"Abdia has a problem this season with an extension close to the basket. He and his friends know it."

In Washington, they referred to the Israeli's mistakes after the loss in Indiana: "We need to go up a step and a half with more power."

Kozma: "He played well, made some mistakes, but we all made mistakes"

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17/02/2022

Thursday, 17 February 2022, 09:28

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Danny Abdia talks about meeting Kristaps Forzingis (from the Wizards' Twitter)

Last season Washington won all four of its meetings against Indiana, including in the playoff game in which it secured its place in the playoffs.

This season, however, the balance stands at 1: 2 for the Pacers.

Tonight (Wednesday through Thursday) the Wizards continued to move away from the spot in the playoffs in the East after surrendering 113: 108 to a team that interrupted a streak of seven straight losses.

Danny Abdia scored in double digits for the fourth time in a row, contributing 14 points and 7 rebounds in 31 minutes on the floor.

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This time there is no seasonal sweep over the Pacers.

Abdia in front of the child (Photo: GettyImages)

The fact that two of their best guards in the color area, Daniel Gaford and Kristaps Forzingis who have yet to make a group debut, did not help much.

The Pacers scored 74 points in color compared to just the Wizards' 36, including 17 points from Tristan Thompson in the farewell performance from Indiana (which he arrived at last week) ahead of a move to Chicago.

Losing coach Wes Ansald Jr. commented on the 74 points and said: "With a number like that you are not going to win most games."

The new friend - Abdia's old in Washington, Smith's man, provided a rare moment when he went up for drowning after the Israeli's miss, when NBC recalled his previous term in the capital, so he said he decided not to drown anymore.

However, the deepening of the course was mainly due to the fact that this was not Abdia's only short-term mistake in the game.

Won the support of his teammate.

Abdia and Kozma (Photo: GettyImages, G Fiume)

"Keep him on those shots, but he's got a problem with it this season," Chase Hughes of NBC analyzed. "During one of the last training sessions, Kyle Kozma told him that he should go up a step and a half with more power, and joked that this is the reason he always misses. This is an adjustment that Danny should make, however, he had a good game."

Kozma himself was asked about Abdia's mistakes at the end of the loss and concluded: "I'm not going to talk about him, I'll talk about myself. I missed a lot of Yuppies, without it we probably would have won. He played well, he made some mistakes but we were all wrong."

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