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The Numbers Crunch: Second half defense brings Wizards a win

The Wizards made shots, avoided turnovers and found a group in the second half willing to defend, and that was enough to get their third home win of the season, 110-104 over the Brooklyn Nets.

Towards the end of the third quarter, and then into the fourth, lineups including Delon Wright, Landry Shamet, Corey Kispert, Bilal Coulibaly, Deni Avdija, and Mike Muscala were downright suffocating. Brooklyn struggled to get good shots, and their offense often degenerated into iso moves into difficult shots — often fading away to have a hope of getting the shot off at all.