Bradley Beal, John Wall lead Wizards to win over Hawks

Sixteen points in the first quarter. Let that settle in. The Wizards scored 16 points in the first quarter Wednesday night against the Atlanta Hawks, who were operating without two starters.

“Nasty,” John Wall said.

He wasn’t only talking about the first quarter. Wall was referring to the first half. The one the Wizards scored 40 points in when they shot a rim-denting 34 percent from the field. A 37-point fourth quarter cleansed the misery, for the most part, and produced a 104-100 win. Three points from a night that will not go in the beauty of basketball archives:

Wall vs. Schroder. This has been entertaining. Schroder is scrappy and still on his rookie-scale contract, though Atlanta settled…