PORTLAND, Ore. — As the Washington Wizards defeated the Portland Trail Blazers, 125-124, in overtime Monday night, Markieff Morris drilled a career-best six three-pointers out of 10 attempts. His pair of threes in the extra frame carried Washington to its first win of the season and stunned a Moda Center crowd, filled by 19,187 fans who too couldn’t believe that Morris, of all people, was shooting down the Blazers (2-1).

“We just did a great job of just feeding the hot hand,” Morris said after scoring a team-best 28 points on 9-for-15 shooting.

The night marked a return of fun for the Wizards. They rediscovered the joy in sharing the ball. How infectious good defense can be. And they did this by making one small lineup change.

A deficit at the center position might have created the opportunity, but the Wizards played their best of the young season because they stuck with a small-ball lineup consisting of Morris at the five along with wings Otto Porter Jr. and Kelly Oubre Jr. filling the front court.

Against the Blazers, the Wizards’ small-ball unit assisted on 10 of its 16 made shots, made eight of 16 from the 3-point arc and tallied 47 points.