On November 18, Beijing time, the Hornets played at home against the Wizards, and the Hornets successfully defeated the Wizards 97-87 at the end of the game. The Wizards have been in very good form lately, and Bill was also in the last game in this game, so the Wizards are expected to beat the Hornets to win the game. The Wizards once took the lead in this game, but in the second half of the game, the Hornets played an offensive climax to overtake the score, and then the Wizards tried to counterattack, but the Hornets, who maintained the offensive state, still occupied the lead, and finally the Hornets reversed and successfully defeated the Wizards in the East.
The first quarter began with a fierce play between the two teams, and although the Hornets once overtook the score in the game, they still maintained the lead by relying on Harrell, Bill and other Wizards to play, and the Hornets fell behind by 5 points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the two teams were in a slump in offense, and then both teams played very well, and the Hornets were still 6 points behind at the end of the half. In the third quarter, Bill led the team to score, but in the following game, the Hornets played a wave of 14-0 rebound, and then Harrell and others scored to stop the bleeding, but the Hornets still maintained a lead under the play of Oubre, Bridges and others, and the Hornets led the Wizards by 10 points at the end of the third quarter. The Hornets remained offensive in the fourth quarter, and although Beal was able to help the team score, the overall situation remained unchanged, and the Wizards eventually lost the game.
In this game, the Hornets played a very good state, especially in the second half of the game they successfully completed the counterattack, as for the three goals in this game is not too good, the offensive downturn is not to say that there have been many mistakes, the end of the game three goals 4 of 18 got 11 points, 6 rebounds, 14 assists and 5 mistakes. However, bridges, Rozier and Oubre performed well in this game, and in the end, the Hornets successfully reversed the game with six people scoring in double figures. Rozier finished the game with 19 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, Bridges had 17 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists, and Oubre had 14 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist.
As for the Wizards being reversed in this game is really some should not be, after all, they maintained the lead in the first half of the game, but the downturn in the second half of the game is to let the Wizards suffer a reversal, of which Kuzma performed in this game, although he has a cover on the defensive end, but his offensive downturn is difficult to help the team win the game, the end of the game Kuzma 12 of 2 got 5 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, it can be said that the current Kuzma is still very important for the Wizards, So it's tough for the Wizards to win when his offense is sluggish. And Kuzma is as depressed as Dinwiddie and Pope, who finished the game with 0 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists on 0-of-5 shooting, and Pop had 3 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists on 1-of-6 shooting.
Although Beal helped the team chase points, but no other players stepped forward to help the team, so at this time Beal was really powerless to return to heaven, and at the end of the game, Beal got 24 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists on 9 of 20. For the Wizards, although The Return of Beal is important to the team, if they want to win more games, then they still need other players to stand up, otherwise such Wizards will still be difficult to win games.