After committing horrible crimes against the game of basketball on Saturday, the Washington Wizards Summer League team bounced back to snag their first win in Vegas on Tuesday, as their veterans led them past the Dallas Mavericks 85-79.

Facing off against former DC great Jordan Crawford, whom I think everyone in the building expected to drop at least 50 points, the Wizards instead turned in a strong defensive performance and hit the boards hard to claim a hard-fought win. And after shooting just 25% in their game against the D-League Select on Saturday, the Wizards’ offensive showing was, dare I say it……. acceptable?

The Washington Wizards shot 47% from the field on Tuesday, as the Mavericks hit just 3 of their 31 3-point attempts (which, when you consider the volume, has to be statistically one of the worst shooting performances in the history of the sport) and never led after midway through the first quarter.

The Wizards pretty soundly outplayed the Mavericks throughout, although they needed a couple clutch plays by Kelly Oubre to help them survive a late Dallas charge.

Kelly Oubre finished game with two solid defensive plays. Best all around game yet. https://t.co/gqN7p6WJJd — Hoop District (@HoopDistrictDC) July 14, 2015

But first and foremost, let’s give major shouts to Wizards center Jarrid Famous, who again led Washington with 16 points and 9 rebounds. The 26-year-old Famous has never gotten any glory. He played two years for a moribund South Florida squad, and has since played in some of the furthest corners of the basketball world: Slovakia, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Lebanon, four different D-League squads.

Now, the unknown journeyman has shown up as Washington’s best player in the Summer League, and while he has almost zero chance of making this team’s roster, he’s getting his name out there. Good for him.

The rest of DC’s veterans also came up big on Tuesday afternoon. After struggling through his first two games in Vegas, Damion James got some of his ill-advised jumpers to fall on his way to 15 points, slick point guard Scott Machado turned in 12 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, and D-League refugee Shawn Jones had easily his best game of the Summer League contributing 12 points and 9 rebounds.

And what of the rookies, you ask?

Well, Kelly Oubre didn’t get quite the same amount of usage offensively, but he still had some strong moments – he finished with 11 points, 6 rebounds and 3 steals on 4-11 shooting, also dishing out a couple key assists and creating the deflection at the end of the game that sealed Washington’s first summer victory.

Meanwhile, second-rounder Aaron White continued to look somewhat uncomfortable in the halfcourt, but he made his first two non-dunks of the summer, making a transition layup and a two-point jumper late in the game.

White finished with 4 points on 2-3 shooting, with 7 rebounds in 20 minutes. His offensive impact has been limited and he’s still yet to hit a three, but at least he’s been consistently grabbing some boards.

And in the end, despite all the sound and the fury, Jordan Crawford had to leave without exacting any measure of vengeance on the Washington Wizards. Crawford was chucking shots with manic intensity, but finished with 12 points on just 3-13 shooting, missing all 7 of his 3-point attempts.

The former Wizard’s basketball future is still very much in flux, and this might have been his last chance to hurt his old team in any way. The bell tolls for thee, Steezus. The bell tolls for thee.