When the Wizards were at their darkest hour, having gone on their first three-game losing streak of the season, Scott Brooks simply went to the drawing board and put together one of his better game plans during his D.C. tenure. Washington was held on and scored a pivotal 117-113 overtime victory over the Miami Heat in a win that had playoff-like intensity.
The impressive part wasn’t that they were able to stave off the Heat from surpassing them in the Eastern Conference standings, it was how Scott Brooks was able to out duel one of the better coaches in the NBA with his lineup decisions.