The Milwaukee Bucks try to win consecutive games for the first time since November when the Washington Wizards visit the Bradley Center on Friday.

The Bucks (12-19) had lost four straight, including a 45-point defeat at Detroit on Monday, before they held a team meeting prior to Wednesday's game at Miami. The meeting apparently worked, as Milwaukee ended both its overall losing streak and a nine-game road skid with a 103-98 victory over the Heat.

"We talked out it as a team and just decided that we just needed to go out there and make things happen," said center Andrew Bogut, who had 13 points and 12 rebounds against Miami. "The wins will take care of themselves if we go out there and do the right things."

Milwaukee leading scorer Michael Redd was held to just eight points - his second-lowest total of the season - but Mo Williams had 25 points and nine assists after missing the Detroit game with Achilles' tendinitis. Charlie Villanueva added 15 points in just 21 minutes off the bench.

The Bucks will now try to win two in a row for the first time since a season-high five-game winning streak Nov. 14-24. Since then, they've gone 5-15.

"We'll take any kind of feel-good medicine we can get at this point," Bucks coach Larry Krystkowiak said. "Hopefully, this can propel us."

The Bucks have played just five home games since Dec. 1, and they are on the road for five of their next six after Friday's game. They are 9-4 at the Bradley Center, compared with a 3-15 road record.

Washington (15-15), meanwhile, has played just four road games since the end of November, splitting those contests.

The Wizards ran into a hot opponent at home on Wednesday, falling 106-93 to a Detroit club which won its 10th straight game and led by double digits for the entire second half.

"I told our team, if this is a test - which it is when you play against the best team in the league; especially right now, they're the best team - then you have to see how you respond to them," Wizards coach Eddie Jordan said. "And if this was a test, I give us a C or a C-minus."

On the bright side for the Wizards, guard Antonio Daniels returned Wednesday after missing seven games due to a sprained knee and scored a season-high 18 points.

Without Daniels, the Wizards had averaged just 94.7 points - more than five below their season average of 100.0. In 15 games with Daniels as the starter before his injury, Washington scored 105.9 points per game.

This is the first meeting of the season between the teams. Washington has won four of five against the Bucks in what has been a high-scoring series recently. Both teams have reached 100 points in each of the last five meetings, while the winning team has totaled 116 or more in four of those games.