Portland Trail Blazers at Washington Wizards
· National Basketball AssociationAyton, Banton help Trail Blazers hand Wizards their franchise record-tying 63rd loss of the season
Dalano Banton added 21 points and Scoot Henderson scored 19 for Portland, which won its second straight. Jabari Walker finished with 11 points and 13 rebounds to help the Trail Blazers to their first consecutive wins since the beginning of March amid a seven-game road trip.
“We're just working on us,” Ayton said of Portland's own poor season. “We're not really thinking about none of that stuff right now. We know what happened this year. We know what type of obstacles we went through. ... We're trying to work on us so there won't be no question about making the playoffs next year.”
Washington fell to 15-63. The Wizards also lost 63 games in 2000-01 and 2008-09.
“Look, we're all competitors here, everybody wants to win,” said interim coach Brian Keefe, whose rebuilding team is 8-26 since he took over for Wes Unseld Jr. in late January. “But we're so focused on the process to get to winning. Those things you don't want to hear? Sure, we've all got stuff inside of us that want to compete and win games. But we're in the process of improving.”
Deni Avdija had 22 points and 13 rebounds for Washington. Jordan Poole added 20 points and Tristan Vukcevic had 17 for the Wizards, who have four games remaining.
Washington shot a season-worst 15.2% (5 of 33) from 3-point range. Poole hit three of those 3s but missed three in a row late, while his teammates combined to make 2 of 23 attempts.
“I liked the looks," Keefe said. "We got into what we wanted. We just missed them.”
After trailing for most of the night, Washington took the lead with a 9-1 run. Poole hit a 3 sandwiched by two free throws each from Corey Kispert and Vukcevic, and then Kispert found Vukcevic for an inside dunk to give Washington a 99-98 edge with 3:37 remaining.
The game stayed within a possession until Poole's consecutive misses allowed Henderson to convert a three-point play on a leaner in traffic that finally pushed Portland back to a 108-102 lead with 15.7 seconds left.
"Scoot's Scoot," Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups said of Henderson, the No. 2 pick in last year's draft. “He was up and down a little bit with foul trouble which kind of kept him off of his rhythm. But man, what a big play he made at the end. We needed every one of them.”
UP NEXT
Trail Blazers: At Boston on Sunday night.
Wizards: At Toronto on Sunday night.
Regular Season Series
Series tied 1-1
Matchup Prediction
Recent Plays
4th 0.0 | End of Game | 108 - 102 | |
4th 0.0 | End of the 4th Quarter | 108 - 102 | |
4th 6.2 | Jabari Walker defensive rebound | 108 - 102 | |
4th 10.1 | Jared Butler misses 25-foot three point jumper | 108 - 102 | |
4th 15.1 | Jared Butler enters the game for Eugene Omoruyi | 108 - 102 |
Statistics
POR | WSH | |
---|---|---|
41-94 | FG | 38-88 |
43.6 | Field Goal % | 43.2 |
9-29 | 3PT | 5-33 |
31.0 | Three Point % | 15.2 |
17-24 | FT | 21-30 |
70.8 | Free Throw % | 70.0 |
55 | Rebounds | 45 |
16 | Offensive Rebounds | 12 |
39 | Defensive Rebounds | 33 |
29 | Assists | 24 |
7 | Steals | 9 |
5 | Blocks | 5 |
12 | Turnovers | 9 |
1 | Team Turnovers | 1 |
13 | Total Turnovers | 10 |
0 | Technical Fouls | 0 |
0 | Total Technical Fouls | 0 |
0 | Flagrant Fouls | 0 |
13 | Points Off Turnovers | 8 |
4 | Fast Break Points | 10 |
46 | Points in Paint | 64 |
23 | Fouls | 21 |
12 | Largest Lead | 6 |
Game Information
Location: Washington, DC
Attendance: 18,079 · Capacity:
2023-24 Northwest Standings
TEAM | W | L | PCT | GB | STRK |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oklahoma City | 57 | 25 | .695 | - | W5 |
Denver | 57 | 25 | .695 | - | W1 |
Minnesota | 56 | 26 | .683 | 1 | L1 |
Utah | 31 | 51 | .378 | 26 | L1 |
Portland | 21 | 61 | .256 | 36 | L5 |
2023-24 Southeast Standings
TEAM | W | L | PCT | GB | STRK |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Orlando | 47 | 35 | .573 | - | W1 |
Miami | 46 | 36 | .561 | 1 | W2 |
Atlanta | 36 | 46 | .439 | 11 | L6 |
Charlotte | 21 | 61 | .256 | 26 | W1 |
Washington | 15 | 67 | .183 | 32 | L6 |
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