After a raucous win the night before, the Wizards were somnambulant in the first half. They fell behind by as much 19 to the Houston Rockets — a team designed to lose. Kyle Kuzma and company apparently imbibed some halftime Red Bull and staged a spirited comeback. That, plus an impossibly sloppy Rockets performance, was enough for the Wizards to pull out the 108-103 victory.
The story of the game was Kuzma, who went super saiyan to blast the Rockets with 20 fourth quarter points. For the period, Kuzma shot 6-9 from the floor, 5-6 from three-point range and 3-4 from the free throw line.