WASHINGTON — Once again, the Milwaukee Bucks were offensive on the defensive end. Antawn Jamison had 23 points, eight rebounds and rookie Nick Young had a career-high 22 points as the Washington Wizards beat the Bucks 105-97 Tuesday night.

Milwaukee’s opponents are averaging 111 points and shooting better than 50 percent in the last seven games.

� “They got a lot of dunks tonight. That was inexcusable,” said Bucks guard Michael Redd, who had a game-high 26 points. “We’ve got to sharpen it up.”

Bucks coach Larry Krystkowiak wasn’t happy that his team didn’t do much to stop Young, who had two dunks in the first half and had a key three-point play in the 12-2 run that put the Wizards in control after Milwaukee had tied it at 83 with 9 minutes remaining.

Young drew contact on a baseline drive between Andrew Bogut and Dan Gadzuric, but still found space to put up a shot that tantalizingly dropped off the rim and into the net.

“I don’t care if it’s eighth grade or what league you’re in, if you want to get a guy going and feeling good about himself, you let him dunk his first couple baskets — and then we couldn’t stop the bleeding from that point,” Krystkowiak said. “It’s real important that we didn’t let that happen. I would rather that he had to take that jumper or scrape himself up off the hardwood rather than going in and dunking it — just reminding him that somebody’s in there.”

Young even picked up his first technical foul for going at Bogut after a dunk. Young didn’t get his money’s worth — the big center knocked the rookie guard aside like a rag doll.

The Wizards had 10 dunks in the first half and led 57-44 at the break.

The Bucks shot 71 percent in the third quarter and tied the game, but Redd was the only player who kept his hot hand in the fourth. He scored 13 of Milwaukee’s 20 points in the final period.

Bogut had 23 points, and Charlie Villanueva had 24 points and matched a season high with 16 rebounds for the Bucks, who lost for the sixth time in seven games.

The Bucks were playing their fourth straight game without guard Mo Williams (abdominal strain) and forward Yi Jianlian (sprained ankle).