Charlotte at Washington

Charlotte beat Washington 110-103 on Monday, and Brandon Miller scored 39 in it. Anthony Davis had 29 for the Wizards in that loss, and Bilal Coulibaly scored 15 in the first quarter, so Washington got production from its best players and still came up short. Miller has scored 34, 39 and 31 in the Hornets' last three games. Charlotte is 3-2, with a 47-point loss to Atlanta and an eight-point loss at Detroit. Washington is 2-3, with losses to Cleveland, Toronto, and Charlotte. The Wizards are hitting nine threes a game at 28.5% through five games. That leaves Davis, who averages 21.8 points, and Trae Young, who averages 20.6 points and 10.4 assists, to create most of the offense on twos against a Charlotte defense that held them to 103 four days ago. Charlotte also went on the road in its opener and beat Brooklyn 110-103. The Hornets have already shown they can score on this Washington defense and beat it with a short-handed roster. I don't trust an offense shooting that poorly from deep to outscore a wing in this form, and we get the points on top of it at a standard price. I'm taking Charlotte with the points tonight and letting Miller's recent scoring carry the case.