The Aussie tallied 11 points, nine rebounds and seven assists in 32 minutes of the shock NBA Cup loss on Wednesday (all times AEDT).<\/p>\n
It saw the Wizards, who had an NBA-worst 1-15 record going into the contest, snap a 14-game losing streak and Atlanta fall to 11-8 overall.<\/p>\n
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CJ McCollum poured in a season-best 46 points and went 10-of-13 from 3-point land, while Alex Sarr (27 points, 11 rebounds, two steals, two blocks) added a big double-double for the home side. Kristaps Porzingis\u2019 22 points led the Hawks. <\/p>\n
Atlanta had no answers for Washington (AP Photo\/John McDonnell)Source: AP<\/p>\n
Washington came out of the gates hot, setting the tone with a 18-2 start fuelled by McCollum\u2019s nine points against a flat Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Both McCollum and Corey Kispert drained four threes each in the first term alone and made the Wizards a perfect 8-of-8 from beyond the arc as they led 45-23 at the first change. <\/p>\n
Atlanta\u2019s bench helped the visitors get going early in the second term in their best period of the game. A Luke Kennard three got the Hawks within 15 at 59-44 midway through the second term as momentum began to swing.<\/p>\n
Daniels scored his first points on a pass from Nickeil Alexander-Walker to the cutting Aussie under the basket to get the Hawks back within 13 with 5:16 left in the half.<\/p>\n
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But Washington finished the half strong to extend the lead back out to 77-55 at the main break, led by McCollum\u2019s 27 points. <\/p>\n
Washington\u2019s 77 first half points were tied for the ninth-most in an opening half in franchise history.<\/p>\n
The Wizards stayed hot in the second half and Atlanta\u2019s defence constantly broke down as the lead at times threatened to push out beyond 30 points during the third quarter.<\/p>\n
A 7-3 Washington run inside the last two minutes of the period made it a commanding 111-78 lead at the final change.<\/p>\n
Quin Snyder put his starters back into the game to start the final period for one final push including five-straight Hawks points from Daniels, but they couldn\u2019t stop Washington from scoring.<\/p>\n
Atlanta made some inroads including buckets to Porzingis and Jalen Johnson making it a 125-99 game with 6:39 remaining. However Snyder had seen enough on a dire night and emptied his bench at the timeout.<\/p>\n
The Hawks outscored Washington 35-21 in the fourth quarter \u2014 the only period the visitors won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The streak is over. Dyson Daniels\u2019 Atlanta Hawks have suffered a disastrous 132-113 loss to the Washington Wizards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[175745,2095,4131,7218,64,63,726,684,174696,5670,10545,151656,12840,800,12117,143311,2105,22886,24270,12836,13800,5332,12843,12846,2041,2067,5548,115193,166096,175746,85,42307,175747,2614,175748,7211],"class_list":["post-309574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-alvin-robertson","tag-america","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-ben-cotton","tag-career-triple-double","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-chris-paul","tag-consecutive-game","tag-dyson-daniels","tag-espn-inc","tag-final-change","tag-franchise-history","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-history-books","tag-home-side","tag-jalen-johnson","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-losing-streak","tag-luke-kennard","tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-quin-snyder","tag-regular-season-games","tag-run-ends","tag-sports","tag-state-of-georgia","tag-todd-kirkland","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-visitors-won","tag-washington-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}