⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Cavaliers got 19 points ahead of the pace we expected in the second quarter and stayed there.
Where it moved
▲ CLE better than we expected
▼ MIL better than we expected
The second quarter was where it moved most, 13 points better than our numbers for the Cavaliers.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Cavaliers won, and why the Bucks did not.
From the game
Won the glass, 49 rebounds to 28- Kept giving it away, 23 turnovers to their seventeen
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Cavaliers
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run took them from 1 down to 7 up
Q1 10:22 · CLE 11-4 MIL
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 12-point lead to 20
Q2 0:42 · CLE 71-51 MIL
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 21-point lead to 29
Q3 1:23 · CLE 93-64 MIL
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Bucks
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| CLE | MIL | |
|---|---|---|
| 53% | Shooting from the field | 37% |
| 5 | Threes made | 7 |
| 50% | Three-point accuracy | 30% |
| 17 | Free throws made | 14 |
| 65 | Rebounds | 37 |
| 13 | Offensive rebounds | 9 |
| 29 | Assists | 22 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 5 | Fast break points | 2 |
| 19 | Points off turnovers | 19 |
| 23 | Turnovers | 17 |
| 9 | Steals | 7 |
| 6 | Blocks | 7 |
