durant EPA-EFE\/JASON SZENES<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&#8220;Bad, bad, horrible,&#8221; Brooks cut off the question as soon as transition defense was mentioned. &#8220;I complained to them throughout all of halftime. I said no more. Take four guys back or five guys back, it&#8217;s not worth the five offensive rebounds you get to give up that many transition points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Wizards&#8217; road trip continues on Wednesday with a rematch of the season opener against the 76ers in Philadelphia. Washington has some momentum and has shown they can compete with whomever in the Eastern Conference.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_27091\" style=\"width: 930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27091\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/w_56594167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"613\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/w_56594167.jpg 920w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/w_56594167-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/w_56594167-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bradley Beal EPA-EFE\/Rob Carr<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&#8220;We just got to continue to feed of this momentum and keep it going. The positive energy in the locker room has been excellent,&#8221; Beal said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Wizards are 2-0 in 2021 as they have so far successfully turned the page on their 0-5 start to the season in 2020. Their latest victory comes against an impressive Brooklyn Nets team that Scott Brooks describes as ready to win a championship this year. 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