⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Rockets stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game.
Where it moved
▲ LAL better than we expected
▼ HOU better than we expected
The fourth quarter was where it moved most, 11 points worse than our numbers for the Lakers.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Rockets won, and why the Lakers did not.
From the game
Lived at the line, 27 free throws to their seventeen- A 12-0 run took them from 7 down to 5 up in the first quarter
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Lakers
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Technical
Kobe Bryant Technical Foul
Q1 4:09 · LAL 12-16 HOU
Rockets
Good plays
- 12-0 run
A 12-0 run took them from 7 down to 5 up
Q1 7:20 · LAL 12-17 HOU
- 11-0 run
A 11-0 run took them from 7 down to 4 up
Q4 11:22 · LAL 66-70 HOU
Bad plays
- Turnover
24 second
Q4 1:55 · LAL 83-87 HOU
- Turnover
24 second
Q4 0:20 · LAL 89-90 HOU
- Missed FT
Cuttino Mobley missed Free Throw 1 of 2.
Q4 0:01 · LAL 89-92 HOU
📊The numbers
| LAL | HOU | |
|---|---|---|
| 43% | Shooting from the field | 44% |
| 3 | Threes made | 3 |
| 23% | Three-point accuracy | 27% |
| 12 | Free throws made | 22 |
| 53 | Rebounds | 51 |
| 14 | Offensive rebounds | 10 |
| 19 | Assists | 14 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 3 | Fast break points | 2 |
| 14 | Points off turnovers | 16 |
| 12 | Turnovers | 17 |
| 5 | Steals | 4 |
| 6 | Blocks | 8 |
