In the first night of their back-to-back in Los Angeles, the Washington Wizards played well and pushed Anthony Davis, LeBron James and the Lakers to overtime before running out of steam and losing their 13th in a row.
Jordan Poole came off the bench to score 34 points on solid efficiency. To my eyes, it might have been his best game of the season. His shot selection was okay after an early (and god-awful) floater-push-heave thing that had no chance of going in. His first heat check didn’t come until probably the fourth quarter.
Better, he did some playmaking for teammates and could easily have had double-digit assists if those teammates made shots they normally convert.