“Energy is completely different; it’s just positive,” Beal said of the team’s first win. “It’s uplifting. It’s like a weight on your shoulders in some way, but it’s even bigger to know that we play the right way and play the way we know we’re capable of playing. “
With Beal at the helm, the Wizards finished third on a 29-7 streak and scored 40 points for a 100-79 lead. Beal was 14 in the room.
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Malik Beasley scored 21 to lead the Timberwolves (2-3), who lost 3 in line to star-back Karl-Anthony Towns, who missed all three games of a drug defeat on his left wrist. D’Angelo Russell had 14 problems for Minnesota.
“Our power was low,” Wolves coach Ryan Saunders said of the third quarter. “They were desperate tonight and we too deserve to have been this team, after our trip to Los Angeles. We weren’t and it was evident in the third quarter. “. “
Thomas Bryant added 18 issues and seven rebounds for Washington, which scored eight double-digit players and shot 55. 1% on the field, the season record.
Westbrook missed his game at the time of the season, but Beal was used to gambling without a fellow star quarterback. John Wall got lost last season and played only 73 games in more than 3 seasons, while Beal has become one of the NBA’s most sensitive scorers. .
Beal scored 14 problems in the first quarter, while the Wizards led no less than 12 and remained without ball losses. He played in the room.
“We can have seven, 8 defeats in a row and we’re still in ourselves,” rookie Deni Avdija said. “Keep my words in mind: we’re going to be good. “
Russell, the Wolves’ partner for Towns, may have taken over without him. He fired six out of 16 from the area and had five ball losses.
Without its middle leader, Minnesota allowed more than 120 problems for the third consecutive game.
“We don’t feel like you have to get on your load just because a guy like Karl isn’t there,” Saunders said. “It’s all about all of us. We want more offensively, more defensively. It’s not just an individual player, it’s from a collective group. With that, individually, we want more kids out of this routine. “
Tips
Wizards: Raúl Neto had his moment begin this season in Westbrook’s position and he had 12 problems, adding a couple of 3 problems. . . Beal has scored at least 20 issues in 29 consecutive games, the longest streak in the NBA. Kawhi Leonard at the time of day on the list with 14 in a row. Beal is the first player in the team’s history to score at least 25 problems in the first six games of the season. . . Davis Bertans finished 3 out of 7 in the territory one of 3 points day after 0 of 8.
Timberwolves: Minnesota also without Josh Okogie, who missed his consecutive game for a moment in the ham-First-round recruit Anthony Edwards scored 17 points, while Naz Reid scored 17 in place of Towns.
LEARNING ON THE GO
Avidja, the ninth overall team, scored 11 points, a record of the season, and added seven rebounds, three assists and three steals. His game of the season earned him praise from coach Scott Brooks.
“I think Deni had taken some other step in a young career,” Brooks said. “I think he’s capable of making some games that maybe we can use more in the future. “
Following
Wizards: They continue their way on Sunday in Brooklyn, which lost 3 out of four.
Timberwolves: A two-game series begins opposite the Nuggets on Sunday home before playing in Denver on Tuesday.