Not exactly trying to win. Will Smith courtside. Is it just 2013 again?

The Sixers made it close, but completed their objective, losing to the Washington Wizards 119-114 Wednesday night.

Back in the lineup, Quentin Grimes led Philadelphia with 22 points on 6-of-16 shooting. Guerschon Yabusele had 21 points along with eight rebounds. Justin Edwards had 19 and 10 on 9-of-12 shooting.

Alex Sarr led all scorers with 24.

While Grimes returned to the lineup but Jalen Hood-Schifino was out with an illness. Alex Reese was inactive due to dwindling two-way days, giving the Sixers nine available players. Khris Middleton and Marcus Smart headlined several unavailable players for Washington.

Here are some grades from the Center.

Quentin Grimes

The start of his night was disrupted a bit as he landed on a fan’s foot knocking down his first three of the night. He favored it for a bit but did stay in the game. Even on a night where he wasn’t his most efficient, the offense couldn’t get anything going if it wasn’t Edwards or Yabu.

Grimes finished the first half with a flurry of jumpers to pull the Sixers back in the game and continued that into the second half. He did his best to rip off one more heater to pull off a big comeback in the fourth quarter, but was seemingly out of gas.

Notably, he and Edwards didn’t play a ton at the end of the game. Edwards relieved Grimes with two minutes left after a lengthy rest himself. Grimes technically came back in the game, but the game was effectively over. After Grimes left the game the Sixers hit a couple threes to give them a puncher’s chance at pulling it off, but Washington was able to hit enough shots and free throws to put it away.

Grade: B-

Justin Edwards

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it continues to be impressive how good Edwards is at picking spots for a rookie. He only got up threes in the first before starting to attack as the game went on. Perhaps his most impressive bucket of the night was when he was stymied on a drive put didn’t panic, and just put up a hook shot over the defender.

Everyone who played on the perimeter deserves to get dinged for getting torched by this Wizards team. So it’s going here, even though Edwards was far from the main culprit.

Grade: A-

Guerschon Yabusele

While the Wizards opened the game running up and down the floor to get out to a huge lead, the Sixers’ game plan seemed to be let Yabu cook. He scored their first nine points of the game as he put up a strong first half. Continuing to move a lot better, he threw down couple big dunks in the half.

Especially against Washington’s starters, lineups with Yabusele at center struggled to get stops, but that isn’t really new, or that much of his fault.

Grade: B+